So, the final tale in Ezio’s saga, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, was out this week. Now’s as good a time as any, then, to look at some of the wonderful concept art from the game. These dramatic pieces are the work of Martin Deschambault, an artist at Ubisoft who’s also worked on games like Assassin’s Creed…
I remember owning an original C-3PO toy back in the mid-80s, and the thing was a piece of shit. One of his legs was always falling off, and more importantly for me at the time, he didn’t have a gun. If only designer toys had been around back then! Keith Poon’s custom C-3PO and R2-D2…
Fan art legend MetalHanzo has come up with this wonderful tribute to the two games of the hour, Skyrim and Skyward Sword Two similar names, two dudes who use swords, yeah, this works. And is that…Valoo? That only makes this even better You can see more of MetalHanzo’s stuff at his DeviantArt site, linked below.…
Boutique French publishing house Pix’n Love have you covered this Christmas, Sonic fans. They’re releasing a 300-page compendium celebrating the history of Sega’s little blue mascot. It’s a glorious, hardcover coffee table book, priced a pinch under $50, and it ships…oh, in January 2012. So, maybe just get a preorder for Christmas? Not as exciting,…
First hinted at in a leaked Black Friday flyer, Best Buy employees are now confirming with Kotaku that, yes, the awesome Zelda-themed 3DS will be released in the US. First announced as a European deal, the limited edition 3DS unit boasts classy Zelda heraldry atop a black handheld, and the bundle also includes Ocarina of…
The other day, I asked readers to share their Dovahkiin. Your response was…overwhelming. There were so many awesome avatars, in fact, that I figured it’s only fair to celebrate them with a gallery of their own. I’ve collected the snappiest, funniest and most badass Dovahkiin I could find. My personal favourite is the one up…
When Ni No Kuni was released on DS last year, it shipped in just about the coolest box ever, which housed an extravagant spell book. Well, early adopters of the PS3 version, at least in Japan, will get the same book. You can see it in the gallery above; it looks identical to the DS…
As part of Nintendo’s 25th brithday celebrations for The Legend Of Zelda, the publisher has roped a few celebrities into jumping in front of a camera to tell their personal stories involving the series. Only…they don’t look like they’ve been roped. Between the audio, video and backdrop, it looks more like there are masked gunmen…
The world of Skyrim is a rugged, often beautiful place. The kind of place you’d want to send a postcard from. “Wish you were here, getting killed by giants”, that sort of thing. These panoramas, spotted on Reddit, give enormous wrap-around shots of the landscape of the latest Elder Scrolls game, and while occasionally warped,…
There’s not much more to say, really. Paperboy Invades Our Dimension, Tows A Tiny Piano [GameSetWatch] You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
With a cinematic slant, a Gumball Rally premise and the in-game assets of Mad Men star Christina Hendricks, Need for Speed: The Run is EA’s latest and in many ways most interesting attempt at keeping the ageing racing brand relevant. But is a cross-country race across America, women in tight pants and on-foot action sequences…
Artist Jason Freeny, who you may have seen here once or twice before, shows the world what the inside of a LEGO Minifig looks like. Rather than being a small collection of horrors, it is predictably adorable, everything clean and smooth, everything in its place. Kinda freaky teeth, though. That’s a lot of them for…
Tae Young Choi used to work at Midway Games. Before Midway went belly-up, they were working on an open-world superhero game called Hero Choi did some amazing pieces for that game, and as you’ll see in this gallery, also worked on Midway games like Stranglehold and Area 51 While both Stranglehold and Area 51 were…OK,…
A major report on British developers from IndustryGamers has thown up a surprising piece of information: that Brink developers Splash Damage are probably working on a new Marvel game. The report says that the studio is working on an “unannounced project for a major entertainment brand”, which is “based on one of the biggest American…
Paper sculpture? That’ll do. Built from paper and glue, Aussie artist Richi89’s take on Amaterasu, the star of Capcom’s Okami games is quite the sight. At around 23cm long, Amaterasu was made with a skeleton built from scrunched paper, on top of which the outer layers were laid like panels, then glued together. If you’re…
There’s an argument, a very good argument, that whenever a game launches with downloadable content alongside it, that’s a bad thing, because that content could either have gone into the game itself or the energy spent making it could have been used making the game better. Epic Games, developers of Gears of War 3, say…
This is an eight-minute video, featuring Sony engineer Atsushi Watanabe, about the official carry-case for the PlayStation Vita. Eight minutes! What’s surprising is not the length, but the fact it’s actually worth watching. The case looks classy. It’s no hard plastic shell; instead it’s a soft flip-around thing with some neat touches like the fact…
If ever you were going to get a man to do the paintings that would cover the house of your dreams, artist Dave Rapoza is your man. In the gallery above you’ll see a selection of his best works, covering subjects like Dark Souls, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Akira, He-Man and other things people aged…
Mary Pozzi owns a sweet 1971 Camaro. It’s so sweet, in fact, that Gran Turismo 5 developers Polyphony Digital have decided to put it in their video game. She was given that honour as part of the annual Gran Turismo Awards, held last week in Las Vegas, which are part-giant party, part-car show where auto…
Look, I’m all for people being really into games. But as with everything in life, there is a line, and naming your son after a fantasy video game character is, well, yeah. To win a competition held by Skyrim developers Bethesda (the same one reader Spenny was denied entry), Megan and Eric Kellermeyer named their…
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