For a few years now, Germany’s GamesCom event has boasted it’s the largest public gaming show on Earth, with attendance figures besting those of the former champion, the Tokyo Game Show. Well, both those events just got taken down a peg. At the Asia Game Show in Hong Kong last week, 472,000 people went through…
While we’re still waiting for proper, new Zelda action figures, Japan keeps getting Gashapon (capsule toy) pieces, continuing with this new line celebrating three very distinct eras of the franchise. There are six figures in all, with a Link and a Zelda from each.Ocarina of Time (the childhood characters), Phantom Hourglass (so, Wind Waker) and…
Beards, pop and rock n’ roll. That’s Red Fang in a nutshell. Formed in 2005, and coming out of Portland, Oregon, Red Fang have put out two albums, and are currently signed to metal specialists Relapse. You can bang your head if you like, but what’s great about these guys is the poppy flavour running…
Because Rock Band’s existing library just isn’t punishing enough, Harmonix will be releasing Rush’s epic 2112 as downloadable content for the game over the next week. The thing here is that, while the song is split into seven “acts”, and available as separate tracks accordingly, if you buy the complete song pack you’ll get the…
To pass the time, hacker Brandon Wilson – who normally messes around with graphics calculators – decided a few months back he’d take a look under the hood of Activision’s Skylanders action figures, see what makes them tick. After playing around with the figure’s RFID bases, he collected his research and stored it in a…
After a decidedly lukewarm reception to the first instalment in its planned episodic series, Sega is already wheeling out the changes for Sonic 4: Episode 2 For starters, you’ve already got a sidekick. Tails will be in the game. As for bad guys, Metal Sonic will also be in the game. Sega also says that,…
Every year, give or take a few months, the best video game artists from around the world get together and submit entries in a competition called Dominance War. The aim is to create the ultimate character. Not replicate someone else’s, but come up with their own, then model and render it (or in some cases…
Grand Theft Auto’s famous Cluckin’ Bell chain of restaurants have a mainstay menu item called the Fowl Burger. Looking like a filthy chicken burger, costing only $1 and regenerating health makes them magical. So magical it’s worth trying to prepare your own, in the real world. Website Gourmet Gaming, who we’ve featured before, have the…
Xander Davis is a game industry artist and graphic design fan, who after seeing the recent feature we ran on WipeOut and The Designers Republic dropped us a line. In addition to his industry stuff (he’s working on Darksiders II at the moment), Davis is setting up his own site called Alternareal, which he calls…
Torrent site Kat.ph has opened its databases to the download specialists at TorrentFreak, sharing with them the 50 most commonly searched terms for torrent downloads in 2011. While it’s not perfect, and doesn’t include other major Torrent indexes like Pirate Bay, it’s as good as we’re going to get, and with Kat.ph one of the…
With an onus on spectacle and selling you on a mood, instead of a stage or actual footage, video game trailers have become an artform unto themselves. That being the case, we thought we would, as usual, look back on some of the year’s best. These aren’t necessarily the trailers for the best games (though…
Winter Is Coming | Ned Stark’s second career is much safer. Available on Ript 2011, a Year In Disappointment Throughout 2011, we’ve been blessed with some extraordinary games and some memorable events. But life is not all ups. For every up there must be a down, or in this case, a downer. These are, according…
Artist Darwin Yamamoto, whose video game portraits made November just that little bit more special, has completed another set, this time specifically for the game of the minute, Skyrim In this series, each of the game’s races are represented. Some as normal citizens. Others as porn stars in plate armour. getdarwin’s Skyrim [Flickr, via Rampaged…
Just in case you ever wanted to know what Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima looked like as a wee lad, well, now you know, courtesy of the man’s own Twitter account. [@Kojima_Hideo]
Artist Luis Carrasquillo sent us this amazing piece to share, which includes just about every major Nintendo hero (or hero appearing on a Nintendo console) there’s ever been. At 4000x, it’s only wallpaper for the more hardcore among you, so for everyone else, it’s like a Where’s Waldo/Wally. Only, with Marios everywhere. If you want…
Blur Studios. You may have heard of them before (like in this feature we ran on them last year), as they’re responsible for some of the biggest and best cinematic video game trailers around. So it’s cool today that we get to look at some of the work of Heikki Anttila, CG Supervisor at the…
Boy, the internet works fast these days. It’s barely 24 hours since the whole Paul Christoforo/Ocean Marketing thing blew up and already there’s surprisingly enjoyable comedy videos of the mess available. Warning: this is a little NSFW
Battleduty Modernfield 3. It’s a game, sort of, that you can play. Barely. It’s also pretty damn great. Taking the whole “trolling of copyright” thing on the iPhone to a hilarious new extreme, this parody title takes static screenshots of both Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3, overlays a crummy gun and adds some “pew…
While most people spent yesterday sleeping off food hangovers and trying not to do any real work, 17 year old Alexander Skudlarek from Rochester, Minnesota was getting letters from the Guinness Book of World Records confirming he now has the title for “longest video games marathon playing Dance Dance Revolution”. He actually set the record…
Kiki Trick is an upcoming Wii game from the team behind the WarioWare series. This is it’s trailer. So, yes, not only is there FMV in a Nintendo game, but it is amazing [via @markmacd]
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