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Culture
Project Zomboid’s Concept Art Also Blows Up Aircraft Carriers
French artist Remi, aka Afekay, has landed a rather pleasant little gig doing the concept art for work-in-progress zombie survival sim Project Zomboid Coming out of mobile games, which is where the decidedly non-Zombie stuff you’ll see here comes from (specifically Gameloft’s Dungeon Hunter 3 and Modern Combat 3), Afekay’s art for Zomboid lends a…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2012 -
A Collection of Broken, Wounded Pokémon
Pokémon don’t faint. That’s Nintendo blowing sunshine up your ass. They battle other creatures with elements, teeth and claws, and when one of them loses, they are beat up A truth artist Justin White is choosing not to ignore with this series of images showing what a Pokémon actually looks like when it comes up…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2012 -
The Xbox 360’s Video Playback “Issue” Acknowledged, Microsoft “Working on a Fix”
After a few months of people pointing the issue out, Microsoft has finally acknowledged that the 2011 dashboard update has created a problem with the console’s video playback. Xbox spokesman Larry Hryb has said the company is “aware of the colorspace issue” affecting “some Xbox video apps”, and that Microsoft is “working on a fix”.…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 20, 2012 -
DC’s New Logo Visits Arkham City
Earlier today, comics powerhouse DC unveiled a new logo. Well, new logos, as the idea behind the company’s new “peeling” motif is that it can be customised for every piece of entertainment it appears on. While that’ll mostly be comics, DC did go to the trouble of showing how the property’s video games will look.…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2012 -
A Dreamcast 2 Could Have Looked Like This
When Sega pulled out of the hardware race over a decade ago, it meant the poor little Dreamcast never got the successor it deserved. Well, aside from the Xbox That hasn’t stopped French industrial design student Elie Ahovi from conceptualising what a Dreamcast 2 could have looked like. Being an actual industrial designer, and not…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2012 -
Skyrim’s Creation Kit is “Nearly Ready”
I’m done with Skyrim. I’ve seen enough and done enough of what came with it to satisfy me, so I’ve put it down. I haven’t put it away, though, because I know the game’s creation kit is coming soon. Very soon, if Bethesda are to be believed. In an update on the company’s site, we’re…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2012 -
Darksiders II? Yup, Still About an Angry Guy Called Death
In between all the talking there’s quite a bit of gameplay footage here of the upcoming Darksiders II If your ears tune out to the sound of developers talking up their own game—and really, who can blame you—know they’re basically saying they’re going to try and fix all the empty and boring bits from the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2012 -
Microsoft now has Achievements for…Developers
Taking the notion of institutionalised rewards maybe a little bit too far, Microsoft has begun awarding achievements to developers Earlier today the company unveiled a beta plug-in for the Microsoft’s Visual Studio development environment, which offers 32 achievements for developers based on how well they’re coding. There are even leaderboards, and the achievements can be…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2012 -
Skyrim “Ported” to a Calculator
It used to be a calculator wasn’t a calculator unless it could run Doom. These days, they’ve gotta run Skyrim Or at least YouTube user no9sniper’s simple conversion of the game, which turns Bethesda’s role-playing epic into something a little less open-world and a lot more Zork If you’ve got a TI-84 model graphic calculator,…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2012 -
Culture
Building BioShock, StarCraft & God of War Characters
We usually feature the work of men and women on Fine Art who design characters. Today, we’ll look at someone who actually builds them. Johnny Xiao has worked on series like StarCraft, Killzone, The Witcher, BioShock, God of War and even Fallout, turning a whole bunch of polygons into characters you love, hate or just…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2012 -
You Might Soon be Playing Games on Your Car Window
When I was a kid, on long road trips I had to look out the window and like it. When I worked in childcare, kids would go home with a Game Boy in their hands. My kids, of course, might ride with something even cooler: games on their car windows. This concept video from General…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2012 -
Whoah, What is This Deus Ex Movie? It Looks Incredible! [Update]
A video turned up on YouTube today saying it was behind-the-scenes footage of a Deus Ex “Live Action Short Film”. And it looks way too slick/expensive to be a fan film. The credits at the end list it as being the work of Enso Productions, a professional “Action Design Team”. Which basically means people who…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2012 -
Beautiful Portraits of Video Game Characters
Canadian artist sakimichan specialises in portraits of characters. Beautiful, vibrant portraits of characters that are so pretty you’ll want to hang them on your wall and just stare at them, sighing every once in a while. The bad news is, these are small, and on a computer screen, not a canvas. The good news is…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 19, 2012 -
Mass Effect 3’s PC Specs
Mass Effect 3’s PC version is exclusive to Origin. If that doesn’t stop you from buying it – and really, it’s grounds for complaint, not boycott – you’re going to need to know if your PC can run the thing first. Well, of course it can. The underlying tech behind this game is nearly five…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallWhy Conker Went From Cute to Crass
Rare’s Conker used to be a nice little squirrel. He was cute, he had polite friends, and he was going to be starring in a very Nintendo platformer for a Nintendo console. Yet as you probably know, that’s not how things ended up. In the late 90s, as Rare was following up their success with…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2012 -
How Activision Reacted to that Giant Modern Warfare 3 Leak
Last year, we blew the lid off Modern Warfare 3 months before it was due for release. It was the biggest leak we’d seen, let alone written about, in almost a decade. It was, in short, one hell of a story. It was also only half the story. The other side, that of how publishers…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2012 -
Where Can You Watch More Retro Game Master?
Our short but beautiful run of Retro Game Master episodes is now over. So sad. You may not know, however, that there are way more episodes out there our broadcast deal didn’t cover, many of which you can watch right now, for free. Sure, they’re not dubbed, so those who don’t like to read and…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2012 -
Mortal Kombat Coming to the PlayStation Vita In Spring 2012
Mortal Kombat, once just one of those games we knew was coming to the Vita somewhere down the line, is now coming this Spring. It’s basically the same game as the PS3 version with “brand new gameplay features and content developed exclusively for the new handheld device”. And what are those? Warner says they “will…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2012 -
Dear Esther, You Still Look Gorgeous
What was once a fancy, moody Half-Life mod looks to be one of 2012’s fanciest, moodiest games, as Dear Esther – up for four awards at this year’s Independent Games Festival – lulls us into stillness with this new trailer. It’ll be out on PC on February 14. Chances are you will have never played…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 18, 2012
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