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CultureCosplay
Spectacular Final Fantasy Cosplay Looks Like A Screenshot
Kilory is Kilory, a human cosplayer. She is not, as these images might have you believe, a living, breathing incarnation of Final Fantasy XIII’s Lightning. With some help from props maker 月家猫空 璟宿 和谐, she’s gotten as close to the series’ likeness as I think a human being is ever going to get. Simply incredible…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 16, 2016 -
Screw Making America Great Again
Paradox is thinking bigger. That hat—which I’m trying to find out if you can buy—was part of Paradox’s GDC presentation earlier today, in particular the part where they showed off space strategy gameStellaris and said it’s out on May 9. If you dig space and big PC strategy games, it’s hard not to get excited…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 15, 2016 -
Culture
It’s A School Day
Krenz Cushart is an artist from Taiwan. You can see more work at his ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 15, 2016 -
Guy Trying To Hit Level 100 In World Of Warcraft…Using Dance Mats
Rudeism is a New Zealander on a mission: he wants to get from level 1-100 in World of Warcraft. Sounds pretty doable! Only, instead of using a mouse and keyboard, he’s using two dance mats. It looks…arduous, though it’s probably also a good way to keep fit. And go insane. Because using dance mats is…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 15, 2016 -
CultureCosplay
Cosplay Ventures Into The Frozen Wilds
Cosplay photography is often at its best when it gets a little adventurous, daring to head outside the studio or convention floor and get as wild as the characters that are being cosplayed. That’s exactly what photographers Anna Fischer and Dave Yang decided to do when they recently took a road trip to the White…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 15, 2016 -
Star Wars Comes To Valve’s Virtual Reality Headset
Trials on Tatooine is an upcoming “virtual reality experience” for the Valve/HTC Vive. If ever a tech demo was going to sell expensive VR units, it may well be this one. Made by ILM, it looks like a little guided tour kinda deal, where you’re dropped in the Star Wars universe, shown some sights, subjected…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 15, 2016 -
Culture
You Know What They Say About Crustaceans With Small Feet…
Vadim Shchepilov is an artist from Ukraine who works at Whale Rock Games. You can see more of Vadim’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in the…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2016 -
Twitch Is Helping Build Games An Audience Can Play Too
Twitch, long a service for people watching video games, is getting more active in the process of making them, teaming up with a number of studios to help develop titles built with streaming as part of the game It’s doing this by launching two things: Developer Success (a program of working with devs) and Stream…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2016 -
A Very Different Look At Old Games Mags
Thank You For Playing: Iconic Video Game Magazines is a documentary that just hit Steam. It looks fascinating, since it’s not just about old game magazines, but old Polish mags in particular, tracking their explosive rise in the wake of the Iron Curtain coming down. In addition to covering the mags themselves, it’s also cool…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2016 -
CultureCosplay
Kylie Ren Is Also Very Upset About Darth Vader, Life
Cosplayer Mistress of Fear calls this Fem Kylo Ren, but I figured—in keeping with the theme—that Kylie Ren had a better ring to it. The lightsaber is obviously eye-catching, but check out the detail she’s worked into stuff like the sleeves and robes; it’s almost a shame, because the all-black nature of Ren’s outfit means…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2016 -
Culture
The Force Awakens’ Concept Art Had Some Cool Ideas
The website of Industrial Light & Magic, the design and effects team made famous by the original Star Wars, has shared a massive art dump from The Force Awakens, containing images from throughout the film’s development. Which is probably more exciting than the art itself! I mean yes, it’s nice seeing some near-final artwork here,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 14, 2016 -
Hey, There’s A New Frozen Synapse!
2011’s Frozen Synapse was a very good turn-based tactics game, one of the pioneers of the genre’s current Golden Age. Now we’re getting a very big sequel. While it’s retaining the core point of the original—you plan our moves in advance then watch them resolve in real-time—everything else about Frozen Synapse 2 sounds way more…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2016 -
CultureCosplay
Syrian Refugees Party At Furry Convention
A group of Syrian refugees, having just arrived in Canada, are being temporarily put up in a hotel. The same hotel that, last weekend, was also home to a convention for furries As The Independent reports, it was one hell of a culture shock for the refugees, but it worked out about as well as…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2016 -
CultureThe People, Guns & Graffiti Of XCOM 2
While we’ve already taken a look at some of the concept art behind XCOM 2, a number of the game’s artists have—with the game now out—been able to share a lot more of they stuff they worked on. They’ve dumped a ton of it in this Polycout thread, which you should check out if you…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 10, 2016 -
Block’hood: A Very Quaint SimCity
Block’hood is a city-building game for people who don’t want to build entire cities. Billed instead as a “neighborhood-building simulator”, it’s all about constructing stuff out of blocks, with an emphasis not just on building functional habitats, but on balancing your environment and ecology. It’s out now on Early Access
By Luke Plunkett Published March 10, 2016 -
Baseball Team Turning Players Into Walking Game Boys
These days most professional sports teams, regardless of where they are in the world, tend to dabble in limited/variant jerseys. But few go as nuts for the ideas as minor-league American teams. I’ve posted about the weird union between video games and sports jerseys before, but most of those cases were relatively straight-up commercial agreements.…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 10, 2016 -
Kinect Involved In Ancient Egypt Kerfuffle
Last year, a pair of German artists claimed to have “stolen” scans of a priceless bust of Queen Nefertiti—housed in Berlin’s Neues Museum—using nothing but a Kinect. Now, experts are lining up to call bullshit. The artists, Nora al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles, say they used “a modified version” of the Kinect to take the…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 10, 2016 -
Bill Gates: ‘I Will Look Into’ A New Age Of Empires
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates had an AMA on Reddit yesterday, so of course he was asked a question about…Age of Empires Never mind that the dude doesn’t really have much to do at Microsoft these days, when le-click saw an opening (via PC Gamer), he damn well took it, asking: Mr. Gates,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 10, 2016 -
CultureCosplay
Gundam Cosplay That’s (Sorry) Out Of This World
This is Japanese cosplayer PUNIVAL in the suit and Malaysia’s Mikuen as Sayla Mass (and Feldt Grace). We’ve seen PUNIVAL’s work before, but I thought this shoot was so good (as well as Mikuen’s cosplay!) that I thought, we could always do with more perfect Gundam cosplay.
By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2016
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