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Some Concept Art From The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

If you buy the expensive collector’s edition of the new Elder Scrolls game, you’ll get a 200-page art book full of designs and sketches showing how a video game world was born. If you’re cheap and just want to see some of the art, well, you’d better look here then. There are four excerpts from…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 30, 2011

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The Four Stages of Reboot Grief

Today’s Total Recall won’t be about video game history. It’s about dealing with what happens when video game history is dredged back to the present and coated in bright pink lipstick. EA’s Syndicate is but the latest in an ever-growing list of games that are reboots of old franchises. And they’re reboots in the strictest…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 30, 2011

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The Dark, Moody Metal Gear Art of Ashley Wood

If you like Metal Gear, chances are you’ve heard the name Ashley Wood before. While these days the Australian artist is kept busy with things like comics, art books, toys, TV and movies, he’s also had a long-running and very successful stint as an artist for Konami’s blockbuster stealth franchise. What’s cool about Wood’s Metal…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 29, 2011

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My Favorite Japanese Commercial of 2011 Has a Plastic Fist

Toriko is a Japanese manga that follows a “Gourmet Hunter” named Toriko who is on the hunt for rare food. This is an ad for a “Toriko Snack Pulverizer”. You put snacks in it, pulverize them, and then sprinkles them on food. It’s totally awesome. This summer, Bandai Namco released a new Toriko game, which…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 29, 2011

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Going to War Like Only Nintendo Can

Even though Zelda has killing and even Mario has head-stomping, when you think about it, nearly all of Nintendo’s first-party properties are harmless affairs. Bright colours, innocent storylines, big-eyed cartoon mascots and candy-coloured fantasy worlds where everything turns out just fine With one exception: the “Wars” series, Nintendo’s only foray into, well, war. In the…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 29, 2011

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More of Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s Amazing Concept Art

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a game that’s art direction was so memorable, and so well-loved, that I figured it was worth a second round of concept art. Whereas last time we looked at a little bit of everything from a whole bunch of the game’s artists, today we’re looking at some new stuff from…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 28, 2011

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The Sexy, Colourful Art of DMC, Enslaved and Heavenly Sword

From the first time I saw Heavenly Sword concept art in an old copy of Edge, right through to their work today, I’ve been a big, big fan of the art team over at Ninja Theory. So it’s a pleasure today to present the work of the studio’s visual art director, Alessandro Taini. Born in…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2011

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Doritos Creator Arch West Takes His Cheesy Legacy to the Grave

Orange-stained fingers around the world were clenched in grief last week, when the legendary marketing man credited with the creation of Doritos passed away. But take heart, snack fans; Arch West is taking his cheese powder-infused tortilla chips with him on his eternal journey. That’s right, West is being buried with Doritos. A marketing executive…

By Mike Fahey Published September 26, 2011

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The Delightful Home-Made Maps of the Zork Series

Zork is one of the oldest adventure game franchises there is. The series is so old, in fact, that aside from a few rare instances you can only play the games using, and seeing, text. No graphics, no icons, no heads-up display, nothing. So how did you get around? How did you use a map?…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2011

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We’re Taking Nominations for Sunday Comics’ Newest Strip

As you may have noticed, we’ve been down a comic in our Sunday Comics lineup ever since Rooster Teeth closed in August. I could have just filled it in with any of the submissions we frequently get from webcomic authors, but remembering how this feature was conceived, and given that everyone has such strong opinions…

By Owen Good Published September 25, 2011

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Ready for Some Football

EA Sports’ FIFA 12 highlights this release week (Tuesday in North America, Thursday and Friday in Europe) along with Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2011. Not diggin’ sports? X-Men: Destiny, the quasi-action-RPG by Silicon Knights, arrives on shelves, too. Monday • FIFA Soccer 12 (Wii) Tuesday • FIFA Soccer 12 (PC, PS2, PSP, PS3, 360) —A…

By Owen Good Published September 25, 2011

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Sunday Comics: Elitism Isn’t Free

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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Sept. 19.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Sept. 24.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Penny Arcade by…

By Owen Good Published September 25, 2011

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Elk Strips: The $35 Snack That Made a Great Nation Great

Funyuns, Doritos, Chikin-on-a-Biskit. They conjure images of stoners and the unemployed, but no one consumes those snacks to affect said lifestyle. Jerky, well, c’mon. It’s like a meat Marlboro. If you’ve ever torn off hunks of dried flesh, wrung them out on your molars, and not once narrowed your eyes and internally complimented this great…

By Owen Good Published September 23, 2011

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This Week in the Business: ‘We’ll be able to squeeze more from Xbox 360.’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week… QUOTE | “We’ll be able to squeeze more from Xbox 360.” – Epic design director Cliff Bleszinski notes that if Epic ships another 360 title this generation they should still be able to extract even more power from the console QUOTE | “We’ve learned…

James Brightman | IndustryGamers.com Published September 23, 2011

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We may Never Play the Aliens RPG, but we can Look at its Concept Art

There once was a time Obsidian was making an RPG based on the Aliens universe. That game has since been cancelled, but today we’re looking at some art done for the project by Charles Lee. We’ll also be looking at some of his other stuff, as he’s also recently been involved in the production of…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2011

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It’s the end of the World as This Game Knew it (and Nobody Felt Fine)

Our younger readers won’t have lived through it, but the 1980s were in in many ways a bleak time, the spectre of nuclear holocaust hanging over the world for much of the decade. For such a dominant political topic, however, few games chose to address the subject head-on. Ground Zero was one of the few.…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2011

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This Video Game Art Is Entirely Off-Topic (Sorry, Darksiders Fans!)

Thought I’d try something a little different with today’s Fine Art. Instead of showing the art of a video game, I thought I’d show off some of the art of video game artists. Which aren’t always the same thing! On the night of Friday, Sept. 23, Vigil Games—developers of the Darksiders series—will be hosting a…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2011

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Let Us Look At Japan’s Very Strange 1987 Star Wars Video Game

Darth Vader turns into a shark, if you were wondering how strange

By Luke Plunkett Published September 22, 2011

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The Beautiful Blizzard Paintings of Mathias Verhasselt

Mathias Verhasselt works at Blizzard. As a concept artist, yes, but he also does one of my favourite things in both cinema and games: Matte paintings. These are the exquisitely-detailed images that movies use for static, artificial backdrops and scenery, but you may not know that game trailers and cinematics use them as well (though…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 20, 2011

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This Star Wars Game Was So Bad They Should Have Made More Of Them

Over the past thirty years there have been plenty of memorable Star Wars games, from the Super Star Wars series to X-Wing to Jedi Knight to Battlefront. They’re all classics, not just awesome adaptations of a movie franchise but awesome games in their own right. Star Wars: Yoda Stories is not one of those games.…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 20, 2011