The turbulent digital age we find ourselves in has become a modern day horror story professional voice actors and artists witnessing “AI” machine learning technologies are morphing from seemingly harmless fun into capitalist extraction tools that copy and sell their voices and art without permission or compensation. Things have gotten so bad that legendary horror ...
Brandon Sanderson is a fantasy writer who makes webs Ten million of dollars in book sales per year, which puts him in the same book sales league as George RR Martin. However, its financial success hasn’t really translated into similar mainstream visibility outside of its specific fanbase — until this week. The Tech Magazine Wired ...
Ken Kelly, one of the most talented fantasy artists of the last 50 years, passed away at the age of 76. Frank Frazetta’s nephew, Kelly is famous for his work on album covers, having seen everything from KISS’ destroyer to rainbows rising to a whole series of tracks for Manowar LPs. Kelly also worked closely ...
Cyberpunk, contrary to popular belief, isn’t some pathetic little bunch of references.picture: Production IG / Warner Bros. / Tokyo Movie Shinsha / E3 / Kotaku cyberpunk. When you think of the word, images of a futuristic cityscape filled with neon lights, amalgamations of Western-Japanese architecture, and a cybernetic hero armed with a samurai sword are ...
screenshot: complex games Complex Games, the developers of the new Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Demon Hunterhave issued a statement apologizing to players after running a campaign where certain in-game items were only available to those who watched some Twitch streams. above PC gamerwWhile Complex probably thought they were running some pretty standard (by 2022 ...
It looks cool unpainted. screenshot: Ayato / YouTube / Kotaku YouTuber Ayato has a big project ahead of him: turning it into a DIY Kaneda bike Akira. The Kaneda bike is one of the most iconic bikes in anime – no, make this popular culture big. There are numerous Kaneda bike projects on YouTube but ...
illustration: The ultimate ink waste Ultimate ink waste is an artist with a very clear goal: to take some of the greatest video games of modern times and imagine what it would look like if they had the kind of illustrated retro vibes you’d see on box graphics for consoles like MegaDrive and TurboGrafx . ...
screenshot: GSC game world They approach the camp alone at night. It’s dark, but you don’t want them to know where you are – so keep your flashlight in your pocket. You can barely make out the enemy’s positions, your only reference being the lights peeking out from under the barrels of their weapons. You ...
Would you have noticed?Screenshot: Full ☆ Anime TV Until December 28th Akira streams on YouTube for free in Japan. With the holidays at the end of the year, people have more time to watch the movie and maybe more time to notice all the little details. And little details are what Akira it is not ...
Some Warhammer 40,000 Players think the game’s Fascist Imperium of Man faction is great, and they actually have some great ideas. It doesn’t. To make this point clear – what more than one Warhammer 40K Fan seems to have missed it – the manufacturer Games Workshop has issued a statement saying that there is no ...
