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The History Of Video Game Art In Reverse
The main hallway of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City is a spiral. When you walk through it, ascending several flights in the process, paintings all to your right, you get the sense of walking through an artistic history. More »Steamboat Mario, Now In Fabulous Technicolour!
By Dan Helle, as seen on Tiny Cartridge.Final Fantasy, Super Mario, Doom, What's On Your Phone's Desktop?
On a lark last week I asked friends on Twitter to show me the image they have on their phone's desktop. The results included quite a few video game references. More »Mommy, Where Do Game Boxes Come From?
Sometimes, the most interesting back-stories can be the ones about the most uninteresting things. Take, for instance, the humble zipper. Or, for a more relevant example, how video game boxes are made. More »Uncharted 2’s Sloppy Fiction
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is the highest rated game of the year, winner of more than a few publications' Games of the Year awards. But that doesn't mean it did everything right. More »Movie Posters Hijacked, Turned Into Game Posters
Give the kids at Something Awful a brief and directions to employ PhotoShop and they'll generally come back with something special. Latest example being these movie posters, re-purposed as video game posters. More »In Our Dreams: Castlevania And Luigi's Mansion Knock Boots
By Shane Hill, as seen on Tiny Cartridge.The Bayeux Tapestry, World 1-1
It may not have the lasting historical significance of "1066 and all that", but that doesn't stop Elsa's tapestry of Mario's iconic 1-1 level from being just as impressive as anything the Normans could come up with. More »Classic Arcade Posters For The Proletariat
As we've covered, the Soviet Union didn't just have big tanks and long lines for potatoes. It also had video games. But those games didn't just sell themselves! Like everything else, they needed to be advertised. More »Some Artwork From Transformers: War For Cybertron
I am daring to be excited by Transformers: War For Cybertron. Why? Because I love any Transformers not involving Michael Bay, and I especially love the War Within comic series. More »Uncharted 2 Art, Straight from the Artists Themselves
With Uncharted 2 out and scarfing up a bathtub of major awards, especially for visuals, the games' creators are showing us how it was built. Several Naughty Dog artists have posted a ton of art in this thread. More »TF2's Propaganda Contest Winners Will Delight & Amaze
Well, this is a surprise. Those entrants in Team Fortress 2's propaganda competition we posted the other day? While good, they've got nothing on the eventual winners, which aren't just good. They're so much better than good. More »Microwaved Xbox 360 Elite — Yours for $31,000
Remember the microwaved mutant Game Boy Advance, creepy eyeballs and all? The same artist has done the same thing to an Xbox 360, and has it listed for $31,002 on eBay. More »The Many (Ultra-Close) Faces Of Video Games
Britain's Ashley Browning is the man to thank for this series of minimalist, zoomed-in "portraits" of some of video gaming's most recognisable faces. More »Team Fortress 2 Propaganda Invokes The Spirit Of '42
You might have noticed. There's a war going on in Team Fortress 2 right now. Where there's war, there's propaganda, and where there's TF2 fans, there's great propaganda. More »Lull Your Baby To Sleep With BioShock, Colossi
You remember that Left 4 Dead mobile from a few months back? Andrea made that. Andrea also made these newer models, one for BioShock, the other for Shadow of the Colossus. More »Fans Are Shearing For Mega Man 10's Sheep Man
Only two days after his big debut, Mega Man 10's Sheep Man has already generated more fan art than you can shake a shepard's crook at. More »Treat Yourself to an Invad-icure
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Street artist Posterchild—installer of Super Mario Bros. question blocks and Portal companion cubes in the real world—has let loose Star Fox nemesis Andross in New York City. Fear him, subway riders! More »