Elora Pautratis a concept artist and illustrator working for Evening Star, the studio made up of a lot of Sonic Mania vets You can see more of Elora’s stuff at her personal site and Instagram
Snake, the game most famous for its appearance on ancient Nokia phones, is making a temporary comeback over the next day or two (depending on where you are in the world) with a version being added to Google Maps for an April 1 treat. It’s available from April 1 on both iOS and Android, and…
For a post-apocalyptic game, set after the world is turned to fire and ash, Far Cry: New Dawn sure is pretty. So let’s look tonight at some of the art that went into the game’s conception and production. This isn’t everything from everyone who worked on the game, but it’s a selection that’ll give you…
Fresh off their success with last year’s GKR, Weta are now working to turn the studio’s 2009 sci-fi classic District 9 into a board game as well. At first glance, it’s pretty similar! The same punchy art style is there, there are hexes to move on and loads of very cool miniatures included in the…
A 24 year-old man from England has pleaded guilty to charges of hacking into both Microsoft and Nintendo’s servers, causing an estimated $3-4 million damages. As The Verge report, Zammis Clark—a former security researcher at Malwarebytes—went before a court in London this week accused of accessing servers at both companies, stealing user information, accessing files…
First Doom, then Final Fantasy, now Lucasarts’ Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II is getting a tasteful HD makeover courtesy of neural networks, which are able to take dirty old textures and get them looking closer to 2019 standards all by themselves. The work here is being done by ESRGAN, also known as “dark…
Rizaldy Celi is a fashion photographer who is just getting into cosplay, and I love the way he’s bringing his eye for the former into his work on the latter. You can see more of Rizaldy’s stuff at his Instagramand personal site
Zach and Tarm Adams, creators of the cult classic PC game Dwarf Fortress, have a new version coming to Steam, and there’s a chance that it makes them some money, which they could very much do with. But what happens if it makes them a lot of money? Inan interview with PC Gamer, Tarn was…
The latest Minecraft update makes a few changes to the decade-old phenomenon, none more notable than the fact the game’s splash screens have removed all mention of Minecraft’s creator Markus “Notch” Persson. Previously, the game’s splash screens—the yellow text you see when Minecraft boots up—would display random messages, and some of them referenced Persson with…
Ignatius Tan is an artist working at League of Legends developers Riot Games, and this is one of the nicest pieces of Princess Mononoke art I have ever seen. You can see more of Tan’s stuff at his ArtStation page
She’s right I think, on both counts.
Good Smile Company is back with another excellent Persona 5 figure, this time for the game’s most misunderstood asshole, Ryuji Releasing in October, he comes with three different faces, pipe, shotgun, calling card and alternative hair piece. He’s retailing for just under USD$60
Metro Exodus received the “Ranger Update” today, which addsNew Game +, more audio tapes to listen to (some including developer commentary) and mouse + keyboard support for Xbox One edition.
Sons of the Singularity, a small publisher of RPGs, ran a Kickstarter last year for a Call of Cthulu sourcebook, successfully raising over $20,000. Called The Sassoon Files, it was finally printed last week, only for the publisher to claim that the Chinese government then stepped in and burned every copy. Via Boing-Boing, here’s Sons…
Toni Infante is a freelance illustrator from Spain who has worked for companies like DC and CD Projekt. You can see more of Toni’s stuff at his personal site and ArtStation page
Hoosiers point guard Devonte Green, a shooter, has a very appropriate tattoo (among some other games-related art) on his left arm: the infinite ammo cheat code for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the PS2. LakeShowYo spotted it a couple of days ago, highlighting it in this tweet: Because it’s tiny and at an angle,…
Daedalic today announced a new game called The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, which is notable for the fact that a) it’s all about Gollum, who sucks, and b) it’s another attempt at a Lord of the Rings game without the fabled film license. Back around the time of the main trilogy’s release (and for…
Expanding on a rumour they first published last year, The Wall Street Journal now reportsthat Nintendo is planning on releasing two new models of the Switch, and both may be out in 2019. The first,they say, “will have enhanced features targeted at avid videogamers, although it won’t be as powerful as Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4…
Masahiro Sawada is a senior concept artist at CDPR, the developers of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 You can see more of Sawada’s stuff at his ArtStation page
There’s currently an international cosplay battle going on between Overwatch fans, and the results are out of this world. It’s a genuine competition, put on by Blizzard, and there are six teams–each of them featuring some of the world’s finest cosplayers and prop builders–from across Europe competing. The victors will be announced on March 26…
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