Not being American, I have no personal affinity towards 4th of July celebrations. If I were, though, you can bet your ass I’d be spending the day playing Sid Meier’s Colonization over and over and over again. First released in 1994, Colonization remains something of a cult favourite amongst PC gamers, never reaching the heights…
There’s a guy out there with a rough, obviously very unfinished copy of Star Wars: Battlefront III. We’ve seen a few snippets and shots from him before, but this, this is something else. PTOP has uploaded an entire hour’s worth of gameplay footage from the cancelled project that serves little purpose other than to upset…
Clothing company Kineda is the latest in a long line of outlets to try their hand at some trendy Street Fighter t-shirts, their collaboration with Capcom resulting in this sickeningly adorable line. While it’s not for me – my Street Fighter tastes lie somewhere between Triumvir and Meat Bun – it’ll be for someone out…
Man, if only the upcoming 3DS game based on Adventure Time was some kind of side-scrolling platformer that blends the show’s unique art style with pixel graphics and…oh. That’s exactly what it is. Very good, very good. These tiny shots can be found in this month’s Nintendo Power magazine, and while there’s only two of…
This trailer is still a little too YEAH AMERICA for my tastes, especially given the series’ normally restrained take on matters historical, but then, this was put together for the Fourth of July. Hopefully the actual game plays more like history, and not like a bad Mel Gibson movie.
Not the restaurants, Chuck himself. See for yourself. If this was looking for me to write something about how it looks like a b-side Dreamworks character from 1998, well, mission accomplished. An AP report describes the redesign as making Chuck appear “as a hip, electric-guitar-playing rock star”. Making things even more unsavoury is the news…
It’s been over a year since Duke Nukem Forever was released, and to commemorate (commiserate?) the whole experience, Sideshow is next year bringing out this 16″ statue of the Duke. Selling for USD$300, he’s certainly not cheap, and given the reception to the last game in the franchise, may seem entirely unwarranted. But then, there’s…
We live in a time where even a new Total War game gets a live-action trailer, complete with sexy bits (the ring-kissing is not a sexy bit), stabbings and sexy stabbings. A Total War game. Because nothing says “command tens of thousands of men on the field of battle in a game of epic strategy”…
…well, yeah. You can’t unsee it And I thought fast zombies were bad. Fast squirrel zombies with headcrabs on their chins that screamed as they crawled down post-apocalyptic trees would be about the worst thing ever Animal pictures of the week: 8 June 2012 [The Telegraph, thanks John!]
Over the years French artist Morgan Yon has worked on games such as Heavy Rain and Zombi U, and movies like Prince of Persia and GI Joe. His work is incredible. We featured some of it a while back, back when Heavy Rain was in the news, but that was then (when we only showed…
According to a report on Russian news site Fontanka, prominent eSports personality Dmitry Smilyanets has been arrested in Amsterdam. Smilyanets is the owner and leader of successful eSports outfit Moscow Five, who are big on the League of Legends, DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike scenes. While the charges haven’t been made public, Fontanka understands he was…
Akira Toriyama is famous as being the creator of Dragonball, though he’s also worked on video games, most notably doing character design for the Dragon Quest series of RPGs (as well as Xbox 360 RPG Blue Dragon). This antique image, from what looks like an old Japanese magazine, has the legend giving his take on…
Unlike its rivals Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo has usually had a staunch games first philosophy when it comes to hardware. But it hasn’t always been that way. In the 1980s, the company had a brief flirtation with, of all things, the business market. Booming business and ambitious technology were two of the hallmarks of Japan’s…
Snowbird have unveiled a new project based on the Mount & Blade engine that’s hopefully just as ambitious (and hopefully nowhere near as janky). It’s called Carribbean, and is a pirate-themed RPG that looks to copy the core concepts of Mount & Blade (manage a crew then join them in large-scale battles), only to then…
Custom toy builder GDX is to thank for this masterpiece: what was formerly a GI Joe has now been reimagined as Magic Mike, star of the current film about male strippers. Coming with leather pants and a healthy likeness for star Channing Tatum, he comes with alternate costumes (“tie” or “vest”), along with every stripper’s…
There’s only one way a hoodie based on Minecraft can be genuinely terrifying. And that’s this way. With the hood down, it’s a pixellated hoodie. A little garish, perhaps, but nothing too extreme. Pop the head up, though, and it’s nightmare fuel. … If you feel a convenience store employee near you needs to be…
In case you’re just joining us, Sir, You Are Being Hunted is an upcoming indie game that promises to be “a procedurally-generated first-person, open world game, with some sneaking, some shooting, some tweedpunk adversaries, and plenty of fleeing in terror.” It’s coming along very nicely, so nicely in fact that there’s a whole new bunch…
LEGO site The Living Brick recently held a contest asking readers to submit famous moments from movie history as microscale LEGO models. While they only had a limited amount of space and a limited amount of pieces to work with, what they could accomplish is extraordinary. You can recognise each movie from just a thumbnail…
And here you thought Fine Art was just about the guys making the stuff that goes in the game. Today, we’re looking at the work of design firm 1910, who design stuff that goes before, or on top of, a game. Specifically, they’ve designed menus and user interface systems for games like Syndicate, Bionic Commando…
A number of Diablo III users have complained in the last few days that they’ve been banned from playing the game for doing nothing more than using WINE, a means of playing Windows games in the Linux operating system. It’s a tricky situation. On the one hand, Blizzard appears to be banning the accounts because…
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