300 Heroes proves, as CrusaderCast puts it so well in this video, “there is no Mandarin word for copyright”, because it doesn’t just copy League of Legends (literally, it re-uses LoL’s textures), it makes use of as many famous characters from properties it didn’t pay for as it can get its hands on. There seems…
It takes a lot to make me laugh out loud at some video game character design. Game artist Hunter Mortenson and his wife Sadies have recently created this DOTA 2 courier, and he’s available in the Steam Workshop. His name? The Dallying Llama Courier (though sadly, it appears as though Valve has renamed him Llama…
This is not a retouched photo. It’s not a 3D model, or an actor dressed as perhaps the United States’ greatest ever President. This is a sculpture, done by veteran Hollywood effects man Kazuhiro Tsuji. It was part of a display held earlier this year at the Copro Gallery in Santa Monica. Tsuji, who moved…
I don’t give a damn that this trailer for World of Warships – an upcoming game from the same guys behind World of Tanks – has no gameplay in it. What it does have are lots and lots of battleships. Battleships are awesome. More video games need battleships. Developers, note: more games need battleships.
Emerson Tung is a concept artist who has worked on properties like League of Legends, Warhammer 40K and Transformers, while having also done some stuff with tabletop giants Fantasy Flight Games. He’s currently an artist at mobile gaming company TinyCo. You can see more of Emerson’s stuff at his personal site To see the larger…
What you’re looking at here is Super Chain Crusher, a shmup (shoot-em-up) whose native resolution of 3200 x 800 is so long most modern video hardware cannot properly display it. So its developers encourage you to play it across two screens. OK, so you technically can play it on one screen – and you can…
I think the Super Nintendo, at least the Japanese/European model, is one of the most beautiful pieces of consumer electronics ever made, from its colour palette to its timeless design. Just because the original is timeless, though, doesn’t mean we can’t get an update for these more modern times. Like this one, by Colombian designer…
Nintendo has, smartly, mostly ignored Hollywood following 1993’s Super Mario Bros. movie. So we don’t have a Zelda movie. Many people think, smartly, that this is a good thing, because there’s every chance a Hollywood adaptation would be awful. But there’s a small chance it might not be. I mean, if fans (in this case,…
As you might already know, there are some big protests and riots going down in Istanbul at the moment, with what’s emerging as the “Occupy Gezi” movement clashing with police over President Tayyip Erdogan’s aggressive development policies in the historic city. You can read a great primer piece on the riots at Gawker To those…
If you look beyond its cardinal sin of being a kinda lousy movie, 2006’s Superman Returns got plenty of other stuff wrong, too. Or, “wrong,” as the nitpickers at
Last year’s hottest mod will this year become its own standalone game, and while we’re yet to get an official look at how DayZ is shaping up, this leaked footage gives us a few hints. I say only a few hints because this appears to be early code for the game, missing key features and…
The Yawhg is an excellent “dark fantasy multiplayer choose-your-own-adventure game” where you try your best to survive against impending doom. No two games are alike; it’s randomly generated. One of the best-written games I’ve played this year, and you can buy it here.
Nintendo loves farts, and they would very much like you to know it. That’s right! Farts! The flatulence in question is tied to the upcoming Game & Wario, a Wii U game that very few people seem to care about. I mean, I’m sure some people care about it, but it’s not really garnering the…
I never knew how much the world needed a Japanese role-playing game starring Kanye West—not until I came across Kanye Quest 3030. Now, the trailer for the game looks rough—in the way that most RPG Maker games do. But that’s surface-level stuff; we’ve seen heavy-hitters made with RPG Maker before—think To The Moon or Actual…
A reliable retail source tells us that some GameStop chains will no longer be selling the 8GB Wii U as of June 18, exactly one week after Nintendo’s big E3 kick-offevent. Our source says GameStop has contacted stores with the following message: Nintendo Wii U Basic Recall – Two Week Preparation On Tuesday, 6/18, all…
SpyParty, the excellent asymmetrical multiplayer game we’ve been raving about for years, is finally going into open beta. Go sign up! $15.
It’s a funny thing, working as a reporter who covers the video game industry. Often, video game publishers try to treat you like you’re part of their marketing arm. Sometimes they ask for some very strange things. This morning, Ubisoft sent us a handful of screenshots from their upcoming role-playing game, South Park: The Stick…
Last time we checked in with Evan McIsaac, he was dancing and lip synching to “Do My Thing” by Estelle and Janelle Monáe…all while dressed like Sailor Moon characters. Now he’s back with a number to accompany to Hi Fashion’s “Amazing.” It’s terrible. And that’s exactly what makes it amazing. I can’t get over how…
I wasn’t sure that I was going to write about the race of Remember Me‘s heroine because I wasn’t sure there’d be anything to write about. And after having played the game, I can say that Nilin’s ethnic make-up plays no part in the world-building of the new Capcom adventure. But wait a minute, some…
Company of Heroes 2 has begun its open beta, which will run through June 18. To sign up, head over to the game’s Steam page.
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