Nice Sword, Clown Lady

Al Jerek Torrijas is a concept artist who works at Ubisoft’s Toronto studio. It’s been a while since we had a good splash of colour here on Fine Art. I think this makes amends. You can see more of Torrijas’ work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all…

Mirage: Arcane Warfare is the new game from the makers of Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. Mirage looks like it inherits the latter’s first-person sword shellacking, but instead of being all grim and gray, it’s colorful, ridiculous, and full of magic spells. Also I guess one of the characters is a giraffe person???

Even Finn Wants A Star Wars: Battlefront Singleplayer Campaign [Update]

I wanted a singleplayer campaign in the latest Battlefront. You probably did too. You know who else does? John Boyega, the guy who plays Finn in the actual Star Wars movies. It is! It’s also a better way to appreciate all the work that went into the game’s visuals and sound. Boyega then adds: Listen…

A 3D Sketch Of Gabe Newell, Made In VR

The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive aren’t just here for video games. They’re also here for fancy 3D sketches that look like cartoons come to life. This is a sketch of Valve boss Gabe Newell, done using Google’s Tilt Brush and a Vive. It starts out looking like a regular 2D image, then whoosh, it…

Spintires‘ Steam Clusterfuck, Explained

Spintires is a popular Steam driving game. Recently, it stopped working under mysterious circumstances. People came to believe the game’s own programmer, Pavel Zagrebelnyy, sabotaged it because he wasn’t getting paid. That’s (probably) not true. Yesterday, reports emerged that Spintires had more or less become unplayable. Upon digging through its code, players reportedly found tens…

“Life-Size” WarCraft Cosplay Could Crush Actual Humans

Steven K Smith is one of the best props builders around. This enormous, full-scale WarCraft suit is just one of the reasons why. You don’t see this very often! Normally when someone cosplays as a WarCraft Orc, they paint their skin green, maybe wear a mask and be done with it. Smith, though, wanted to…

Turns Out Ubisoft Used Far Cry 4‘s Map To Make Far Cry Primal

Far Cry Primal is something of an spinoff for the series—a stopgap release meant to fill the hole between Far Cry 4 and Far Cry 5. So it’s no surprise to see it recycling things from its predecessor. As first discovered by the website Gamepressure.com, Far Cry Primal’s map is actually based on Far Cry…

Pokkén Creators Wanted To Make Pokémon Look ‘Really Realistic’ For Their Fighting Game

Pokémon are usually cute creatures. That’s part of the appeal. But the upcoming Pokémon fighting game is not about that life. A couple of weeks ago, I had a chat with Pokkén producers Katsuhiro Harada (of Tekken fame) and Masaaki Hoshino (of Soul Calibur fame). I wanted to know, what was the most surprising thing…

Steam Users Think Valve’s New Trading Restrictions Go Too Far

Wanna use Steam’s market or trading features? Don’t have a compatible mobile phone for security purposes? Then prepare to wait weeks before anything happens. Valve recently announced big changes to Steam’s trade (directly between individual users) and community market (where you can post listings for virtual items to buy/sell) features. If you’re not using the…

Black Desert Lays Out Horrible Pre-Launch Problems In Convenient ‘Shitstorm Matrix’

Still in head start access until tomorrow, Black Desert Online’s North American launch has already encountered enough serious issues to fill a chart. The devs are calling it the “Shitstorm Matrix.” I appreciate giving a list of serious problems a less than serious name, but it doesn’t lessen the impact of the problems players have…

A Surprising Number of People Feel Bad For Pirating Stardew Valley

Whenever piracy is mentioned, people always whip out the argument that, if pirates actually like the game, they’ll totally purchase it in the future. For Stardew Valley, the farming simulator which is currently tearing up the Steam sales charts, that age-old saying might actually be true for some players. Yesterday, as I was rounding up…

Blade & Soul Finally Gets Some Damn Warlocks

Finally something to do with the Warlock-only equipment that’s been dropping since NCsoft’s martial arts MMO launched in North America back in January. Fans knew the Warlock, a ranged spellcaster released further down the line in the earlier Asian versions of Blade & Soul, wouldn’t be making it into the game in time for launch.…

Spider-Man Is Totally Okay With Letting Someone Else Be Spider-Man

The original wall-crawler is a little salty about Miles’ costume, though. Because even he has to admit that it’s cooler. Spoilers follow. For those who may not know who Miles Morales is, he’s a teenage Spider-Man from a now-dead alternate universe. He started webbing up bad guys after the death (and eventual resurrection) of that…

Former Destiny Developers Discuss How Hard It Is To Make AAA Games

To say that making big games like Destiny is “difficult” is kind of like declaring the Grand Canyon is “deep,” so it’s always interesting to hear new insights from people who have been in the trenches. Ex-Bungie developers Jaime Griesemer and Marty O’Donnell, who have worked on Halo and Destiny, gave some pretty fascinating quotes…