Lars Sowig is an artist at DICE who has previously worked on games like The Division 2 and Warface You can see more of Lars’ stuff at his ArtStation page
When Diablo 4 was announced over the weekend, there was some very large and very professional cosplay to go along with it. Like they’ve done with recent Overwatch character reveals, Blizzard hired professional cosplayers to help out on the news, in this case getting Henchmen Studios—one of the biggest and best costume/prop workshops around—and make-up…
There have never been official LEGO Transformers, and there likely never will be. But boy, these fan-made efforts by Alex Jones come real close to filling that void. Via Brothers Brick, he’s somehow managed to get both the vehicle and robot forms looking good, which when you throw in the transformation process must have taken…
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission—a government body that basically looks after customer’s rights in the country—announced today that some refunds will be handed out for purchases of Fallout 76 after ruling that Bethesda was “likely to have contravened the Australian Consumer Law”. The ruling—technically against Bethesda’s parent company Zenimax—came after folks buying Fallout 76…
It’s cool that many modern games include colorblind options, so that those who struggle to differentiate between various hues can still enjoy the experience to the fullest. It’s even cooler, though, when a game is designed from the ground up with that support in mind. Obsidian’s Josh Sawyer shared this info in a Tweet earlier…
Emerson Tung is a concept artist at id Software, home of Doom and Wolfenstein We’ve featured Tung’s work before back in 2013, but his recent series of “Tankhead” pieces—which also include aircraft and battleships—are so damn good I thought it was time for another showcase. Oh, and if you’re as into these designs as I…
DeepMind’s AlphaStar artificial intelligence was recently put to work trying to master the real-time complexities of Blizzard’s StarCraft II. Which it successfully managed in just over six weeks, becoming the first non-human to reach the rank of Grandmaster in the game. The AI was first tasked with watching human players to study their (our?) movements,…
Abrar Khan is an artist at Ubisoft’s Massive studio, the team behind games like World in Conflict and The Division You can see more of Khan’s stuff at his ArtStation page
EA Sports’ NBA Live 20, which had the honour of being officially delayed before it was even officially announced, has now been cancelled. It’s the fourth time in ten years that EA has not released an annual entry in its flagship basketball game on a home console. As Polygon reports, the break will allow EA…
When Blizzard decided to take action against a pro Hearthstone player for speaking out over the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, they ate a lot of shit from fans. They also, it turns out, lost a commercial sponsor in the form of Mitsubishi Motors. The Taiwanese branch of the Japanese auto giant had been a…
Liam MacDonald is an artist at Respawn, where he’s worked on stuff like Apex Legends and the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order You can see more of Liam’s stuff at his ArtStation page
“It’s a lovely day in the village, and you are a horrible…”.
I wrote about Mansions of Madness last week, because it’s a great game and I loved every second of it. This week, I’m writing about a different, newer Arkham game from Fantasy Flight, and yikes, this one I don’t like anywhere near as much. Final Hour is a new game that massively strips back the…
Fortnite pro Cody “Clix” Conrod—who is only 14 years old—was in the middle of a Fortnite Championship Series game on the weekend when his home was swatted. As Dexerto report, Conrod announced to viewers watching mid-stream that he would have to be leaving the match. “Police are here…yo, I just got swatted…one second, I gotta…
Ruiz Burgos is a comic artist and illustrator from Spain who has worked for companies like IDW and Take-Two. You can see more of Ruiz’s stuff at his personal siteand ArtStation page
Epic Games is in the process suing a former tester for spoiling some of Fortnite’s big Chapter Two reveal secrets. As Polygon reports, Epic filed the suit last week in North Carolina, alleging that former tester Ronald Sykes, who had played loads of the Chapter Two content back in September, began tweeting at other Fortnite…
One of the rarest Pokémon cards in existence went up for auction last week at New York-based Weiss and sold for $195,000. It is now officially the most expensive Pokémon card in existence. It’s a “Pikachu Illustrator” card, a promo given out to winners of a comic contest that was held in Japan in 1997-98.…
Chengtao Ma is an artist based in Shanghai, China. You can see more of Ma’s work at their ArtStation page
I picked up my new Pixel 4XL yesterday, and instead of rushing to test out the new camera, radar features or terrifyingly fast face-scanning, the first thing I did with the new phone was…play with some interactive Pokémon wallpapers. The Pixel 4 has an app called Pokémon Wave Hello, which is part Sword and Shield…
Part of Fallout 76’s controversial new paid subscription serviceFallout First is the addition of an unlimited Scrap Box, which is somewhere players can store all of their junk. Problem being that some players are finding that the Scrap Box is bugged in the worst way possible: They’re losing everything they put into it. There have…
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