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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. window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Joakim Hellstedt classified these under “various pitches” and “various gameplay and misc,” so [...]
In: Culture|Gaming News|Nintendo
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 [...]
In: Culture|Gaming News
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. window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; In addition to actual arcade cabinets, the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines also plays home to [...]
I am daring to be excited by Transformers: War For Cybertron. Why? Because I love any Transformers not involving Michael Bay, and I especially love the War Within comic series. Which is kinda what this game is like! Though, sadly, not exactly like; as this artwork shows, cues have been taken from the fan-favourite prequel [...]
In: Gaming News|PC
20 Aug 2009Lots of Guild Wars 2 art here, plus this key bit from the fact sheet about ArenaNet’s upcoming PC MMO: “While Guild Wars 2 adds a persistent world, it retains the unique characteristics of the original game, including a strong narrative, extensive instanced game play, an anti-grind design philosophy, and strong support for competitive play.”
In: Gaming News
17 Aug 2009
The Design Inspiration has a collection of Legend of Zelda artwork up in the style of their amazing Super Mario Bros. artwork we some some time ago.
Sadly, I don't see any Links that could pass for Daniel Day-Lewis — but there's one that kind of looks like Jeff Bridges before he went to seed. And there are more than a few portraits that bring new meaning to the term "androgynous."
But the one that takes the cake, for me anyway, is this one:
What’s your favorite?
30+ Various Styles of The Legend of Zelda Artworks [The Design Inspiration]
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28 Jul 2009Late last year, Gamasutra said they’d heard of a game Warren Spector (Deus Ex) was working on with Disney. Said it was a “steampunk” title. Looks like they were right on the money. The website of concept artist Fred Gambino (via Superannuation) has some pieces for a project called “Epic Mickey”, described as an “interactive [...]
In: Culture|Gaming News
7 Jul 2009We thought WiiSpray – a Wii mod put together by a couple of German design students – was pretty neat. We’re not the only ones, as the judges of the iF Communication Design Awards are equally impressed. Held by German firm International Forum Design, WiiSpray was one of 377 finalists in the prestigious awards, from [...]
In: Culture|Gaming News|Nintendo
6 Jul 2009Remember those “HD” Wii videos? This is just like them! Only, it’s Mario Galaxy, not Smash Bros. And they’re lovely big screenshots, not blurry little internet videos.
To refresh, these games are displaying in what is essentially high definition, as they’re being run through a Wii emulator on a PC. So if the Wii could manage high definition (which it can’t), this is probably what Mario would look like. Nice, no?
[Wii emulator can do 720p @ NeoGAF, via VG247]








In: Culture|Gaming News
3 Jul 2009Like they did with the Big Daddies, 2K have released some concept art for BioShock’s tiniest denizens, the Little Sisters. Unlike the first lot, which showed the initial designs for the original Big Daddies, these show how 2K Marin – the developers working on the sequel – have gone about depicting the Little Sisters for [...]