A Weaker Man of Steel Has Me Really Pumped for Upcoming Superman Comics

Superman’s been hit with some big changes over the last few months. And it looks like they’re going to be paying off big dividends starting next month. It’s been clear that DC Comics has been building towards a big shake-up with their flagship character. A little while ago, Kal-El got a major new power that…

Massive Ban Wave Hopefully Fixes World of Warcraft PvP

Blizzard unleashed its ban hammer again, this time kicking out more than 100,000 World of Warcraft players for a six-month period. Most of them are people who were cheating in various PvP battlegrounds with third party programs, and using interrupt-scripts. We’ve recently taken action against a large number of World of Warcraft accounts that were…

LEGO builder xJohns’ mini Stormtrooper base is also a cool iPhone holder with the phones being part of the set as recruiting posters for the Empire. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art we can find. Send us suggestions if you’ve got them.…

Japanese Man Gets Arrested for Allegedly Selling Video Game Cheats

Thirty-year old Akihide Yamamoto has been arrested for allegedly selling cheats for online shooter Alliance of Valiant Arms According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest paper, Yamamoto was arrested for suspected violation of Japan’s Unfair Competition Prevention Law. Reports state that Yamamoto, a Himeji City resident, is believed to have apparently sold a hacked character…

Modern Samurai Slices an 80mph… Fried Shrimp

That’s Isao Machii, a master Japanese swordsman. Here, he is battling deadly foes like fresh produce and fried seafood. Machii has appeared on Japanese several times, showing off his amazing skills. This slick ad is for mobile phone carrier Softbank, and a good reminder that when fried shrimp are used as deadly weapons, then Machii…

Well, These Tetsuya Nomura Designs Look Different

Square Enix’s new smartphone game, Rampage Land Rankers, is labeled as an “imaginary science adventure drama” and is a “PvD” (Player versus Dungeon) game where players create custom characters, called “Rankers” to explore board-game-like dungeons to fight monsters and find treasures. Actions in dungeons, like moving to attacking, are executed by using cards that can…

The Trailer for The Latest Ace Attorney Game with English Subtitles

Capcom recently released a new trailer fortheir latest Ace Attorney game. Now watch it with handy translations. The ancestor of Phoenix Wright, Sherlock Holmes, Watson as a young girl… the newest Ace Attorney game, The Great Ace Attorney: The Adventures of Ryunosuke Naruhodou has is all. The new trailer also focuses on a couple of…

How To Ruin Video Game Titles with Crappy Font

The Japanese equivalent of Comic Sans is called “Soueikaku Poptai” (創英角ポップ体). And like Comic Sans, it sure can make cool things uncool. Especially video game titles. Recently, Twitter users in Japan have been uploading photos under the tag #絶対に創英角ポップ体しか使ってはいけないゲーム業界, showing how titles would look if the game industry were compelled to use the awful font.…

Looks Like The Simpsons Just Lost The Voice Of Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders

Harry Shearer, who for decades has worked as one of the stars of The Simpsons—lending his voice to characters like Ned Flanders, Mr. Burns, Principal Skinner and Waylon Smithers—has seemingly announced he will no longer be working on the show. A story on TMZ over the weekend claimed that attempts to renew the long-running cartoon…

Time For Some Badass Art

Maciej Kuciara was last featured solo (there have been cameos) here on Fine Art over two years ago, which is too damn long. So here’s an update, with a ton of amazing art. In those two years he’s been busy, working on everything from Jupiter Ascending to The Last of Us. You can see more…

Well, someone’s pretty psyched about the return of the Nintendo World Champs

Sweet Counter-Strike Wallpaper

This series of wallpapers by drizzly shows some of Counter-Strikes most iconic map spots, and recreates them in a cute isometric style. The longer I look at this, the more I’d love to see a Counter-Strike game that takes most of the pages out of Hitman Go’s playbook. There are phone versions of the wallpapers…

Go Behind The Scenes On One Of The Best Star Wars Games Ever Made

Star Wars: Republic Commando is one of the greatest Star Wars games of all, and is easily the best game based on the prequel trilogy. I’ve got a whole new appreciation for it, though, after watching this developer playthrough, hosted by the game’s lead programmer Brett Douville. As people who don’t make games, it’s always…

GTA V Mod Overhauls Police, Calls In The Army

The wanted levels in GTA V kind of suck. You’ve got a police force that is half-psychic, half robocop. When you hit max stars, there are no tanks anymore. What gives? Enter modders. The Crime and Police Rebalance & Enhancement mod, as shown in this video by The XXI, reworks the entire crime system in…

Troll Ruins Kickstarter Campaign After Withdrawing €7000 Pledge

2Awesome Studio, the team behind a Kickstarter campaign for the shooter Dimension Drive, just had their hearts put through the ringer. With their time almost up, and with thousands remaining to hit their goal, a single backer appeared out of nowhere and pledged €7000. The devs were, unsurprisingly, thrilled. But then, heartbreak. The clock has…