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23 Feb 2010The artists behind 2009’s Game of the Year and recent award hog Uncharted 2: Among Thieves will be showing off the artistic talents that got them hired at Naughty Dog at the upcoming Unleashed: The Art of Naughty Dog Exhibit.
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That opportunity to eyeball the creative works of some 20 strong Naughty [...]
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9 Feb 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″;
The Art of Tomb Raider is looking like a must-have hard-edged coffee table book for any fan of the series and its curvy protagonist. Published by Dreams and Visions Press, the 568-page book actually comes in two volumes, with the first covering “every significant piece of Tomb Raider art” through Angel [...]
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9 Feb 2010Game developer Blizzard has already shown the male version of the Diablo III monk. It hasn’t shown the female version. Until now.
Diablo III has four character classes announced so: Witch Doctor, Wizard, Barbarian, and Monk. This concept art is for the female version of the existing monk.
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In previous games, players were [...]
In: Culture| Gaming News| Nintendo
28 Jan 2010Nintendo’s refusal to step into the “next” generation of hardware means we’re years away from seeing a high definition Zelda game. Still, a man can dream…
These images were generated by Zelda fan Ryu-Gi, using Garry’s Mod, a PC utility which allows users to import and edit game characters within Valve’s Source engine. Taking some models [...]
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27 Jan 2010Bungie this week released a large batch of concept art for the upcoming Halo: Reach, showing some soldiers, some Covenant, some trees, some snow and a Spartan with a little robot T-Rex arm.
Some of this was featured in the latest issue of Game Informer, but since most of you wouldn’t have seen that, enjoy.
In: Gaming News| Nintendo
26 Jan 2010We often see concept art for games that are coming out, but how about games that are already out? Like, say, The Legend of Zelda, which was released in 1986?
The latest in Nintendo’s series of “Iwata Asks” is up on the company’s British portal, and contains four rare, most likely never-before-seen (by you) pieces of [...]
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13 Jan 2010In Darksiders, you play as War, one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The other three, though, you never see them. They’re away, at a volleyball tournament. If they were around, though, this is what they’d look like.
Vigil’s Joe Madureira originally designed all four horsemen. He of course took some liberties; instead of War, [...]
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11 Jan 2010Our Swedish friends weren’t just working on a Final Fantasy project when the studio went belly-up last year. A former GRIN artist has posted concepts from a ninja action/adventure game, and it sounds like it was a new IP.
Joakim Hellstedt classified these under “various pitches” and “various gameplay and misc,” so if it even had [...]
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7 Jan 2010Dirk, the same guy behind that enormous giant LEGO Mario, has just applied the finishing touches to an enormous LEGO Yoshi. And it’s gross!
Not for the quality of craftsmanship, no, that’s exemplary. It’s because you can see Yoshi’s insides. Like Dirk has hunted Yoshi, captured him, cut him in pieces and is making some kind [...]
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28 Dec 2009As we’ve covered, the Soviet Union didn’t just have big tanks and long lines for potatoes. It also had video games. But those games didn’t just sell themselves! Like everything else, they needed to be advertised.
In addition to actual arcade cabinets, the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines also plays home to a collection of classic [...]