Toco Toco TV, a series of intimate interviews with Japanese creators that we’ve been following for ages, has just released its final episode, about composer Keiichi Okabe (NieR, Drakengard 3).
Back in 2017 AM General, the manufacturer of the iconic Humvee, sued Activision over the military vehicle’s inclusion in the Call of Duty series. That case is still rumbling on, but Activision is now trying to have it dismissed as “nothing less than a direct attack on the First Amendment.” As The Hollywood Reporter report,…
Shenmue III was originally supposed to be out at the end of 2017. Then the first half of 2018. Then August 2019. Now it’s being pushed back further, to November 19. Yu Suzuki made the announcement earlier today on the game’s Kickstarter page, saying: Whilst almost ready, the game simply needs a little more refinement…
Adithep “GopGap” Imthalay is a character designer and illustrator from Thailand. You can see more of GopGap’s work at his ArtStation page
As old as Minecraft is, I’ll never get tired of appreciating just how good it looks when people put the effort in. I know a lot of games can get modded to Hell and back and look great, but there’s something about the distance blocky ol’ Minecraft has to travel to get there that makes…
Euro Truck Simulator 2 just added voice navigation in a range of languages, but of all the new options, the best might just be the English guidance provided by Doug Cockle, who plays Geralt in the Witcher series. In this video by Milan, you can hear all the new English-language voices, but you’ll want to…
Kieran Belshaw is an artist who has worked on Game of Thrones for a few years now, including the eighth and final season, where he helped out on some of the series’ most iconic moments. He’s also worked on movies like the upcoming Terminator: Dark Fate, Prince of Persia, Clash of the Titans and Guy…
It wasn’t great with Mario or Zelda, but hey, let’s see if adding a dash of virtual reality to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, via Nintendo Labo, adds anything to the experience. Ultimate just updated to 3.1.0, and among other changes (check them all out here) is the addition of a very weird, very limited form…
For their upcoming wedding, catsdotcomand her fiance decided to skip traditional toppers and go straight to some custom Amiibo. Super cute! Can’t wait for the day after the wedding, when the Tom Nook Amiibo appears behind them to start collecting his dues The figures were done by diyCrossing, who sells a bunch of custom Animal…
There’s a sequel to Fallout Shelter about to be released, called Fallout Shelter Online, and it features new stuff like attacks on other vaults and even player-vs-player combat. Pity, then, that at the moment it’s only coming out in China. JuiceHead has made this very handy video (via @secretzsc) from closed betas giving everyone a…
Ageing British metal band Iron Maiden (or at least the band’s holding company) are suing video game publisher 3D Realms over retro shooter Ion Maiden, claiming the game’s logo and marketing is “an effort to confuse consumers into believing Defendant’s products and services are somehow affiliated with or approved by Iron Maiden”. The lawsuit, filed…
Vladyslava Hladkova is a concept artist based in the UK who works in the games business. You can see more of Vladyslava’s stuff at her ArtStation page.
ESCRIT, a Japanese company specialising in wedding ceremonies, recently teamed up with The Pokemon Company to start offering officially licensed Pokemon weddings. There are now some pictures of the first ceremony to be hold, and there is a lot to take in. As you cast your eyes over these images, please remember this is not…
This is Altar Quest, a new board game by Adam and Brady Sadler (Street Masters, Brook City) that’s kinda like Hero Quest, only it uses their modular deck system to spice things up.
While we wait to see the official redesign of Sonic the Hedgehog for the upcoming movie, animatorArtur Baranov has gone in and completely changed the film’s trailer, replacing movie Sonic with a more familiar-looking hedgehog. Like Edward Pun’s effort, then, only this one’s actually moving and running and getting shot in the leg. Thanks Bartek!
At a press conference in Tokyo today, The Pokemon Company has taken to the stage and showed off a range of new games, services and hardware that are coming over the next year or so. First is Pokemon Home, a new cloud-based service where pretty much every new and big Pokemon game—from Pokemon Go to…
Detective Pikachu is coming to the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo just announced at a press conference in Tokyo. The game was originally released on the 3DS in 2016.
The latest Zelda didn’t include traditional dungeons (no, shrines don’t count), but that hasn’t stopped HailToDodongofrom building one and getting it working inside the emulated PC version of the game. Seeing as it’s only been two weeks since the tools (which HailToDodongo also made, hence the speed) to allow this were first released, this is…
Ever since Rome 2’s disappointing release back in 2013, it feels like the Total War series has been lost and in search of something. From Attila and Thrones of Britannia’s tinkering to the Warhammer games’ explosion of personality there has been wild experimentation between titles. Three Kingdoms is the culmination of that adventure. The release…
Sheng Lam is a concept artist based in the UK, currently working at Cloud Imperium, developers of Star Citizen. You can see more of Sheng’s stuff at his ArtStation page
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