Is Cidney From Final Fantasy XV Too Sexy? [Video]
A new chapter of the Final Fantasy franchise, Final Fantasy XV, comes out on June 4. Square Enix released a demo of the game earlier this year, and then took the “unusual but welcome step” (according...
View ArticleWatch the Eerie Trailer for Fallout 4 — Set in Boston!
For fans of the Fallout video game series, today is a happy day. The trailer for Fallout 4, a post-apocalyptic role-playing game, went live on YouTube just a bit ago, and the reaction is fierce and...
View ArticleFallout 4 Firefight! Cosplayers Do Postapocalyptic Battle in Awesome Photos
The debut of the Fallout 4 trailer continues to be the headline news of the week for gamers, and to celebrate this joyful moment, Andrew Dobell of Creative Edge Studios in the UK has released a...
View ArticleGame of Thrones Monopoly: All the Powerlust, None of the Blood
Chance and Community Chest are now The Iron Throne and Valar Morghulis. Income Tax and Luxury Tax are now Master of Coin and Hand of the King. Jail with an angry bad guy is still Jail with an angry bad...
View ArticleElite Korean Cosplayers in Extremely Effective Promotional Campaign for...
Tasha and Doremi here are cosplayers from Spiral Cats—the Seal Team 6 of the Korean Cosplay world. In these pictures, as you can see, they’re flogging CASTLE. Oh, yeah, CASTLE. You know, CASTLE. These...
View ArticleThe 8 Must-See Game Trailers from E3 2015
So at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the video game companies are all showing off their coolest new stuff. But what’s the coolest of the cool? Of course, if you’re a fan of Gears of War, then...
View ArticleThis Picture Was Created in Minecraft Using 1,128,960 Blocks
Minecraft maniac Thorlar Thorlarian started working on this piece of Minecraft art in January; a couple of days ago he revealed the completed image. It consists of over a million Minecraft blocks and...
View ArticleCaution: Game Controller Not Intended for Use by Children
The latest creation of industrial design studio KEM Studio is one of those why-didn’t-w-think-of-that things that will end up on the wish list of every gamer who makes sweet dough and lives in a swank...
View ArticleSimon Stalenhag Paints No Man’s Sky!
Two of our more popular posts here at HeavyMetal.com have concerned a forthcoming space-exploration video game called No Man’s Sky and a series of science-fiction themed paintings by a Swedish artist...
View ArticleHere’s That Cidney (Final Fantasy) Cosplay You Wanted, by Luna Lanie
Two months ago, we told you about Cidney, a female mechanic in the next installment of Final Fantasy that some gamers have criticized as “too sexy.” Will Cidney’s sexiness be toned down? Are gamers...
View ArticleThe Greatest Video Game Box Art, by Roger Dean and Others [15 Images]
The Liverpool-based video games studio Psygnosis was founded in 1984 and existed as a brand through 2001. (The studio was renamed SCE Studios Liverpool, and continued to operate until it was shut down...
View ArticleWatch the Chilling Sci-Fi Short That Might Become the Next “District 9″
Argentine director Federico Heller’s “Uncanny Valley” is a short film about virtual reality and video games that envisions a terrifying application of mostly-existing technology. It’s just 8 minutes...
View ArticleThe Luis Royo Painting That Became the Best and Worst Computer Game Art of ’87
The Luis Royo painting adorning the May 1984 cover of Heavy Metal, depicting a couple of glamorous sci-fi warriors, is a fan favorite. It’s the second cover Royo did for us, the second of many. In...
View ArticleMark Zug’s Amazing ‘Dune’ Card Game Art
Science fiction and fantasy artist Mark Zug was in the early days of his career when he got a dream assignment — painting characters from Frank Herbert’s Dune for a card game based on the sci-fi...
View ArticleMork Borg, the Most Brutally Stylish RPG Ever
In 2020, RPG fans got a strikingly designed game called Mork Borg, produced by the Swedish company Free League (or Fria Ligen). Mork Borg is replete with incalculable suffering, undignified death and...
View ArticleIndie Game ‘Exekiller’ Channels ‘Blade Runner’ and More
The first thing you might notice about the first-person shooter Exekiller is the sickly orange hue of the air — very Blade Runner 2049, right? True, but Exekiller isn’t set in the future. In fact, it’s...
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