For the politically-inclined, Bill Clinton’s speech last week at the Democratic National Convention seemed a slam dunk. Or, as this video shows, a collection of slam dunks, punctuated by the odd MONSTER JAM. Those too young to have played it, yes, President Clinton was actually an unlockable character in early versions of NBA Jam, a…
Artist and animator Paul Robertson, who we’ve been secretly in love with for a long time now, may be best known these days for his work on the Scott Pilgrim game, Fez and Wizorb He just got a lot more well-known, though, as his work is making a cameo on the Disney Channel, courtesy of…
Props genius Harrison Krix has been making a few helmets based on those found in Skyrim, and they’ve all been lovely, but just how the hell does he do that exactly? Oh. This video explains it. Charting the process from early cutting to the final touches, we get to see a lump of junk slowly…
You hear that sentence a lot, about all kinds of things, but in the case of video games – and in particular 1991 adventure game Heart of China – it’s true! The 1990s were a bizarre time for PC gaming. As the format embraced the CD-ROM, and began to hit truly mass-market levels of awareness,…
Offworld is a new iOS (coming soon to Android) game that is, as the headline suggests, a lot like the battling side of Pokémon. Only, you’re using giant killer robots instead of small cute animals. It’s one of the prettiest iOS games I’ve ever seen, optimised for retina displays and featuring some fantastic artwork. It’s…
Simon Goinard has been doing freelance work for the past decade, with his art featuring for clients as diverse as Disney, Exxon, Camel and Aston Martin. He’s also done quite a bit of video game work, with an equally-impressive list of employers like Sony Computer Entertainment Japan and Guild Wars developers ArenaNet. You can see…
Guild Wars 2 has some of the medium’s finest concept art. And while the actual game engine often struggles to do it justice, the game’s environments can still look absolutely beautiful, proving once again that powerful “graphics” are often no match for strong art design.
While most people think fondly of Valve – at least, as fondly as one can think of a business out to take your money – there are some corners of the internet which can sometimes take things a little too far. I’m not sure if this is one such case, though. I mean, as horrific…
Diablo III’s new “Paragon” system was brought in to give “maxxed out” players some more stuff to do. It’s been working for most, I guess, but for Alkaizer the well has once again run dry, because his Barbarian character has managed to hit the game’s new ceiling. As you’d expect, it took a lot of…
Civil War: 1863, a new game from Scottish studio Hunted Cow, achieves that rarest of strategy gaming feats: balancing accessibility with depth and challenge. On first glance, you might see hexes and the Civil War setting and freak out that this is a serious strategy game, one full of numbers and variables and weird icons…
Artist RJ Palmer certainly isn’t the first person to try their hand at drawing “realistic” Pokémon, and he won’t be the last. But for now, just now, he’s my favourite. You can see more RJ’s art at his personal site. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to wash the taste of terror out of…
Based in Montreal, concept artist Donglu Yu has worked on two of the prettiest video game properties around: Deus Ex and Assassin’s Creed. Having spent two years at Eidos, Yu moved in 2010 to Ubisoft, where she’s been working on the Assassin’s Creed series, from Brotherhood to the upcoming Assassin’s Creed III. You can see…
Upcoming zombie survival MMO The War Z doesn’t want to hold your hand. It wants to grab it and try and bite it off. Preferably after you’ve spent some money on it first. The game, like many others, will allow players to purchase items using real money from an in-game store. But if you’re playing…
Since late last year, Hong Kong artist Alan Kwan has walked around with a small camera attached to his glasses, recording almost everything he does. Every night, when he gets home, he uploads the footage and transfers it into small “cubes”, which are dropped into Bad Trip, a “video game” he’s working on which allows…
In 1984, Nintendo released Family BASIC, a programming suite for its Famicom (NES) console. Including a swish keyboard and data recording unit, it was designed to allow consumers to, with a little teaching, program their own basic games for the system. Including a few stock titles as templates, it was sadly never released outside Japan.…
Even if you’ve never actually played it, Dungeons & Dragons will have played some role in your gaming life. As is said in the clip above, if you’ve played Skyrim, or World of Warcraft, or any other RPG (or even game with RPG tendencies), you’re simply playing a modern interpretation of a basic set of…
I can think of a lot worse things for two bored British kids to be doing than reciting the intro theme to Game of Thrones using ocarina music from the N64 Zelda games. A lot worse. Ocarina of Thrones [YouTube]
It was only yesterday we featured the Iron Woman cosplay of PaleFunnyGhost, but that was nothing compared to this. She’s also recently done some Mass Effect cosplay, and while everyone else is busy dressing up as Commander Shepard, she went for the less obvious (and difficult) route and dressed up as EDI. The costume is…
Chris Roberts is one of my gaming heroes. I grew up on games like Wing Commander, Strike Commander and Pacific Strike, hooked on Roberts’ insistence that PC games could make story and dialogue as important as visuals and mechanics. Sadly, he’s been away from video games for around a decade now, pursuing a career in…
Hulu on the PlayStation 3 just got a rather fancy new upgrade
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