These days we’re used to ports on weaker systems featuring a few trimmed edges, maybe some muddier textures, some longer loading times. Like, say, The Witcher 3 on Switch. But in the Game Boy Advance days, when games could get nowhere near GameCube (or even N64) visuals, ports had to get inventive. And few got…
Zenon, a very good Fortnite player from Brazil who also happens to be just nine years old, has received a four-year competitive ban from Epic after the company found out he was playing in paid tournaments while under the game’s minimum age limit. Only this week Zenon had entered, and placed, in a round of…
Aleksander Rostov is art director at ZA/UM, the developers of Disco Elysium You can see more of Aleksander’s stuff at his ArtStation page
Facebook is owned by humans but run by machines, and those machines are unable to differentiate between a “weed”, a thing that grows in the ground in Nintendo’s Animal Crossing (and, I guess, in real life), and the other “weed”. As Polygon report, numerous private Facebook groups have begun warning users to avoid using the…
My kids have started playing Wind Waker recently—for the record, my favourite game of all time—and it’s been a joy seeing them encounter everything for the first time. Gasping at Aryll’s abduction, laughing at the Killer Bees, screaming “this stealth level is the worst I hate it”. I wonder, though, what they’ll make of the…
Variety are reporting today that Cate Blanchett “is in talks to star as Lilith in Lionsgate’s ‘Borderlands,’ an adaptation of the popular video game”. This is sad and terrible news. If you missed the announcement back in February, Eli Roth is directing an adaptation of Gearbox’s shooters, and between his involvement and the series’ trademark…
THQ Nordic and Koch Media did something today that I don’t think I’ve ever seen before: they picked up a bunch of intellectual properties they own—including Second Sight and Risen—and just traded them. Like they were athletes, or collectable cards, or Pokemon. It’s important to note before we start thinking this is too weird that…
Sarunas Macijauskas is a concept artist and illustrator from Lithuania. You can see more of Sarunas’ stuff at his ArtStation page
A group of Star Wars fans have taken their action figures off the shelf and done something practical with them for a change, dressing them up in amazing dioramas and recreating, set-for-set, the plot of Star Wars: Episode IV The project initially planned for a shot-by-shot remake, but after finding that would be an insane…
Last year, Super Mario 64’s N64 code was reverse-engineered by fans, allowing for all kinds of new and exciting things to be done with Nintendo’s 1996 classic. Like building a completely new PC port of the game, which can run in 4K and ultra-wide resolutions. This is a very new and cool thing! Previously, if…
A video game soundtrack release is normally a pretty straightforward thing, but Doom Eternal’s 59-track OST has found itself mired in controversy as the game’s composer and publisher Bethesda are at odds over the quality and composition of much of the score. The story begins last month, when the album was released (after some delays)…
Track: Evil Eye | Artist: Fu Manchu | Album: The Action Is Go
Ken Niimura is a cartoonist and illustrator (and co-creator of I Kill Giants) currently based in Tokyo. We actually featured some of Ken’s stuff a few years back, but that was was in the Before Times. Now that weeks feel like years, years are like decades, and so it’s time to check out what Ken…
Yoshitaka Amano – His universe, On Paper is a short documentary from Archipel that interviews the Final Fantasy legend on his work on the series, his history in the business and his recent fine art pieces. If they don’t activate automatically, there are English subtitles in YouTube’s settings.
A Chinese food delivery company has been testing an exoskeleton its couriers could wear which would allow them to carry a lot more stuff. And while they’re at it look like the world’s most expensive Death Stranding cosplayers. The suits are made by ULS Robotics, a firm that specialises in the research of exoskeletons to…
As EA begin to wind down support for the latest Battlefront game, a surprise update has brought back online multiplayer for the original Star Wars: Battlefront, released back in 2004. On Friday, both the Steam and GOG versions of the classic multiplayer shooter—which loads of people still prefer to the more modern takes on the…
Edward Denton is an artist at WETA, where he’s worked on stuff like The Hobbit, Elysium and Chappie You can see more of Denton’s stuff at his ArtStation page
It is time, as it is around this time every year, for Japanese game store Meteor to hold their Famicase exhibition, where artists from all around the world are invited to create cartridge art for non-existent video games. This is one of my favourite parts of this job, because I’ve somehow managed to write this…
Action RPG Indivisible, from Skullgirls creators Lab Zero, is great! The version that was reportedly released on the Switch this week, though, has been a very weird story. The game came out on April 28 with absolutely no advance notice whatsoever, to the point where even the game’s developers had no idea: That’s odd, and…
Moving Out is a new game out this week on PC, Switch, PS4 and Xbox One. It’s a singleplayer or co-op experience, full of wacky arm-bending and physics gags, and depending on how you’re involved with the process is also an eerily accurate simulation of the art of moving house. As we’ve reviewed previously on…
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