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What a Video Game Graveyard Looks Like
Photographer Thomas Schultz found this decrepit old garage last year in Arizona. It’s full of long-gone arcade machines. His series of photos, called Video Decay, is as beautiful as it is tragic. Especially since one of the cabinets is the amazing old Atari Star Wars game. Video Decay [FlickR, via Geek Art]
By Luke Plunkett Published November 28, 2012 -
Culture
Hope Your Eyeballs Are Ready For This Explosion of Art
If you’re a fan of Roger Dean, 70s sci-fi, old rock n roll posters or just awesome concept art, Pascal Blanché’s work should be just about the best thing you see today. The former art director on Runescape, for which we’ve featured his work before, Blanché is now back at Ubisoft Montreal, a studio he’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 28, 2012 -
We Might be Getting a Game Called Yoshi’s Land for the Wii U
So, remember how last week a guy got accidental access to a “mock” debug menu for the Wii U? There might be more to it than that. While messing around in there, a description of a game called Yoshi’s Land Wii U was found. That listing has since been found on retail sites. Seeing as…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 28, 2012 -
Look Out, Nintendo Has An Official Gesture, And It’s Chopping At Your Face
Here’s a hilariously odd piece of corporate expression; it seems Nintendo has adopted an official gesture when its senior employees are mentioning the word “direct”. Tiny Cartridge’s Eric has spotted that, too often for it to be a coincidence, when the word (part of Nintendo’s term for its impromptu press briefings) “direct” is mentioned, the…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 28, 2012 -
A Statue of Diablo Itself? That’ll Cost Ya.
First shown off in unpainted form earlier this year, Sideshow’s enormously fancy Diablo statue, from Diablo III, is finally going on sale this Thursday. The poor thing’s in a weird place. I always feel bad for the artists and designers who come up with great-looking characters—which in turn make for great collectibles—only to see the…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 27, 2012 -
Let’s Try And Fight Those Fanboy Urges, OK?
It’s been a peaceful few years, hasn’t it? As the current generation of consoles got cheaper, more and more people were able to buy more than one of them. They could play, and enjoy, games across different systems. And as a result, stopping being so emotionally invested in the one system they did own, to…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 27, 2012 -
The Kinect Finally Has a Proper Use: Funny Half-Life Videos
Garry’s Mod has added support for Kinect. The popular PC machinima/screwing around tool will be able to read your movements on Microsoft’s camera and, to the best of its ability, recreate the actions in the game. What results won’t change the world. But it will result in some funny, funny stuff. Especially since Kinect works…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 27, 2012 -
Story Details & Art Leak From Bungie’s Next Game, the Sci-Fi Epic Destiny
A leaked document has revealed at least some art and the basic story background for the next game from Bungie, the creators of the Halo universe. The document sent to IGN, and also to Kotaku, says that the game is set on a future Earth where, after a brief colonisation of the stars, humanity has…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 27, 2012 -
Here’s a Devastating Account of the Crap Women in the Games Business Have to Deal With. In 2012.
Over the past 24 hours or so, a number of women working in the game industry (and some male colleagues) have taken to Twitter to share their stories via the hashtag #1reasonwhy They’re not motivational tales. Instead, they’re accounts of the rampant sexism and discrimination many have faced in the past, and are still facing…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 27, 2012 -
There’s a New Wii Console, The Wii Mini
While it’s yet to be officially announced by Nintendo, Canada’s Best Buy website has revealed the Wii Mini, a smaller, sleeker version of Nintendo’s console. There’s no price information yet (or larger image), but it’ll be out on December 7, and appears to boast a square form factor, a black & red colour scheme and…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 27, 2012 -
The Walking Dead Sure Was Emotional. For Different Reasons, For Different People.
I’m still coming down from the experience that was The Walking Dead. Without getting into spoiler territory, that was… quite the ending. To help cope, I’ve been talking to other people about their experiences, many of which seem to be similar to my own. And then Kirk goes and shows me The Walking Dead Game…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 27, 2012 -
The World of Game of Thrones, Now Available in a Gorgeous iOS App
Random House Publishing and Fantasy Flight Games have teamed up to release A World of Ice and Fire, a stunning guide to the people and places of Westeros. While it’s free to download, you’re only given a limited selection of content; to unlock the full range of entries, you’re going to have to pay. But…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 27, 2012 -
PlayStation Home Has Become The Weirdest Place In Gaming
It feels like an age ago, and in gaming terms I guess it was. The launch of PlayStation Home, one of the cornerstones of the PS3’s launch era, was meant to usher in a new kind of online interaction. A place where the connectivity of Xbox Live could be turned into a virtual world, blurring…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 27, 2012 -
CultureTotal Recall
24,000 Games, From 1975 to 2012, Broken Down By Genre & Platform
These two charts turned up today, reportedly from a “recently scraped database of 24,000 videogames to determine percentages of genre and platform releases since 1975”. My inner stats nerd just fainted. Charts like this can tell you a lot about games and the changing way we enjoy them, and even allowing for the fact it…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 27, 2012 -
That’s No Moon…
It might not be the most extensive of Skyrim mods, but it’s certainly one of the most eye-catching. If, that is, you can bend your mind around to the fiction of the Star Wars and Elder Scrolls universes co-existing… If you want to try it out, maybe add it to your need-to-install-these-mods list, you can…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 27, 2012 -
Culture
The Artistic Origins of Disney’s Video Game Love Letters
Disney’s Wreck-it-Ralph is, in some ways, the best video game movie ever made. It doesn’t do as much with the whole video games thing as it could have, but still, great movie. One of the things it did really well was parody/pay homage to famous video game series and clichés without (usually) having to directly…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 27, 2012 -
Explain The Story Behind Your Stupid Gamertag
If you’re lucky, or brave, your gamertag (or other similar account name) might be, well, your name. A few of my friends are like that. Chances are, though, you picked a fake handle and went with that instead. That name might be insightful. Or clever. Or funny. Or, more likely, indecipherable and a little stupid.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2012 -
Video Game Man-Kissing Immortalised in Music Video
The video for Hot Chip’s Don’t Deny Your Heart starts out as a homage to FIFA, and the obsessive way many people play the game on the road. Then things pick up a little, and suddenly it becomes a homage to FIFA’s other key appeal: mouth kissing and loving embraces Hot Chip – Don’t Deny…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2012 -
Valve Writer Picks the Perfect Men For a Half-Life Movie
We chatted with film director Guillermo del Toro at the New York Comic-Con earlier this year, and he told us one of his dream jobs would be to make a movie with Valve. Turns out the feeling’s mutual. In an interview with New Rising Media, Valve writer Marc Laidlaw outlined three directors who, for varying…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2012 -
The Sights, Lights (and Imagined Smells) of the World’s Biggest LAN Party
Over last week and the weekend, over 10,000 PC gamers from Europe and across the world gathered in Sweden for Dreamhack Winter, the world’s biggest LAN party As you can probably understand, the place was packed, as the thousands of attendees gamed, ate, partied and sometimes even slept their way through the four-day event. Since…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2012
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