There’s retiring old video game characters by not using them any more, and then there’s retiring old video game characters by building little models of them and destroying them.
Introversion, the developers of strategy game Darwinia, are done with the property. Having worked on it in some for another for nearly a decade now across its various forms, by 2010 they’d become so sick of the thing that they couldn’t just let it go quietly into the night. They had to kill it. With fire.

















Azanode
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 5:33 PMThose things seemed awfully durable. Or maybe I’m just used to video game destruction where you can shatter an entire desk by giving it a solid slap.
Also, inb4 “someone should take Luke Plunkett out back”
Crab Nicholson
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 5:54 PMsomeone should take Luke Plunkett out back
mattroe
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 11:28 PMbam.