Via Literary Musings:
Art by Joey Hi-Fi, who was also behind the great UK cover for Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City. Just awesome. Take note, publishers.
Also, I’ve gotta hand it to Angry Robot Books these days, they’re approaching Pyr Books level of consistency with their cover art these days. Great stuff.
First we had Middle-Earth travel posters, now we’ve got retro travel posters for several of the most famous planets from Star Wars. Lovely, ain’t it?
More of artist Justin Van Genderen’s work can be found on the 2046 Design website. Prints of these Star Wars posters can be purchased here.
Click to embiggen. Read the whole thing. Become bigger than Jesus. Enjoy.
It’s Raymond Swanland. Need I say more? Unlike other artists who really stick to their wheelhouse (*coughchrismcgrathcough*), I fall in love with Swanland every time he puts out a new piece of art. Sure, they’re all the same. But I can’t help but drool.
Perfect Shadow is currently available as an eBook. This cover is for the Subterranean Press limited edition coming later this fall.
From 4gamer:
Like, what the fuck, Square Enix?
This was the best of the bunch:
The best. It’s especially egregious when Level 5, the developers responsible for several previous Dragon Quest games, is making a game that looks like this:
I mean, sure, you could use the Wii’s lack of horsepower as an excuse when put next to Ni No Kuni, which was developed for the Playstation 3… but even the damn Nintendo DS version of Ni No Kuni has more heart and complexity to its environments, despite the low resolution and ancient hardware. See:
Try harder, Square Enix. It’s early (though the game’s been in development for several years), it’s an MMO (kinda) and Dragon Quest has never been graphical powerhouse… but this is just embarrassing. I want to be excited for this game, I’ve been hard at work trying since it was first revealed… but I’m finding it exceptionally difficult to imagine this being any less of a trainwreck than Final Fantasy XIV, which Square Enix are tearing down and rebuilding from scratch because it was so bad.
