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CultureTotal RecallThe Amazing Place Where Mario & 80’s Pro Wrestling Came Together
That amazing place being the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, which in these episodes below went all-out and brought in both Sgt. Slaughter and Rowdy Roddy Piper as guest stars. Aside from their wrestling fame, you may know the Sergeant as a GI Joe character. You should also hopefully know Piper as one of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 14, 2012 -
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Winter Isn’t Coming, It’s Already Here
The real stars of video games aren’t the characters. They’re awfully fickle, and easy to kill. But background art? It’s forever. Welcome to Background Story, which will run most days as part of our new, expanded Total Recall programming block [via noirlac]
By Luke Plunkett Published February 13, 2012 -
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Find Retro Atari Classics on the Back of Specially Marked Boxes of General Mills Cereal
It might not be the video game-branded cereal Lisa Foiles craves, but the Atari-classic branded General Mills cereal boxes popping up at Target stores across the country might have you bringing the box back to the breakfast table again. Five different cereals, five different games. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of video game pioneer…
By Mike Fahey Published February 13, 2012 -
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Let’s Twist Again
The reboot of the car combat standard-bearer Twisted Metal arrives on Valentine’s Day for PS3. Also, though you can’t play them until Feb. 22, many of the launch titles for the PlayStation Vita become available in North America this week. UFC Undisputed 3 for Xbox 360 and PS3 also arrives Tuesday. Monday • Rhythm Heaven…
By Owen Good Published February 12, 2012 -
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Sunday Comics: Me Time
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. Legacy Control by Javis Ray published Feb. 6.—Read more of Legacy Control Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Feb. 6.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by…
By Owen Good Published February 12, 2012 -
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Reckon With Some of Kingdoms of Amalur’s Concept Art (Sorry)
With the game out this week, now’s as good a time as any to look at some concept art from Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning While a whole team of artists worked on the game, today we’re taking a look at the colourful contributions of Big Huge Games’ principal concept artist Sean Andrew Murray. If you…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 9, 2012 -
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Commander Shepard, You’re Looking Awfully Dangerous Today
Theo Stylianides is a concept artist working in London for Opus Artz, a studio that’s provided content for series like Dead Space, Infamous and BioShock Today, though, we’re looking at Theo’s personal project, Helldiver, which he describes as “pretty much sci-fi-inspired super soldiers selected from the best military forces in the world, brought together to…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 8, 2012 -
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When EA Sports Accidentally Put a Game’s Source Code on a Demo Disc
In 1997, EA Sports released a demo disc for the latest iteration of its FIFA football series. Anyone picking this disc up got a lot more than they bargained for. Late last year, Blackbird Interactive’s Yossarian King (whose studio is now working on Hardware) wrote a piece on industry blog #altDevBlogADay about building engines. Tucked…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 5, 2012 -
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Reckoning and Revelations
38 Studios’ action-RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning leads the list of new titles deploying this week. Other big names include Resident Evil: Revelations and The Darkness II Tuesday • Fallout: New Vegas – Ultimate Edition (PC, PS3, 360) • Forza Motorsport 4: February American Le Mans Series Pack (XBLA) • Gotham City Impostors (PC, PSN)…
By Owen Good Published February 5, 2012 -
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Sunday Comics: Point of Reference
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. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Jan. 31.—Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Jan. 30.—Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by…
By Owen Good Published February 5, 2012 -
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Some Kick-Ass Robot Designs From One of Hawken’s Artists
Multiplayer shooter Hawken snuck into our collective megacity last year and stole our robotic hearts. Sadly, it’s been a very long time since we heard or saw anything about the game. To satisfy both yours and our appetite for more hot giant mech fighting action, then, here’s a collection of mechs, tanks, robots and other…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 3, 2012 -
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The Half-Eaten Valve Art of Peter König
Peter König is a concept art legend. Over the past quarter of a century his creature designs, sculptures and animation work have been featured in blockbuster hits like Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers and Cloverfield. Which is all well and good, but he’s also spent the last four years working as a concept artist, modeller and…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 1, 2012 -
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If Only Driving Games Actually Looked This Cool
The ATV series of driving games have always had their following, but there’s never been much to make the really stand out from the crowd. Which is the great thing about looking at concept art, because it’s here that you can see that, at some point in their development, the ATV games looked (or at…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 31, 2012 -
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Back From the Dead
The first big release week of 2012 gives us Final Fantasy XIII-2, NeverDead and SoulCalibur V. Downloadable content includes an extension for Dead Island Tuesday • Final Fantasy XIII-2 (PS3, 360) • NeverDead (PS3, 360) • Puddle (PS3) • SoulCalibur V (PS3, 360) Wednesday • Dead Island: Ryder White (PC, PS3, 360) • Rhythm Party…
By Owen Good Published January 29, 2012 -
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Sunday Comics: Better With Kinect
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. Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik published Jan. 23.—Read more of Penny Arcade Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Jan. 23.—Read more of Awkward Zombie…
By Owen Good Published January 29, 2012 -
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One Does Not Simply Design Badass Lord of the Rings Characters
Well, actually, one does if one is Wes Burt, concept artist at Massive Black, whose recent work for Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online is well worth sharing. We’ve featured Wes’ work before here on Fine Art. If you haven’t seen it, you really should Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 26, 2012