This was once, in a former life, an entire army of Warhammer 40K miniatures. It is now one of the greatest tributes to id’s classic Doom I’ve ever seen. There are the obvious conversions. Existing models modified and repainted to look like the bad guys from the game. But I love the extra touches. Like…
Grand Theft Auto IV’s iCEnhancer series of mods and tweaks takes a Rockstar PC game that looked pretty good already and turns it into – relative to the scale and size of GTAIV – the prettiest video game on the planet. At least, if realism is your thing. And if your PC can handle it.…
Or if not warm, then at least fashionable. RETRO GAMER LEGGINGS [Black Milk, via Fashionably Geek]
Dear Esther is a terrible video game. Which would be a problem if Dear Esther was a video game. What began in 2008 as a mod for Half-Life 2 has, after years of picking up first buzz and then critical acclaim, transformed in 2012 into a full-blown commercial release, with all the updated visuals and…
Take the narrator from Bastion. Layer him over the top of some Skyrim machinima. Sit back. Enjoy. Skyrim: Bastion Narrator Edition [YouTube, via Destructoid]
You’ve seen the Star Wars: the Old Republic LEGO from Toy Fair, now see the Star Wars: the Old Republic action figures from Toy Fair. Don’t get too worked up; these aren’t large, premium figures, they’re your standard-sized, over-priced, small-scale Star Wars figures from Hasbro, same as you’ve probably seen stacked around toy shelves the…
Here’s three news screens from the upcoming Max Payne 3. Whenever I think Max Payne, I think a trenchcoat diving in slow-motion, a gun blazing from each hand. I guess Rockstar does as well.
Halo 4 will be the first game in the main series to have not been developed by Bungie. If you think that means the new studio at the helm would want to tinker with the design of the game’s hero, you are dead right. McFarlane toys have released the first images of their Halo 4…
Mike Sorrentino, aka The Situation from MTV’s Jersey Shore, doesn’t just fancy himself as a man who struts about a reality show doing…stuff. He also fancies himself as, of all things, a video game developer. Or at least a consultant. While it’d be great if he and his family/company (which is mentioned an awful lot…
While there have been a few lines of gashapon pieces coming out of Japan, there hasn’t been a proper action figure from the Legend of Zelda series for years. Until now! Unveiled over the weekend at the Winter Wonder Festival in Japan, this Figma from Max Factory is based on Link’s Skyward Sword appearance, and…
Kotaku was at the New York Toy Fair this weekend in full effect, snapping photos, taking footage and just generally gawking at all the awesome new video game toys that’ll be lining up for your disposable incomes in 2012. The highlight for me? NECA’s Valve gear. Including the Gordon Freeman action figure to end all…
In this new trailer for the fast-approaching Mass Effect 3, we get to see a lot of old scenes played out by a very new face. This is your first in-game look at the new default female Commander Shepard, fresh off the public auction block and replacing the old standard model. On the plus side?…
In case you’ve been away or in a coma for the past 24 hours, see here for reference Fund of Dreams [GameTrailers @ Facebook]
There’s a new item in Team Fortress 2 that the Scout can employ which plays music. Sounds pretty trivial, but man, you’ve got to read Valve’s description of the item. My radio’s bad from the Boulevard. I’m a hip-hop gangster and my name is Todd. Terrorising my neighbours with the heavy bass. I keep the…
Canadian artist Beth Turnsek is the one to thank for these amazing Pokémon images which reimagine the Japanese series in her own charming style, which resembles classic animated films. What’s cool about this series is that she’s gone through and drawn her favourite pocket monster from each variety, so you’ll find a single Earth Pokémon,…
Blizzard once made a game called WarCraft III. Then someone made an awesome mod for it called DOTA. Then Valve decided to make a game called DOTA 2. Then Blizzard decided to make something called Blizzard DOTA And now Blizzard is fighting a legal battle with Valve over the whole thing. What a mess Two…
In Final Fantasy VII, there are two art styles at work. On the overworld, everyone is blocky, cute and deformed, but jump into a battle – or look at the game’s promo art – and suddenly everyone’s adult-sized and finely-detailed. 3D artist Nix has taken the same approach and applied it to Mass Effect. Not…
Maplestory, an online game that’s been running since 2003 (2005 in North America), lets players get married. It also lets them get divorced. And that’s where it gets interesting. In 2011, the divorce rate in Maplestory for North American players was 46%. That’s…pretty terrible, but it’s actually less terrible than the divorce rate for American…
Tonight, the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards are going down at DICE in Las Vegas. The winners aren’t selected by TV voters, or magazine readers, they’re picked by 20,000 members of the Academy of Arts and Interactive Sciences. In other words, the peers of those nominated. The show has just wound up, and here’s the…
Sideshow Collectibles has released this line of Assassin’s Creed statues which feature star Ezio jumping from a busted building about to stab someone in the face. What could you expect to pay for such polystone heroics? It’s in the headline. Sure, he’s just under 14″ tall, and is “limited” to 2000 pieces, but boy, $375…
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