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In Space, No One Can Hear You Pew Pew
Andrew Ley is a concept artist who has worked on games like Star Citizen, Killzone Shadowfall and BioShock Infinite. You can see more of Andrew’s art 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”…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 6, 2015 -
R2-D2 Has Been Lifting, Bro
This used to be a Gundam model kit. Not anymore. Now it’s “Hi2-D2 – Enhanced astromech droid”. The work of Italian modeller Lemcat, there’s even room for all of R2’s weird little hidden tools, which seemed impractical in a little astromech droid but look far more natural in the hands of a giant bipedal death…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 6, 2015 -
Fans Keep Working On Cancelled Strategy Game
Last year, Double-Fine pulled the plug on their game Spacebase DF-9. Which was a shame, because the game they were building—The Sims vs Theme Hospital in space—was shaping up to be pretty good! Never fear: fans have stepped in and continued work on the game in Double-Fine’s absence. The “Derelict Games restoration team” have released…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 6, 2015 -
Lost Mario Levels Remade In Super Mario Maker
Super Mario Maker isn’t just for making your own nightmarish creations. It’s also proving useful as a means of preserving (well, recreating then preserving) Nintendo history. In 2002, Nintendo released an accessory for the Game Boy Advance called the e-Reader. A product of what I consider the company’s Golden Age Of Weirdness (GameCube LAN! Four…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 6, 2015 -
Culture
Category 6 Kaiju Requires Urgent Jaeger Intervention
Bastien Grivet is a concept artist and matte painter who has worked for companies like Ubisoft, Warner Bros. and Activision. You can see more of Bastien’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),…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2015 -
Angels Fall First Is Trying To Be Your Dream Sci-Fi Combat Game
Angels Fall First is the latest in a long line of games—from Battlecruiser 3000AD to Planetside—to try and actually be the type of video game I dreamed about playing in high school. Made by a team of former modders—who unsurprisingly given this game’s brief had worked on stuff like Homeworld and Unreal Engine—Angels Fall First…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2015 -
Look At This Gorgeous Super Nintendo Book
It’s a good time to be alive if you like books about consoles from the 90s. Sega fans got an amazing Genesis/Mega Drive coffee table book last year, and now SNES fans are getting one, albeit with a slightly different approach. Stuart Brett, curator of the wonderful Super Famicom Guy Instagram account (which we’ve featured…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2015 -
NBA2K16’s Spike Lee Joint Is Terrible, But I Still Love It
NBA2K16 is a mainstream sports video game, meaning its full of things like stats, complex controls and painstaking licensing. But it’s also home to something a lot more adventurous and potentially important: a role-playing game where you take a kid from high school to the NBA. It’s far from the first sports game to offer…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2015 -
Culture
She Sees Everything
Ayran Oberto is a freelance concept artist and illustrator from Venezuela. You can see more of Oberto’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 top-left corner.…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2015 -
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Superfans Recreate Massive Lord Of The Rings Battle
Last month, an event called Bitva o Fort went down. That’s Battle of the Fort in English, and it saw hordes of Lord of the Rings fans converge on the village of Radíkov in the Czech Republic to recreate an epic battle between the forces of men, elves and some very well-dressed orcs. Via this…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2015 -
Home Free, A Game Where You’re A Dog Lost In The Big City
Why aren’t there more games where you play as dogs? Dogs are awesome. Dog’s Life on PS2 is awesome. Humans are OK, I guess, but come on, more dog games please. Like this one! This is Home Free, a game currently up on Kickstarter, which has you playing as a dog (Evan took a good…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2015 -
Xbox Live Is Down [Update: It’s Fixed]
It might not go down that often, but when it does, it goes down: Xbox Live users worldwide have been experiencing a severe outage for hours now, unable to sign into devices or access online features. [Update: it’s back!] Xbox Support’s Twitter account posted this three hours ago: And at time of posting it’s still…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2015 -
Culture
Korra, Your Tauntaun Will Freeze Before You Reach The First Marker!
Jenn Tran is an artist who has worked at places like Hi-Rez and Harebrained. I actually featured a little bit of her latest stuff—for Battletech—yesterday, but thought the rest of her work was so cool it was worth a showcase. You can see more of Jenn’s work at her personal site and Tumblr To see…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 30, 2015
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