A small platformer by Jason Boyer, Jables’ Adventure will only take you around 45 minutes to finish. But it’s a charming, often funny 45 minutes! It’s got a great pixellated art style, there are bears in it, you high five kids, and you’ve got a squid on your head. It’s pretty much all you could…
Eight-Year-Old Noah Solis was one of the stars of this year’s EVO tournament in Las Vegas, managing to beat more than one opponent who was twice or even thrice his age. Now it’s time for Noah to make bank. Since his exploits at EVO he’s been signed to a competitive gaming team called The Traveling…
Sadly, like many high profile PC games these days, Battlefield 3 won’t be shipping with mod tools. Given the series’ long history with mods (developers DICE even hiring some modders back in the day), that’s disappointing. So let’s find out why that’s the case. Speaking with website Ausgamers, DICE’s Karl-Mangus Troedsson said it’s down to…
Nuka Break was a surprisingly great short film based on the Fallout universe, released earlier this year. It was so great, in fact, that the film’s producers got enough cash together to go and make an entire series. And here’s the first episode. It’s called Fallout: Nuka Break The Series (catchy!), and continues the adventures…
In nearly every case when a game is released on console and PC, the console versions sell a ton more copies. Like, it’s not even close. Unless we’re talking about a Valve game. While the developer, publisher and operator of Steam sadly never releases internal sales figures for its online marketplace, Valve boss Gabe Newell…
It has a certain nostalgic charm, yeah, but lets face it, the American Super Mario Bros. cartoons were pretty terrible. Poorly animated, poorly written, poorly voiced. Next to the Japanese Mario cartoon, though, the American version looks like it was made by Disney. Premièring around the same time as America’s The Super Mario Bros. Super…
We usually salute the best in cosplay craftsmanship (or craftswomanship!) here on Fancy Pants. Or the best in photography, or modelling. It’s not often we salute the best in ideas. So let’s change that today. Reader Dan sent along these shots of his Super Metroid outfit. It’s two-dimensional. And I don’t mean that in a…
Mass Effect 3’s new female Commander Shepard (at least, the default one used in marketing) has finally been chosen. The winner of the final vote for, of all things, hair colour? The ginger one. My only question? Why so sad, girl? (Fun fact: this official piece was drawn by Patryk Olejniczak, who started drawing Mass…
You’ve seen the debut trailer, you’ve read Totilo’s take on the game, now see the first eight screenshots for Valve’s upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive In case you’re only just joining us, CS:GO is a new take on the venerable multiplayer shooter promising a few tweaks to the system, new weapons, new maps and even a…
It’s 2011. You’ve seen how movies are made. You’ve seen how video games are made. But have you seen how video game toys are made? This clip shows how McFarlane, who have the main license to produce Halo action figures, has developed its line over the years. Beginning with the actual in-game models used by…
Strapya World is carrying a number of cases for iPhones that, depending on taste (or whether you subscribe to the need for a case at all), might be worth looking into. There are seven in total: four Sega cases, two Final Fantasy cases and a retro Famicom cover. The Final Fantasy ones are made of…
Pokémon and cats. They’re two of the cornerstones of the internet. And here they are, together in a gif for the ages. This masterpiece was put together by Chris Torres, creator of the soul-destroying Nyan Cat, and features all 151 of the original Pokémon. As cats. This is a small version; you can check it…
The Chara Hobby toy show went down in Japan over the weekend, and stealing the limelight (at least from a video game perspective) were these two Metroid figures from Max Factory. The Power Suit version is a small, posable figure, while the Zero Suit piece is a larger PVC statue. It’s rare that Nintendo licenses…
Upcoming multiplayer shooter Hawken, which just looks fucking cool, doesn’t have a singleplayer campaign. So it doesn’t really have much of a story. What it does have, though, is a filthy dirty megalopolis/anime setting, which this moody new trailer shows off. There’s also some gameplay footage at the end, if all you’re here for is…
He may not sit in the limelight like some of the company’s other legendary names like Miyamoto, Yokoi or Iwata, but make no mistake: Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka is one of the most important men to have ever worked at Nintendo. Especially if you like music. Or Pokémon! Born in December 1957, Tanaka is a lifelong…
Pixel Wars – Pixel artist Weasly Grizzly shows Han on a good day (and a bad one). When Pokémon Got a Little Too Nazi Germany Pokémon. It’s a card (and video) game for kids. You capture monsters, they faint a lot, it’s all good, clean, harmless fun. Right? Well, mostly. Except for a few occasions…
Normally here on Fine Art, we showcase the fruits of video game artists working on titles that are already out. That’s not the case today. Instead, we’re getting a look at the art of an upcoming title, and a beautiful one to boot: that of Trine 2, sequel to the wonderful 2009 co-op platformer Trine…
It’s one of the greatest moments in fighting game history. EVO 2004, Daigo vs Justin Wong, Ken vs Chun-Li. One of the most brutal comebacks you’ll ever see And now it’s been recreated in adorable 8-bit style. Don’t ask why. Just enjoy it. Street Fighter: The Beast is Unleashed – 8-bit Remix [SRK, via it8bit]…
Swedish feet-glove purveyors Happy Socks have teamed up with Minecraft developers Mojang to offer a range of…socks based on the hit world-building game. And as lame as that sounds, they’re actually pretty damn cool. Not only do they come in a box shaped like a brick of Minecraft’s world, but the three pairs you get…
As someone who has printed more than one of these off for use in my own collection, I thought it was high time to highlight the great work that’s been (and is being) done over in this NeoGAF thread, where users are designing their own high-resolution PS3 game covers. These haven’t been focus-tested to death,…
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