I had to go back about six years to find this video just to illustrate how the mainstream can be influenced by video games without doing an overtly obvious homage or something too contrived. In this case, we have the illegal sampling of Namco’s Pac-Man sounds by Sony BMG artist Lil Flip. Pac-Man is used [...]

Like Atlas holding up the world, the young prince of Katamari Damacy always has a lot going on. Young artist Everfalling seems to have put a lot of that feeling into his work. It’s not easy being an artist in these times. He has included a lot of development pictures and process descriptions on his [...]

Simon Cottee has put together a short documentary on pixel art  that deserves  There’s some good stuff in here, and some interesting bits. I’m glad someone is looking at the background of this style with somewhat discriminating eyes. Some decent questions are raised here, such as, is this the current day version of Minimalism or [...]

I like street art, and I like video games. And although I always hope they come together like peanut butter and jelly, many times the end result comes together like ketchup and cheesecake. I see a lot of commercial regurgitation and illegal fanboy-ism. Fortunately, The 8-Bit Cubist is here to give you the good stuff. [...]

I don’t know who this Eastern Mind guy is, or why he feels that he holds the keys to some unreleased Rez art, but he posted these, and they’re 8-bit inspired. The point-and-shoot gameplay, the Galaga-like gameplay bonuses, the electronic music, and the color-palette all scream of a videogame-inspired psychadelic drug binge. Because psychadelic drugs [...]