The key to creating a successful character design isn't the look alone, it's developing a strong backstory, which informs the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined ...

Having spent several weeks staring at the subway posters for “Gnomeo and Juliet,” a computer-animated retelling of Shakespeare’s classic in which the star-crossed lovers are lawn ornaments, I can ...

Xenoblade 2’s Collector’s Edition came with a large artbook, prefaced by an introduction by game director Tetsuya Takahashi. He talked about the meaning of character designs, and some differences in ...

At what sort of pace is gaming moving towards more sophisticated and diverse depictions of humans? Do the stylised heroes of the modern medium affect how we feel about our own appearance? And will ...

The beloved blue video game turned movie character looks better than ever. "Sonic The Hedgehog" is speeding to the silver screen and after a lightning-fast redesign fans seem happier than ever with ...

A silhouette of one of the concept arts used for this character (Image via HoYoverse) Tartaglia's old master, Skirk, was a part of the recent Genshin Impact mega-leak. Not much was revealed about her ...

Most Genshin Impact players would be familiar with Alice. She is the renowned adventurer and mage whom we have heard from several times during the narrative. However, we have yet to meet her in the ...