At this year’s PAX, the wonderful people from games site Attract Mode and merch wizards Fangamer are once again teaming up to present an art show/party that’ll be one of the highlights of the week’s festivities. It’s on Saturday, August 31, and runs from 7pm until midnight. There’ll be music and games to play, but…
Last month, we took a look at some of the earliest Zelda art available, some production and marketing pieces done by Katsuya Terada for A Link to the Past. Today, we’re looking at something similar, albeit a little rougher. The pieces you’re seeing below are ancient sketches by Terada that were published in a commercial…
Held earlier in the month, 7DFPS was a game jam that have people seven days to make a first-person shooter. Since that’s nowhere near enough time to program suitable hinge-shooting mechanics, people had to get creative, with impressive results. This video showcases 41 of over 200 entries, and while it seems like a blur, it…
Catlateral Damage is as accurate a cat simulator as you’ll ever play. Firstly because it lets you jump way higher than you think you should be able to, and secondly because the game only asks you to do one thing. Be a dick. The goal is to run and jump around your owner’s bedroom knocking…
LEGO. And Ghostbusters. Two things that should have come together officially long ago, but for some reason, never have. Ah well. That’s where talented fans come in. And enough passionate ones to convince LEGO that Ghostbusters LEGO should actually get made. This set was designe by Brent Waller, who in addition to his LEGO skills…
And you thought the Virtual Boy was only good for tennis and tired failed hardware jokes. Coder Mr. Anon has somehow modified a homebrew fighting game engine to bring a bootleg version of Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting Edition to Nintendo’s ancient novelty “handheld”. This shouldn’t exist. And yet. It does. If you’ve got the…
The PlayStation 4 is out in the US on November 15. The Xbox One? Well, it’s looking like it could hit the market a week ahead of its competitor. While Microsoft is yet to officially announce the big day, and “release dates” on retailer sites are usually little more than window dressing, we’ve heard from…
At the height of its powers in the early 18th century, the British Empire spanned all corners of the globe, from Brazil to Alaska, Austria to Manchuria, and…wait, what? OK, so in actual history, it did no such thing, but in my history, the history of a nation I led through 400 years of expansion,…
SyFy’s TV series Heroes of Cosplay has been accused by cosplay photographers of “using images for promotion…on the weekly episodes without written permission from the authors and copyright owners of the images”. Writing on his studio’s blog, BGZ Photography’s Darrell Ardita says that “numerous” photographers, including one of his business associates, have seen their images…
Black Desert is an upcoming MMO from Korean developers Pearl Abyss. It sounds almost too good to be true. A preview of the game on MMOCast says it’s a “sandbox MMORPG”. Specifically, it’s promising stuff like resource-gathering, action combat, open-world player vs player battles, castle sieges (with plans for 400 v 400 assaults) and non-instanced…
Left 4 Dead’s Nick may be up to his eyeballs in the undead, but he’s still got time to peruse the casual encounters section of Craigslist. Being the casual encounters section of Craigslist, this is totally Not Suitable For Work, but if you’re not at work, well. This is late-night machinima, folks. Classifieds [John Doe,…
I wrote about indie space colony building sim thing Maia last year, but in the months since it’s come along so nicely it’s worth a second look today. This latest clip, from the latest build of the game, lets creator Simon Roth go into great detail about how the whole thing works. Don’t worry. It’s…
I’ve been on vacation for three weeks, which explains the recent lack of a weekly cosplay roundup. But hey, I’m back now, and so is Fancy Pants. It’s a good week to come back, too! Not just for awesome guy cosplay, a rarity in such volume, but it’s also a great week for fans of…
I sometimes take a break from video games here on Fine Art to show the very best in concept art from the movie business. Today is one of the days, because Elysium’s art is worth the detour. The images you’ll see below are the work of Ben Mauro, an artist we’ve featured previously here on…
Call it a rip-off if you want, enough people have already. But whatever. I think Oceanhorn, for iOS, looks fantastic, and its list of inspirations runs a lot deeper than Link’s first cel-shaded adventure. This new trailer is to commemmorate the game’s impending release. Can’t wait.
For a game that’s had so many problems it’s needing a second launch, you’d think Square Enix would be right on top of Final Fantasy XIV, but nope. The game had an early access release over the weekend, and it was a mess. Those who had pre-ordered the game were let into an early access…
Indulge me my current fascination with Persona figures, but each time I see one, the bar gets a little higher. Take this Elizabeth figure from Persona 3 (appearing here in her Persona 4 Arena guise). Part of Bandai’s D-Arts line, she’s highly posable, and comes with some cool accessories like her tome of quests/personas/whatever, a…
Builder and designer CrashSanders has come up with some fantastic ideas for a LEGO set based on FTL, the space-faring roguelike that tries to kill you every time you move. They’re small designs, using only a few pieces each, but they do a great job of nailing the look of each of the game’s most…
Ubisoft goofed up yesterday, releasing a Watch Dogs trailer that looked pretty terrible even by current-gen standards. Today, they make amends. As someone with a decent PC, and who’ll have at least one of the next-gen consoles at launch, this is what I’m getting mildly excited for.
Rodrigo Ribeiro, a senior concept artist at Spark Unlimited (and formerly of Insomniac), recently published these images of a game that sadly never saw the light of day. Pity. Because I’m completely in love with the character designs. The style of the guys and girls below falls somewhere between “Gorillaz” and “The Goon”, which pushes…
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