Newly announced Pokémon X/Y isn’t even a week old. Heck, it’s not even half a week old. But the internet makes it seem like the game is a thousand years old. Sites like DeviantArt as well as numerous Tumblr blogs are awash with Pokémon X/Y fan art. Here’s a very small sampling of what’s out…
For its Japanese release, Far Cry 3 is getting a series of edits that will result in a slightly different experience for the country’s gamers. According to Ubisoft (via website 4Gamer), here’s what’s different in the Japanese language version: • Wounded corpses have been cut (er, censored) • A sex scene as well as a…
A skeleton wielding a sword is supposed to be scary. It was scary in 1963 when special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen created a whole army of them in Jason and the Argonauts. How do you kill something that’s already dead? But what happens when you take a Skeleton Warrior out of Jason and the Argonauts?…
Here’s a welcome break from fan-flicks and comedy videos. Psycho Crusher Productions are a team setting out to “make gamers as famous as the games they play”, courtesy of a series of films called GAM3R It’s an unfortunate title, in many ways, because it makes you conjure images of insult-spewing shooter fans and excruciating attempts…
Boy, this review was easy. Normally, when I sit down for a week or so with a gaming mouse, it’s all about coming to grips with a new feel and a new design. Not so with Mionix’s Naos 8200, because it’s the updated version of the Naos 5000, my personal mouse, the one that sits…
Aussie writer Daniel Hindes, who for a while has run a niche site called Sneaky Bastards, wants to take the idea of discussing stealth games to a more tangible format. Hence, Sneaky Bastards, the magazine. Promising that the magazine will feature 100% new content (as in, nothing that’s been on the site before), the first…
I said earlier this week that Microsoft and Sony should be worried about Valve’s Steam Box plans, because they appear to have traditional home consoles square in their sights. Well, in an interview with Eurogamer, Microsoft’s Phil Harrison (still feels weird typing that) seems to get awfully defensive, issuing what amounts as a warning to…
Kolby Jukes, formerly of BioWare, is now a Senior Character Artist at 343 Studios, where he got to build the 3D models of Halo 4’s villain, Didact, in excruciating detail. While at BioWare he worked on Mass Effect 2 & 3, building the game models for some of the series’ biggest characters, and before that,…
3D printers are not machines. They are portals to a realm of dark magic, where you can conjure anything you want, in return for a plastic sacrifice. Take this, for example: this is not an expensive, professional action figure (though you’ll soon be able to get one of those). It’s something made by a human…
A classic piece of modern cinema. An angry man known better these days for his portrayal of Batman. A deck of Pokémon cards, some better than others. Demi Adejuyigbe has done one hell of a job with this. The Snorlax zoom is especially well done. American Psycho: Unreleased 10th Anniversary Director’s Cut [YouTube, via Go…
The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is shaping up to be a great piece of technology, but that potential greatness has always been tempered by the worry that most games would never support it. Thank the Maker for community-created software, then, because cybereality’s Vireio Perception driver means that games like Mirror’s Edge, Skyrim, Half-Life 2,…
There’s never been a proper Pokémon game on a home console. For reasons Nintendo have long stuck to. But hey, it’s the internet, let’s imagine that they broke with tradition, and announced a massive new Pokémon adventure for the Wii U. What could it look like? Maybe something like this. Environment artist Evan Liaw (who…
You know what would make an art-heist flick even cooler? If you combined it with some extreme memory-wiping shenanigans. 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle seems to agree, going by this trailer for his upcoming movie Trance This looks quite… chaotic. The story of an art heist gone wrong, ending in amnesia,…
Many choices are timed in The Walking Dead, and you can always tell. Except for this one decision, and it happens to be the most gut-wrenching choice you have to make near the story’s conclusion. [Major Spoilers Follow!] That’s when you send Clementine off and you have to decide whether or not she kills you.…
There are so many casinos in Fallout: New Vegas, and so many factions trying to control the strip. As a player, you might end up taking control of the strip yourself—so why not take that all the way and actually manage a casino? Here is a mod appropriately called Run The Lucky 38 by PaladinRider…
Few video game series have music as iconic as The Legend of Zelda. Over sixteen years and more than a dozen games, Koji Kondo’s memorable themes have been transposed, re-arranged, and re-imagined countless times. Each game in the series has its own musical identity, and each player has his or her own favorite song. What’s…
Ever wonder what it’d be like to be a trombone slide? This video gives some idea.
If you’re just casually interested in chip music, it can be tough to track the work of groups like 8 Bit Weapon. First a solo project by Seth Sternberger that added Michelle Sternberger (a.k.a. “ComputeHer“) to the mix, 8-Bit Weapon and ComputeHer have been making chip music for more than ten years. Now, the duo…
The band HEALTH’s killer Max Payne 3 soundtrack was easily one of the best of last year, and a chunk of the reason Max Payne 3 was among my personal top games of 2012. This video from The Creators Project shows the band talking about the process of scoring the game, focusing on the stadium…
Congratulations, Australia, you finally have your very first Adults-Only video game
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