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This Gross Companion Cube Figure is Available Only at Comic-Con
The San Diego Comic-Con is fast approaching, and among the many collectibles that’ll be available there as “exclusives” will be this fancy threeA x Valve piece, based on Portal It’s a variation on the companion cube first shown off in March, only this one looks a little worse for wear. Poor little thing. Best get…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012 -
Oh Boy, This Skyrim Cosplay is Terrific
In the far and distant future, we can hope that an Elder Scrolls game actually looks this good. Less like a fantasy world in a snowglobe, more like a place you’d actually enjoy a morning spent hanging out in the nice warm sun. Perhaps not the next generation of hardware. Maybe the one after. These…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012 -
A Man Chooses, This BioShock Action Figure Obeys
To celebrate the opening of a new, international store for its merch, BioShock developers Irrational are offering this limited edition Andrew Ryan figure. Well, they call it a figure, but it looks more like a small statue to me. There are only 200 of them available, and you can make one of them yours for…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012 -
This Game Has a $10,000 Collector’s Edition. I Kinda Want it.
Fatshark’s upcoming Krater has one of, if not the most expensive collector’s edition I’ve ever seen. There’s only one available. And it costs $10,000. What do you get for that kind of cash? No statues, no cloth maps, no unlockable skins in multiplayer…just a friendly visit to your house from Krater Game Designer Victor Magnuson.…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012 -
If Chrono Trigger Looked Like Wind Waker…
Then, you know, it would be just about the greatest game ever made. Those agreeing should watch this video, which took habboi around a year to put together. It reimagines CT’s Kingdom of Zeal with Wind Waker’s iconic, cel-shaded art style. Using the Unreal Development Kit, and employing the help of the Polycount (3D artists)…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012 -
A Portal Movie so Good Valve Should Make it Official
First teased earlier in the year, Synthetic Picturehaus’ amazing Portal film Lab Ratt is now complete and ready for viewing. So you should watch it. It tells the story of Doug Rattman. Doug, aka the guy who did all the paintings you find tucked behind the walls in the game. It starts a little slow,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012 -
It’s a Damn Shame This MMO Got Cancelled
I’m not an MMO fan, not in the slightest, but I can and do appreciate good-looking video games. And Project Copernicus, the now-dead MMO from the now-dead 38 Studios, was shaping up to be one good-looking video game. We got to see some screenshots last week that made me say it looked like a 2012…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012 -
Culture
Sculpting Assassin’s Creed, Hitman & GI Joe’s Snake Eyes
Former Ubisoft artist David Giraud has, in nearly 15 years in the business, worked on games such as Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia: Sand of Time, Assassin’s Creed and Hitman: Blood Money He’s now at THQ’s Montreal studio, the one being run by former Assassin’s Creed boss Patrice Desilets Warner Bros. In addition to his…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012 -
Musician Releases Album on Old Nintendo Cartridges
Musician Jon Black, aka Fort Atlantic, has released his latest album on Nintendo Entertainment System cartridge. Not a replica case, not a reproduction, he’s released it on actual NES carts. It was an idea that started in Black’s mind as a marketing gimmick, but amazingly, after some convincing, his label agreed to it. That means…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012 -
This Dirty PC Might Gross You Out
I sometimes worry about the insides of my PC. I don’t clean it as often as I probably should. Is there too much dust in there? Is that dust going to break something dear to me? It might, but then, I see videos like this and think, shit, my PC is spotless compared to some…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012 -
Xbox Bundle Includes 250GB Console, Forza 4, Terrible Wheel
Microsoft announced a new hardware budle yesterday that includes a 250GB Xbox 360, a copy of Forza 4 and one wireless racing wheel. Which you can use as, I don’t know, a doorstop or something. [Microsoft]
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012 -
Apple is “Not Interested in Being in the Console Business”
You hear rumours of Apple entering the console business once every, oh, six months or so. Maybe that’ll slow down after comments made today by new Apple boss Tim Cook. “Gaming has kind of evolved a bit”, he said at tonight’s D10 conference talk. “More people play on portable devices. Where we might go in…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 30, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallIn a Previous Life, This Video Game Executive Made Awesome Movies
If all you do is sit around reading video game news all day, and not much else, when someone mentions the name “Danny Bilson”, you probably think “Oh, the guy who’s captained THQ to the bottom of the ocean“. And you’d be right! You’d also be talking about the most boring thing he’s ever done,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2012 -
Insane Garrus Cosplay Will Calibrate Your Eyeballs
This is Digiko, dressd up as Garrus from the Mass Effect series. I had to drop his name in there because if I hadn’t told you, you may have thought this was simply Garrus from the Mass Effect series. The whole thing took around two months to build and cost $300 in materials. The Mantis…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2012 -
Dreaming of a Better Nintendo Menu
Nintendo does a lot of things very well when it comes to software. Like, you know, games. Its console menus, though, could do with some work. So Cassio Leonardo thought he’d take a swing at designing his dream Wii U interface, blending what Nintendo is doing now with what he’d like to see them doing…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2012 -
Ladies, Keep Your Knees Warm With Giant Diablo Socks
Ladies, fighting the minions of hell can be hard work. Hard and cold work. And that kind of work can be hell on your knees. So keep them safe with these Diablo III socks. For the men, well…if you play football/soccer, I guess you could get away with hearing it then? But only if your…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2012 -
Culture
This Terrific Art Goes From Mega Man to a Dead Future
Korean concept artist Kang Donghwa works for NeoWiz, one of the region’s biggest game companies. Meaning you’re not only going to see some Mega Man Online (the Capcom/NeoWiz MMO project, known locally as Rockman Online) concept art, but some other amazing pieces as well, some for Korean games, others for personal work. You can see…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2012 -
The Incredible World of Giant LEGO Mechs
People make amazing custom spaceships out of LEGO, sure, but they also make amazing custom mechs as well. Builders across the world, from the US to Japan, have found that, just like with spaceships, LEGO is almost the perfect means to express their own mechanical designs, coming up with machines that at times are a…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2012 -
The Other Brothers Don’t Mind a Spot of Actual Plumbing
Platformer The Other Brothers, which we first saw earlier in the year, is coming along nicely after a few developmental hiccups. What I’m liking about how this is shaping up isn’t just the fact its visuals are all retro-inspired, but the controls as well. This looks like the same kind of manic, slippery platformer that…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 29, 2012
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