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Get a Load of These Awesome Painted Miniatures
Over the weekend, the Monte San Savino show went down in Italy, bringing together some of the world’s best miniature painters for a competition. In this gallery, you’ll see some of the best on show. Some are from video games, like The Witcher, some are from Star Wars, some are from history and some are…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2011 -
Minecraft is Actually Finished. It’s Done. It’s Ready.
Even though the game has been available in some form or another since 2009, and has racked up over four million users, until now indie smash Minecraft has been in alpha, then beta, as first creator Markus Persson and then his development team at Mojang tinkered with the thing. By the end of this week,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2011 -
Is EA Still Blocking Access to Paid Games Over Forum Bans?
If you act like a dick on a forum, you deserve to be suspended or even banned from that forum. That’s fine. But when that forum account is attached to an account which manages games you’ve paid for, and stops you playing them as well, there are problems. And EA, right now, has some problems.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2011 -
Show me Your Dovahkiin. I Want to See It.
Dovahkiin. Sounds saucy, but as those eyeball-deep in Skyrim will tell you, it’s also the label handed out to the hero of the game. It means “Dragonborn”, and like any other Elder Scrolls game, it’s about the only thing everyone’s character will have in common. Some people roll male. Others female. Some roll Nord, or…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 15, 2011 -
Cosplay? Skyrim? Cosplaaaaayyyyyy!
The internet has heard my cries. Not seven days since I bemoaned the lack of quality males to feature in Fancy Pants, I’m happy to present a bunch of dudes who are killing it with their video game cosplay. That’s not to say this week’s round-up is lacking in ladies, though, as they’re also well-represented.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011 -
Guess Which Excited Sentence Belongs to Which Video Game Review
With the end of the year approaching, and the inevitable “Best of 2011” lists along with it, Mitch Krpata’s Insult Swordfighting has taken a look at some of the year’s biggest game reviews. Well, maybe not biggest. Some of the more excited would be more accurate. His look is worth looking at, though, because it…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011 -
When Action Games Come to Life, Bosses are Even More Awesome
Internet wizards Corridor Digital are to thank for this video, which sticks a camera over a man’s shoulder and shows us what a third-person shooter game would look like in real life. So, yeah, if you’re currently playing through Uncharted, with all its fancy punching sequences and cinematic grapples, this one goes out to you.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011 -
Is This the Reason People Love Call of Duty?
You can thank/blame marketing and a Michael Bay-on-steroids storyline all you want, but there’s a reason people come back to Call of Duty games year after year, and it has nothing to do with zombies or sideburns. It has to do with how the game feels There’s a quickness to Call of Duty games that…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011 -
Reviewing Uncharted 3 Could Kill You: The Movie
We’ve seen the serious side to people bitching about one man’s thoughts on a video game, now see the movie based on the terrifying, dramatic events of an Uncharted 3 review. As someone who’s reviewed games once or twice myself, I can say the greatness here isn’t the pressure exerted on the protagonist. That’s a…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011 -
Watch Kids be Confused, Excited by Minecraft
The popular “Kids React” series on YouTube figured it’d be an interesting idea to see what the young people of 2011 thought when you sat them down in front of Minecraft Some of them know the game, and know it well. So well, in fact, that we even get a kid hatin’ on Call of…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011 -
Is This Man the Star of Grand Theft Auto V?
While Rockstar has released almost no details concering the cast or characters of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto V, that’s not stopping people from speculating. Or, in this case, making rather convincing arguments. Some detective work from the Official PlayStation Magazine and some GTA fan sites has turned up the name Ned Luke, an actor…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011 -
CultureTotal Recall
When Pokémon and Magic Cards Went to War
They don’t seem that similar aside from the fact they’re printed on cards, and they were never really competition, either, but in October 2003 that didn’t stop the companies behind Magic Cards and Pokémon battling somewhere other than the tabletop or the schoolyard. This story begins in the late 1990s, when role-playing giants Wizards of…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 14, 2011 -
A Rare Glimpse at Steam Sales Figures
Sadly, Valve never releases sales figures for its Steam digital shopfront on the PC. So we never get an overall idea of how popular the platform is. Sometimes, though, figures slip out, and today is one of those days. Guillaume Rambourg, from competing service Good Old Games, has revealed sales figures from a single title,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 11, 2011 -
It’s Harder for Microsoft to “Accidentally” Take Your Money Now
One of the more unpopular aspects of Xbox Live has been the fact that, should you subscribe via credit card, Microsoft liked to automatically renew your membership. Well, the new Xbox.com makes opting-out easier! [WinRumors]
By Luke Plunkett Published November 11, 2011 -
Culture
The Explosive Art of Modern Warfare 3
Like its predecessor, Black Ops, don’t assume that because Modern Warfare 3 is a game starring explosions and ruined buildings that it doesn’t have gorgeous concept art. Because like its predecessor, its art is moody, vibrant and, most surprising of all, colourful. These images are all the work of concept artist Robin Chyo and are…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 11, 2011 -
Get a Look at This Skyrim 360 Console
You can’t buy this puppy, sadly, you can only enter a competition to win it. Well, that and just sit here and look at it, and wish you could buy it. Or win it. Unleash the Power of the Voice [Facebook, via Gamefreaks] You can contact Luke Plunkett, the author of this post, at [email protected].…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 11, 2011 -
They Want to Turn a League of Legends Character Into a Playboy Bunny
There’s a campaign going down over on League of Legends’ forums to try and have one of the game’s heroes reimagined as a…Playboy bunny. Artist tsuaii has taken it a little more seriously than expected and come up with this awesome piece of art depicting Riven, the character in question, in her intended outfit. This…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 11, 2011 -
This is the Transformers Toy of My Dreams
MakeToys are a Japanese outfit that makes, well, I don’t want to say bootleg Transformers, so I’ll just say custom Transformers. I introduce them because their new Devastator is incredible It ignores the recent film interpretation of the character, as one should, and instead looks to recreate the original animated version, only with the level…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 11, 2011
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