Gametrailers, a site that was once the internet’s go-to place for…game trailers, today announced that after 13 years it was ceasing operations. This is Brandon Jones, founder and boss of the site: In the mid-00s, as video game marketing moved on from magazine previews to flashy video trailers, Gametrailers (and to a lesser extent 1UP’s…
Sebastian Frank: The Beer Hall Putsch is a video game about stopping HItler. Fertile ground for a video game setting if ever there was one Set in Germany in the 1920s, you play as Frank, an old acquaintance of Hitler from before the First World War. Because he knows the budding dictator better than most,…
Guild Wars fan Enayla has outdone herself here. Not only has she gone and made a fantastic Asura costume, but she built the accompanying Golem as well. A Golem that’s nine-feet-tall. The Golem can’t walk (at least not yet, anyway), but it has been wired so that its gems light up. Enayla can also clamber…
Only in Crusader Kings II could a horse rise to power and, after decades of war and conquest, restore the might of the Roman Empire. Normally CKII is a very serious game, as much a simulation of blooodthirsty medieval politics as it is a strategy game, but developers Paradox aren’t without a sense of humour.…
Firewatch is a very lonely video game that’s all about people. Set in 1989, you play as Henry, aka Hank, a guy who has had a pretty shitty time of things lately, and who decides that a Summer job in a Wyoming national park is just the thing he needs to take his mind off…
Shigenori Soejima’s art for the Persona series is some of the best in all of video games, but like anything else it’s always fair game for some reinterpretation. This is Blair Armitage’s take on Persona 3’s wonderful Aigis/Aegis, whose quirks, rather than looking stranger in a more realistic style, actually just come off looking even…
His hands are like “what the fuck is this shit.” These illustrations are from the manual for HTC and Valve’s latest Vive dev kit. They’re sincere instructions, detailing the amount of space required to use the Vive’s fancy spatial awareness mode (using receivers to allow you to walk around the room). Don’t sweat it, owners/renters…
Withthe site now little more than fond memories and a dead front page, former Senior Editor Frank Cifaldi has dug up and shared an old copy of 1UP’s “Review Crew Handbook”. While armchair commenters on forums and twitter love to guess about the motives or workings of a video games website behind the scenes, the…
The last time we heard from Chinese cracking forum 3DM—responsible for illegal cracks of pirated video games—they were being frustrated by Just Cause 3’s “Denovo” copy protection. Now they’re walking away from the game entirely. As Torrentfreak report, last week 3DM’s leader Bird Sister posted on her personal blog “We just had an internal meeting.…
Guns don’t kill people. Superheroes turning against one another kill people.
Karakter, a design studio we’ve featured here before on Fine Art, were asked by Activision to do some promo work for Black Ops III. I like their posters here better than I liked the actual game. These images, done while the game was still in development, had to “anticipate the final look of each character,…
VfL Wolfsburg, one of the best football teams in one of the best leagues on the planet, is branching out from actual team sports into the world of esports. So they’ve gone and hired two pro FIFA players, who are on the club’s books as actual employees, and who will wear Wolfsburg’s kit while playing.…
Hot Toys make some of the best 1/6 scale action figures on the planet. But with this new Batman figure (from the upcoming Batman v Superman movie), they’ve lost their goddamned minds. This isn’t 30cm tall. When it’s attached to its base (because Hot Toys figures always come with bases) it stands 2.2m/7.2ft. Take it…
Yeah,this is pretty much the entire series, in a nutshell.
The Witness is a very good puzzle game. So good that folks just can’t get its puzzles out of their head. At the airport, at a nice restaurant, everywhere Crazy. I mean, it’s not anyone sane would ever- *looks down at keyboard while typing, sees illuminated lines making patterns, breaks into a cold sweat* Shit.…
Half the point of GTA V being set in Los Santos was so that we could drive around the opulence of Bel Air and the Hollywood Hills. I don’t know if Rockstar ever meant for part of the city to be transformed into a post-apocalyptic scene, like something out of The Last Of Us There…
Xenonauts was a cool strategy game for those who felt the XCOM reboot wasn’t quite XCOM enough for their tastes. There’s now going to be a Xenonauts 2, due in 2017
A group of artists over on CG+, many of them professionals working in video games, have for the past few months been submitting some incredible entries in a competition called Star Wars: Reimagined. The brief was simple: to “to re-imagine your favorite character, creature or vehicle from the Star Wars universe.” Entries are now closed,…
It may not be the biggest PAX show on Earth for video games, but PAX South is one hell of a cosplay convention. As you can see in these shots from the show, which were all taken by Mineralblu (you can see his full gallery here). By Atelier Heidi By Shinka Studios & Atelier Heidi…
James Choe is a freelance artist from Sydney who has done some work in the games business. You can see more of James’ work at his personal site 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…
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