There hasn’t been much VR news to talk about this E3, but Bethesda just changed that. They’re bringing 2016’s Doom to virtual reality headsets.
Sea of Thieves is a game about pirates, so if there’s one thing developers Rare need to get right, it’s the water. I have a thing about video game water. Whether it’s waves lapping the shore in Total War or the rolling seas of Assassin’s Creed IV, I’ve always been fascinated by the work that…
Xbox One X Specs has a nice ring to it. Maybe that should have been the name? Whatever, here are the new console’s specs, handily compared to those of the Xbox One S and original Xbox One. You’ll see that most of the improvements come in terms of raw performance; aside from some new video…
There’sa new Xbox in town. There wasn’t that much of the actual hardware on show in the company’s E3 presser though, so here’s a better look at the Xbox One X’s design. As you can tell by the size of the controller there, this thing is pretty small! For an all-around look (including the back,…
Ashen, a beautiful survival game we first wrote about in 2014, is finally nearing the finish line. It was at Microsoft’s E3 presser earlier today, and will be out later this year. Here’s a trailer.
Dragon Ball Fighter Z, a 2D DBZ fighting game, is due out in 2018 from Arc Systems and Bandai Namco. It was shown at Microsoft’s E3 press conference, but is also coming to PlayStation and PC. Here’s the trailer. Those cel-shaded visuals look incredible
The first game designed with Microsoft’s new Xbox One X in mind was shown off at the company’s E3 presser today, and it’s Forza Motorsport 7. Here’s the debut trailer. Note that just because this is being shown off with the Xbox One X in mind, it’s also coming to the Xbox One and PC…
Ioan Dumitrescu is an artist based in Bucharest who has worked on games like Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Fallout 4 and Crysis 3, and movies like the new Beauty and the Beast Note: the top image is based on an illustration by Ilya Nazarov We’ve featured Ioan on the site before, but since it’s…
For a game where half the fun is just loving its cast, Blizzard has been slow getting quality Overwatch figures onto the market. Pop Vinyls should be shot into the sun, and the Nendoroids were a start, but Good Smile has now stepped up with a Figma based on Tracer. Due out in December, it’ll…
That cute trailer wasn’t the only thing Nintendo did to celebrate thegroundbreaking ceremony for its own theme park yesterday. There was also this attempt at a live-action recreation of side-scrolling Mario. If the setting looks familiar, that’s because it was the reason for that stage being constructed in the Universal Studios parking lot that we…
Strike Vector is a game we’ve featured on Fine Art before—back in 2013!—but we’re circling back round to it today to focus on one very particular aspect of it that I thought was interesting enough to share. Outside of the team making the game itself, a small crew got together to make a trailer (first…
Hey Civ fans: here’s a talk given at this year’s GDC by none other than Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley, co-creators of the original 1991 game. It runs for over an hour. You should watch it.
To recap, Overwatch’s Tracer is gay. Until now that’s been a fact contained to offscreen fiction, but the latest update to the PTR (Public Test Region) has dropped in a new voice line that references Tracer’s girlfriend Emily within the game itself. Spotted by Aryaand Mic, here’s what it sounds like: If the embed doesn’t…
Brian Huang spent five years as a cinematic concept artist at Blizzard, where he got to work on games like StarCraft 2, World of Warcraft and Titan, the project that would go on to become Overwatch. He’s since left to make his own games, the first of which is called Guardian Kingdoms It’s a 3v3…
The big Nintendo section of Universal Studios Japan is still years away from being finished, but the park is already hyping up the attraction. Here’s a trailer giving hints at what we can expect when it opens in 2020. Explains why that stage was being built yesterday If you look at the big reveal of…
There are countless videos on YouTube right now of people running around Los Santos with fidget spinners, which can be modded into the game. This is the best one.
You might remember that back in 2015 I reviewed a game called Order of Battle: Pacific, and liked it a lot. In the months and years since, developers The Aristocrats have been working on a bunch of new campaigns that take the game well past its original scope, incorporating battles ranging from the Chinese countryside…
As is tradition around the time of E3, The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) have announced a selection of pieces for the Into the Pixel exhibition, a collection of some of the best concept and promotional art in video games. Judges for the 2017 edition (which includes…
Track: Gas Giant | Artist: Arcadea | Album: Arcadea Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Japanese toy company Gecco is releasing this Dark Souls statue as an exclusive for folks attending San Diego Comic Con. It’ll be sold for $299. For anyone not making it to the show, there will be limited quantities of the 1/6 scale (37cm) statue made available for regular retail distribution. Loving the detail on the…
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