The Visual Evolution of Spawn

Todd McFarlane’s demonic anti-hero comic Spawn is reaching its anniversary #250 issue this month and Image is not only celebrating it with a triple-sized release, but with some cool small things like this illustrated chart, that shows all of Spawn’s costumes. With Spawn issue #250 coming up at the end of the month…. I thought…

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Then And Now: Five Generations Of Radeon Graphics Compared

Last month we compared half a decade’s worth of DirectX 11-capable GeForce cards in the latest and greatest PC games to see where Nvidia has made the biggest performance leaps and which GPUs have aged the best. We had never compared so many GPU generations under the same conditions and the results were fascinating. So…

The Surprising Results of Selective Pokémon Breeding

Is that… a “Chargizard”? Concentrating on recessive genes and breeding Pokémon the Dorkly way might not get you to the end of the game, but it definitely has other advantages. This special method, you can see it below, works well with starter Pokémon, but what about the ones that are a bit weirder. Koffing? Diglett?…

Sid Meier’s Starships Takes You Even Deeper into Space

There’s going to be even more sci-fi-styled Civilization action coming this spring, with a new strategy game coming from legendary game designer Sid Meier picking up where Civilization: Beyond Earth left off. Announced today at Gamespot, Sid Meier’s Starships will have players sending their own fleets of spacecraft out into the cosmos in an effort…

Call of Duty Online is a Big Surprise

Forget everything you saw and experienced in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, forget Jack Mitchell and harken back to the days of Soap, Ghost and Price. Remember those good ol’ days with them boys? Well, you can relive that whole experience again and then some in the China-only Call of Duty: Online That’s right, CoDOL…

Team of Keisuke Honda Clones Plays Pro Evo

You know Keisuke Honda? He plays for Milan in Serie A. And Shunsuke Nakamura? He does stuff like this. Eleven Hondas just faced off against eleven Nakamuras. Honda. Honda. Honda. Honda. Nakamura. Nakamura. Honda. This comes from YouTuber Zyagariko san, who made each team, and then had both sides face off in auto play. The…

The 2014 Hearthstone Championship Trophy Is An Egg

Hearthstone is a game of ups and downs, where anything can happen at the drop of a card. That sentiment is even more true at competition level. This past weekend, China’s Blizzard operator, NetEase, held the quarterfinals to their new Gold League e-sports event, and the HearthStone competition was fierce. Announced and launched last year,…

Dota 2 Event Prompts Legal Spat Between Streaming Sites

The video gaming live-streaming business is huge right now. Amazon purchased Twitch.TV for $970 million last year. Well, in the land where everything has a Chinese version, China, the Chinese equivalents of Twitch are in a legal war over the Dota 2 Asia Championships. Sina news reports that two of China’s newest and fastest growing…

Stan Lee Finally Makes His Kpop Video Debut

Phew! With all that Stan Lee has already done, you were probably wondering when he was going to appear in a Kpop video. Well, at the tender age of 92, it’s happened. As tipster Sang points out, Lee makes a special guest appearance in Clara‘s new music video “Gwiyomi Song 2.” You might remember the…

The Four-Decade History of Open World Games

Those Assassin’s Creeds and Far Crys and Grand Theft Autos had to come from somewhere In his video, YouTuber XboxAhoy takes a look at how games like the original Zelda, 1984’s Elite, or the legendary Ultima series contributed to open world and sandbox games as we know them today. There’s bits about some truly obscure…

Even Killzone Can Be Beautiful When It Wants To Be

Richard Dumont, whose Deus Ex art we featureda few years back, has just finished a stint with Guerilla Games working on the Killzone series. Rather than simply dump all his work, he’s done something very cool and put together a free “art book”, containing not just images but some of the creative process that went…

Half-Life Reimagined As An Isometric Game

And just like that, Half-Life looks like a mid-90s RPG, or CD-ROM action title Using the HalfMapperprogram, which is able to render Half-Life’s Black Mesa in its entirety, gzaloprgmhas posted a gallery that changes the way we look at Valve’s iconic game. No joke, can someone turn this into an RPG, please? Gordon can just…