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The NFL just kicked off for 2018 and the new NBA season is right around the corner, but it’s streaming giant Ninja who is on the cover of next month’s ESPN The Magazine Well, Ninja and some giant floating PlayStation buttons.

Dad Gets Toddler To Climb Inside Prize Machine, Steal Nintendo Consoles

A man is wanted by police after being filmed sending his daughter inside a BarBerCut Lite cabinet, where she was able to get her tiny hands on some prizes and retrieve them before the pair (and another child, believed to be the man’s son) left the scene. The Union Leader reports that security at the…

New Assassin’s Creed Board Game Has Miniatures, A Campaign And An Ezio Cameo

In 2014, there was an Assassin’s Creed board game that wasn’t that great. In 2018, there’s a new one that will hopefully be a lot better. That first effort, Arena, had its heart in the right place, but was a bit too abstract and poorly-presented to really nail the look and feel of the games.…

The Best Cosplay From DragonCon 2018, One Of The Biggest Nerd Shows Of The Year

DragonCon, which was held between August 30–September 3 in Atlanta, isn’t just one of the biggest cosplay shows in North America, it’s now one of the biggest cosplay galleries we’ve ever run on this site. Over 80,000 people went through the doors of multiple hotels in the area, to sit in on panels, meet friends,…

Up You Go

Kalen Chock is a concept artist from the USA who has worked for companies like Wavedash and Cryptozoic. You can see more of Kalen’s work at his ArtStation page

Fans Are Trying To Remake Half-Life Using Unreal Engine 4

When I reviewed Half-Life remake Black Mesa back in 2012, I said the project “does not look like a modern video game”. A newer (and far more limited) remake, Project Lambda, does. Where Black Mesa eventually remade the entire game—a big reason it took so long for it to come out—Project Lambda has so far…

Destiny Gun Looks Like The Real Deal

Impact Props, the same team responsible for Nathan Fillion’s personal sidearm, have since made a replica Ace of Spades that looks as realistic as a fake Destiny weapon could possibly look. It’s an ornamental thing, so it doesn’t do things like fire pellets, but the cylinder does spin if you like to play space cowboy…

NFL Player Does Naruto TD Celebration

Steelers reveiver JuJu Smith-Schuster scored a TD earlier today against the Chiefs, and to celebrate went all Naruto on teammate Jesse James, hitting the TE with a football-themed Rasengan. The Steelers lost the game 37-42, but JuJu and James were the winners in our hearts.

Artist Thomas Pringle, who we’ve featured on Fine Art a few times, has written and illustrated a new graphic novel called Ascend: Hell Climber. The story: “The survivors of a downed patrol ship have only one hope of escape: Steal a shuttle from the highest level of an ancient defense tower.” You cancheck it out…

The Best Cosplay From Rose City Comic Con 2018

Rose City Comic Con was held in Portland last week, and photographer Justin Cosplay was kind enough to send in some shots (and video) he took of the event. You can see more of Justin’s work at his Instagram page

Cyber Punk

Nana Dhebuadze is a freelance concept artist from Ukraine who has worked for companies like Plarium, the studio behind Vikings: War of Clans You can see more of Nana’s work at her ArtStation page

This is Shareware Heroes, a new book that has behind the scenes tales from studios like id, Epic and Apogee as they blazed a free-to-try trail across the PC market in the 80s and 90s.

Roadhog!

One of the coolest things from PAX West this year was shyaku_cosplay’s Roadhog cosplay, so it’s a treat to be able to showcase some close-ups of the costume. All photos below by Ashley Russell

New Tomb Raider Cosplay For A New Tomb Raider Game

With Shadow of the Tomb Raider out this week, a couple of cosplayers took to nature to pay tribute with their own takes on 2018’s version of Lara Croft. Cosplay by 2playergame | Photo by Flash Bang Cosplay Capture The cosplayers are kat.ofalltrades and 2playergame, while the photographer is Rex Yau, aka Flash Bang Cosplay…

It Appears Nobody Is Home

Kamila Szutenberg is a concept artist based in Germany who has worked for companies like Bethesda and Slitherine. You can see more of Kamila’s work at her ArtStation page

Guys, Just Go Around

Tyson Ibele is an animator who has created tyFlow, a particle simulation tool for 3dsmax. What this means for you is: funny videos of 3D models falling over Like this: And this: Animators, if you’re not testing and showing off stuff with slapstick comedy videos, what are you even doing. You can see more of…

NBA 2K19 Is A Nightmarish Vision Of Our Microtransaction-Stuffed Future

Let’s start with the good news: NBA 2K19 is not as egregious with its nickel-and-diming as NBA 2K18 was. But that being the good news is also what makes this the worst news. Last year’s entry in what’s still the best basketball series (on the court at least) on the planet was heavily criticised by…

Oh I Love What You’ve Done With The Place

Alex Brock is an artist from Tucson who has worked on games like HEX: Shards of Fate. You can see more of Alex’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page

Hellblade: Senua’s Cosplay

You don’t see much Hellblade cosplay around, but this shoot by Anna “Ormeli” Moleva and photographer Aku more than makes up for a lack of quantity.

Gone Home’s Switch Version Has Official SNES Cartridges

Other, earlier versions of Gone Home weren’t so lucky, but the new Switch edition of the domecile exploration title has some extra 90s flavour with the addition of official SNES carts. They’re not playable, of course, because this isn’t Animal Crossing circa 2002, but still. Cute touch!   Nintendo, I’m going to ask again: put…