I know they’ve sold a lot of units—big techy launch things always have and always will—but there was no avoiding the fact that this month’s next-gen console launches felt a little…muted. Sure, you could blame some (or even more than some!) of that on a global pandemic and associated economic downturn, a little on an…
The sOUlS gAMeS aRe tOo HArD argument is an endless one, but that timelessness is built on the premise that nobody seriously expects these games to ever not be hard. So it’s wild hearing that for the Demon’s Souls remake on the PS5, the developers actually considered implementing an “easy mode”. Just so we’re clear,…
League of Legends’ fake girl group, K/DA, have some new music videos out, and recently got some new skins and events. Seeing as we haven’t taken a look at League of Legends for a while here on Fine Art, I figured tonight might be a good time to look at the work that went into…
While the NFL has been 100% fine with risking the health and lives of players and staff during the 2020 regular season, the annual Pro Bowl game—supposed to be have been played before the Super Bowl in early 2021—has been marked as expendable. In a statement released earlier today, the NFL said that despite cancelling…
For a multi-billion dollar industry that is supposedly at the vanguard of 21st-century technology advancement, video games sure like to keep things basic. Think about it: there’s very little that’s premium about console video gaming. You can’t buy a fancier version of the Switch with an OLED screen and stronger buttons. You can’t buy a…
I’m not normally a Puma guy, and had some not very nice things to say about their recent Super Mario collab, but the two companies are pressing on with more sneakers, and some of them are OK! There are a ton of new pairs coming, and while not all of them are what I’d call…
I moved house last year, and while packing everything away my wife and I made a simple rule: if anything was still in its box 12 months later, we would get rid of it, because that meant we never used it and didn’t need it. Last month, I sold my Xbox One. I remember lining…
Since November 2013 a lot of what we do here, and a lot of what you play at home, has revolved around two video game platforms: the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One. As we’ve welcomed both console’s successors in the last week, first the Xbox Series X and then the PlayStation 5, now seems…
While the first Driver—inspired by the original GTA titles, but released before the later 3D editions—was a multiplatform affair, its 2000 sequel was a PlayStation exclusive. Until now! (Yes, I know it came out on Game Boy, but like many Game Boy ports it was basically a different game). REDRIVER2, a project led by SoapyMan, has…
DOSBox, long the best way to play old PC games on a modern system, has its quirks. But a new take on the open-source platform, due later this year, promises to make a lot of things just that little bit easier. It’s being made by developer Bernhard Schelling, who says he’ll be “aiming for simplicity…
There’s a remake of cult classic XIII out,and it sucks! It’s cheap, it’s rushed and it strips away some of the only things people liked about the original, namely its bold cel-shaded comic book art style. For that, both the publishers and developers are now—only now, after everyone has panned the game—sorry. In a joint…
Last week I had some negative sneaker news to share here on noted footwear blog Kotaku, so this week let’s flip that to something more positive. Over the last few years, some of the most hyped series of sneaker releases on the planet have been Travis Scott’s collaborations with Nike, which have been led by…
Taking as many cues from the soothing Rilakkuma and Kaoru as it does Nintendo’s big series, this teaser hints at a better world. A world where every time I turn on Netflix I’m asked if I want to keep watching an Animal Crossing series, and I get to say yes Made throughout the course of the…
The latest Watch Dogs game might be set in a real place, but Ubisoft’s vision for near-future London still took a lot of work to pull together. In this gallery you’ll find a selection of pieces from a number of artists who worked on the game. It’s not everything from everyone, but it’s enough to…
YouTube is suffering one hell of an outage right now, with not just its video playback but accompanying services like YouTube music also down for the count. I first noticed it about an hour ago while…looking up old Homeworld videos, then quickly noticed that my YouTube Music playback (I keep music playing in the background…
We were all expecting most 2020 conventions to have been cancelled, but the complete inability of most of the planet—and the United States in particular—to get its shit together means that we’re already starting to see big 2021 shows thrown in the bin as well. Katsucon is the first, announcing earlier today that “It is…
It doesn’t matter if you’re a newcomer to the series or a veteran, there’s a lot to get to grips with in the latest Yakuza game, thanks to a new cast, a new city and, most important of all, a transition from action gameplay into full-blown JRPG combat. Also Yakuza: Like a Dragon is just…
Cult classic XIII, a cel-shaded shooter from 2003, has been remade, with the newer version out today. And boy, fans of the original are not happy with it. The 2003 game wasn’t perfect, but it did have an enormous amount of style, owing both to its unique visuals and features like comic book-style kill sequences.…
As we told you last month, Miles Morales—who in the recent animated film made Air Jordan 1s an iconic part of his entire character—has lost his Nike deal in exchange for an Adidas one. And it’s a definite downgrade. While originally all we had to go on were some images from the game, Adidas and…
I was surprised a few weeks back to see the announcement for Mobius Front ‘83, a new tactics game for the PC by Zachtronics. I’m even more surprised now to find that it’s not only already out, but that it’s incredible Nintendo’s continued abandonment of its once-cherished mobile franchise has been a decade-long disappointment. One…
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