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Blacksmith Creates Real, Flaming Overwatch Hammer

There are a lot of smaller, easier props you could make if you wanted to recreate a weapon from Overwatch, but nope, H-arthas skipped past all of those and forged himself an enormous replica of Reinhardt’s hammer. Unlike most replicas you’ll see, which will have been made with foam and/or wood, H-art torched, welded and…

God Damn Just Look At This Anthem Art

Look, I get it, Anthem has not been a fun time, but there’s this beautiful and convenient thing with this feature where we’re able to separate the art from the gameplay and wonder, holy shit, even if Anthem does suck these character designs are amazing They were done by Volta, a third-party studio that has…

Blizzard Cancels Overwatch League Matches Over Chinese Coronavirus Fears

Blizzard has tonight cancelled all Overwatch League matches scheduled to take place in China for the next two months due to the country’s Coronavirus crisis. The company issued a short statement which reads: We have decided to cancel our February and March matches in China in order to protect the health and safety of our…

Soccer Star Has Sweet Street Fighter Boots

German star Lukas Podolski—who I’ll be honest, after a move to Japan in 2017 I thought had since retired—is still kicking around in the Turkish league, and doing so in style with this pair of custom Street Fighter boots. They were done by shoe artist Pierre Navarro, and turn a relatively plain-looking pair of Adidas…

Goose Game’s Creators Are Helping Reckon With Australia’s Past

Acknowledging that their studio—like everything else in Australia—is built on stolen land, Untitled Goose Game creators House House have pledgedto pay “at least 1% of our income” as rent to Indigenous groups. This is a relatively new thing in Australia, born out of an increasing desire amongst many to fully reckon with the country’s colonial…

Get ‘Em, Grave Boys

Mike “Daarken” Lim is a freelance artist who has done work for companies like Valve, Bethesda, Wizards of the Coast, Fantasy Flight and Riot. You can see more of Mike’s stuff at his personal site and ArtStation page

Deadstock 1986 Super Mario Bros. Slippers Are A Modern Masterpiece

Imagine, it’s 1986, you’re a grown-ass adult living in Japan and after a hard day’s salaryman/womanning you get home to your apartment, kick your shoes off at the door and slip on these beautiful babies. Now take that thought and throw it in the trash, because these slippers are so beautiful they deserved the treatment…

Henry Cavill Breaks Down The Witcher’s Best Fight Scene

Because DVD commentary doesn’t exist in 2020, these videos Netflix are releasing to YouTube are (for now at least) about as close as we’re going to get to seeing the cast and crew talk about how The Witcher was actually made. First up is Cavill’s chat about how he (and some stunt performers) filmed the…

Unreal Engine Is Going To The Super Bowl

It’s not just the 49ers and Chiefs who will be turning out next week in Miami for Super Bowl LIV. The Unreal Engine, of all things, is also going to be there, powering a bunch of the graphics that will be shown during Fox Sports’ broadcast. While we’re all familiar with Unreal for its use…

Destiny 2 Taken Offline After Players Lose Currency, Materials [Update]

Bungie has taken Destiny 2 offline entirely (at time of posting it remains unplayable) after an issue emerged with a hotfix released earlier today where players began losing their “Glimmer, Bright Dust, Infusion Materials, and/or other types of game currencies”. The studio released a short statement this morning, saying the game had been taken offline…

The Battle Of Moria

Justin Gerard is an artist who has worked for everyone from Disney to Blizzard to Riot to Wizards of the Coast. You can see more of Justin’s stuff at his personal siteand ArtStation page

Red Dead Player Kidnaps Sheriffs, Shoots Them In Beautiful Locations

Red Dead’s the kinda game where after a while you have to learn how to make your own fun, which can sometimes involve visiting some of the game’s most breathtaking locations and taking some photos. And sometimes, along the way, kidnapping the game’s Sheriffs then duelling them for sport. That’s what Alex Tanaka has been…

Armed Robber Steals Over $130,000 Worth Of GameStop Merchandise

Frederick Lopez Jr., 28, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of robbing four GameStop stores at gunpoint in 2018. The news was announced today in a press release from the US Attorney’s Office (via Polygon), and says Lopez’s arrest came as a result of a joint investigation by both…

NBA 2K Players Are Paying Their Respects To Kobe Bryant

The NBA 2K community has, as you’d expect given his impact on both the series and basketball itself, been deeply affected by Kobe Bryant’s death yesterday, with players (and the developers) spending the last 24 hours finding ways to pay their respects. 2K Director of Digital Marketing Ronnie Singh, the public face of the series,…

Be Well, My Big Hairy Friend

Sina Pahlevani is a 3D artist from Malaysia. You can see more of Sina’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan Has Some Thoughts About Overwatch‘s Meta

Ah, the meta. Sometimes OK, sometimes terrible, always there, it’s rare that it’s not a hot topic of conversation among fans of Overwatch (or, well, any online game), and a boring one at that. But when a prominent developer weighs in on the subject, that’s a bit more interesting. Jumping into a thread on Blizzard’s…

New Kingdom Hearts Game Is Coming To Mobile

Square Enix tonight announced Project Xehanort, the working title for a new game coming this Spring for iOS, Android, and Amazon. In true bullshit Square Enix fashion, though, absolutely nothing was shown or described about the game, and the only online presence it has is a single screenshot and a competition for fans to try…

In Mythgard, Monsters Still Roam The Earth

Mythgard is a digital card game that, like most other digital card games, employs a ton of third-party artists to bring the cards to life. What’s cool about it outside the game itself is that, unlike most video games on any platform, the artists responsible are credited within the game. Here’s a selection of some…

Ninja Theory are working on a game called Project: MARA, which is “an in-development experimental title that explores new ways of storytelling”, so they can “[recreate] the horrors of the mind as accurately and realistically as possible”. 

Dishonored Has Been Ported To The Tabletop

Dishonored: The Roleplaying Game will be out this Summer and sees the first-person stealth game turned into a tabletop RPG. Modiphius Entertainment is behind the game, which is based on their 2d20 System from Star Trek Adventures and Conan (Modiphius has also done RPGs of Elder Scrolls, Homeworld, and Fallout). Interestingly, Modiphius say they’ve hired a…