Unlike most sports, which are just riding this whole covid-19 thing out, the UFC is out there trying to get back underway as quickly as possible. By taking what used to be a fairly conventional combat sport and turning it into the plot of a Dead Or Alive or Tekken game. UFC boss Dana White…
Eloïse Girard is a freelance illustrator and graphic artist from France. You can see more of Eloïse’s stuffat her ArtStation page.
If you haven’t seen it, Shut Up & Sit Down are to thank for the essential guide to overcoming the worst thing about board games: how to explain the rules to your friends. This video from the Aunty Donna boys is…the opposite of that. I am Mr. Secretly Watching Football, and I feel personally attacked…
For all this time, over all these decades, we’ve all been playing Super Mario 64 with a visual glitch: The smoke that comes off Mario’s butt when you catch fire is broken. Yup, turns out the MS-Paint-lookin’ effect we’re so used to isn’t how the smoke is supposed to look. Rather, after some poking around…
The eNASCAR iRacing Pro invitational Series event, where NASCAR drivers are racing each other on the internet because they can’t currently do it in real life, is already giving us some spicy sports action. During Sunday’s race, which was televised, Bubba Wallace quit in the middle of a race after tangling with a rival in…
When a cosplayer spends weeks or even months on an outfit, it’s not always so they can wear it once then bin it. A lot of the time a costume can be kept for years after its first wearing, as it’s added to and improved upon. As an example of that, here’s cosplayer Alexandre, who…
Halil Ural is a painter and illustrator from Finland who has worked for companies like Dire Wolf and Gameloft. You can see more of Ural’s stuff at his ArtStation page
That is a lot of terraforming. VaynMaanen has taken their regular Animal Crossing island of Forsena and completely transformed it into the Link to the Past version of Zelda’s Hyrule, from towns to waterfalls to mountains. That is, uh, a lot of work, but it also looks fantastic, not just as a homage, but just…
As we’re only now starting to see in video games, with The Last Of Us 2 being the most high profile casualty (so far), global Covid-19 lockdowns are wreaking absolute havoc on the ability of companies to make and sell games. But if you think it’s bad for video games, spare a thought for anyone…
Jander González Mella is an artist and illustrator from the Dominican Republic. You can see more of Jander’s stuff at his ArtStation page
ExoDOS, a project we profiled last year to catalogue and preserve every MS-DOS game ever released, is doing something special in these new and trying times: rounding up all their collected educational games and distributing them with notes and tips for parents. This is some essential shit! My wife and I (mostly my wife, since…
Under normal circumstances, Jessica Kobeissi is a professional photographer who spends her time shooting agency models in glamorous settings. But these are not normal circumstances, and so for the next little while, Jessica is taking photos in Animal Crossing instead. In this video posted to her YouTube channel, Jessica shows how Animal Crossing’s photo mode,…
For a few years now on April 1, cosplayers from around the world have joined in on a common joke and posted some pics. This year’s effort, though, took on some added significance, as without any major cosplay cons taking place in the foreseeable future, this “con” was as close to a show as anyone…
Jia Ruan is an artist who has worked on stuff like Halo and Guild Wars You can see more of Jia’s stuff at his ArtStation page
In 2017, Activision was sued by AM General over Call of Duty’s accurate depiction of Humvees. In its defense, the publisher said the vehicle’s inclusion was a “first amendment” issue, a point a federal judge agreed with today while dismissing GM’s case. As Law360 report, U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels decided, “If realism is…
While it’s perfectly expected and cool that people are using Animal Crossing’s design tools to create unique and interesting clothes, some players are simply using them to craft recreations of outfits they already own. Or, in this case, might never own. Outside of video games, I’m kinda into techwear, a style of clothing that’s about…
Antonin Kolman is an artist and matte painter who has worked in games and movies. You can see more of Antonin’s stuff at his ArtStation page
This won’t come as a surprise to any of you, but id Software officially cancelled QuakeCon 2020 today, saying, “gathering is the last thing any of us should be doing right now.” In a statement posted on the con’s site, id say the show—due to take place in August—just can’t be put together at the…
Gloomhaven, one of the most popular board games in years, launched its big new campaign Frosthaven today on Kickstarter. Things are, uh, going well. At time of posting, with less than 24 hours gone on the game’s Kickstarter campaign, it has raised over USD$4 million. Watching the page at any time looks a little something…
How do you separate greatness? You can only try. And remember that hexes > grids. In this latest instalment of Pecking Order, I’m going to be choosing between some of my favourite, and most-played games of all time. From the original all the way through to Civilization VI’s expansions, I’ve been lucky to enough to…
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