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Remembering Apple’s One Serious Attempt at a Video Games Console

Today is a day a lot of folks will be remembering the good, the bad and the downright inspirational from the company Steve Jobs helped found all the way back in 1976. So today’s Total Recall will be all about Apple’s one and only crack at the video games market: the Pippin. Sure, the iPhone…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 6, 2011

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You may not Survive This Dark Souls Concept Art

To go with the Demon’s Souls concept art we showed you a few months back, today we’ve got a collection of art from its spiritual successor Dark Souls, out this week on the Xbox 360 and PS3. For a game that is about little but darkness, pain, brutality and despair, the art certainly gets the…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011

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Enjoy This Badass 16-bit Title Screen Art

We’ve seen title art from modern games. And from NES games. Today, we’re hitting the ground somewhere in between with a collection of animated title screen art from the Genesis/Mega Drive and Super Nintendo. These images come courtesy of Title Scream, a site run by Kiwi interactive designer Cameron Askin which is looking to preserve…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 5, 2011

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Brighten Up Your Morning With This Brilliant Tron Art

The latest Tron movie was a funny thing. And the game was just as funny as the movie. Forgettable content, but with art design just gorgeous to look at. Good thing we’re just looking at Tron art today, then, and not playing it. These pieces are all courtesy of Daryl Mandryk, a freelance concept artist…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2011

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RAGE Has Been a Long, Long Time Coming

It’s not every day you get to play a new id game. If you’re not counting iPhone games (and we’re not counting iPhone games) or re-releases, the last new title the studio released was Doom 3. And that was in 2004 So this week’s release of post-apocalyptic buggy death simulator RAGE is something to be…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2011

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Before They Were Superstars: BioWare

Canadian developers BioWare are known today for blockbuster series like Mass Effect, Dragon Age and the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic We don’t care about those today. Today, for our younger/newer readers that may only know them for those franchises, we’re going back to 1995, where it all began. Unlike most (I’d be tempted…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2011

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Rage With Your Machine

A jampacked Tuesday gives the core gamer Rage and Dark Souls. Sports fans get NBA 2K12 and loyal webheads will see Spider-Man: Edge of Time Today • Tetris Axis (3DS) Tuesday • Dark Souls (PS3, 360)—The successor to From Software’s uncompromisingly challenging Demon’s Souls sends Xbox 360 gamers to hell and back for the first…

By Owen Good Published October 2, 2011

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Sunday Comics: A White Belt in Yoga

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. Also, remember to vote for our newest feature. Voting is open until Thursday. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Sept. 26.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!!…

By Owen Good Published October 2, 2011

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Vote on Sunday Comics‘ Newest Strip

Last week we took nominations for a new feature to take Rooster Teeth‘s place in Sunday Comics. After reading through all of your suggestions, we’ve come up with a list of eight candidates for your vote. This is your decision. Please make it carefully. The eight candidates are in that gallery above, published in alphabetical…

By Owen Good Published October 1, 2011

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Sunday Comics Poll

Vote here for your choice for the newest feature in Sunday Comics. The candidates are listed in random order there, so be sure you know the name of the feature you prefer. Voting is open until noon on Thursday. We will try to have a new 10th comic in place by next Sunday. Thanks again…

By Owen Good Published October 1, 2011

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This Week in the Business: ‘PSN is an Almost Complete Failure’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week… QUOTE | “PSN is an almost complete failure.” – Indie developer Guillaume Boucher-Vidal, Studio Manager at Nine Dots Studio, reacts to PSN having “low standards” and he calls out Team Meat as “loud crybabies.” QUOTE | “Consoles will continue to be gold standard.” –…

James Brightman | IndustryGamers.com Published September 30, 2011

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Hostess Chocwave and Snoballimus Prime Light Our Darkest Snacktime

With the third installment of Michael Bay’s Transformers movie saga on store shelves, can anything wash the taste of frustrated disappointment from the mouths of hardcore fans? Rise, Snoballimus Prime. Just in time for the DVD/Blu-ray release of Dark of the Moon, Hostess and the Baybots combine to form a pair of snack cakes colored…

By Mike Fahey Published September 30, 2011

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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