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Artsy Fartsy EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Mortal Kombat fighters like you've never seen them before 34 Commence hyperventilating. Back when Vincent Proce was working over at Midway, he submitted a pitch for a new Mortal Kombat. The game in question was to be a total overhaul of the series' "origin... New Mass Effect 2 cover art is not the best we've seen 83 Take a gander at the worst cover art this side of the galaxy.Just kidding. I’ve long believed that excellence in cover art wretchedness belongs to whoever was doing the stuff for fantasy au... Winners of LittleBigPlanet Art Game Jam Session announced 6 Earlier this week, Sony made an announcement that they would be holding another LittleBigPlanet Art Game Jam Session, this time for the PSP. Five teams of students from the School of Game Design ... Valve's holiday cards are amazing 22 Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza/Solstice is coming, and Eid recently passed. Do you send out holiday cards to your friends and family? If not, you're a terrible person. Don't worry though, Valve has yo... Art Attack Friday: Andy Helms' Dude-A-Day project 15 [Art Attack Friday is your weekly look at videogame fan art created by a talented artist.] Back in February (which, if you'll recall, was the internet Stone Age), Hamza featured Andy Helms' Dude-... Attention, PS3 fans: Braid hitting PSN today 26 Jonathan Blow's beautiful puzzle-platformer Braid has been an Xbox 360 exclusive for a very long time, but PS3 fans with a penchant for time-travel and artsty fartsy metaphors will finally get a ... Darkstalkers comes back in comic form 24 UDON Entertainment is bringing back Darkstalkers to comics this January. The three issue miniseries follows Morrigan, Donovan, Pyron and Demitri as they fight for the control of Earth. New charac... Monday Mind Teasers: Colour My World 13 This week's mind teaser uses even less color than last week's fun hacking simulator game. Colour My World was rated as one of the top five Newgrounds games of October, and when you beat it in jus... The art of Once Upon a Pixel: Katamari Damacy 13 Did you enjoy last week's Once Upon a Pixel episode? Want some insight as to how and why I created the dark world that Death Ball takes place in? If the answer to either of these questions is "no... Mario and Home Depot: not just plumbing in common 2 Did you know that decorating Home Depot aprons was a thing? I did not. Shoes I get. Home Depot aprons, not as much. However, when they have a rendition of the first level of Super Mario Bros. pai... Art Attack Friday: Mitch Loidolt 4 Art Attack Friday is your weekly look at videogame fan art created by a talented artist. Today's Art Attack Friday is all about Mitch Loidolt and his outrageous art style. Mitch has drawn up a bu... Once Upon a Pixel: Katamari Damacy 44 Once Upon a Pixel kicks off its official first season with an episode based on Katamari Damacy! Except this time, it's not a bright and happy videogame about consumerism. You see, in the world of... This Splatterhouse custom is the definition of badass 7 Reliving painful gaming memories we've repressed is the norm for this gig. Upon seeing Splatterhouse's Rick in glorious custom toy form over at Tomopop, I was reminded how I never did beat Splatt... RE: The Darkside Chronicles gets the papercraft treatment 4 I gotta hand it to the folks at Capcom -- the promotional items surrounding Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles appeal to me greatly, even though the game isn't really up my alley. Following t... Meat Boy Twitter updates: Contests, menus, and creeps 7 Time for another update from the Super Meat Boy twitter. First off are a few images from "incidental" aspects of the game. We get a look at the silhouette of a mysterious dude (Tim? LL Cool J?), ... 5th Cell wishes you a happy Halloween with some art 6 It's happened. I now know Scribblenauts more for its cute art than the actual DS game itself. In anticipation of tomorrow's festivities, developer 5th Cell sent over an awesome Halloween wallpape... Art Attack Friday: Omar-Dogan 21 Art Attack Friday is your weekly look at videogame fan art created by a talented artist. People that have been following UDON Entertainment and the Street Fighter/Darkstalkers tribute books know ... Overload: More than 100 images of Dark Void concept art 6 Even though when I think of Dark Void, a few great things come to mind -- Airtight Games (Crimson Skies), Capcom, jetpacks, the Bermuda Triangle, and Nikola effing Tesla -- had the game shipped t... Look at this gorgeous New Super Mario Bros. Wii artwork 41 Even though the serious lack of a playable Princess Peach in New Super Mario Bros. Wii is disappointing, I can't stay mad. Watching this gameplay footage always leaves a smile on my face, and I'l... Art Attack Friday: Jublin 10 Art Attack Friday is your weekly look at videogame fan art created by a talented artist.Prepare to have your heart broken as today's Art Attack artist shows no mercy to your favorite Pokemons. Ju... Contest winner is going on a BIT.TRIP! 9 Remember how earlier this week I announced that Gaijin Games was so kind as to offer a pretty damn amazing series of prizes to hand out to a lucky community member? You know what I'm talking abou... Pixel Mario art is as adorable as it is stylish 12 In the fast-paced world of gaming news, it's always nice to take a breather with a low-key, artsy story every once in a while.First up, oZEPPELINo over on the Sprite Stitch Board! forums made a n... Beautiful Critter Crunch concepts, courtesy of Capybara 13 Nick found Capybara Games' PlayStation Network debut Critter Crunch, a colorful food-chaining puzzler, to be "one of the best values in puzzle gaming you'll find this year," but, so far... Dtoid makes: GTA: Chinatown Wars papercraft 15 Rockstar ships Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the PlayStation Portable tomorrow, and I'm pleased as punch over it. I loved it on the Nintendo DS, and look forward to seeing how Rockstar Lee... Contest! Win exclusive BIT.TRIP Void artwork and more 218 Hopefully by now you've had a chance to check out my little round table with the guys of Gaijin Games and the latest game they have coming: BIT.TRIP Void. We have some more content coming son, wh... This bottled Patapon will cost you 10 dollars 10 You don't need it, but you want one -- a Patapon in a bottle, by Etsy user zelas. Selling for $10, zelas put the center of the Patapon army, the flag carrier, inside of a 4 inch tall, 1 inch in d... The original Big Daddy wants a place on your desktop 10 During PAX this past year, Eric Maruscak made this amazing Big Daddy chalk mural over by the big room where everyone had to line up to get into concerts and stuff. I almost completely missed the ... Art Attack Friday: Masa 13 [Art Attack Friday is your weekly look at videogame fan art created by a talented artist.]Mario & Luigi 3: Bowser's Inside Story was recently released here in America, but the game has been o... Custom delights: seven of the Net's best custom Munnys 9 In case you've never visited sister site Tomopop.com, here's a brief rundown of the concept of a Munny: they're small (usually about 3") toys made out of vinyl, vaguely shaped like a monkey,... Bayonetta art competition ranges from erotic to horrific 16 I don't read a lot of comics, so I'd never heard of Wizard (a comics magazine) until today. But anytime someone hosts a Bayonetta art competition with results like whatever the hell is going on u... Sega Saturn flight stick transformed into a robo bug 9 See that robo-looking bug thing above? That used to be a Sega Saturn flight joystick, the Mission Stick. Remember those? I know! Holy sh*t, right?This is the work of artist James Killinger, a des... Who needs graphics: three games in 15 pixels 18 Even if we all can't agree that games are art, we can definitely agree that games can inspire great art. I think Art Attack Friday proves this well every Friday. As part of the UK's Gamecity fes... Art Attack Friday: The big Mario Kart collab 12 Art Attack Friday is your weekly look at videogame fan art created by a talented artist.Over 40 deviantARTists joined forces to bring about this giant Mario Kart collab. The project started close... Bayonetta, Monkey Ball, Ratchet brighten up Google Chrome 25 My experiences with Google "Let's make tabs pop out of windows constantly" Chrome hasn't exactly been joyous, but if there's one thing that could tempt me back to the flock, it's the pr... Tale of Tales' Fatale puts a price on ambiguity: it's $7 16 I do not like Tale of Tales' work, but they so fervently attempt to push against the grain of conventional game design (at least in part by not making actual games) that I feel compelled to buy e... Suck down this Dark Void concept art 6 It may have an unreasonably generic name, but Capcom's Dark Void is looking as hot as baked beans and I am very much looking forward to it. It's been very quiet on the Dark Void front, but a few ... The art of Once Upon a Pixel: BioShock 23 I made a video. It was the pilot episode of Once Upon a Pixel, a sort of sister series to the ever-popular Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'. It has a lot of art in it that I drew. People asked me if I wo... Artist gives Lara Croft a Borderlands-like makeover 18 File this one under "Neat." Freelance artist Ankit Garg has done a number on Tomb Raider's Lara Croft, giving her a total makeover that would make Tyra Banks and her America's Next... Exclusive look: The Braid that almost was part 3: NPCs 13 Here's the final act of our three part behind-the-scenes on the creation of Braid. Part one focused on Tim, part two on devising the game's enemies, and part three is, well, everything else I cou... Art Attack Friday: Videogame Minimalism 17 Art Attack Friday is your weekly look at videogame fan art created by a talented artist.Typically, Art Attack Friday is all about very detailed artwork. This time though, we’re taking a min... Once Upon a Pixel: Bioshock 50 If we lived in a world where videogames didn't exist, where would their stories go? Into science fiction books? Big budget movies? Gritty graphic novels? Educational children's shows? My brand ne... Scribblenaut artist does Final Fantasy VI, Darkstalkers 26 When we last left Edison Yan, artist for 5th Cell's Scribblenauts, he was drawing the casts of the Street Fighter franchise and Final Fantasy VII. Observant readers noticed that Yan had skipped S... Korsakovia is like the Silent Hill sequel that never was 12 If you haven't played Dear Esther or Conscientious Objector, stop reading this and do so immediately. Not just because these two games by thechineseroom are tremendously interesting experiments i... This replica Fallout rifle is jaw-droppingly cool 22 The talented man behind the popular and super elaborate Big Daddy costume and our beloved robot overlord's head, Harrison Krix, is at it again. Will he be the next Ben Heckendorn in terms of esse... What Monkey Island 2 would look like with the CryEngine 15 Ever considered what LeChuck’s Revenge would look like if it was created using the same engine the visual powerhouse title Cryis uses? At least one guy has. Hannes Appel is doing the silly ... Custom made Piranha Plant is scary as sh*t! 34 I used to think Piranha Plants were cute. That’s all changed after seeing this Piranha Plant model by Deviant Art user Kalapusa. The extreme Piranha Plant was made out of acrylics, clay an... Americana and Space Invaders collide 7 At first glance these Photoshopped images from Life Magazine are just kind of cool. Combining Space Invaders with American hunters looks pretty neat, but upon a moments reflection there's somethi... Art Attack Friday: The Braid that almost was part 1: Tim 15 It's good news/bad news time again. Bad news first: for the next few weeks, I'll be borrowing Art Attack Friday from the infinitely more sexy and attractive Hamza"CTZ" Aziz. The good ne... Some Street Fighter IV alt art for you to stare at 9 The Japanese Street Fighter IV blog shared some concept art for the alt costumes on Blanka, Dan, Balrog and Seth. Typically, when you think of costumes in fighting games, you just think the desig... Life size Link papercraft puts everything else to shame 44 And I thought this Ninja Gaiden papercraft was awesome. I was very wrong. In fact after today and seeing the life size Link papercraft I'm pretty sure that all other papercrafts are going to pale... Wallace & Gromit creators making DSi shorts for Nintendo 6 Aardman, the excellent studio behind Wallace & Gromit, has signed up to create twelve animated shorts for Nintendo that will be released starting this month through Christmas. The catch? Thes... Imagine if an Aliens game looked like this 32 Videogame concept artist "Remo" posted a blog a few days ago showing off some work he'd been doing with Photoshop, and it's so awesome I thought I'd share it on this slow news night. It... Army of Two: The 40th Day box art needs more dead hippos 15 Up until recently, I was only casually interested in Army of Two: The 40th Day. It hovered on my radar, but it was far from top priority since there are a sea of other worthy games on the way at ... Great Big Daddy costume or greatest? 32 BioShock is one of those games that will always live on in our memories not simply because it was a memorable game, but because its characters have become so popular in the cosplay scene.Harrison... Bit.Trip.Void announced, detailed, and trailered 13 While Jonathan Holmes was busy experiencing some sort of erotic fever dream, Bit.Trip series creators Gaijin Games were getting sh*t done. Holmes' predictions were right: explorethevoid.com is in... Art from the canceled 2003 Earthworm Jim game re-surface 18 Here's your second dose of canceled game esoterica for the night, again courtesy of Unseen64: concept art and details about the ill-fated Earthworm Jim prototype for the Xbox and and PlayStation ... Pour one out for Star Wars: Battlefront IV concept art 13 Two of my favorite things about videogames are, oddly enough, concept art and unreleased or cancelled games. I like thinking about how games get made, and it's fascinating to sort through the one... Club Nintendo to give away exclusive artwork in September 15 Nintendo has something up its sleeves for Club Nintendo members, and it sounds like it has something to do with artwork.What Nintendo does not have up its sleeve is plans for a Virtual Console on... Indie Nation: Ergon/Logos 37 Our Indie Nation series highlights cool independent games.What is this? An interactive poem? A fast-paced Choose Your Own Adventure? A smarmy existentialist critique of videogames and the status ... Art Attack Friday: Ashley Davis 30 Ashley Davis is someone you all should be very familiar with. She contributes fantastic features on the site and she’s also our resident drawer of all things super cute. She first burst ont... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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