Earlier tonight, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford tweeted that Eli Roth would be directing the attempt to make a Borderlands movie, which was quietly announced last year. He then quickly deleted the tweet. Here it is: Guess he announced it too early, hence the swift deletion. It’s hard to get excited about video game movie announcements since…
Plarium Global is a mobile games studio whose art department in Kharkiv is responsible for loads of pretty environments and cool character design. I know loads of mobile strategy games are scammy trash, but there’s something about the isometric art style so many games use use that just gets me wishing more titles on other…
For a few months now, Retro Replay’s Troy Baker (Joel) and Nolan North (David) have livestreamed a playthrough of The Last Of Us. They’re at the end now, and things are getting heavy. In this week’s instalment, guest Merle Dandridge asks the guys to share their thoughts on the ethics of Joel’s actions at the…
Homeworld 3 and Deserts of Kharak developers Blackbird Interactive have a new first-person game coming called Hardspace: Shipbreaker, which despite their pedigree (and the game’s art style) isn’t actually set in the Homeworld universe. Though it still looks very cool. You play as a shipbreaker (those with long memories might remember that Shipbreakers was the…
In this short Legend of Micah video, four professional stuntmen decide to dress up like they’re in The Mandalorian and just absolutely go to town on each other. Before we get into it, some credits! Ben Aycrigg is Mando, while the bounty hunters are Billy Matt Thompson, Pat Chu and Jorge Longoria. The blasters and…
Aleksandr Pushai is an artist based in Spain. You can see more of Pushai’s stuff at his ArtStation page
The King is dead. Long live the King! Last week, EVE Online developers CCP said that Project Nova, their long-in-development shooter based on the same universe as their famous space MMO, was being thrown in the bin. “This decision was taken because Project Nova’s gameplay experience as presented at EVE Vegas ’18 would not have…
I’ll be honest, I thought Besiege—the construction/puzzle game that was one of the stars of 2015—was already out. Nope! It’s actually spent the last five years in Early Access, and only now is it out. The release of 1.0 brings the game’s single-player campaign to a close, along with introducing some new fancy new blocks…
Louyang Zhang is an illustrator, comics and concept artist from China. You can see more of Zhang’s stuff at their ArtStation page.
For the longest time, Sony has run its own official message board, a place where PlayStation owners could get together, hang out, ague pointlessly and, most importantly, troubleshoot. But on February 27, that board will be shutting down. Sony announced the move late last week with a very short, very blunt message: Hello, Beginning 27th…
Persona is a series that has sometimes struggled with homosexuality, like Persona 4’s well-meaning-but-ultimately-busted approachto Kanji’s romance. Persona 5, meanwhile, had a couple of scenes involving a “Scruffy Romantic” and “Beefy Trendsetter” on release that were…yeah. Here’s the first of those scenes: Just so you can get a clearer idea of the tone, here’s the…
Kevin Jick is an artist at Treyarch. You can see more of Kevin’s stuff at his ArtStation page
Japanese FIFA player Akito Aoki flew all the way from Japan to the UK last week to watch his favourite team play. And while you’d expect that to be a club from the Premier League, or maybe the Championship (ie, the second division), he was actually there to watch Stockport County, a side currently toiling…
I’ve been readingthrough the new book Japansoft: An Oral History recently, and while it’s full of very cool and interesting stories about the earliest days of Japanese game development, there’s one story in particular that’s my favourite. The book is a prettier and more concise repackaging of John Szczepaniak’s excellent The Untold History of Japanese…
Mauro Cerati is an artist who has worked on stuff like Street Fighter V and Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite You can see more of Mauro’s stuff at his ArtStation page
Because it’s All-Star Weekend in the NBA, and because that’s traditionally been a time for companies related to basketball to show off some cool stuff, Jordan and Xbox have decided to team up and make a console that nobody can actually buy. This kind of thing isn’t new, particularly for Microsoft, who seem 1,000 times more…
It’s one of the most iconic maps in all of video games, and soon Counter-Strike’s famous Dust stage will be playable in Fortnite’s creative mode thanks to the work of some expert modders. Team Evolve have brought the map as faithfully as Fortnite’s tools will allow, and seeing as the map will also allow creative…
If you’ve ever been stuck scrolling through a games library that includes dozens/hundreds of PC titles, and you just can’t work out what to play next, Steam is going to try and help with a new feature called Play Next. Unlike Steam’s store recommendations, which tell you what you should buy next, this is going…
Hyunsu Cha is a concept artist from Korea. You can see more of Cha’s stuff at his ArtStation page
We normally hear there’s a problem with a game, wait for it to be fixed, learn it’s been fixed then get on with our lives, none of us the wiser as to what actually just happened. So it’s cool to see Bungie taking a step back and filling everyone in on how a bug gets…
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