Call of Duty campaigns are a guilty pleasure of mine, so I was excited last week to fire up Black Ops 3 on PC. Ten minutes later, I’d shut it down, and a sad sense of déjà vu was washing over me. It was a year ago that I was writing about how Advanced Warfare’s…
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Fire up Black Ops III for the first time and you’ll be presented with this message. It sticks out amongst the corporate logos and splash screens, but it’s also a nice little touch. Like, everyone knows that games are made by large teams of human beings, but do we really? A lot of fans treat…
You’d think from hanging around the internet that by 2015 most people would be playing Black Ops III on a PC, Xbox One or PS4. But remember, there are still a lotta folks out there with last-gen hardware. Now is the time to be reminded of their predicament. When the latest consoles were still brand…
Robin Florie is a freelance artist from The Netherlands. You can see more of Robin’s 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 the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration…
If the latest trend in action figures is tofaithfully recreate a character’s actual on-screen appearance—rather than their original art/design—then I am all for it. Especially if we get more video game figures like these Sega ones. They’re Figma toys (via ToyArk & Amiami) based on Virtua Fighter, and they get the classic arcade/Saturn style down…
This isn’t an actual controller, it’s just a marketing stunt by Ford and Microsoft. But, uh, Ford….I would maybe buy this It’s a mock-up for an Elite controller(via Windows Central) that has some specific changes made for driving games, like a custom driving thumbstick, and some racing pedals for triggers. Other touches include a carbon…
29 minutes of cosplay video. Maybe go make a cup of tea or something and settle in.
Regardless of the console or the agency behind it, Sony’s console TV commercials have a long history of being pretty great. This new one, for Europe, is no exception. The pitch seems to have been “make a PlayStation musical”. Which could have been a disaster—and some part fall a little flat—but that Destiny routine is…
In 2013, Cary Lee had zero cosplay experience. Two years later, he has a lot. He’s written a cool diary of sorts on his blog, outlining his journey from simple Halo fan to armoured super soldier. It’s a good read for anyone wondering how fast and easy it is to get hooked on cosplay!
Haha, it’s so good. Wirt by Daishota, photo by Nuwanda Cosplay
Kurt Miller is an American artist who has done work for companies like Nintendo, Activision, EA, Take-Two and Hasbro. You can see more of Kurt’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…
Fantasy Flight has a pretty good track record with its Star Wars tabletop games, with two of them—X-Wing and Imperial Assault—in my crew’s regular rotation. They might soon be joined by a third. Star Wars: Rebellion is a new game just announced by the company, and while the name and basic look may remind of…
The perfect Game of Thrones video game—a lot more perfect than Telltale’s one, which ate my save game—is a mod I’ve been writing about for years. So it’s awesome to see that it’s finally out of beta and wearing v1.0 after its title! You can get it from the mod’s official site here. It’ll turn…
Cosplayers being around video games, that’s pretty normal. But cosplayers in a game? Z. Year One is a “roguelike card game” that’s looking to come to PC, mobile and as an actual card game. I haven’t played it, so I have no idea how good it is, but what they’ve done for their card art…
The Witcher 3’s first expansion, Heart of Stone, contains three main quests. The first involves getting a ghost laid at a wedding. The second is a heist that goes wrong. The third is, well. The third is going to stay with me for a very long time. USE YOUR WITCHER SENSES TO AVOID THE SPOILERS…
First opened in 1944, Chinatown Fair was a New York institution until it closed in 2011. The memory of the place lives on, though, in this documentary about the arcade. The Lost Arcade premieres on November 14 at 4:45 p.m. EST at IFC Center, 323 6th Avenue, New York. If this all rings a bell,we…
French cosplayer Konitransforms from human into Death Knight. Photo by Shudan
WAIT THIS ISN’T A “DISNEY PRINCESSES AS TKTK” POST. Nor is it a Kingdom Hearts post, so sorry. I think it’s something cooler than either of those things. These illustrations are by David Adhinarya Lojaya, an artist from Indonesia who works in games, film, animation and books. They take Final Fantasy characters from across the…
The good news: these headphones look neat! The bad news: if you’re in North America, you’re not getting them (yet, anyway). Announced overnight by Sony Europe, the “In-ear Stereo Headset for PS4” are basically a fancy set of in-ear headphones, with a “woven fabric cable” and a noise-reducing mode called “AudioShield”. Because they plug into…
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