The whole point of Valve’s Steam Machine idea is that it bridges the gap between consoles and PCs. All the benefits of the PC in a simpler case. One company, however, is slanting a little too heavily towards the console side of the gap. Alienware’s flagship Steam Machine, one of the standouts from the early…
We’re taking a little break here from games industry art to look at the work of Robert Chew, who’s helping take part in the International Anti-Poaching Foundation‘s campaign to help save the “big 5” endangered African land mammals. He’s imagined each animal – the rhino, cape buffalo, elephant, lion and leopard – and turned them…
Kris Temmerman lives in a combined shopfront/apartment in Antwerp. Last November, with the shopfront empty, he decided to put it to good use, installing a custom arcade rig and coding a simple video game for people to stop and play. Not for money, just for fun. The best part is that he’s released the design…
Squish. Squish. Squish. To you, they’re nothing but obstacles, but each one of those Goombas you crushed had a life. Loves. Someone to remember them by. Someone to bury them, pay for a tombstone and mourn for them. Chinook Crafts sell these fantastic little video game tombstones, commemorating those we’ve vanquished during our digital travels…
If you’ve ever wondered what Fight Club would have looked like to everyone else in the movie, visual effects artist Richard Trammell has you covered. He’s digitally removed Brad Pitt from one of the movie’s key scenes, so that we can all see how crazy Ed Norton really was. Has it really been 14 years?…
Sexy Bumblebee. Sexy Optimus Prime. Sexy Megatron. Those are the actual product names for these actual products. I mean, deep down, I know there’s a sexual market for anything. This is a big ball of dirt we live on, and people are into all kinds of shit. But 80s Megatron? Does this get your juices…
The people who made Candy Crush think they now own the word Candy, at least when it comes to games and a bunch of merchandise. How adorable. Seems that in February 2013, the game’s makers – King.com – submitted a trademark application for the word. One that on January 15 2014 was approved for publication…
The uncanny valley might be a problem for video games featuring living characters, but cars? The better gaming hardware gets, the better these shiny motor vehicles look. To the point where I think I like these video game cars better than the real thing. These shots from the upcoming Project Cars are so damn shiny.…
Sometimes, when I’m lying awake in bed, I dream about Nintendo. And how great it would be if they didn’t make home consoles anymore. Before we go any further: this isn’t a “I’m going to tell Nintendo what to do” kind of post. The company’s been making hardware – and money – for longer than…
If you’re a lover of niche video game Tumblrs, here’s a fantastic one: Video Game Foliage. “A blog dedicated to the beautiful and weird approximations of plants found in video games.” I came for the shrubbery, but stayed for the mention of Boku no Natsuyasumi, a Japanese series I’ve got a very soft spot for…
Visual designer Samuel Matson has an idea on how to rid the world of gamer rage. It’s not through medication, counselling or discipline. It’s through prevention. He’s designed a headset called Immersion, which not only uses biometrics to track a user’s heart rate, but can then adjust what’s going on in a game accordingly. Based…
A few years back, we showedyou the handiwork of some of the staff at Aussie retailer JB Hi-Fi, whose reviews of the games they were selling were refreshingly honest. They’re still at it. While they also review movies and albums, it’s the games we’re interested in here, JB Hi-Fi Reviews [Site, via Kotaku AU]
I wonder if Irrational’s artists had future cosplay potential in mind when they designed the character of Elizabeth. Because whether in her Columbia or Rapture outfits, she’s fast becoming as popular as Final Fantasy and Zelda when it comes to dressing up. Not that we’re complaining. So long as people keep absolutely nailing it like…
When something carries a warning that it “will require your first born and a pint of your blood”, you know it’s going to be good. User shesonover on the ENB forums has posted what he’s calling the Skyrim Memory Patch. The full explanation is very technical, but the gist is that it frees up more…
There’s a closed alpha of Titanfall going on. It’s closed, which means people aren’t supposed to be uploading video of it, but you know, the internet. UPDATE 2 – Both videos are now down. Sorry! We’ve got two videos below, one directly-captured, the other taken off-screen. Both give a pretty good idea of how a…
I was messing around with Google Earth last night on my phone, seeing how well it can now render 3D spaces. As you can see above, it can do New York City pretty damn well. If it weren’t for the icons, in fact, you could probably confuse that shot for a low-res photo. It didn’t…
Clash of Clans is one of the most successful video games of all time. So, as you can probably guess, it has clones. Lots of clones. Reddit user sonuvagun06 took some grabs of various App Store games. You’ll notice first that Clash of Clans’success has generated…competition. And not only is Clash of Clans getting ripped…
Given the planet’s lack of actual post-apocalyptic nuclear wastelands, you’d think it would be pretty hard to find places that looked like the setting of a Fallout game. But then, there’s always the Mojave desert and Route 66 for that. Photographer Kevin Balluff– whose work I came across while flipping through the excellent Our Modern…
Troy Galluzzi is a concept artist with indie outfit Goon Studios. Don’t click through if you hate bright, colourful things, some of which could kill you. Goon are working on Keipr, a multiplayer shooter that looks like Destiny vs Wind Waker. Which is a combo that gets me interested Oh, and a bonus: concept art…
Steam sales are universally awesome, right? Everyone gets cheap games, developers sell a ton of games, we’re all happy. Right? Well, no. Indie dev Jason Rohrer (Passage, Between, Sleep is Death) has written a blog post called “Why Rampant Sales are Bad for Players“. He argues that a “culture of sales” has led to people…
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