Showing posts with label gaming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gaming. Show all posts
Monday, 1 June 2015
Speed Painting 36: Batman Arkham Knight
So something-something related to Batman is coming out, and yes it is another excuse for me to once again to do a Batman-related youtube speed painting. The final game of the Batman trilogy from Rocksteady Studios will release on June, and that is my next topic.
This illustration is heavily inspired by the wonderful Witcher 3: Wild Hunt concept designs of their artists. Well done to them. I used the Batman logo as the background while illustrating the two major villains of the game, Scarecrow and the Arkham Knight. I also used one the Dark Knight songs from Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, and the second song from the Arkham City game. This way, I pay tribute to both the best comic book superhero movie and one of the developer's own games.
I hope you guys (whichever person accidentally stumbles here) enjoy this one, because I believe this to be my best one in exactly three years of (creating) speed paintings. Can't believe it's been three whole years so far!
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Marketing Special: Sony humiliates Microsoft at E3
You don't have to love gaming to read this article (but seriously.. why don't you love gaming?). In case you didn't know, E3 is the biggest gaming show of the year where the big 3 companies, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft show their games and hardware. Considering that Microsoft and Sony are launching their new consoles at the end of the year, this was going to be a massive deal this year to see who brings in the fans. Sony however humiliated Microsoft at such a level, that marketing teachers are likely to use this example in their college and university classes. It was that bad.
Microsoft had their conference a few weeks back and received a massive backlash, so they were under massive pressure to perform. They didn't mention policies such DRM, which is to stop used games (or only do it once after their original backlash), you have to connect online once every 24 hours even if you are playing a single player game, and having a Kinect mandatory to be on when you are gaming. In light of PRISM and Microsoft being the first company to go along with selling out their information to the government, you can see how this unnecessary feature of the Kinect always being on is.. suspicious. Now as you can see in the video above, Sony had a decent event until the end, where they specifically stated everything Microsoft did wrong, that they would do the opposite. I have seen a lot of E3 events, and I have never heard a crowd chant one of the console publisher's names, or that high amount of cheering and hysteria. Microsoft made some silly moves to make a console for publishers rather than consumers and tried to hide those facts during E3 by only speaking about their great games instead, however Sony basically reminded everyone at the end of their show.
This was just hit after hit, as afterwards essentially every gaming media and (even non-media) went in Sony's corner and started bashing Microsoft even more than when they first announced those features. There was a whole issue and a twitter campaign to stop Sony from doing DRM called #PS4noDRM which even CNN picked up at some point before E3 when Microsoft first announced their features. Sony execs responded with "very happy to see how passionate our fans are".. so an answer that says nothing, they waited until E3. Sony originally did not specify much and basically Microsoft started talking about all the features. It may have been that Sony wanted to implement some type of DRM feature but they let Microsoft go first, saw a monumental negative backlash and basically used that to completely rip them apart in the biggest gaming conference of the year. With Amazon on facebook for pre-orders showing a 17-1 ratio in PS4's favor over the Xbox One and even general non gamers on my news feed on facebook knowing that Sony humiliated Microsoft at E3, this is showing to be quite a massive deal. Microsoft execs also did a terrible PR jobs in different interviews where they further angered the fans.
This video launched right after E3, Sony basically trashing Microsoft even more and making it that much more humiliating. After two days, the 22 second video already hit over 8 million views.
Microsoft had their conference a few weeks back and received a massive backlash, so they were under massive pressure to perform. They didn't mention policies such DRM, which is to stop used games (or only do it once after their original backlash), you have to connect online once every 24 hours even if you are playing a single player game, and having a Kinect mandatory to be on when you are gaming. In light of PRISM and Microsoft being the first company to go along with selling out their information to the government, you can see how this unnecessary feature of the Kinect always being on is.. suspicious. Now as you can see in the video above, Sony had a decent event until the end, where they specifically stated everything Microsoft did wrong, that they would do the opposite. I have seen a lot of E3 events, and I have never heard a crowd chant one of the console publisher's names, or that high amount of cheering and hysteria. Microsoft made some silly moves to make a console for publishers rather than consumers and tried to hide those facts during E3 by only speaking about their great games instead, however Sony basically reminded everyone at the end of their show.
This was just hit after hit, as afterwards essentially every gaming media and (even non-media) went in Sony's corner and started bashing Microsoft even more than when they first announced those features. There was a whole issue and a twitter campaign to stop Sony from doing DRM called #PS4noDRM which even CNN picked up at some point before E3 when Microsoft first announced their features. Sony execs responded with "very happy to see how passionate our fans are".. so an answer that says nothing, they waited until E3. Sony originally did not specify much and basically Microsoft started talking about all the features. It may have been that Sony wanted to implement some type of DRM feature but they let Microsoft go first, saw a monumental negative backlash and basically used that to completely rip them apart in the biggest gaming conference of the year. With Amazon on facebook for pre-orders showing a 17-1 ratio in PS4's favor over the Xbox One and even general non gamers on my news feed on facebook knowing that Sony humiliated Microsoft at E3, this is showing to be quite a massive deal. Microsoft execs also did a terrible PR jobs in different interviews where they further angered the fans.
This video launched right after E3, Sony basically trashing Microsoft even more and making it that much more humiliating. After two days, the 22 second video already hit over 8 million views.
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