Chun-Li vs Tifa In a Brutal Fistfight. Who Would Win?

Sorry if that sounded like an idle fanfic question. I couldn’t care less what your imagination says. What I do care about is videos going to the trouble of dressing up professional stunt people/fighters and having them go at it… in the name of idle fanfic curiosity. Chun-Li vs Tifa (Street Fighter 2 vs Final…

Cramming A Giant PC Genre Onto a Tiny iPhone Can Work, You Know

There are few more “PC” genres than 4X. So named because they generally involve asking players to “explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate”, they’re normally set in space, and have so many buttons and menus that you can only really play them on the PC. So when I sat down to play Sidius Nova this morning,…

26 Terrific Pieces of Halo 4 Concept & Promotional Art

OK, so this should be the last batch of art from Halo 4 we showcase here on Fine Art. Hopefully. Maybe. While we’ve done a lot over the past few weeks, it’s hard to resist when the artists involved keep sharing their work, and that work keeps being some of the best you’ll see in…

A Hypnotic Timelapse Video of a Supercomputer Being Built

If you’ve never seen a supercomputer in the flesh, the name is a little misleading. They don’t look as clean as it sounds. More often they’re banks and banks of individual units networked together to form a single hivemind, a gigantic mess of cables, stacks and fans. To give you an appreciation of how much…

Their Kickstarter Made $170,000, But Now They’re Out Of Money

In February, the Kickstarter for Code Hero raised over $170,000. Now they’re out of money. Code Hero‘s creators have been somewhat unresponsive recently, and some of the project’s backers have taken to the Code Hero Kickstarter page to complain about the lack of updates. One or two have even hinted at a potential class-action lawsuit…

Looks like Valve is expanding, buying a small indie studio comprised of former Diablo III and Popcap developers.

San Andreas (2004) vs San Andreas (2013), a Visual Comparison

Using official screenshots and stills from the game’s trailers, a Polish fan site has done a cracking job comparing the San Andreas of 2004 to the one we’ll be getting our hands on in 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V As you can see there are… more trees. And shinier cars. But one thing I will…

The Dark Knight Rises Trailer Gets The LEGO Treatment

I like LEGO Batman games, and while I didn’t really love The Dark Knight Rises, I would totally see it in LEGO. Thanks to ParanickFilmz for making this dream a reality, at least in trailer form. (I think I liked the TDKR trailer more than the film, so actually, this works out nicely.) How’s everyone…

An Enormous Gallery Of Warhammer 40K Miniatures Painted To Within An Inch Of Their Lives

I liked collecting and painting Warhammer 40K miniatures when I was a kid, sure, but one thing I liked more was heading to this local store that always had models painted by a professional. Stuck behind glass and painted immaculately, they were so damn expensive I never got the chance to buy one before the…

There’s a Zelda Game On The Windows 8 Store! (Don’t Buy It)

For a store that’s meant to be all about control, it sure didn’t take long for someone to sneak a fairly blatant clone onto Microsoft’s Windows 8 Marketplace. Spotted by NeoGAF user PsychoRaven, the game pictured above is still there at time of posting. Perhaps out of bravery, or at least stupidity, the “creator”, Joeri…

Something Fun Happens When a Developer Who Hates Sports Games Makes a Sports Game

It makes a weird sort of sense that Paolo Pedercini would hate on the modern era of sports games. The man behind the Molleeindustria catalog makes cutting anti-establishment games like Phone Story and Unmanned, experiences that put players in deeply exploitative and uncomfortable realities. But for his latest creative effort, Pedercini took on something else…

We Can Thank Skrillex For Far Cry 3‘s Best Musical Moment

There’s a mission in Far Cry 3 that… well, it’s kind of “That Mission.” Every time someone new plays the game, I see them on Twitter or wherever, raving about the pot-burning mission. It’s great for a number of reasons—we’ve enjoyed lighting drug fields on fire since San Andreas. But the thing that really puts…

Crack That Chip! An 8-Bit Tribute Worthy Of Devo

With their stripped-down tunes and looping, incessant beats, Devo seems like a band that fits the 8-bit makeover mold more than most. And so, the music collective 8-bit Operators has pooled their talent to create “Crack That Chip!,” a video game-ized tribute to Mothersbaugh’s mighty ensemble, and from what I’ve heard of it, it’s exceeded…

Racist Morons Have Serious Issues With BioShock Infinite

The BioShock games have always had a weightier tone to them than just shooting things in the face. The first game was lightly basted in an Ayn Rand marinade, while the upcoming BioShock Infinite deals with some tricky issues like racism. The developers are to be applauded for this, but at the same time, it…

The Best Video Game Music of 2012

You press a button, and the beat drops. Forward you fly, straight into the perilous unknown, beats pushing against your eardrums as you push back against the controller. Tempo and harmony swim together, and you lose yourself in the rhythm of play. 2012 has been a fine year for video game music. The finest in…

Beginner Mode: A Tutorial for MLB The Show’s Non-Tutorial

So, it’s not exactly a tutorial. I got that impression about the new “Beginner Mode” of MLB 13 The Show in a talk with one of the game’s producers last week. But having gone four innings with it myself already, I can see that label no longer applies. Honestly, I’m not sure what label applies…

Steam Wants To Take On GameFAQs, Testing “Game Guides”

Valve began rolling out a new Steam beta feature today: game guides. The aim is exactly what you’re thinking it is. Anyone can make a guide, and they’ll be accessible on a game’s “hub” page, as you can see above. You can upload images, embed YouTube vidos and rope in friends on your friends list…

The Smartest & Dumbest Things Square Enix Did in 2012

Square Enix. It’s a name that evokes some powerful memories: what gamer hasn’t formed some sort of emotional connection with games like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest over the years? If you play video games, you’ve probably played something developed or published by Square Enix. They’ve got tentacles everywhere. 2012 was an interesting year for…

The Most Popular Video Games Of 2012, According To Google’s Search Results

One of the most interesting ways of determining the popularity of something is to see how many people are looking for information on it via Google. So let’s see what the search engine has to tell us about what people were looking for in 2012. Google has released its “Zeitgeist” report for 2012, showing the…

Weapons of Mass Disruption #1: It’s The Best Time To Be A Gamer, And Here’s How That Happened

As a gamer, you’ve probably noticed a bunch of really interesting stuff happening in the games industry over the last few years. It seems like only a while back, we were stuck in a situation where, as gamers, our options were limited and frankly, boring. Pretty much the only games of note were big-budget console-based…