Shovel Knight in Smash? Maybe someday. The eponymous hero of Shovel Knight was drawn by DeviantArt's hextupleyoodot, AKA Artsy Omni, the guy behind the Rayman "leak," as part of his Smashified series. You can find more of his art in his DeviantArt gallery here. Read more
Yes, before there was the internet, there were cats.
Step 1: get a sweet setup like this. Step 2: drink. Step 3: love/hate your friends to death.
Here's an oil painting of Sora from the Kingdom Hearts series, based on this well-known piece of official concept art, done by artist Raman Singh. Look below for the HD pics, and check out Singh's portfolio for more, albeit non-gaming-themed, paintings in this style (I particularly like his portraits). Read more
Dan Polydoris from The Chicago Toy Collector toyed with classic 80s Kenner Star Wars figures and reforged them as a…
While it might by slightly awkwardly named, Los Angelcraft, based on Los Angeles, is one good-looking Minecraft…
You didn't ask for this, but here you go: a Japanese sickness mask that looks like a woman's face.
Akira is wonderful. The Simpsons is wonderful. Put them together and you get something pretty special.
That's a good way to show off a spaceship. Edge Case Games, the folks behind the multiplayer space combat game Fractured Space, uploaded a Sketchfab model of one of their in-game ships, the stealth-based Assassin. It has a lot of little crevices you can get lost in—see for yourself in the model viewer below. Read more
Artist Joshua Ketchen has designed a series called Arcade Adventures, imagining video games as covers of vintage…
DeviantArt's biggreenpepper re-imagines some of Dota 2's cast as mob bosses, made men, and just criminals in general—and it works surprisingly well, even with the whole coming in all shapes and sizes and colors thing. Full-size pic below. Read more

Griffon Ramsey, who is very handy with a chainsaw, has made this video showing her work that takes a giant hunk of…
Anna Nilsson, from Swedish site Svampriket, has some ideas on what some of the "sexier" female fighting game…

Nope, it's another one of those fake Unreal Engine 4 apartments. Those fake, gorgeous Unreal Engine 4 apartments.
I did a post the other day on Total War's art, which has been collected into a book, and while looking at that…
They're round, they're small, they're fluffy, they're based on cute fictional monsters, and they're smiling. Yep,…
Oooh, that looks painful. In this piece of 3D Final Fantasy VII fanart, done in a Bravely Default-esque style by Sketchfab's HongZhihao, Cloud scores a huge hit on Sephiroth, making him drop his blade. Make sure to check out the embedded model below for more angles on the scene. Read more
Crafted by 3D game artist Andrew Pearson-Roach, this real-world version of Batman supervillain Bane at least has…
You'd think that if a talented artist got ahold of Pokémon coloring books, the result would undoubtedly be…

From sci-fi references to artistic nods, the Mass Effect series has numerous connections to the real world—this…