"How do you even review Dreams?" It's a question I've asked, and been asked. Even now, as I try to stall so the right words might spill out of my subconscious and capture some of its playful magic, I'm grappling with possible answers. It's ...

Need a change of scenery on your PlayStation 4 home screen? You might dig this Last of Us Part II theme. First and foremost, it's free – always a treat! – but it also has a cool day-and-night effect. Ellie's theme shifts from d...

The Switch is building up quite an insane legacy for itself, even solely as far as first-party Nintendo games are concerned. It's hosted pretty much every major living series, including multiple Zelda games (some systems only get one) ...

Game Freak has been musing with the "forms" concept for a while now in Pokemon: allowing them to break out of their aesthetic comfort zone but still give fans familiar creatures. We saw it to an extreme with 'mons like Deoxys, and to a...

Demakes fascinate me. It's impossible to literally go back in time and supplant retro games with newer concepts, knowing what we know now. But I'm engrossed in the artistry of it: especially if the theoretical concept works, or even better:...

Artist Raf Grassetti has been busy. In addition to all his work on the new God of War (which contains some of the best visuals of the last 10 years), he's also been chipping away steadily at side projects on his Instagram account. We shared...

It's tough to fully appreciate the craftsmanship in Cuphead's art design when you're battling bosses or running and gunning through foe-filled gauntlets. With that in mind, I'm looking forward to cozying up with The Art of Cuphead, a 264-pa...

In a move to highlight sustainability concerns in the fashion industry, Vogue Italia has steered clear of photoshoots for its January 2020 issue. In their absence, the magazine invited a handful of artists from a range of backgrounds to des...

In honor of hitting 25 years of PlayStation, Sony has tapped artist Cory Schmitz to whip up a set of anniversary wallpapers that span the console generations. PSP and Vita even made the cut! There are four different shades in total –...

If you've toyed around with getting Dreams, the art and game creation title from LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule, now's your last chance. The studio has put an end date on the Creator Early Access version – December 7, 2019 a...

Every so often I'll come across a work of art that looks like it was ripped straight out of the game world, and I got that feeling the second I saw this Borderlands 3 Dahl crate from Press X Props. Using a Pelican Case as a base, ...

Shovel Knight: King of Cards and the Smash Bros.-esque Showdown mode are set to debut very soon, but before they do developer Yacht Club Games has shared an exclusive piece of art with us. If you haven't been following along, King of C...

What's the best video game of 2019 that you suck at? I bet you have an answer ready to go. That's one of the questions at the center of the Steam Awards, an annual community-centric ceremony meant to highlight the best and brightest PC game...

With The Last of Us Part II having slipped even further into 2020, there's a shortage of apocalyptic survival on our PlayStation 4 hard drives. However, maybe our wall space can pick up the slack. Official Last of Us Part II conce...

We're running out of excuses for not getting around to Gris, a marvelous indie adventure from Nomada Studio and Devolver Digital. After PC, Nintendo Switch, and iOS, it's now bound for PlayStation 4. The PS4 version of Gris isn't a simple ...

Donkey Kong Country means a hell of a lot to me. I remember each and every person I introduced it to, and two and a half decades later, several of them are still platforming fans because of that game. I have just as many fond memories playi...

Sega has taken a break from pumping out the music videos for its upcoming tactical RPG Project Sakura Wars, with a new video focusing on the sequel's eclectic cast and the artistic concepts that originally brought them to life for your gami...

The Witcher 3 is one of those games that'll spark artists' imaginations for years to come, and it's always a pleasure to see new renditions of Geralt's adventures in not only Wild Hunt, but the series at large. On that note, you've got to c...

If you could catch a two-second glimpse of random people's dreams, you'd see some real weird shit. That's also true of Dreams, the PlayStation 4 game from LittleBigPlanet maker Media Molecule. In this ten-minute montage assembled by YouTube...

Has there been enough of a gap that you could head back into Super Mario Odyssey and experience it with mostly fresh eyes? I think I'm about at that point. Some key moments in the game – a certain musical number, a world fueled by pur...

A listing has appeared on retail website Amazon for an art book based on Activision's 2018 remake Spyro Reignited Trilogy. The listing expects that the 240-page tome will be published in July 2020 and retail for around $45.There are current...

Charles Caleb Colton once said, "Imitation is the sincerest [form] of flattery." Clearly, Mr. Colton never owned iPhone. Since the launch of the App Store, it has become a cesspool of hastily thrown together titles that mimic, rip-off, or s...

Having played every Zelda game multiple times at this point, Zelda: Link to the Past is still probably my favorite. It's just so clean, to the point where you can play it through in one session without ever getting frustrated: to ...

The Writers Guild of America has been handing out awards to video games at its annual awards show since 2008, but starting with the 2020 ceremony, that category will be no more. Speaking to Gamasutra, the WGA said: "[the awards will] be rei...

This was an amazing thing to wake up to: Nicktoons as Smash characters, but from real Nickelodeon artists! Crafted by Tim Prendergast (Rugrats, Invader Zim) and Kurt Snyder (Spongebob), the key art recreates the Smash Ultimat...