Soundfall is a “rhythm-driven dungeon crawler that’s procedurally generated to music”. It’s coming to PC, Switch, PS4 and Xbox One in 2019, and looks cool as hell.
Manuel Augusto Dischinger Moura is an artist at Blizzard. You can see more of Manuel’s work at his ArtStation page Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal portfolios. If you’re in the business and have some concept, environment, promotional or character…
For such a popular genre, there really isn’t much to choose from when it comes to quality city-building games these days. There’s Cities: Skylines and…that’s it, unless you want to pick up a classic SimCity. So firing up Pocket City, and loving it, has been one of the nicest surprises of the year. Doubly so…
Good Smile’sline of Persona 5 Figmas continues with their third, the wonderful Yusuke. He includes three faces, his sword, rifle and a paper fan. The good news? He looks great! The bad news? He’s not out until April 2019.
If there’s one thing repeated Kickstarter successes have proven, it’s that board gamers love little plastic miniatures. And if there’s one thing they love more than little plastic miniatures, it’s bigger plastic miniatures. Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars: Armada has made its money appealing specifically to that sentiment, with the quality and scale of its model…
Ever wonder just how Animal Crossing characters—pieces of code, unable to comprehend complex human prose—are able to read and understand the letters you write them? James Chambers did, so he dug into the game’s code to find out. A software security researcher—who we’ve featured before here for his work on Animal Crossing—Chambers found that your…
While other sports games change their cover athletes every year, strategy stalwart Football Manager has for over a decade stuck with the same basic template: show a man from the nose down, usually in a suit, usually with a scruffy beard, standing around looking like the boss. For this year’s Football Manager 2019, though, he’s…
Whilewe wait for a Battle for Middle Earth remake, an alternative might be Tales of Middle Earth, a mod that transforms Age of Empires II into a Lord of the Rings game. Tales of Middle Earth isn’t 100% complete (the mod has been in development for six years!), but a near-final build is downloadable and…
All of Bethesda’s previous Fallout games have been available to buy on Steam, but that looks like it’s changing for the upcoming Fallout 76’s PC version, at least when it comes to the game’s beta and launch. After folks started noticing some odd signs related to Fallout 76’s marketing—like the game’s purchase page having a…
Series stalwart Sagat is coming better-late-than-never to Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, it was announced at EVO tonight. First shown off last year, he’ll finally make his appearance as part of Season 3. Via Capcom: Sagat is available individually for MSRP $5.99 or 100,000 Fight Money OR as part of the Season 3 Character Pass…
Tim Mcburnie is a concept artist from South Australia. You can see more of Tim’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal portfolios. If you’re in the business and have some concept, environment,…
John Ramirez, a Disney artist and theme park designer, has long been working on his own ideas for Studio Ghibli rides. We’ve featured a few of them, but he’s spent the last few years working on a lot more. In addition to his original Totoro and Laputa designs, Ramirez has also dreamt up this incredible…
Here is Bee Simulator, a video game that is coming to the PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. You are a bee, and you fly around doing bee things. The official description is: Compete with other bees in races, collect pollen, perform waggle dances, and explore a world inspired by Central Park in New…
Blizzard and Nerf are going to release a couple of guns based on Overwatch, one being Reaper’s shotgun, the other D.Va’s pistol. They’re part of Nerf’s “Rivals” line, which is basically a series of guns made and marketed specifically at adults, and which fire small round projectiles (like squishy musketballs) instead of the traditional Nerf…
This tweet by security engineer Alok Menghrajani might look like gibberish, but that’s actually enough code to generate a CD-ROM image and then put a simple Snake-like game on it
Jennifer Wuestling is an illustrator and concept artist working at Riot Games, the studio behind League of Legends You can see more of Jennifer’s work at her personal site and ArtStation page Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal portfolios. If…
Yakuza 0, a damn fine video game on PlayStation 4, is now also available on PC. And while it looks fine on Ultra, it looks even better at the other end of the settings menu. Thanks to @Nitomatta for first pointing this out, but you can slide the settings down real low on this game,…
Gloomhaven, a very very long and popular board game, is getting a digital adaptation sometime next year. Asmodee Digital say the game—being developed by Flaming Fowl—will be available via Early Access on Steam in Q1 2019. It’ll feature “an infinitely replayable roguelike mode”. It’s weird seeing a board game so clearly inspired by video games…
The Banner Saga 3 is the final entry in a Kickstarted trilogy of strategy games. It’s the culmination of four years of fantasy adventuring, in which the decisions you make on the battlefield are almost as important as those you make in the middle of a conversation. It’s a series that divides its design between…
The excellent Game of Thrones board game is getting a major expansion later this year. Mother of Dragons adds House Targaryen (who start on a new Essos sideboard) and House Arryn, while also introducing the Iron Bank and a “Vassal” system to help with unchosen factions.
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