Nearly thirty years after the first game was released, veteran British developer Mel Croucher has decided that now is the time to jump on the Kickstarter bandwagon and make a sequel to 1984 cult classic Deus Ex Machina. You can see the trailer above. Its got Christopher Lee in it! And a rock music soundtrack,…
Another game, State of Decay, has been refused classification (read: banned) in Australia. It’s the second in two days, and comes despite the country finally getting an adults-only rating last year.
Go make yourself a cup of tea, get some cushions and settle in, Square Enix fans. This is an hour-long chat with Final Fantasy character designer Tetsuya Nomura, recorded during E3 but only uploaded earlier today, in which he opens up about Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III.
Continuing a little tour I’ve been taking of the Naughty Dog artists responsible for The Last Of Us, and who I haven’t yet featured here on Fine Art, today we’re looking at the work of Nick Gindraux. Nick is a concept artist at Naughty Dog who, prior to his work on The Last Of Us,…
It’s no secret that the “infected” from Naughty Dog’s The Last Of Us are based on the parasitic fungus known as Cordyceps. It even formed part of the game’s announcement. But hey, science, it can sometimes be a little dense. So thank Kyle Hill over at Scientific American for writing a beginner’s guide to not…
The Game Critic Awards, of which some editors of this website (not me!) are judges, have announced their nominees for the 2013 Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 awards. These are the real deal; while individual sites can slap a ribbon or badge on anything they want, these nominees were settled on by a hivemind…
Blizzard has released a statement revealing that there’s been a “recent increase in unauthorized World of Warcraft account-logins”. These are coming in via Blizzard’s site and the WoW mobile armory app, leading Blizzard to temporarily suspend access to its auction house via the game’s mobile app. Affected account holders are being contacted by Blizzard and…
The following is an excerpt from Earthbound, Ken Baumann’s upcoming book about Nintendo’s cult classic 1994 RPG. “I mean, you have to pray to beat an emotion!” Scott laughs. “Yeah.” “How did this game get made?” • It’s hard for me to reconcile EarthBound with any video games I’ve played since. Most games traffic in…
Normally, when a game is updated and things break, it’s cause for concern. When a Valve game updates and things get weird, though, people get excited Ever since Portal 2 was announced via updates to Portal 1, people have paid extra close attention to any changes made to Valve games, and after a big one…
Saints Row IV has been “banned” (or to be more precise refused classification, which is as good as a ban) in Australia. Which is strange. Australia used to see such “bans” because of the lack of an adults-only rating for video games. The country now has such a rating, however, labelled as R18+, restricting the…
There are no cosplayers or grown men in tights here. Just some incredible stop-motion animation and the best Nintendo action figure ever made It took creator counter656 over a month to make the 4:51 clip. Totally worth it, though. Zelda Stop Motion – Figma Link and Black Rock Shooter [YouTube]
American McGee’s Spicy Horse studio just launched a Kickstarter for a new game where you play as Dorothy going up against the Scarecrow. And it looks a lot cooler than it sounds. Well, what there is looks cool. Sadly there’s only really art to go on, and nothing more substantial, but unlike indie startups on…
This is great. It’s what Link’s home screen would look like, if the Nintendo of the future ditched his backpack/tunic for a more contemporary way of getting stuff done. If Ganon could be defeated via Vines, check-ins and messaging apps, that is. What I like is that it’s a pretty accurate conversion! Well, except for…
John Sweeney is a concept artist at Naughty Dog who didn’t just get to work on The Last Of Us, but had one of his images from the game selected as a winner in this year’s Into The Pixel awards. You can see more of his work at his personal site and CGHub page To…
I have very fond memories of Crackdown, one of the earliest Xbox 360 exclusives and a game that, in many ways, still stands strong today. I’d love to say those memories are thanks to the collecting of orbs, of jumping over buildings and driving stupidly large trucks, but they’re not. They’re thanks to a single…
It may not be forever in the way a tattoo is, but this is a kid. And as far as kid statements go, getting an enormous Mario head shaved onto the back of your noggin is about as big as they go. No idea who it is, or who the barber was, but as someone…
You read that right. Develoepr Klab will be bringing a mobile version of Age of Empires to both iOS and Android devices later this year. A report on Nikkei says the game will be free-to-play, so it’s likely a port of the recent PC reboot of the series. It’s also merely the first in a…
It’s a tale as old as the iPhone itself. Kid picks up parent’s iPhone, kid plays game, kid accidentally buys a ton of in-app junk without their parent’s knowledge. Parent goes bananas, complains to Apple. Those complaints got too loud to ignore for Apple, so in February it agreed to a large settlement. That settlement…
Company of Heroes was a game for true armchair generals. There was no resource collecting, no tank rushes, none of the hallmarks of other games that look like they’re about a clash of armies but are really little but mouse-driven sprint races. Built around the concepts of cover and directional fire, suppression and morale, you…
The second thing I thought after I saw District 9, right after “holy shit”, was “man, I hope they release action figures for that mech”. Sadly, we’re a few years on and that hasn’t happened, but where official merch is found wanting, custom builders can get the job done. Built to “GI Joe” scale (so…
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