Archive for the 'Games' Category

New WAR Cinematic

Today Mythic Entertainment has launched the brand new cinematic for Warhammer Online. An amazing job by the folks at Blur studios, do check out their catalog of amazing works as well.

Download Day

Today is Download Day for Firefox 3. Help them break a Guinness World Record and help make the web a better place. While you’re at it, treat yourself to the Spore Creature Creator (free for mac/pc) and watch the time waste away.

updates, releases and more

New releases of Ventilate, Depthcore and Shift are online. For your world news, CNN has a fresh new look and for gaming news, Joystiq has a new layout. Scott Altmann’s iSpot profile features some truly amazing fantasy works. Dan Hughes updates his site with new photographs and a new look.

GoW Creature Modeling

The folks at CGSociety are back with another great interview. This time around it is with Kevin Lanning, Character and Creature Modeler for Epic. He gives some good insight into how he broke into the industry and some nice insider info on character creation in gaming, more specifically in Gears of War.

Are you 8bit?

Love videogames? Love to draw? Well, you hit the jackpot here. IGN is holding an I Am 8bit competition with some nice prices and even a chance to make it into the next I Am 8bit show. Deadline is April 6th so hurry!

wednightlinks

Popwhore, because kids love it (and because there is some nice illustration work to be seen). nerosunero shows the illustration work of Mario Sughi. Bitbox has a nice collection of 28 free Illustrator brushes. From Bucket to Binary, how they scan in a Corvette for a Gran Turismo video game. Check out these truly impressive [...]

curiousness.

10 Ways to be a more Curious Photographer, a nice insight for any photographer (thanks brandon). Six weeks ago, suburbia set out to start a Wii Sports Experiment, he just posted his results with some pretty great results. Registration for this year’s HOW Design Conference is now online, this years event will take place in [...]

good type

Here are 15 tips to choose a good typeface, a nice read. Came across this custom Marcus Fenix Mummy, wonderful work on it. The 3rd version of tcpdesigns, the home of photographer Taylor C. Pemberton is online. Joao Werner has a nice collection of traditional paintings and sculptures. Green Art Gallery, Music, Illustration, Animation, Videos [...]

from russia with love

Tetris: From Russia with Love is a ard to find documentary about Tetris and its creator Alexey Pajitnov. Also covers the rivalries between Nintendo and Atari and the absurdities of buying copyrights for software from a country that doesn’t believe in property, much less intellectual property. Ultimately, a great documentary about a very important [...]

Wii strap replacement

I know it’s not art related but there are alot of gamers that check this site. Anyways, Nintendo is offering a free strap replacement for Wii owners. Just a friendly heads up.

Wii

Today, Nintendo released it’s Wii console. To celebrate the Nintendo Wii website has updated. Where you able to score a system?

gameboy around the world.

Now what’s this have to do with art? Well, um, not sure. BUT. It’s awesome! This kid has his picture taken in front of all these great landmarks around the world, but, he’s glued to his gameboy in all of them. A kid after my own heart. HAHA.
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Brick Flick

I was reading EGM this week and I came across an editorial about this dude that re-creates video game scenes, entirely in Legos! Very cool. Check out Brick Flick for more game scenes. There are even some movies and a step-by-step how-to on how he re-created this scene from Castlevania

London Game Festival

The first ever London Game Festival starts up next week (oct 2-7th). The week will feature a series of diverse events in different venues for different audiences. Whether you’re a gamer, a parent needing advice on games, someone working in the industry, or someone wanting to find out more about how games work and where [...]

X06

Today Microsoft kicked off their X06 Convention in Spain for their Xbox360 platform. Some big news came from the show. The original DOOM is on the xbox live arcade, TODAY!, featuring co-op and deathmatches for 800pts (i’ll be on there tonight, gamertag: silvernome). Other news was announcements for new games, including a new Banjo Kazooie, [...]