Look At This Transistor Statue

It’s $35, and it’s fantastic (via Super Punch)

We Get It, Elf, You Vape

Nuare is an “outsource studio” based in Canada who have quietly helped out on the creative side of games from companies like Bethesda, Microsoft and Capcom. You can see more of Nuare’s work at their company site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save…

The Tower Sounds Like Deus Ex vs Dredd

Back in 2014,indie studio Interdimensional Games released CONSORTIUM, a neat little thing that blended adventure gaming with FPS and RPG elements. Today, in news filed under “unexpected but pleasant surprises”, they announced a sequel. CONSORTIUM: The Tower looks to take the first game’s basic premise—dropping the player in a single setting then having them encounter…

Fans Remaking Original Metal Gear Solid In HD, And It Looks Great

Metal Gear fan Airam Hernandez is leading an effort to recreate the entire original 1998 Metal Gear Solid for the PC. Only this time it’ll be using Unreal Engine 4. With a little help from Dan Meadowcroft, who is handling music, they’ve just released the first trailer for the project, which is called Shadow Moses…

Tips For Getting Back Into Diablo III

Diablo III changed a lot over the years. The expansion and the later patches added a lot more content to the game, and these changes might confuse players who stopped playing around Reaper of Souls or before, but want to come back to see what’s new. People running around in crazy gear, gaining hundreds of…

Why Composer John Williams Knows More About Star Wars Than You Do

John Williams knows more about Star Wars than you do. I mean, not in the ‘who was R5-D4’s original manufacturer in the Expanded Universe’ sort of way. I mean narratively, and emotionally. This post originally appeared on Gizmodo Australia. It’s fair to say that while The Force Awakens has been received with near universal acclaim…

Just Cause 3‘s Rico Never Skips Leg Day

Someone else has to do the job when Rico is chilling in the main menu. And as it looks like in Tralion’s clip, he isn’t the one leaning on the car. The car is leaning on him. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Éomer, Son of Éomund, You Sure Look HD

It’s one thing to draw or paint a character you like, and another to model them in high definition—as Nimlot26’s version of Éomer (his version of the Karl Urban version of Éomer) shows. Nimlot26, AKA Georgian Avasilcutei, a character/environment artist from Romania, first posted about his Éomer project on the Polycount forums in June, with…

When Politicians Campaign with Anime

Over the weekend, Tsai Ing-wen became the first woman to be elected the president of Taiwan. Above is a GIF from her political campaign. Because anime is real. The biggest cornerstone of her agenda is perhaps protecting Taiwan’s own identity, but her campaign did what it could to appeal to the country’s youth by playing…

The Evangelion Popcorn Bucket Is Suitably Insane

At first, I thought the 3,980 yen (US$34) price tag was the craziest thing about this Neon Genesis Evangelion Unit-01 popcorn bucket. Nope! The light-up eyes are. The bucket is available at Universal Studios Japan during the Cool Japan 2016 campaign, which wraps up in late June. This popcorn bucket looks like the Eva Unit’s…

Ginza. Tokyo, Japan. By Fernando Brischetto. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

Giving A TIE Fighter A Firmware Update

Davison Carvalho is an artist from Brazil who currently works at Epic Games. As a specialist in user interfaces—and fictional ones in particular—Carvalho has some interesting ideas on the subject, whether it be for a TIE Fighter’s HUD (oh, what we wouldn’t give for a new X-Wing game) or the menu for a video game…

How A League Of Legends Trophy Is Made

Those big trophies that the winners of League of Legends tournaments get don’t just appear out of thin air. Someone has to design and build them, and in this case, that someone was cosplay/props legend Harrison Krix, of Volpin Props. Going off some sketches made by his friend Tom, Krix had four weeks to build…

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Beaker x Akira, by Ryan Lang (whose work we’ve featured a few times before). It was done for Dan LuVisi’s upcoming book Popped Culture