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Taito’s Love Affair With Old Jackie Chan Movies
What kind of developers have the peanuts to rip off Jackie Chan not once, but twice, at the same time? Taito have the peanuts, that’s who. This image is from Silent Dragon, a side-scroller Taito released in 1992. The blue dude on the left may look familiar to anyone who’s seen Jackie Chan’s awesome Big…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 7, 2012 -
Culture
Exclusive: Killer Concept Art From The New Total Recall Movie
Stephan Martiniere is a long-serving concept artist who has worked on some of the biggest (or best) movies of the past fifteen years, from the new Star Wars movies to Fifth Element to Tron Legacy. He also served as art director on id’s 2011 shooter Rage (Stephen interviewed him a few years back about the…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 7, 2012 -
A Diablo III Statue That’ll Probably Gross You Out
While official statues based on Diablo III restrict themselves to more presentable characters, fan-made pieces are free to go after anyone they want. Like, oh, Azmodan, the Lord of Sin. It was built by master craftsman (and Art Director for Blizzard’s Diablo III: The Book of Cain) Jason Babler, and stands 17″ tall. Oh, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 7, 2012 -
DayZ Has Now Scared One Million People Witless
In case you needed further proof of the strength of the PC market, or the importance of allowing mods in PC games, DayZ – a zombie survival sim for hardcore military shooter ArmA II – has just recorded its millionth unique player. Not bad for something that’s really only hit the big time in the…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2012 -
Amazon Leaks Wii U Box Art Designs? [Update]
Given the fact these may well be placeholder images, don’t read too much into them, but just in case they’re the real deal, what do you think of the splash? And the colour scheme? The yellow is a bit weird, but the “swoosh” design is something we’ve seen from Nintendo plenty of times before, from…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2012 -
This Might be Three Minutes of Footage From the Most Anticipated Mod of All Time
Were it not for the core Half-Life series itself, Black Mesa: Source – a fan-made remake of the original Half-Life – might well be the longest-running tease in video games today. Having been in development for around eight years now, and still not out, you’d be forgiven for thinking the project was never going to…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2012 -
Valve Getting Ready For Its “Next Gen” Source Engine?
Valve’s Source Engine has been powering the company’s games for nearly a decade now, having made its debut all the way back in 2004 with Half-Life 2. While it’s done an admirable job in recent years for games like Left 4 Dead, updates and revisions can’t mask the fact it’s getting a little long in…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2012 -
Nyan Cat? No, This is Nyan Pokémon
And so we come full circle. First, Chris Torres creates the Nyan Cat. Then he turns 151 Pokémon into cats. Now artist Simon Johnson has turned the original cat video into one starring said Pokémon, a feat he says took him 150 hours and over 4000 individual images. Nyan cat – All 151 Pokemon [YouTube,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2012 -
Culture
One Man’s Terrific Art for Assassin’s Creed, Prometheus and More
Here’s another awesome Fine Art to get your week started on the right foot: a collection of works by David Levy, aka vyle, aka another of my very favourite concept artists in the whole wide world. David has worked on a number of big video games like Assassin’s Creed (we’ve actually shown some of his…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2012 -
Mars Rover Survives Seven Minutes of Terror, Lands Successfully on the Surface
Well, the little rover that could has gone and done it. Having survived an epic voyage and a convoluted, dangerous descent, NASA’s Curiosity Rover has successfully landed on the surface of Mars, and is already transmitting images back to Earth. Nice job, little guy. And nice job all the men and women who designed and…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2012 -
See What Actually Happens to Your Dirty, Broken, Pre-Owned Video Games
As we found out last week, not every game you sell to GameStop ends up on that store’s shelf. Sometimes games and hardware are sent to an enormous facility in Texas for testing, cleaning and re-assignment. Want to see what that process actually looks like? These images show you exactly what happens when the games…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2012 -
I’d Kill to Play Games on This 72-Screen, 36-Computer Virtual Reality System
Later this year, the University of Illinois at Chicago will take the wraps off something it’s calling CAVE2. You, however, will most probably call it “that badass virtual reality system”. CAVE2 is big. It’s 24-feet in diameter and 8 feet tall. But then, it needs to be. It consists of 72 screens and 20 speakers,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2012 -
The Amazing Cosplay of an Otaku Convention
Kotaku reader and talented photographer man Mike Kowalek, whose Anime Expo work we showcased a few weeks back, was also at the recent Otakon, held in Baltimore between July 27-29. Billed as a celebration of “anime, manga, and all facets of Asian pop culture”, it’s also a great excuse for people to get up to…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 5, 2012 -
Was the $30,000 Video Game Sale a Fake?
The strange story of a collector buying a very rare Neo Geo game at an airport for $30,000 just got a whole lot stranger: there are now accusations that the cartridge is a fake. A forgery. A hoax. Members of the Neo Geo collector’s community have been picking at the story for a while now,…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 5, 2012 -
Final Fantasy VII Quietly Re-Released, Then Taken Down
The upcoming PC re-release of Final Fantasy VII was accidentally made available for sale on Square Enix’s online store over the weekend, then very quickly pulled. Not before some people managed to buy the game, though, which led to some disappointed customers, as Square Enix’s DRM protection wouldn’t let them actually play it, since their…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 5, 2012 -
First Look at a Brand New Prince of Persia Reboot?
This image is reportedly our first look at a brand new Prince of Persia game. It was posted by a user on Ubisoft’s official forums, and down the bottom you can see the term POP_ZERO_2. Is it real? Who knows, we’re asking. Is it interesting? You bet. If it is real, that’s not just a…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 5, 2012 -
id’s John Carmack Gets a Reminder on How Mario Used to Kick Our Ass
Here’s a short, cute clip from id boss John Carmack’s keynote address at this year’s QuakeCon, in which the brutality of Super Mario Bros. 3 is compared to the more pedestrian Mario games of today. Why do I bring it up? Well, Carmack and his old colleague John Romero once took Super Mario Bros. 3…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 3, 2012
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