You’ve likely noticed it, and probably even joked about it: it feels like every game (and movie) these days is all about the colours blue and orange, at least when it comes to posters and box art. There’s a very good reason for that. It’s more than a trend: there’s some science and colour theory…
Ryan Lang is an artist we featured a while back for his work on Wreck-it-Ralph, but now that Big Hero 6 is out, which he also helped out on, it’s time to take another look at his stuff. These images are part of Lang’s contribution to the look and feel of the movie. There are…
Dying Light has a dropkick attack. It’s cool, if only for the visual effect, but when you mess with the values determining how powerful it is on the PC version, it gets a lot cooler. Nice soundtrack selection, btw.
Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto V may be a caricature of Los Angeles, but that doesn’t make it complete fiction. Like the bestcaricatures, it shares its foundations with the real thing, as you’ll see in these imageswhich compare certain landmarks in the game with their LA counterparts. Sure, some of the scenery around them…
Prince Armory have made this amazing Darth Vader costume, which doesn’t just look great but has enough detail to maybe actually work as an actual suit of armour. Though your protection against lightsabers may be limited. The entire suit is articulated, so it can be worn while you run around pretending to choke peasants and…
It was the blurst of times.
Portal Stories: Mel, an upcomingmod for Portal 2, is starting to less like a mod in this new trailer, and more like a straight-up official Valve entry in the series. OK, so we can’t speak for Mel’s sense of humour, but everything else about it looks shockingly professional, from the detail (and unique design) in…
It’s been a while since we lastgot a Mean Girls game, so let’s get another Mean Girls game. Sadly, there is not a Lindsay Lohan to be found, but what can be found is a faithful recreation of the film’s story and themes, with high school hostility replaced by….wait, a tower defence game? What is…
These League of Legends characters and environments weren’t made by Riot Games, they were made by fans. But Riot thinks they’re good enough for public acclaim, and so do I. Riot and art site Polycount held a competition recently where users could submit their own designs for LoL stuff, and the winners – chosen by…
It’s one of life’s toughest challenges. Now it’s one of video games’ toughest challenges. Höme Improvisåtion is a game about building Ikea furniture. You twist, pivot and hope to God that the thing with the peg is going in the right hole before you go sticking any more shelves on it. Coffee tables look easy…
Who knows what the future will be like? Um, video games do. In 2027, we’ll never ask for cyborg limbs. In 2072, our Systems will be Shocked. In 2183 we’ll punch space reporters, and in 2174 we’ll wonder why Destiny still doesn’t have a story. Reader Norbert Demeter sent in this infographic he made, putting…
This is First Person Lover. It’s a game made to sell European clothes. Its trailer is one of the most fabulous things I have ever seen. The music, the Vladimir Putin, the PlayStation Home-gone-bad vibe, the music, it’s just…how did this get made? Who is this for? I mean, the literal answer is retired tennis…
OlliOlli, a 2D skateboarding game with a killer soundtrack, was one of 2014’s nicer little surprises. As is this trailer for its sequel. It’s coming later this year to PS4 and Vita.
Vaughan Ling is an artist who has done stuff with companies like Disney, Warner Bros. and Marvel. He most recently worked on Sunset Overdrive for the Xbox One, which is what we’re featuring here today. You can see more of Vaughan’s work at his personal site, and some more cool Sunset Overdrive artwork here To…
Hey, it’s Soren Johnson, of Civ III & IV fame! And now he and his team are making a new strategy game, called Offworld Trading Company, which is a very literal title for a game that’s about trading on a world that is not this one. It looks pretty cool! Like an RTS, only instead…
These days, press releases are awful things. Full of subject lines like MEDIA ALERT, obnoxious jargon and endless fine print. Back in 1990, things were a lot simpler. This is a photoof a press release for Rubicon, a shooter released for the Atari ST, Amiga and Commodore 64. It’s set in the distant future of…
Before they made video games, Nintendo made loads of other sweet stuff. One of the sweetest was this Ultraman board game, which has art that looks as awesome today as it did in 1966. As you can see in the gallery on Before Mario, the game — released using the old “Nintendo Game” logo —…
Since 1983, the record for the smallest game of (computer) chess in the world belonged to 1K ZX Chess, at 672 bytes, a game so small you could print its code in a magazine article. It took nearly 32 years, but that record has now been broken BootChessmay not be pretty, but this isn’t an…
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