We’ve covered the work of German studio Karakter beforehere on Fine Art, but since the company just finished up some work on Xbox One launch title Ryse – not to mention the third season of HBO’s Game of Thrones – now’s as good a time as any for a fresh look at their stuff. The…
Torrent trackers The Pirate Bay have had the authorities tightening the noose around their operations for years now, but this week things have taken a twist for the absurd/awesome. Last night, the group’s existing domain, thepiratebay.sx (operating out of the tiny Caribbean hamlet of Sint Maarten), was seized by authorities. TorrentFreak speculates that the Dutch…
Indie developer Cliff Harris, who recently released Democracy 3, wanted to advertise his new game. So he approached an agency that handles ads for a “major US games site”, only to be told the ad was “inappropriate”. Writing on his studio blog, Harris says the agency replied to his request with “I’m sorry, but your…
I’m hoping there’s cooler stuff to be seen in the actual film, because it’ll be a shame if that amazing paratrooper sequence was wasted on a trailer.
A retailer in the UK has accidentally sent some customers a free PlayStation Vita. And is now resorting to some heavy methods in an attempt to get them back. According to a report on Eurogamer, “a number” of people who had preordered Vita game Tearaway were instead sent a Tearaway PlayStation Vita bundle, which included…
There are two sides to every LEGO play session. The ecstacy (the playing!) and the agony (the cleanup). All those tiny pieces, all the ways they could get lost, or stuck in the carpet, ungh. So this LEGO scooper invention deserves as many design awards as its creator’s shelves can hold. It’s so simple. Just…
Not that it works. You wouldn’t be reading about that kind of breakthrough on a mostly-video-games website. But the bottles of Undertow Vigor being sold on Irrational’s site sure look nice, and more importantly, authentic. Only 500 have been made, each standing 10″ tall and with some amazing detail on both the bottle and the…
Track: Hive | Artist: Earl Sweatshirt feat. Vince Staples & Casey Veggies | Album: Doris Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
Mikaël Léger is a freelance concept artist who works in both video games and comics. Some recent games he’s worked on include Injustice: Gods Among Us, Faith and a 45. and Xenonauts. You can see more of Mikaël’s work at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re…
Not that that’s an actual thing. I just made it up. Which makes me the judge, and these guys the winners. You disagree, go make your own damn championship. Reader Jerry (who took the pics) sent these in. The two guys in the suits are props and costume builder Brady Gage and his pal David…
Minecraft is one of the biggest games on the planet. Valve is perhaps the most beloved video game developer around. Imagine, for a moment, if the two had somehow joined forces. Finished? OK, now remember: it could actually have happened. All Things D is running an excerpt from Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus ‘Notch’…
Valve works in mysterious ways. Last year, they held a big DOTA 2 event for Halloween, then didn’t do it this year. People got angry. Last year, they didn’t do anything for Christmas, because Christmas got stolen. This year, they are. Go figure! What it means is that DOTA 2 players are in for a…
You might think emulators only exist for retro consoles, and for the most part that’s true, but we might some day be seeing PS4 and Xbox One games – regardless of the legality of the move – on a PC near you. For the last decade or so, emulating new console games has been almost…
With artist AndyDaRoo on the pens and NormalColossus on research duty, we now have this striking image showing the scale of every colossus from Team Ico’s classic Shadow of the Colossus. It’s impressive, but also surprising. You’d think the final one is the biggest, but this reveals that the giant flying one is easily the…
No, as you’ll see in this mod, there is a far darker force at play, one that our younger readers (or those tortured by their children’s TV habits) will know only too well. If you want to download it yourself, you can grab it here Really Useful World Eater[YouTube, via Super Punch]
Normally when we show a comparison video like this, it’s comparing the same game across platforms. But this one’s different. It’s two games across two platforms, which may sound pointless, but remember, these are driving games we’re talking about. We can get away with it. Moto Games TV found that both GT6 and PC graphics…
Spelunky procedurally-generates its levels, meaning you’ll never ever play the same stage twice. But how does this magic actually work? How do you get to play through actual playable stages, and not nightmarish collages of terrain? Darius Kazemi’s “Spelunky Generator Lessons” explains that every level is made in two stages. First, there’s the “solution path”,…
I feel like I’m about to sit down and watch a performance of Fifth Element: The Musical, this cosplay is that good. Which I’m not, because that doesn’t actually exist, and why the hell does that not exist, anyway? To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you…
Sean Palomino, a video game developer, was moving from Texas to North Carolina in September when he suffered the most bizarre of setbacks: the moving van carrying his stuff caught fire, destroying everything he and his family owned. Formerly of id Software, the developers of Doom, he was on his way to join up with…
Eeehhh, we’re a bit uneasy about the new Thief game. But hey, we won’t know until we get our hands on the finished product. Until then, here’s a story trailer, which given its airing during the VGX should have been just cinematic fluff. So it’s nice they also stuck some gameplay in there.
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