A ridiculously powerful camera has let a German photographer take some of the most incredible footage I have ever seen. There’s a reason creature designers so often look to the animal kingdom – and insects in particular – for inspiration. Because when you see them this close, they may as well be aliens. The photographer…
I don’t care if this is the Japanese PlayStation equivalent of a ShamWow commercial, it’s still captivating/horrifying to watch. Peripheral and accessory company Hori have a new line of Vita screen protectors, and to demonstrate their toughness, they did the only thing a product like this asks for: they tried to scratch the shit out…
Mercenary Kings is kinda out today, available as part of Steam’s Early Access program. I’ve played a bit (think Metal Slug with a pinch of RPG), and it’s pretty great. It’s not finished – you’re getting early access, not a final product, so it’s missing some stuff – but you’ll get that stuff when it’s…
Casy Kovach wanted to build a replica of Nightmare’s Soul Edge blade from Soulcalibur. So grabbing some wood, paint and a glass eye, he went right ahead and did it. It’s the scale of the thing that’s so impressive. A lot of this kind of props work tends to be small in scale, but this…
The Ford GT40. So fast. So gorgeous. Even decades later, it still turns heads, and it still stops hearts. So if a guy who draws cars in video games for a living wants to pay tribute to a vehicle, there aren’t many better options. The work you’re seeing here is that of Luis Nieves, who’s…
Cosplayer and props builder Shannon Clawson wanted to make a Skyrim movie. So he spent $100, went out in the woods with some friends, braved -10 ºC weather in little more than a tunic and got it done. It’s damn good! And before you ask “how the hell did he make that Skyrim helmet for…
Given the popularity of World of Warcraft, StarCraft and…Diablo III(?), millions of people spend a lot of time using Blizzard’s Battle.net launcher. If you’re one of them, you might want to check out this video, showing the new, updated version of it. There have been screens floating around for a few weeks now, but this…
These images were taken at the “Battle For Middle Earth”. While it shares a name, I can assure you this is at least 100x cooler than EA’s middling Lord of the Rings strategy series. Taking place in the Czech Republic, it was an enormous LARP (Live-Action Role-Playing) event, mixed with more than a little cosplay,…
Kaze Tachinu is the latest film from acclaimed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, his first at the helm since 2008’s Ponyo. Set prior to World War Two (or, at least, the West’s involvement in Japan’s side of it), it focuses on the man who would go on to design the Zero, one of the best fighters…
A second series of those awesome Star Wars Black Series action figures are on the way, and they’re hitting four of the biggest fan favourites all in one shot. Where the first batch featured Luke, Vader, Darth Maul and a Sandtrooper, the second line will have Han Solo, Boba Fett, Greedo and…Slave Leia. It’s almost…
Just when you think you’re done being impressed by what people can do with Minecraft, somebody comes along with a mod that literally takes the game to another world. Galacticraft is a mod released earlier this year that turns your little Minecraft dude into an astronaut, able to jump into a rocket, fly above the…
A little extreme, perhaps, to hinge the existence of a higher power on the funding for a video game project, but this isn’t your average Kickstarter. It’s for a game that is, in everthing but name, a new Syndicate title. So it’s important I wrote about Satellite Reign a few weeks back, but the team…
From ground level, it’seasy to see how old “houses” used in the filming of Star Wars can quickly turn into forgotten ruins. But when you look at the bigger picture, you get a more interesting story. A run-down old set from Star Wars Episode I has found itself the centre of an important scientific study.…
Russia, your people’s love of putting cameras on their car dashboards has won the day again. Only a few months after the craze let the world see an insaneevent it might otherwise have missed, this time we get to see a freway bumper-to-bumper become a fireball, a truck carrying gas cannisters exploding on contact and…
Surprising absolutely nobody – I’ve got money on these being the only releases the series’ new owners ever bother with – Gearbox announced over the weekend it will be releasing HD upgrades to both Homeworld and Homeworld 2. If you only want to play the originals – and you might, because time has been very…
Hard if you like dogs and video games, anyway. If you’re not sure what’s going on, see here Infinity Ward [Twitter]
Unlike, say, Android, Apple is pretty strict in how it polices its online store, outlawing any app that lets people play emulated (read: usually illegal copies of old games) titles on their iOS device. But it can do little to stop this one. Riley Testut has built a program called GBA4iOS, a Game Boy Advance…
Everything you see here is taking place on a sandbox open world. With a brutally realistic physics and damage system. If this isn’t what you want out of a combat simulator game, well, I don’t know what the hell you do want. ArmA 3 is out later this year.
Gunship Revolution is not, as you may suspect, the name of an old SNK shooter on the Neo Geo. It’s the name of an art team with its HQ in the Philipines, but with members spread all over the world. They specialize in stuff like concept art and illustration, but can also branch out and…
The Gamestick is, I think, part of the same silly little Android console idea that we’ll be laughing about in five years’ time. But while the idea is here, in the moment, we may as well enjoy it. This video should have been about showing how the system’s control pad is put through its paces,…
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