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CultureWatch This Video About Robots Shooting Each Other, Right Now
This is Keloid. It’s not a movie. It’s not a trailer. It’s not even a short. It’s just a “spec” project, a mock trailer made to let those involved flex their creative muscles and come up with their vision of a future where robots fight wars, and those robots look fantastic If you’re wondering as…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2013 -
CultureWalter White’s Secret History Of Nerd Acting
OK, so it’s not that secret, but in this, a week where Bryan Cranston’s final performance as Walter White has been the talk of the internet, it’s as good a time as any to look back on a time when he was…doing voice-over work for anime. Before Breaking Bad, before Malcolm in the Middle and…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2013 -
Culture
The Space People Of The Future Have Rad Spacesuits
The last we saw of Patryk Olejniczak, he was making Mass Effect fan art so good he won himself a job at BioWare. Today, though, we’re looking at two very different examples of his work: Game of Thrones fan art and insanely-detailed spacesuits. You can see more of Patryk’s work at his personal site and…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 2, 2013 -
Culture
Not All Game Art Has To Feature Dragons, Mechs And/Or Wastelands
Kyrie is a Korean illustrator who freelances mostly for the games industry. Her work as a character designer is a welcome change from the armoured men, dragons, thick necks and post-apocalyptic wastelands you normally see around here. You can see more of her work at her CGHub and DeviantArt pages. To see the larger pics…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 2, 2013 -
Culture
These Aren’t Video Game Levels. They’re Real Places.
Video game levels may often seem like absurd places. Who’d build a walkway there? Why didn’t anyone clean this up? Yet as with most things in life, truth is often just as strange as fiction. This gallery on Bored Panda is called “31 Haunting Images of Abandoned Places That Will Give You Goose Bumps”, but…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2013 -
Culture
Dinosaur + Human Romance Novels Are A Real Thing. Huh.
A dinosaur + dinosaur romance novel would be something awesome. Tales of meeting over a leafy tree, the thrill of the hunt (for food), the joy of…sitting on eggs. I’m getting steamy just thinking about it. Sadly – or not, depending on your tastes – these dinosaur romance novels are not about that. They’re about…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2013 -
Culture
How Disney Got All Its Characters Looking The Same
Regardless of what you think of the game, Disney Infinity will always be remembered for one big achievement: it’s managed to take a ton of Disney movies, all with their own signature visual style, and wrangle them all into the single project, where they’re looking mostly identical. One of the people responsible for this is…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2013 -
Culture
The Week in Games: It’s Fannnn-tastic
The week’s big console launches are NBA 2K14, also arriving for PC, on Tuesday followed by the physical HD release of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker on Wii U on Friday. Tuesday • NBA 2K14 (360, PS3, PC) • Flashback (PC) • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Trilogy Edition (360) • Assassin’s Creed Ezio…
By Dealzon Published September 29, 2013 -
Culture
Sunday Comics: Inferior Decoration
Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics, chosen by you, our readership. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Sept. 23. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published Sept. 23. Read more of Penny Arcade Brawl In The Family by Matthew Taranto. Published Sept.…
By Owen Good Published September 29, 2013 -
Culture
Someone’s Attempting to 100 Percent GTA III and Vice City in 24 Hours
Pedestrians of Liberty and Vice cities, beware. World-class speedrunner AdamAK is attempting to 100 percent both Grand Theft Auto III and GTA: Vice City over the next 24 hours. That means carnage on the sidewalks and beaches for sure. You may watch the run below—he’s about four hours into it as of posting time, playing…
By Owen Good Published September 28, 2013 -
Culture
Incumbents Rule in Sunday Comics’ Latest Elections
The votes have been counted and your lineup for Sunday Comics is set. All eight of the existing features will return. ActionTrip, which ran from Sunday Comics’ debut in 2009 until last year, returns. Life in Aggro is the only totally new strip readers chose. These are the final results. Comics will appear in this…
By Owen Good Published September 28, 2013 -
Culture
This Week in the Business: ‘Wouldn’t Touch Mobile with a 10-Foot Pole’
What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “If I was starting again now from a blank slate, without an existing fan base, I wouldn’t touch mobile with a ten foot pole.”—Paul Johnson, indie game developer, talking along with others about how indies are moving back to PC and…
By Steve Peterson Published September 28, 2013 -
Culture
The Pirates Of The Future Don’t Buckle Swashes
Sergi Brosa is a Spanish concept artist and illustrator who works mostly as a freelancer and on comission pieces. Why a comic publisher or video game studio doesn’t have him on their books escapes me, because Sergi’s stuff is insane Be sure to scroll to the last image. Then…keep scrolling. If you can. You can…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2013 -
Culture
Robot Factories Are Where Shiny Gun Arms Are Made
Stefano Tsai works at Creative Assembly as a 3D artist. Not on the Total War games, though, he’s currently chipping away at the studio’s mythical Alien franchise game. You won’t find any images of that here, obviously. What you will find are a number of breathtakingly “real” 3D images. Seriously, corridor cross-sections? It’s my secret…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2013
