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Have you ever wondered what it would be like if video game box art hadn't changed in 30 years? No. I don't suppose you have. Why would you? You've got more important things to think about.
Video game box art is like a visual handshake between the game and the player. If the art is tantamount to a limp handshake, gamers will forget about it and move on to a video game that seizes ...
Box art isn't just for show ... Illustrated by Don Ivan Punchatz, who ironically never played video games, the image draws heavy inspiration from pulp science fiction and horror comics of the ...
There's a cottage industry of horny video game box art replacements on eBay, and researching this fact led me down a far, far stranger rabbit hole than I ever expected. So, uh, a Google search to ...
In the age before Twitch, Let’s Plays, and exclusive trailer and gameplay drops, video game box art was a crucial part of marketing a game. A new docu-series is set to give the illustrators and ...
Ultimate Ink Trash is an artist with a very clear goal: to take some of the biggest video games of the modern age, and re-imagine their covers in the style of the hand-illustrated box art for ...
In Art Of The Game, Nick Wanserski explores how visual design shapes video, tabletop, and role-playing games. Atari 2600 box art is well loved and rightly revered. Some of that can be chalked up ...
So let's have some fun. After all, it's just video games. Here's the worst video game box art of 2012. Aside from the fact that Daniel Craig looks like a 90 year-old melted mannequin here and ...
Sam Dyer: The Art of the Box was an idea I had way back at the ... I was aware of the collector’s market for video game art, however there was (for a variety of reasons), a reluctance from ...
inside the box art window. Just... what? It's honestly tough to parse what the logic even is here. While it's not uncommon for discounted re-release versions of games to have ugly cover art ...
Box Art Mega Man would continue to receive the ... a rushed artist armed with pastels on a paintbrush turned a dynamic, wide-eyed video game sprite into a badly-dressed, squatting gunman who ...