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Spyro the Dragon in adorable plushie form. Created by Chibi-pets, it measures 18 inches by 25 inches—it's fairly big, as the two real-world photos show. Those are below, along with a hi-res image showing a couple more angles. There's also a lot more plushies to check out at Chibi-pets' deviantART and Facebook… Read more

Assassin's Creed Unity has some very pretty concept art. This GIF was made from a series of three drawings depicting the Café Théâtre, posted by Ubisoft's David Alvarez to the Polycount forum's Unity art dump thread. Check it out to see some more of the textures, models and concepts people have created for the game. Read more

RoboCop's ED-209 stands proudly over a flaming wreckage in GTA IV. Hopefully GTA V will have (at least) the same level of modding support on PC—giving up all this crazy cool stuff would be a real shame. This one was made veteran modder JulioNIB; there's videos and screenies below, and you can download the mod here.

This Minecraft build wasn't inspired by a real hotel, which is a shame 'cause I'd love to go there. It actually reminds me a bit of the Panau Falls Casino from Just Cause 2. In any case, the build is called the Twin Palms Hotel and it was submitted to Planet Minecraft by Jaden024. Look below for more screenshots. Read more

Pokémon are usually named after the sounds they make, unless those sounds are, well, screaming. We see this in action in the comic drawn by Justin Hall of Jhallcomics.com. The unnamed spelunker probably had a list for these cases. Read more

The Turtles stepped into too much ooze and got 100% more badass in Allen Geneta's fan-art. Compared to these, their crazy mutant nemesis Slash looks like a nice guy. Read more

After taking out all the gods in the pantheon, Kratos goes up against some really wild first gen Pokémon in Tuna-Art's fan-piece. Charizard's flamethrower might be too much for him. Read more

There's only a couple hours left until WoW's fifth expansion, Warlords of Draenor, goes live, and these final hours are always eventful, whether it's a last minute raid of the opposite faction's capital or—as in fite_me_irl's screenshot—a giant blob of players gathering to say goodbye to Pandaria. Read more

Blizzard is planning to add this cool Diablo-themed map as a Battleground in Heroes of the Storm, with the High Heavens going up against the forces of Hell. Not much is known yet, but it'd look great if the winning side could slowly take over the other half of the map, just like Zerg creep. Read more

Guns, glorious guns. In this rather mesmerizing gif, the creators of Witchmarsh, the (successfully) Kickstarted 1920s action RPG, show off some of the gun types you'll be able to pick up in-game when it arrives on PC late next year. Read more

Is that you, Dog from Half-Life 2? This insanely good LEGO mech looks like him. Such a cool build, with a really detailed workshop, all made by the talented Kosmas Santosa.

The legendary Pokémon Rayquaza is about to crash into a group of flying-types. DeviantART artist Arvalis made a really good job on this. Those tiny animated parts make this version of the serpentine beast totally badass. Read more

Here are the first-gen starter Pokémon, looking as adorable as ever—but in a physical, huggable form. They come courtesy of Ashley Muldoon, who sells crocheted dolls in her Etsy shop, StarCraftsCo. She's planning to do the third-gen starters next, in honor of the impending release of Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. Read more

A TIE Fighter and the Iron Giant, from artist-slash-game-dev Derek Laufman. These are part of the Inktober campaign, where artists create one ink drawing a day in October to improve their skills. Laufman's already pretty good, as you can see. There's more of his stuff below, and on his deviantART and Tumblr pages. Read more

Here's a very good example of what rendering software (in this case, Chunky, combined with a texture pack) can do for Minecraft screenshots. It's like comparing a finished CG shot from a film to a photo of the set, though here, you get Minecraft blocks standing in for a greenscreen. Look below for the hi-res pics. Read more

I'd trade my Squirtle for these. Artist Juan Arrabal "Dragolisco" Hernández has some really cool re-imagined Pokémon. Read more

Snake, what are you doing? Even if your name is Snake, you don't have to transform into one! That's not how you sneak up on enemy guards. Where is your cardboard box? Read more

Pokémon trainers have a long journey ahead, a post-apocalyptic or at least really dark one, according to kevinbolk's superb gloomy drawing on DeviantART. Read more

Do you remember all these famous scenes from Final Fantasy VI that Mikaël "Orioto" Aguirre included in his awesome fan-art? The close-ups of Espers, Magitek, Kefka and that bloody Ultros might help. Read more