Rockstar North is a video game developer known and respected the world over as the creators and continued custodians of the core Grand Theft Auto series. That’s earned it a reputation as a specialist in the field of mature, cinematic video games. Games where drugs are dealt, prostitutes killed and people say fuck with a…
We’ve got another Massive Black artist for you today, which is always a treat. Coro Kaufman is one of the studio’s co-founders, and also serves as its art director. Needless to say, his stuff is great In this gallery you’ll see examples from many of the games he’s worked on over the past few years,…
Wondering why going “free to play” is so trendy right now? Consider MMO Age of Conan. In May, it launched a F2P version. It’s since doubled its revenues and increased subscriber numbers
The delightful French artist Bastien Vives returns with another unconventional take on the Street Fighter universe. Be sure to check out his blog, linked below, for more of the same. Like Street Fighter characters dressed up like Battle Beasts. Yeah, that’s right. Battle Beasts vendredi… lorsque la rumeur dit que l’un d’entre eux ne s’est…
Artist Jude Buffum has come up with this impressive (and informative!) piece called Magna Arbor Vitae Deku. It’s essentially a biology chart of the Zelda universe. The name means “The Great Deku Tree of Life”, and starting at said Great Deku Tree it branches out to include 200 species of creature, good, bad and in…
It’s easy to take a LEGO minifig and paint it to look like something. What’s harder is taking a ton of actual LEGO bricks and turning them into the likeness of a range of cartoon video game characters. Matt De Lanoy has done just that, though, recreating the cast of Valve’s Team Fortress 2 in…
With the PSP’s days numbered in North America, there won’t be too many more offers like this before the handheld is taken out back and shot The new, and wonderfully-named “Madden NFL 12 & Need for Speed SHIFT PSP Entertainment Pack” is a bundle that includes a PSP-3000 system, a 2GB memory card and copies…
Ever since Mega Man Legends 3 was canned, fans of the franchise have been going bananas, wondering how Capcom could ever do such a thing. (It may have something to do with the fact Mega Man fans aren’t as numerous as they think!) While that’s resulted in the expected amount of angry words typed anonymously…
Electronic Arts has re-applied for trademarks for the name Alpha Centauri, the classic PC strategy game from Civilization developers Firaxis it published back in the late 90s.
If you ever get the chance to visit Valve’s offices in Bellevue, be sure to enjoy the trip. Just remember: no filming. There are severe consequences. Note, though, regular humans could get Team Fortress 2 statues as well. At least, I think I’m a regular human. You guys can fry an eggs on your bare…
One of the sadder stories to come out of this week’s London riots is that of Malaysian student Ashraf Haziq, who bleeding profusely from a broken jaw is helped to his feet by passers-by…before summarily having his PSP stolen right out of his backpack. It’s indicative of the kind of materialistic lawlessness that’s gripped the…
When you talk about music in Nintendo games, the first person that pops into most people’s minds is the work of legendary composer Koji Kondo, the man behind the iconic scores for games like Zelda and Mario. We’re not talking about Koji Kondo today. Instead, we’re going to talk about Kazumi Totaka, who in addition…
Epic Games has a common visual style running through all its games. Gears of War looks like Unreal Tournament which looks like Bulletstorm. If you’ve ever wondered why that is, well, wonder no more. It’s because of artist James “Hawkprey” Hawkins. Hawkins is a concept artist employed at Epic who is responsible for that trademark…
The HD versions of PS2 classics Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are almost upon us. If you can’t wait, though, here’s what the first few minutes of each look like running on a PS3. And if that’s not enough, here are montages from both games, featuring even more footage, all courtesy of IGN Watch…
First spotted at Comic-Con, we now have the first official shots of Square Enix’s line of upcoming Street Fighter figures. As with many other figures in the company’s “Play Arts” line, there’s a stylised edge to the World Warriors, which in Ryu’s case means basketball biceps and in Chun-Li’s case means giant man thighs (yes!)…
As can happen on a service that’s normally home to so much shovelware and so many bite-sized games, it’s easy to lose sight of the hidden gems that surface on DSiWare from time to time. Like Go! Go! Kokopolo, out this week. It’s a game with a neat premise: you’re a cat (well, a wildcat)…
We’ve all used an emulator at one stage in our lives. Whether to replay some classic old arcade games or play an obscure console title you missed first time around, they’re a dime a dozen. But have you ever considered how accurate they are? While emulators exist to, well, emulate the experience of playing a…
If you needed convincing that this Friday is as good as a second launch for the ailing Nintendo 3DS, look no further: alongside a hefty price cut the handheld will also soon be available in a new colour. Well, new for the US. The “Flame Red” 3DS has been available in Japan for a while…
When I was at university, I was designing a game with a friend. With The Sims making buckets of money and Theme Park being a big inspiration, we set out to make a game based on…running a shopping mall. It didn’t get very far. But that’s OK! We’re both going to be playing it this…
The Xperia Play, Sony Ericsson’s first PlayStation-branded phone, hasn’t exactly set the world on fire. Mostly because, for a PlayStation Phone, there aren’t many PlayStation games on it. That could soon be about to change, though perhaps not in a way that will make Sony very happy. Coder yifanlu is working on reverse-engineering the phone’s…
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