Yohann Schepacz, aka OYO, is an atist who works at Sixmorevodka, a studio whose work we’ve featured here on Kotaku before Sixmorevodka is based in Berlin, and has provided concept art for clients like Blizzard, Sony, Nintendo, Ubisoft, EA, Disney, Marvel and Warner Bros. The gallery below contains a bunch of both Schepacz’s personal work,…
It’s been a sad year for lovers of classic sci-fi and fantasy art, with the passing of both Ralph McQuarrie and Moebius. If that’s got you down, maybe this might help pick you up: there’s a documentary coming that’s all about Drew Struzan, a man whose work you’d be familiar with if you’ve ever been…
As a teenager, I was heavily into Warhammer 40K. I’ve experienced something of a renaissance in recent years. Rarely, if ever has it had much to do with the actual game, though. I get that kind of release elsewhere. Usually from video games. What I can’t get from video games, though, is the sensation of…
LEGO has made some modifications to its Batman LEGO line for Dark Knight Rises, giving us two new minifigs based on characters from the film. There’s a Batman and a Bane, both sporting their outfits from Chris Nolan’s movie instead of the more nondescript digs previous LEGO versions of the characters have worn. There’s also…
The more we see of Resident Evil 6, the more the concept of “survival horror” seems to be taking a backseat to “survive by being an action move star”. Not that this is a bad thing. Giant snakes and zombies in the one game, together, is something the world has always needed more of.
Set to Jason Segel’s You Just Got Slapped, this emotional clip tips a cap to the brave men and women who have risked life and limb to slap the truly awful Prince Joffrey in the face (or throw shit at him). Joffrey Baratheon Slap Tribute feat. Marshall Erikson (Jason Segel) [YouTube, via TDW]
You know when you use a music or media player – and really, they all do it in some way or another – you can activate a visualiser to help you “see” the track like you were tripping on acid? Well, Atari had one in 1976. And it was, for the time, pretty damn great.…
Steve Wozniak, aka Woz, was one of the co-founders of Apple back in 1976. When he left the company in 1987 (though he technically remains an employee to this day, drawing a nice salary), he needed something to do. One of those things was to become a Tetris champion. In a candid Q&A on Gizmodo…
An 18 year-old Taiwanese man has been found dead after booking himself a room at a local internet cafe and playing Diablo III for 40 hours straight. Identified only by his surname, Chang, the teenager reportedly didn’t eat for two days, and was found by an employee on Sunday morning slumped over a table. After…
And so, this week, The Dark Knight finally rises, concluding Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy. Evan has been talking about both the movie and its relationship to comics quite a bit lately; you can see some of the posts over to the right.
Weird question, I know, but it’s one you now have an answer for regardless, as 3D artist Mariah Combs has used 3D Max to render a bunch of characters and weapons from Valve’s Team Fortress 2 as though they were…exquisite pieces of glasswork. Like I said, weird, but hey, it’s late, let’s just roll with…
We’ve seen some of Roberto Flores’ art on Kotaku before. He’s the guy who did those amazing Game of Thrones fighting game illustrations. We’re not looking at (many of) those tonight, though. Tonight, we’re looking at his other awesome pics, video game-related or otherwise. In addition to a bonus Game of Thrones image, he’s also…
In designing one of Borderlands 2’s characters, Ellie, Gearbox wanted to build “an independent female character who looked the exact opposite of how most females tend to be represented in games”. Why? Because they didn’t want players to “cast her in a light where the player is encouraged to pity, laugh at, or mock her…
For the surprisingly generous price of just $8 a pop, you can order one of these cool-as-hell custom fridge magnets, designed to look like the dialogue boxes from Final Fantasy III on the SNES. Those who care deeply about authenticity should know that “The dialog box shape and border match the source measurements perfectly”, and…
It’s a common, and entirely justified complaint that most modern shooters look too drab. They’re too brown, too grey, too dreary. You could counter that, well, since wars are fought in the dirt and ruins that’s how they’re supposed to look, but it’s too nice a day for arguments. Let’s instead just enjoy this concept…
This video is, supposedly, a demo of PC raytracing tech running on an i7 and Radeon 5870, in DirectX 11. In other words, it’s amazing visuals running on a PC that you might actually already own. It was created by PC modder Hayssam Keilany, who does work on tweaks for games like Skyrim and GTAIV.…
If you were at the San Diego Comic-Con, you may have already seen this clip! Since you probably weren’t, though, here’s your first look at the unveiling of killer droid HK-51 in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Note this is HK-51, and not everybody’s favourite meatbag killer HK-47, from classic RPG Knights of the Old…
What did you do over the weekend? See some friends, go out to dinner, play some games? Me, I sat in front of a monitor, then a printer, and went through this spontaneous collection of old video game maps. Younger readers, accustomed to things like waypoint markers and mini-maps, may not be aware just how…
Here’s a rare and fascinating thing: a collection of ten year’s worth of internal Atari Games correspondence from between 1982 and 1992, all stored, public and ready for your voyeuristic consumption. What you’ll find isn’t just boring business talk. There’s all kinds of stuff in here, from high-level corporate discussions to guys making dinner reservations…
An alarming attack on a home in New Jersey, in which several pipe bombs were thrown through windows, has ended with the targeted family blaming the incident on involvement in a “video game community”. Two pipe bombs were thrown into the house in Monroe, NJ, both of which exploded, with a third being tossed inside…
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