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This Wonderful Mass Effect 3 Art is Full of GIANT SPOILERS

Matt Rhodes is one of my favourite concept artists in the business. Why? Because his style, using bright, colourful cartoon characters for games that are often very dark and serious in tone, is a breath of fresh air in an industry where a lot of art ends up looking exactly the same. We’ve featured his…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012

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George Washington & Ben Franklin, as Seen by Video Games in 1993

Two of America’s founding fathers, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, will be starring in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed III. It’s not, you know, their first time in a video game. They’ve been in plenty, some serious, some less so, but my favourite in both cases is 1993 adventure game classic Day of the Tentacle, in…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 13, 2012

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How to Look Like C-3PO. Or Mark Hamill. Or a Stormtrooper.

Collector Jason Liebig has uploaded six of the greatest Flickr images you’re likely to ever see: cereal box scans that include giant masks for some of the main characters from Star Wars From a Canadian cereal cash-in (the cereal itself branded C-3POs) dating all the way back to 1984, there were six in all, for…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012

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Science Proves Old Video Games Were Super Hard

Sitting down with a bunch of old games in the Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda, Pokemon and Metroid franchises, Belgian scientists have proven beyond all doubt that those games are way hard. To showcase their work, they’ve written a scientific paper outlining their findings. Greg Aloupis from the Free University of Brussels…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 12, 2012

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RIP Jean Giraud, aka Moebius

The French artist has left a legacy that is almost impossible to put into words

By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2012

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Street Smarts

Silent Hill: Downpour and the return of FIFA Street highlight a week kicked off today by Mario Party 9. Some decent downloadable titles hitting PSN and XBLA round out the lineup. Today • Mario Party 9 (Wii) Monday • All Zombies Must Die! (PC) Tuesday • FIFA Street (360, PS3) • Ridge Racer (PS Vita)…

By Owen Good Published March 11, 2012

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Sunday Comics: Love Means Never …

Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Dueling Analogs by Steve Napierski published March 7.—Read more of Dueling Analogs Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published March 5.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by…

By Owen Good Published March 11, 2012

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This Week in the Business: ‘We’re Very Far From Seeing Everything the PS3 Can Do.’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “We’re very far from seeing everything the PS3 can do.”–David Cage, designer of Heavy Rain, talking about the still untapped horsepower of the PS3 QUOTE | “Traditional developers are scared.”-Colt McAnlis, Developer Advocate for Google, talking about how game developers feel…

Steve Peterson Published March 10, 2012

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Total Recall Will Return Next Week

Happy Friday everyone! Unfortunately for Total Recall fans, Kirk is out and about at the Game Developers Conference. But Luke will be providing you with old school gaming goodness as soon as Monday. Sit tight! In the meantime, you can browse through past Total Recall articles. Oh, and in case you were wondering, that image…

By Tina Amini Published March 9, 2012

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Fable’s Concept Art is Like a Giant Storybook

Emrah Elmasli is a Turkish concept artist who now resides in the UK, where he’s done a ton of concept art for the last few games in the Fable series. Here’s a selection of his contributions, mostly taken from Fable III I’ve also thrown a few more in from some of Elmasli’s other work, for…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2012

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A PlayStation in Pieces Looks Strangely Beautiful

There’s a touch of the macabre to seeing it laid out like this, I grant you, but for the most part the effect of seeing an original PlayStation and its controller stripped bare and put on display is just lovely. Things Organized Neatly [Tumblr]

By Luke Plunkett Published March 9, 2012

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Who Would Have Thought Skiing Down a Mountain Would be so Damn Hard

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another instalment of grown men playing competitive, mostly awful arcade classics for nothing but internet fame. In tonight’s episode, the boys are facing off on Alpine Ski, a Taito game first released all the way back in 1981. Which kicks their ass like only a senior citizen of…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2012

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The Razor-Sharp Art of Johan Wahlbäck

Swedish artist Johan Wahlbäck works for SouthEnd Interactive, the guys behind last year’s delightful ilomilo. But you won’t find any art for that cute little game here. What you will find are a stack of awesome pictures of men with swords, men with bigger swords and other images associated with bludgeoning and stabbing, some of…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2012

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The Tiniest Little PlayStation You Ever Did See

Sebastián Vargas has a fetish for tiny things. Tiny PlayStations, tiny Game Boys,you name it, if it’s a tiny video game console, he’s got it. These are Japanese gashapon pieces, all of them for old consoles and handhelds, all photographed wonderfully by Vargas. If you like tiny things as much as he does, check out…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 8, 2012

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An Inspiring, Sad Interview With the Father of Video Games

If you care about the history of video games, at all, and would like to hear from one of the founding fathers of the medium (who is, remember, a total badass), then please, watch this video interview with Ralph Baer. At times it’s fascinating. Inspiring, even. There’s one point, though, where I actually teared up.…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 7, 2012

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Why Peter Molyneux Leaving Microsoft is a Very Good Thing

So, after a decade working almost exclusively with Microsoft for Xbox consoles (and occasionally the PC as well), Lionhead founder Peter Molyneux has called it quits, and will soon be joining British start-up 22 Cans (or Twenty Toucans, if you prefer). It’s a sad day for Microsoft, who bought Lionhead in 2006, but as we’re…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 7, 2012

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The Concept Art of Mass Effect 3

So, Mass Effect 3 is now out. And everyone who has played it for a few hours, or even been keeping up with it via trailers and screenshots, knows it’s a very pretty game. Something we’re celebrating here with this look at some of the game’s concept art. If you don’t own the game’s accompanying…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 7, 2012

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This is how to Play Ms. Pac-Man Like a, Well, Man

Or at least a young adult. So adorable. Brewer’s Arcade [Flickr, via Arcade Nation]

By Luke Plunkett Published March 7, 2012

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What is This, Sonic or Mirror’s Edge?

This is from Sonic Advance 3, released on the Game Boy Advance in 2004. But boy, it looks a lot more like a demake of Mirror’s Edge, no? [via Noirlac] Total Recall is a look back at the history of video games through their characters, franchises, developers and trends. You’ll find Total Recall stories every…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 6, 2012

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This Game is Terribly Sorry About Michael Jackson, S&M and Dead Japanese Politicians

In Japan, this game was called Gonbee I’m Sorry. In the West, it’s more commonly referred to as just I’m Sorry. But really, it has nothing to be sorry about whatsoever. Because it’s wonderful. Not to play, necessarily. I’ll be honest, I’ve never played it. But just as a thing, as an idea, it’s amazing.…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 6, 2012