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You’ll Kill Giants For This Skyrim Shield + Coffee Table Combo
Prop master Harrison Krix has outdone himself this time. What begins as a replica Skyrim shield—and an impressive one at that—soon evolves into something a lot more practical. Built originally for a convention, the shield— which we’ve briefly seen before—soon became a problem when it couldn’t easily be stored. Rather than bin it, or sell…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 14, 2013 -
Sadly, This Is As Close We’ll Ever Get To A Video Game Based On A 1982 Corolla
This great little video was made last year for Toyota Canada, and tells the story of Tim’s 1982 Corolla. I love it, not just because it’s close to home (my first car was an ’83 Corona), but because they really went to town with the pixel art. TOYOTA / TO THE MOON [Toyota, via it…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 14, 2013 -
Well, Of Course Germans Would Make A Cool Vietnam Game
You’d think with all the vintage rock and classic films and iconic imagery that Vietnam would be the easiest war to if not make a decent video game out of, then at least capture the essence of the conflict. But nope. We’ve had the God-awful pastiche that was Black Ops’ attempt. Battlefield tried, but Vietnam…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 14, 2013 -
Time For Some Art Of The Swarm
Anthony Eftekhari works at Blizzard as a digital matte painter, environment designer and concept artist. You probably saw some of his most recent work in the amazing Heart of the Swarm trailer for StarCraft II In this gallery you’ll see his work for that trailer, as well as similar pieces (most of them matte paintings)…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 14, 2013 -
So The Wii U’s Touchscreen Can Do Amazing Zelda Sketches
As you’ve seen in our regular Miiverse Moments feature, Nintendo’s online community is a place where people don’t just chat, but doodle. Like their lives depended on it. I’ve seen some good sketches over the weeks turning up on various game pages, but nothing like this epic Zelda image, which spans four panels and has…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 14, 2013 -
Sega, Where The Hell Is Yakuza 5?
I know it has flaws. Some of them completely alienating for most people. But damn it, I don’t care. The Yakuza series is just about my favourite thing on the PS3. They just do so many things that other games aren’t doing. They are (sorry Sleeping Dogs) the single best way to indulge in virtual…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 14, 2013 -
A Blurry Tease For What Might Be Just Cause 3
Avalanche, the Swedish team behind the Just Cause series, are currently working on three games. Two are licensed properties, while the other, code-named “Project Mamba”, is likely to be a new Just Cause game Especially when you look at this blurry screenshot posted by studio founder Christofer Sundberg. While the outfit and setting could be…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2013 -
The Last Guardian Isn’t Dead, “Official Announcement” Coming Soon?
The Last Guardian, from the same team that brought us Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, has sadly been MIA for months now following repeated delays and the departure from Sony of some of its key developers. The most important man to have left, former Team Ico boss Fumito Ueda, is still working as a…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2013 -
America’s Newest Jet Fighter Targets Bad Guys Like A Video Game
Let’s say you’re piloting one of the United States Air Force’s shiny new F-35 fighters. Suddenly, below you, hostile tanks and rockets start firing. Not necessarily at you, just at something nearby. Almost instantly—and this footage was captured from a live test, so it works—the F-35’s Distributed Aperture System (DAS) picks up the fire, determines…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2013 -
‘Til Death Do You (And Your Action Figures) Part
I got away with a lot at my wedding. Lord of the Rings music in church, Autobot cufflinks, a Han-and-Leia-topped cake. She’s a good wife, my wife. But even she would have probably drawn the line at this. Sadly. Ben and Mimi’s wedding saw Ben and his mates ditch their boutonnières (you know, flowers on…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2013 -
Culture
Dead Space Monsters Aren’t So Scary When They’re Sitting On Your Coffee Table
Titan Books has got together with Electronic Arts to release an art book that celebrates the work not just of the team behind the recently-released Dead Space 3, but of the entire series. The Art of Dead Space, a 300-page, hardcover book, has art from the entire franchise. So not just the three main games,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2013 -
Tiny Lord Of The Rings Cosplay Is Very, Very Precious
These adorable little Spanish kids have been captured by some far less-adorable adults. I don’t know what Spanish is for “looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys“, but maybe it’d be less creepy in this instance than it is in English. It’s Carnival in Spain and all the schools have family costume parties… This…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2013 -
Insane Rider Brings Trials’ Bike-Riding Madness To Life
If you thought the kind of artificial, hair-tearing stunts found in the Trials series were the only way you’d see dirtbike tricks like that, well, Aussie rider Robbie Maddison would like a word. In this clip, put together by DC Shoes, he rides around an old airbase pulling off stuff that should only really be…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2013 -
The New Aliens Game Feels Like A Bad Theme Park Ride. Here’s An Awesome Aliens Theme Park Ride.
Gary Goddard has just about the coolest job in the universe. He gets to design theme park rides. Over the decades his work has appeared all over the world, in places like Universal Studios, but not everything he put to paper made it to construction. Like his idea for a ride based on Aliens Seems…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2013 -
I Would Play The C64 Version Of The Walking Dead Until The End Of Days
Telltale’s Mark Darin, just for kicks, has taken 2012 adventure series The Walking Dead (which he helped write) and thrown it back a few decades, imagining it as a Commodore 64 title. He’s pretty much nailed it. From the resolution to the colour palette. I’m now a little bummed out I can’t actually play this.…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2013 -
Why The Empire’s Most “Spectacular Military Fiasco” Was The Battle Of Hoth
It’s one thing to pick apart plot holes in a film, but to do so while at the same time cross-examining the military strategy of fictional protagonists? That’s about as far up my alley as you can get without things getting adults-only. Wired’s military column, Danger Room, has written a fantastic piece putting Darth Vader’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2013 -
CultureTotal RecallNintendo’s Awkward 1990s, Remembered On Resurrected VHS
NeoGAF user jjgames has done the history of video games—or at least our ability to easily access some awkwardly amusing parts of it—a great favour. He’s bought six old VHS tapes from the 90s, each containing a Nintendo marketing or training video. They remind us of a time Nintendo was a lot warmer, a lot…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2013 -
Your Lame Childhood Toys Are, With A Flourish, Suddenly Badass
Optimus Prime, Raphael, guys like that, they never needed any help looking tough. But if you cast your eyes over all the toys from the 80s and 90s, boy, some of them looked pretty awful. Uninspiring. Cheap. That’s not how you remembered them! You remembered them being full of life, vibrant characters capable of doing…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2013 -
There’s A Normal Brothers In Arms Game Coming
Brothers In Arms: Furious Four was a weird departure from Gearbox’s venerable WW2 series, so weird that it ended up being spun off into its own thing, leaving the BiA franchise behind altogether. Which you’d think would leave it back where we’ve been for a while—with no proper Brothers in Arms game on the horizon—but…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2013 -
Drunk Dudes Make Video Game Award Shows A Little Awkward
I was on the other side of the planet from the actual DICE awards show, and didn’t catch all the stream, so I missed this last week. Shame. The best part of any awards show are normally the parts where a drunk guy wanders onto the stage and things get weird. To his credit (anyone…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2013
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