Here is a beautiful idea. An idea involving writing down the off-hand stuff people will mutter at a TV screen while playing video games, and turning it into literature. This is Reb Day, who in addition to singing catchy pop tunes also has no idea why she’s being shot at: If you’re on mobile and…
The other day Foonedecided to hack an improved screen inside a…pregnancy test. And when you do something like that, it’s not a matter of if you can get Doom running on it, but when They were initially happy to just get the pregnancy test working as a screen, able to show videos of games and…
Paradox’s grand strategy games have always had loading screen art—something you see a lot of over the months/years you play these games—that can best be described as “functional”. Crusader Kings III throws that tradition straight off the parapet with some absolutely gorgeous works of art by industry legend Craig Mullins. When Paradox first announced Mullins’…
Smash Remix, a very cool fan project that’s constantly adding new fighters and stages to the original N64 game, has just got Bowser up and running. You can see him in action below, not just in the main game but some mini-games as well: Considering he had to be pretty much built from scratch, he…
At some point over the last week, Electronic Arts took a game already full of ads—it’s a sports game, it comes with the territory!—and added more. Only this wasn’t an in-world kinda deal, it was a literal commercial flashing around in the middle of a fight. You can see an example in the gif above,…
Team Fortress 2 has a problem with bots, but not all of its bots are there for cheating. Some have been programmed to hunt down the cheaters. Apparently this has been a thing in the TF2 community for a little while now, but it’s only after this Tweet that the wider world got some insight…
Liang Mark is an artist from China who has worked for companies like Gameloft. You can see more of Liang’s stuff at his ArtStation page
Dropping later this month—or maybe even later this week—this upcoming colourway of Nike’s resurgent Dunk line has been dubbed the “Doraemon”. It’s not an official licensed deal between Nike and the blue cat, hence the lack of overt branding, but thenlike Nike’s “Gundam” Air Max 98, it doesn’t need to be when the homage is…
In case you’ve ever wanted to see it, here is every major game from the Super Mario series (and some spin-offs), all gathered together for a beautiful group shot. So yes, that’s why Super Mario RPG and Super Mario Kart aren’t there, which despite the names aren’t members of the Super Mario platforming family. (It…
Iron Harvest should, by all accounts, be just the game for me. It’s set in a universe I dig, and has a lot in common with Company of Heroes—a game I’m on record as saying is “the perfect RTS” And yet every time I force myself to sit down and play it, something just feels…
Karl Sisson is a matte painter at WETA. You can see more of Karl’s stuffat his ArtStation page
A “walk cycle” is the part of video game animation that covers the most basic, default movement of your character. It’s maybe the thing you see the most in a game alongside a HUD, and as such might also be something you take for granted! Today, let’s not take them for granted. Louis Brooks has…
Just in time for the series’ 35th anniversary, Puma is about to release an official Super Mario Bros. shoe. It’s a version of the company’s RS Dreamer silhouette, with a very Mario Bros. colour scheme, a Super Mario logo on the tongue, and a star on the heel. Perfect if you’re 11 years old! Maybe…
Tim Douglas is an artist who has worked on games like Squad and Beyond the Wire You can see more of Tim’s stuff at his ArtStation page
Regiments is an upcoming RTS set in the 1980s, in a scenario where the Cold War heats up. It’ll probably be of interest to anyone who played World in Conflict or Wargame This is the part where I remind you World in Conflict is so good that it’s got a spot in our Best Strategy…
We’ve been seeing Witcher 3 mods like this on the PC for years now, and I’ve never written about them because they always looked like they either made no difference to the quality of the game’s visuals, or did in a way that made the game look worse. HalkHogan’s Witcher 3 Reworked mod, though, looks…
To date, Microsoft has announced a single next-gen console: the Xbox Series X. Thing is, we all basically know that there’s a second console coming, one that is yet to be announced, despite the fact there are more and more products out there that specifically mention it. Products made by Microsoft! That console is the Xbox…
In 2010, two Dutch students—Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman—founded an independent video game studio. It would start with some fishing, go on to release games like Nuclear Throne and Luftrausers, and now in 2020 is shutting down like a rock band deciding yeah, you know what, enough is enough. So broken is this industry…
Anu Chouhan is an illustrator and character artist from Canada working in the video game business. While I’ll be posting a whole range of her work below, it’s this Zelda stuff up top that’s got me particularly smitten: it’s a depiction of Nintendo’s series as an ancient Indian Epic, inspired by the Vedic and Mauryan…
Hollywood legend Ridley Scott might be better known for films like Alien and Gladiator, but he also found time in the mid-80s to make Apple’s famous 1984 commercial. With Epic Games very recently and publicly recreating the ad, only now with an anti-Apple stance, Scott has some thoughts. To recap! Here’s Scott’s original commercial, which…
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