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Capcom, A Game This Pretty Needs A Better Name
Deep Down looks like what happens when Capcom figures “let’s put Dark Souls and Assassin’s Creed together!”. It sounds like “I’ll have a Deep Down, potato & gravy and three pieces of original recipe chicken, thanks”. Ah well. We don’t really know much about the PS4 game, but the clip shown at Sony’s pre-TGS presser…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 9, 2013 -
Paypal Won’t Give Indie Devs Their Money
The small team behind indie fighting game Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm have a problem. Despite raising nearly $120,000 on crowdsourcing site Indiegogo – twice what they asked for – they can’t get their hands on over half the cash. Online shopping intermediaries Paypal have emailed the team and told them: The email from PayPal advises…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 9, 2013 -
BioWare Founder Plays Video Games, In The Jungle, With Amazon Tribe
Ray Muzyka, one of the co-founders of RPG powerhouses BioWare, was recently in a rainforest in Ecuador when he encountered the Shuar tribe. His day ended with…a serious session of air hockey on his iPad against the locals. Who had never seen an iPad until Ray turned up. Writing about the experience on his Flickr…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 9, 2013 -
Another Awesome Live-Action Clip From…FIFA
They don’t get much attention from gaming sites, probably because lol EA Sports, but every year Electronic Arts goes nuts with their live-action commercials for FIFA. It’s the company’s biggest-selling game pimping the world’s biggest sport, so a certain level of expenditure is to be expected, but the money they spend boggles the mind. Getting…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 9, 2013 -
Your Box Art Is Drawn By Talented Humans
One of the reasons I run Fine Art is so that artists, who play such a major role in shaping our attachment with our favourite series, get some of the recognition they deserve. That goes double for the images on the front of the box. Even today, in the age of digital downloads, the single…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 9, 2013 -
39,000 FPS Explosions Go Way Past “Slow Motion”
This is what it looks like when you shoot stuff at an old TV set (or a line of doomed eggs) at capture speeds up to 39000 frames per second You’ve probably seen videos like this before, but probably at speeds of around 6000 fps. 39000FPS is just…nuts. You can see buckshot in mid-air. Everything…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 8, 2013 -
Sir, Your Street Fighter Collection Is An Inspiration To Us All
I love people who only collect one type of video game. Just collecting games doesn’t have quiet the same dash of mad obsessiveness as someone who specialises in a single series. As we’ll see in this case, with Street Fighter. Clarence Lim, who also does some mean cosplay, has “a complete catalogue of NTSC1 Street…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 8, 2013 -
BioShock Infinite Cosplay Leaves A Bad (Good?) Taste In Your Mouth
Potential BioShock Infinite DLC, perhaps? Actually, on second thought….eewwwww. That’s comedian and TV host Chris Hardwick teaming up with girlfriend, actress and TV presenter Chloe Dykstra. Below? The rest of last week’s best cosplay, including a very special outfit: that Halo Spartan is actually the Mountain Dew exclusive DLC. Awesome. To see the larger pics…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 8, 2013 -
Somebody Already Has An Xbox One
Last week, the first Xbox One consoles rolled off the production line. So, naturally, we’ve now got video of someone using one, a whole two months ahead of the machine’s launch. In this clip – uploaded earlier today – you’ll see the lucky/wanted man give us a quick tour of the control pad, console and…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 8, 2013 -
DayZ, You’re Looking Much Nicer
DayZ’s proper, fancy and upgraded commercial release draws nearer, and in this clip creator Dean Hall takes you through a lot of the latest tweaks, additions and changes made to the game. Know this is wonky, but that’s the point. Hall is giving you a look at the development process, so don’t sweat the animations.…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 8, 2013 -
That’s One Less Free-To-Play Game To Worry About
There once was a game called Hardware: Shipbreakers. Made by some ex-Relic developers, it was going to be a free-to-play game. Now that it’s got Gearbox money behind it, however, that won’t be necessary. Phew. Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford tweeted over the weekend: As pretty as it looked, the fact Shipbreakers was going to be…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 8, 2013 -
There Will Be No LEGO Jurassic Park. Sorry.
Hopes were raisedlast week that, via the company’s Cuusoo program, we might get an official Jurassic Park LEGO set. Hopes that today have been sadly dashed. While the Cuusoo program exists to let users create their dream projects, the legal and financial clout LEGO enjoys means that often – as was the case with both…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2013 -
Culture
Mission’s Over. Time To Hit The Pub.
Eliott Lilly is a concept artist who works as a freelancer in both the film and games industry. Most recently on the gaming side of things, he’s worked on RAGE, the next Doom game and FEAR 3. Sadly, his Doom stuff is under lock and key at id Software, but the art you’ll see below…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2013 -
Walking Around A Hangar Is One The Best Games I’ve Played This Year
There’s something fantastic about owning your own ship in a video game. From Final Fantasy to Mass Effect, whenever they’re given the chance to not just travel the world but explore the vehicle that gets them there, a surprisingly strong bond is formed between player and ship. Star Citizen, the upcoming space game by Wing…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2013 -
More Skyrim Villain Cosplay, Please
It’s funny that most people dress up as the dude on the cover of Skyrim, because that armour is terrible. Let’s get a little more creative, people. Like these folks, who dressed up as a couple of the Draugr Deathlords. When I say “folks”, I mean one of them is props genius Bill Doran, who…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2013 -
Sex Assault Scene Pulled From Hotline Miami 2 Demo
There’s a point in the Hotline Miami 2 demo where it looks for all the world like one of the characters is about to rape a woman. That didn’t go down too well. Asked by Rock Paper Shotgun what it meant, and how the developers felt about some people’s negative reactions to the scene, Dennatonā€™s…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2013 -
Assassin’s Creed IV Is The Most Tropical Game Since Monkey Island
You know what I loved most about the first two Monkey Island games? The art style and colour palette were so damn sunny. Other games, like Far Cry, have tried to do the same, but they never felt like a summer’s breeze in quite the way Monkey Island (and particularly Monkey Island 2) did. Assassin’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2013 -
The First Xbox One TV Commercial Has…No Video Games In It
Behold, the very first North American TV commercial for the Xbox One. You will note, by the time you get to the end, that there are no video games in it. Time to get upset? Reminder: the Xbox One exists to make Microsoft money. If you give a shit about the Xbox One and you’re…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2013 -
First Robocop Movie Trailer Is, Well, Hrm.
Here’s the first trailer for the upcoming Robocop reboot. It’s got quite a cast. And hey, there are some nice nods to the original in there, from his voice effects to the design of the suit itself. But everything else going in makes it all look, well, a little silly. But hey, maybe I’m just…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2013 -
Small Studio Wants To Make Its Own Mass Effect
AMBROV: X is an upcoming RPG that, while set in an established sci-fi universe (it’s based on the Sime-Gen books), sure looks like an indie Mass Effect. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Given how that series ended, and people’s love for sci-fi, RPGs and decision-making (this has all three!), this might be able…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 5, 2013
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