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Dead Fantasy III: When Angels Cry Released

EBA Staff — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:44:37 +0000

Gamers fond of the cinematic nature of the medium have probably heard of Monty Oum, the director and creator of the fan favorite Haloid video who became the stuff of legend a few years back by unleashing a self-created cinematic masterpiece of epic proportions. Well, for those that don’t know, Monty has moved on and is now working on his Dead Fantasy series of videos. The videos pit the girls from the many Final Fantasy games against the girls from the Dead or Alive series. The end result is one SWEET ass cat fight brawl.

Monty Oum has now released exclusively to Gametrailers.com his 3rd masterpiece in the Dead Fantasy series. This time around he casts FFVII’s Tifa lockheart to lock up against DoA’s Hitomi. With both characters being experts in hand to hand fighting, there’s of course plenty of up-close action to marvel at. So, will Tifa’s materia be able to have the deciding factor in this match or will Hitomi busty body be able to shake off Tifa?

Watch Dead Fantasy 3 after the jump and find out for yourself.

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EPIC ACHIEVEMENT – "Video Games" Will Have You Saying.. WTF?

EBA Staff — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:13:00 +0000

While scoping out Invisible Wall’s, Marcus Beer’s blog today, I came across the weirdest video that he found on Vimeo. The title for the video is simply named, “Video Games”.

The animation and direction of this video was done by a gamer calling himself , “Musclebeaver” (draw your own conclusions as to what his name means). The video takes all our favorite games from each generation and mashes them up into a creative illustration that is suppose to be the prologue to a video game documentary he is making.

The end result for this creation? One very professional, odd, twisted and somehow amusing video. Some of the classics of each generation are portrayed and I enjoyed seeing how the characters at the end of their sequences merged into the next characters sequence, giving you the sense of evolution.

He explains the documentary itself saying, “it portrays the evolution of games and follows different characters based in Germany, describing their everyday lives and their addiction to the same specific, famous “MMORPG’s” like the W one.”

Again, this is only the prologue to that documentary, so don’t expect an actual representation of a documentary in this video. No sense explaining too much about it…it’s just one of those things you gotta see for yourself and then draw your own conclusions. There’s a long pong battle sequence at the start, but bare with it. I promise there’s more to it, once it switches to the next sequence, just remember… I did say it was odd and twisted, enjoy.

To watch the video, click here.

Live Action Apocalyptic Fallout

EBA Staff — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:47:58 +0000

Have you ever wondered what could be accomplished with loads of free time and the participation of 300 Fallout fans from Russia? Well, if you were to set up a little cos-play live action apocalyptic set and take some awesome pictures, you might end up with the following Fallout-themed event.

According to a recent article on Kotaku, “A workshop group called Albion organized the event, securing the setting and providing technical, medical, and rescue support. Around 300 players participated, creating their own costumes and modifying fake weapons until they looked as if you just plucked them from a freshly-killed raider’s hands. The game followed a basic plot, which the organizers would change on the fly according to how the players reacted.”

This group of fans went all out and produced some amazing images. To check out a collection of pictures taken at the event, hit up this website. Now, who’s gonna pull this sorta thing off for Elder Scrolls???

Art Exhibit On World Of Warcraft

EBA Staff — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:58:11 +0000

Blizzard Entertainment is known around the world for a lot of things…Creating World of Warcraft, introducing the awesomeness of Diablo, and setting the RTS world on fire with StarCraft just to name a few…but, beyond its core franchises, Blizzard is also known to have some of the best artists and creative team members in the business.

In fact, the art and work that comes from Blizzard has influenced countless artists and people around the world, particularly in the case of WOW, and The Laguna Art Museum in Cali wants to showcase some of the best pieces for your viewing pleasure this summer.

From the Museum’s official website:

This summer, Laguna Art Museum and Blizzard Entertainment are proud to present WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon. This exhibit features art created by professional artists from around the world who have been influenced by World of Warcraft, as well as works generated by Blizzard Entertainment and by members of our community.

The goal of this exhibit is to illustrate the impact that World of Warcraft has had on our modern art culture and to give insight into the creative community it has gathered. The exhibit is currently open and will be running through October 4, 2009.

All programmed events are FREE with purchase of a commemorative Lvl 60, Lvl 70, or Lvl 80 WoW Pass!

There will also be a silent auction featuring works from renowned Blizzard artists running until October 4.

Awesome…I only wish I lived closer to California to experience the Exhibit for myself…

For more info, hit up the event’s official website.

Gamer MusiCON 09 Coming In July

EBA Staff — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:41:04 +0000

Attn gaming music fans, Gamer MusiCON, a Music Convention that is the brain child of The Houston Symphony, in partnering with Tommy Tallarico, Jack Wall (Video Games Live)and Blizzard Entertainment to deliver a special performance this July.

The event is planned for July 18, 2009 and will be held in Houston, TX at Jones Hall. Tickets are available from $50 – $100 dollars, but that all depends on where you want to sit during the performances.

Event timeline will go as following:

2:00   Doors to Jones Hall open for lobby festival
3:00 – 4:30  Blizzard Live! concert
4:30 – 7:30  Lobby festival
7:30 – 10:00  Video Games Live! concert
10:00 – 11:00 Post concert autographs & merchandise sales

Event highlights are:

- Game Crazy festival with playable game demos throughout all three levels of Jones Hall
- Interactive panel and Q&A session with Blizzard Entertainment game composers
- On-stage costume contest
- Merchandise Sales
- Post concert autograph session
- Guitar Hero contest in lobby, winner plays on-stage during concert

The Houston Symphony has posted details about an all-day event on there website.

Now, what do we gotta do to get Brent on-stage in a WoW-themed costume…???

Epic Achievement – Master Chief Gets Senior Pictures Taken

EBA Staff — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:52:35 +0000

Let’s face it, video game characters are usually portrayed in a larger than life situation and as a result, we tend to forget that some of them may have had an average, everyday life like you and I at some point.

Well, the boys over at PwnorDie, “love the idea of video game characters being everyday people” and of course, so do we.

With a little bit of Cosplay and some Photoshop work, you can see how Master Chief spent his High School Years and various awkward moments in his life before becoming a gaming legend.

Check out more oddly intriguing images of Master Chief and read the full article from Pwnordie.com right here

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65 Games Of The Ancient World

EBA Staff — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:39:28 +0000

Each week Gizmodo asks it’s readers to design images using Photoshop.

This week they asked their readers “to create some video games that may have existed if game consoles had been around for hundreds of years”.

Most of the entries were very well done and worth taking a look at although I was less amused by all of the repetitive Guitar Hero renditions. I did enjoy all the Call of Duty ones though;)

It’s pretty fun and entertaining, so click the source link bellow to check out the entries at Gizmodo when you have a few.

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Fan Made Resident Evil Claymation

EBA Staff — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:00:41 +0000

In anticipation of the release for Resident Evil Archives for the Wii. Capcom has posted on their blog, a fan made claymation video, representing the Classic game.

The video was directed by YouTube user, MikeG1679 and scenes voice acted out by some of his friends.

All the classic scenes are depicted and done with a slight bit of humor with the faster than normal speed in which the video speed and claymation is being played on. Hopefully we will get to see more claymation renditions of the other Resident Evil titles from these guys.

Hit the jump to check out the vid.

Ever Wonder How Tetris Blocks Are Made?

EBA Staff — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:54:02 +0000

Gamer Site Offworld has found the guys who know the answer to that question.

It seems South Korea’s WooDUS (creators of this animated commercial) have figured out how the blocks are made and have created this 30 sec commercial to show you.

TETRIS CF #1 from WooDUS on Vimeo.

Architect's Select Top 10 Architecture In Video Games

EBA Staff — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:56:40 +0000

The Architects’ Journa,l “the voice of architecture in Britain”, likes to debate over all things in the architectural world and we’ve recently come across a list (via Kotaku) where they try to select the finest architecture from the worlds of computer and video games.

Now, as a caution, don’t expect some of your favorite gaming imagery to show itself in this list. Some of the lucky chosen are a step off from what you may have thought.

As you’ll see, they aren’t as knowledgeable in the vast library of video games like you or I would be, but if you take their list as a chosen few pieces of architecture to start a conversation about the subject, you probably won’t be disappointed.

Not what I would have picked, although I have to give them a little credit for picking out piece number 1.

Hit the source link below to read about the article and the Top List.

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