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Pac-Man As Feudal Japan Era Ghostbuster

I've always been a bit disappointed with Namco Bandai's attempts at Pac-Man modernization, Pac-Man Championship Edition notwithstanding. The yellow blob's transition to 3D has resulted in some awkward and ugly renditions, but artist Jared Moraitis' spin on the ghost eating hero could make for a fascinating game, should Namco Bandai have the good sense to repurpose the Afro Samurai engine for a more anthropomorphized Pac-Man with some much needed swordplay. Knowing Namco, though, this will have to remain in my dreams until the company has squeezed every drop of blood from the Gundam and Tales Of stones.

Pac-Samurai [Pop Monkey - thanks, Drew!]

8:40 PM on Mon Jun 9 2008
By Michael McWhertor
9,192 views, 59 comments

Latest by Cyco: @Fierfaerie: It's ok, I'll forgive you this time. more »

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Team Fortress 2 Unlocks Its Feminine Side

Team Fortress 2 classes decked out with doe eyes and D-cups? Inevitable. We're surprised it took this long to come to our attention, but artist "ghostfire" has launched a thousand shameful clean up sessions with her—not a typo!—rendition of the Red Team in cute outfits that are wildly inappropriate for battle. Yes, prints are available!

Select A Class... by ghostfire [deviantArt - thanks, Marc!]

6:00 PM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Michael McWhertor
40,559 views, 153 comments

Latest by Nubius: I think it would be a nice and creepy touch to give the female spy an "eyes wide shut" type of mask...oh day dreams... more »

nintendo

From Pixel To Polygon: Super Smash Bros. Brawl Stars Evolved... Again!

You may recall the previously handy Nintendo evolution chart, chronicling the change from 8-bit sprite to modern day Super Smash Bros. Brawl polygonal form, but it wasn't quite complete. The creator, Kotaku commenter TaeK, has tied up a few loose ends, going beyond Mario, Link, Samus, Donkey Kong, Kirby and Sonic, fleshing it out with Wario, Pikachu, Peach and more. He's pulled out a few hidden, classic characters that may be considered Brawl spoilers. Make the jump for the full, giant pic. More »

9:30 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Michael McWhertor
26,236 views, 81 comments

Latest by poiuytman: The Samuses are out of order. Fusion came out approximately the same time as Prime, so it should be after original Smash Bros Samus. more »

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Fuck MGS Papercraft, MGS Cardboardcraft Is Where It's At

In April 2007, we saw this Metal Gear Solid papercraft. It was adorable! Now, in February 2008, courtesy of Kotakuite Kai-Hung "Chilli Coke" Chuang, we get more of it. This is not adorable. It is mighty. How mighty? Dude's only gone and made a 1:1 scale version of the papercraft. I'd say more, but being speechless and all, that's a little tough at the moment.

8:20 PM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Luke Plunkett
13,035 views, 58 comments

valentine's day

Fall In Love With These Team Fortress 2 Valentines

We featured artist Alexandria Neonakis' art last Valentine's Day, but her new series, bringing the best of romantic hokeyness to Team Fortress 2, is even more deserving of some special attention. If you've found yourself without a V-Day card to your name, fire up the old color inkjet and print out one of her five beautifully rendered cards that feature the Scout, Spy, Heavy, Pyro and Medic, famous for their appearances in Valve's The Orange Box. Amazing how Team Fortress 2 seems applicable to so many holidays.

If you're more of a World of Warcraft, Shadow of the Colossus or Katamari Damacy romantic type, those Valentines are still available.

Art [Nuts N' Beavers - thanks, Tobias!]

3:20 PM on Wed Feb 13 2008
By Michael McWhertor
9,307 views, 40 comments

Latest by Jagzthebest: "We featured artist Alexandria Neonakis' art last Valentine's Day" No that was in 2006, which was 2 years ago. more »

legos

Mother Brain and Others in Legos

Lego wrangler Lwelyk has put together a little blog featuring his video game Lego creations. Each piece is an exact recreation of the original 2D sprite artwork where one pixel equals one square Lego block. Aside from Mother Brain we also get Phanto, Mushroom Block, Flying Shy Guy, Tingle and tons of others. The Mother Brain is by far the most impressive but the Twinrova piece definitely gets an honorable mention.

Lwelyk's Legos

2:00 PM on Sat Jan 26 2008
By fdemarco
6,931 views, 56 comments

Latest by Omnidum: Just to annoy, but why have a danish invention been made into art? more »

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Freaky Pac-Man Wallpaper For Your Desktop

The email that this link arrived in was titled "Disturbing Pac-Man Wallpaper" and of course anything labeled "disturbing" gets me to open it faster than a kid opening presents on Christmas morning. While I don't find it particularly disturbing, I do think it's pretty cool. It was created with a combination of Blender and Photoshop and is available in just about any size you could possibly want for free. The artist is also selling signed prints for £25 including p&p. More »

4:00 PM on Sun Aug 5 2007
By fdemarco
13,062 views, 22 comments

Latest by GamerNamedTim: Very cool! It's on my desktop as I write this! more »

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Super Smash Bros: Onslaught


Kotakuite africansk8er, sends in a link to this truly amazing piece of fan art found while perusing DeviantArt.com. According to the artist, CytosisX, this masterpiece took nearly two years to complete and i must say it's absolutely beautiful. Art like this should never go unnoticed and I regret having had to shrink it down so much here. To truly appreciate it's awesomeness, it needs to be seen full sized so you can take in every incredible detail. Be sure to check out the rest of his gallery too as it has a bunch of other great video game related pieces

A tip of the hat to you, CytosisX. I would give my eye teeth for that kind of talent

CytosisX's DeviantArt Gallery [DeviantArt]

9:00 AM on Sun Aug 5 2007
By fdemarco
17,112 views, 50 comments

Latest by mcderek3000: Amazing! more »

big daddy

BioShock Fan Art

It's been a while since I've seen a game which hasn't come out yet inspire so much excitement in people (not counting established franchise games, of course). The hub bub surrounding the eventual debut of BioShock has given birth to all kinds of creativity. The BioShock community site The Cult of Rapture is well deserved of it's name and allowed anticipating fans to vote on the contents of the LE box set, design the cover for said set and opened a section on their forums dedicated to fan art. This awesome image however, doesn't come from Cult of Rapture, but rather from artist, Rhall on his DeviantArt page. More »

11:00 AM on Sun Jun 17 2007
By fdemarco
5,473 views, 10 comments

Latest by Ray Frenden: I'm a full time illustrator who was equally as inspired by the monsters-meet-deco stylings of Bioshock. I didn't want to ape the teams' concepts too closely, so lets just say this bloke got a heavy dose of plasmids... Linky stinky. more »

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Nintendo Plot Twist

Wow, that Peach sure does get around. Just a few months back we get an invitation to her wedding to Bowser and now she's marrying Link? But then I think we all know about Peach's questionable morals. More »

10:00 AM on Sat Jun 2 2007
By fdemarco
8,587 views, 47 comments

man hater

Master Chief Denied By Samus

Artist Torokun is no stranger to Kotaku. We love his fan art. His most recent addition to his deviantArt profile is of this awesome Metroid Prime 2 Echoes-style Samus Aran showing her distaste for "badly designed guys" like the popular BMX bandit Master Chief. Ice cold, Samus, ice cold. More »

3:40 PM on Thu May 17 2007
By Michael McWhertor
16,243 views, 45 comments

great balls of fire

Fan Art: Mario and His Flower

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Fan Art: Mog Of War

Often times when perusing DeviantArt you'll find an artist who has one or two stand out pieces which makes them easy to feature. But in the case of fellow Atlantian, Brandokay, he had so many amazing pieces that it was hard to choose just one. But since we're in the Month of Kratos, I decided to go with this one entitled "Mog of War". Other notable pieces you should check out are K.K. Slider - Wild World Tour, Galactamari Damacy and Kingdom Karts. While you are there though, do yourself a favor and check out his whole gallery, this guy has major talent. I will always hold a special place in my heart for his Shy Guys Finish Last. Flynn De Marco

12:00 PM on Sun Mar 18 2007
By fdemarco
16,371 views, 14 comments

Latest by Gregg: hope this isn't too late a post. i haven't played either god of war I or II but am about to get one of them. but i don't know which. i heard it follows on but is it essential that i more »

fan art

Incredible Metroid Fan Art

DeviantArtist, =transfuse (aka Ivan Flores), has an amazing little collection of Metroid fan art that he's created posted to his DeviantArt gallery. Each one was created digitally using Photoshop CS2, a Wacom tablet and a hell of a lot of talent. According to his notes, this particular piece took him only 36 hours which is pretty impressive considering most of us probably couldn't produce something like this in 36 months. Unfortunately, unscrupulous internet art thieves have taken Ivan's work and posted it on various sites with his signature removed and no links to his other works. Here at Kotaku we believe giving credit where credit is due, so kudos to you Ivan, your work is amazing and you deserve all the attention and sweet paying art gigs you can get. More »

11:00 AM on Sat Mar 3 2007
By fdemarco
9,508 views, 37 comments

Latest by clevetheripper: I attended an Austin anime convention where I made the mistake of downing close to a whole bottle of vodka, took a number at the art auction, told one rival bidder that I took craps bigger than him and more »

wii

Console Launch Fan Art

Kotakuite and gifted artist Jeff C. created this kick ass piece for an Illustrator class at his school. The assignment was to do something that you've never done before, and then make art based on the experience. Jeff decided to attend the Wii launch and design a piece based on the both the PS3 and Wii launches in general. My absolute favorite part is the the guys in the sleeping bags getting pelted with eggs. Nice touch. Looks like poor Mario and Luigi got there a bit late though, I hope there's a system left for them. More »

6:00 PM on Sat Dec 30 2006
By fdemarco
360 views, 22 comments

Latest by embee: Cloud camped out. Nice. more »

tingle

The Legend Of Zelda: Shadow Of Tingle

With the advent of Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, one classic Zelda character has been all but forgotten about. Of course, I'm talking about that green suited, ugly as sin, fairy wanna be, Tingle. More »

11:00 AM on Sat Dec 16 2006
By fdemarco
5,486 views, 29 comments

zombies

Zombie Pikachu, I Choose You!

Mmmmmm..BRAINS! More »
guitar hero

The Best Guitar Hero Fan Art Ever

If I were to get a Guitar Hero tattoo over the whole of my back, it would be a perfect reproduction of this Iron Maiden style throwback. It was created by applepointy over at the ConceptArt.org forums and has just single-handedly taken the prize for the best piece of fan art I've ever seen. I'd also like a cheesecake shot of Judy Nails across the length of my bicep. Eddy should be an unlockable character in Guitar Hero II. Florian Eckhardt More »

11:40 AM on Mon Oct 23 2006
By kotaku.com
11,652 views, 15 comments

Latest by Optimistic Prime: This makes me want to run to the hills! more »

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