Hot Toys’ upcoming Amazing Spider-Man piece, based on the utterly needless reboot of a franchise whose last film was only released five years ago, looks great, covering the bones of a 12″ action figure in spandex/lycra/whatever this Spider-Man is wearing so that you can’t actually see it’s a figure. That’s the pro! And now the…
I didn’t go to E3 this year. If I had, I’d have run straight to Bohemia Interactive and sat down with military sim ArmA 3 (this vid was part of the game’s E3 presentation). Why? Because I’m a fan of things that go bump in the night. Or, at least, the way things look when…
As I’ve lamented here previously, graffiti is an artform that’s been woefully under-represented in video games. Something Diego Bergia agrees with. So over the past few years the former graf artist has been putting together animated clips imagining the great graffiti game that never was. It’s a damn shame this is only an animation series,…
Wow. I mean, I should be deducting points for them cosplaying as terrible new Transformers, but I can’t. This is just too impressive. The photographer responsible is LJinto, who was featured in our “Best in Cosplay” series earlier in the year. Those Transformers? They’re from Cybertron, so they don’t have websites. (though if anyone knows…
We often think of video games and hardware in terms of units sold, or money made. We don’t usually think of them in terms of how much they weigh, or how much crap needs to be dug out of the ground to make them. Which is why this infographic is interesting reading. Sure, this is…
Former Blizzard man Fausto De Martini is an award-winning artist who has worked on the cinematics for games like Diablo III, StarCraft II and World of Warcraft. In addition to some of his 3D model work for StarCraft II, in this gallery you’re also going to see some of the coolest aliens, monsters and future…
You can now purchase a $30 replica of the star of Valve’s Meet the Pyro video. That’s right, not the Pyro itself: the Balloonicorn, nature’s most majestic and impractical animal. Available from Valve’s store, as you reach for your wallet, remember: you’re about to pay $30 for a 13-inch balloon. INFLATABLE BALLOONICORN [Valve]
Just in case you woke up this morning feel good about life, music or the PlayStation, here’s Spice World, released in 1998. It featured the vocal talents of all five Spice Girls! Which is about all it featured, really.
Being Nintendo’s principle mascot, you’d think that Mario would only ever appear on Nintendo consoles. And for the most part, you’d be correct! But, as with most things in life, there are exceptions. I thought with the sad news today of the cuts at Radical Entertainment that we’d look back another one such exception: the…
Sony’s pre-E3 trailer for The Last of Us was pretty great. Though not as great as this recreation of it using LittleBigPlanet
Not long after we brought you the story of Griffin “Flush_Entity” Benger, former pro Counter-Strike player and now pro poker player, comes another tale of a champ gamer hanging up the controller in exchange for a cold stare and a fistful of cards. Englishman Rob “Vaga_Lion” Akery has made over $600,000 playing poker, using skills…
Kelly Bourdet writes a column over on Vice called Future Sex. It’s about “how technology affects our personal relationships”. In this case, it’s about signing up for Zynga’s Sims clone The Ville and trying to knock some digital boots. Sadly, the game is a little obstructive. “Frustratingly, the “make out” and “snuggle” options, which my…
Square Enix and art group iam8bit have gone and done a thing. They’ve paid for a TV show based on first-person puzzler Quantum Conundrum, and it’s going to be hosted by Kevin Pereira. It’s called The Super Dimensional Quantum Learning’s Problems and Solutions Gametime Spectacular!!, and will put contestants in a replica of the game’s…
There’s been talk of a Hollywood adaptation of classic educational series Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego for years now, but it looks like the project is finally starting to pick up some steam. Darren Lemke (Shrek Forever) is writing, while one of the producers, Jennifer Lopez, is still looking to star in the…
Cyril Tahmassebi is a French concept artist and visual designer who has worked on games like Darkworks, I’m Alive, Project Kane and, most recently, Dishonored and Cyanide’s Game of Thrones RPG. While that lost one might not have been much of a game, the art Tahmassebi put together for it is terrific Every piece you…
Colorful, a Chinese firm specialising in Nvidia cards, is bringing us this. The iGame GTX 680. It’s ostensibly just a single GTX 680, currently Nvidia’s flagship single-GPU card. But look at it. The iGame GTX 680 doesn’t have a fan like just about every card on the planet. Instead, it packs its own pair of…
There was much fanfare today as Atari celebrated its 40th birthday. Only, it’s not really Atari’s 40th birthday. I hate to be that guy, but the Atari of 2012 has about as much in common with Nolan Bushnell’s original company as my beard trimmings do. Maybe even less, since Nolan has a killer beard. The…
One game featuring a German with extendable robot arms is a thing. Two is a coincidence. But three? All starring in games developed by Japanese studios? OK, three is a pattern. This post over on GameWTFs, highlighting ten cyborgs starring in Super Nintendo games, contains not one, not two, but three Germans with robot arms.…
For around a decade, Sony and its various advertising agencies managed to create not only some of the most memorable commercials in gaming, but straight-up of the most memorable advertisements. While things haven’t been too bad lately – Kevin Butler has his fans, and as corny as it is, “Michael” was a neat idea –…
Japanese craftsman tatumaru5963 took a ping pong ball, cut a piece out of it, made some alterations, painted it up and hey presto. A teeny tiny version of the Second Death Star. I look at the size of this thing, I try to think of the skill needed to get it looking this good, and…
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