HDR photography may make everybody involved look like giant action figures, but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t also take very pretty pictures. I’m speaking about the BioShock Infinite picture here, which while making their faces look weird, really makes the fabric on those costumes pop, where we might otherwise have overlooked it! As for…
For the past few days, some of the worst bushfires in Australian history have been burning across the state of New South Wales. Hundreds of homes have been lost, and the fires are so big that my hometown of Canberra, 300km away, was blanketed in smoke for much of the weekend. This is what it…
TotalBiscuit, a YouTube gaming critic, is one of the most popular “personalities” on the service. When he says a game is rubbish, people notice. And when the company behind that game tries to get his criticism taken offline, more people notice. Earlier this month, he posted a look at a game called Day One: Garry’s…
Oh hi, PlayStation Vita version of Fez.
Sony has PS4 demo kiosks rolled out and ready to play across the US. Like, now. Sadly for the moment they’re only in Sony stores, making them a little harder to track down, they’ll soon be in more accessible spots like GameStop, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart. If you want to see if there’s one…
When you think of LARP, or Live-Action Role-Playing, you probably think of people in armour running around a field hitting each other with foam swords. But not everyone LARPS that way. Some people take the basic concept and run very far away with it, to the point where they’re basically LARPing as…Mad Men. This is…
Fire won’t stop them. Bullets won’t stop them. Now not even a road covered in loose rocks will slow down our demise at the hands of our eventual robot destroyers. This is Atlas, a humanoid robot from the nightmare factory that is Boston Dynamics. You’ll not only notice that it has such amazing balance that…
Based in Brooklyn, artist Roxie Vizcarra creates imagery for video games. What follows is some of my favourite stuff I’ve ever featured on Fine Art Why? Partly because, for someone working in the games business, it’s different. Even in their spare time, most game artists draw the same stuff they would for work: spaceships, robots,…
I have spent hours today playing a strategy game on my PC. Hours. It wasn’t Civ V. It wasn’t Rome II. It wasn’t even Company of Heroes 2. It was a tiny little game called Kingdoms. You don’t do much in Kingdoms. You play as a King, and you ride around a 2D kingdom on…
German site Computer Bild have got hold of a devkit PS4 and cracked it open. Their findings aren’t terribly important to the average user – though it looks like swapping HDDs will be a cinch – but they did find one thing of interest. Dat screw. Such needless effort. So adorable. Playstation 4: Exklusiv –…
Hey. You. Mornin’. You missed all this cool stuff while you were asleep. Computer Becomes Cockroach Mass Grave + Nightmare Fuel Mirror’s Edge Felt Real, And That’s What Made It So Special Soldier Awarded Medal Of Honor, And You Can Now See What He Did Already, An Awesome Titanfall Action Figure (From Japan!)
Blade Runner’s already pretty damn noir, from the colour palette to the pacing. So a trailer pitching the movie as an actual 1940’s black and white drama just makes sense, ok? Creator Chet Desmond says that it’s not meant to be an actual re-imagining of the classic flick. “As many have pointed out, Blade Runner…
Respawn’s big Xbox One exclusive Titanfall is destined to have a line of official action figures. Those mechs, they’re great. Until they actually arrive, though, fans are making do with their own stuff, like this incredible custom piece from Japanese builder nammkkyys. Note that this isn’t a modification of some existing model kit. He built…
Yong Yi Lee is a concept artist from Singapore who works in the games business. Shame those magazines aren’t real. I’d subscribe in a heartbeat. You can see more of his work at Lee’s personal site and CGHub page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you…
Retired US Army Capt. William Swenson was awarded the Medal of Honor yesterday for his conduct during a firefight in Afghanistan in 2009. What makes Swenson’s actions even more remarkable than the fact he’s now only the sixth living recipient of the medal is the way cameras captured part of the action that earned him…
Sometimes, a video comes along that’s just…perfect. Heavy Cyrus Wrecking Ball – SFM [HazzaHardie] … … … … OK, now’s the gif
I could write about Mirror’s Edge all day. About how much I love it, how important it’s been to this generation of gaming. I could talk about its visual design, which remains as fresh and iconic today as it did back in 2009. I could take about Magnus “Solar Fields” Birgersson’s wonderful score. Instead, though,…
Apologies if you were about to eat. Or open a computer. Or touch a computer. Or go to sleep. Ever Reddit user mistermustard posted these shots yesterday, saying “I don’t think I’m going to fix computers anymore”. Fair enough, man. Fair enough. I don’t think I’m going to fix computers anymore. [Reddit]
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Street Fighter was real. At least, it was for one night earlier this year, as Oakland’s wrestling crew at Hoodslam took on Capcom’s fighter and put it in the ring. In case the embed above doesn’t start at the right spot for you, you’ll want to begin at 3:12. Because while some of the action…
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