Sunday, 10 May 2009

Tomino interview and Duke Nukem: Forever gameplay footage!!!

Sup,

The beginnings of an interview with Yoshiyuki Tomino. Click here to view the full interview. You have to install some media player though, which sucks. I didn't bother watching the full thing, it's in Japanese, a language I don't speak and probably never will. That's why subtitles were invented, a thing that this clip is lacking. Cool though... If a subbed version comes around, which I doubt, I'll post it. Check out the Zaku2 stood next to the presenter - that's what I call awesome.


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You remember Duke Nukem on DOS? Then Duke Nukem 3D by 3D Realms? Remember the announcement of Duke Nukem: Forever THIRTEEN YEARS AGO?!?!?!?!?! Well 3D Realms recently went bust, but this gameplay footage has been leaked. Take2 games currently hold the license to the franchise, so hopefully they'll carry on it's development. It acctually looks pretty good.



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Friday, 8 May 2009

Final Fantasy 10 AMV

Sup,

Speaking of discovering lost stuff (see previous post), check out this AMV (anime music video) I made ages ago. Like, I think I was 17, maybe... The quality isn't all that, but meh, I think it's pretty cool.



Enjoy!

BenGP02

Thursday, 7 May 2009

4ft papercraft Freedom-G

Sup,

I love it when I find awesome things I'd forgotten about. I just stumbled across this gem in my bookmarks. paperkraft.net is a blogger site for anything made out of paper and some of the things are pretty damn impressive.

For example, the speeder bike from Return of the Jedi, Chi and Freya from Chobits, and Manny Calavera from the game Grim Fandango.

However, the video below blew me away. A four foot paperkraft of the Freedom Gundam from Gundam Seed. Insane. Just the shear size of the thing is out of this world. Hope you find it as impressive as I did.

Freedom Gundam - 4 foot papercraft from Taras Lesko on Vimeo.

FREEDOM GUNDAM! LAUNCHING!

BenGP02

Project 'Real G' - this thing is huge

Sup Y'all,

A while back now it was announced that as a part of the Gundam 30th year celebrations, a gigantic 1:1 scale (59ft) model of the original RX-78-2 Gundam is going to be built on Odaiba Island in Japan. It is called the 'Real-G' project. The original concept art had me drooling.
Concept art

Now, a few months later, the project is well underway and it is truly MASSIVE. Why don't I live in Japan? Why God WHY!!!

The massive leg struts



Leg struts with armour

Chest plate

Gundam is also going to be sporting a 'Tokyo 2016' badge on its right shoulder to aid Tokyo in its bid to host the 2016 Olympic games. 'Real G' will be completed mid-July. It already looks awesome. I want one in my garden.Concept models with Olympic logo

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Pictures courtesy of www.akiba-station.com and
www.bouncingredball.com