News

Madden 12′s Cover Is Brought To You By The Colour Brown

I hope you like the colour brown, because it’s the real star of this year’s Madden 12 cover art, both versions of the game looking more like a Gears of War map than something from a game played on bright green fields.


May 15, 2011
News

Marketing Survey Leaks Cover Art For ‘Hitman: Subtitle’

Evidently circulated before IO Interactive settled on Hitman: Absolution for the title of the latest sequel, a marketing survey asked respondents how they felt about three potential cover designs for the game. All featured the wonderfully ironic Hitman: Subtitle, the naming convention for the game since Hitman: Codename 47 in 2000.


April 28, 2011
PlayStation

Catherine’s Cover Art Too Hot For Some American Gamers

Atlus will bring the erotic horror puzzle platformer adventure Catherine to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this (northern) summer in North America. And it will do so with just one small change for one particular demographic: “more sensitive shoppers”.


April 21, 2011
News

Fans Vote Heisman Winner For The NCAA 12 Cover

Alabama’s Mark Ingram, the 2009 Heisman Trophy winner, was voted the cover athlete of NCAA Football 12, whose debut trailer you saw yesterday.


January 23, 2011
In Real Life

The Meat-erland Calls!

No, мать зовет is not “MEAT BOY” in Cyrillic. A famous piece of World War II propaganda was the inspiration for the winning box art submission for Super Meat Boy’s lone retail release, in родина – Russia. Large size inside.


January 20, 2011
In Real Life

Classic Video Games Deserve Classy Box Art

As we’ve explored previously, video games – especially the classics – deserve better box art than they’re getting. Wonder what we want instead? This is the kind of stuff we want.


Nintendo

PlayStation Move And 3D Take Court No. 2

Patched in post-release to NBA 2K11, 3D and PlayStation Move support will be in 2K Sports’ Top Spin 4 at its March 15 launch. Andre Agassi, in a game for the first time in a decade, is the cover star.


January 14, 2011
News

Motorstorm’s Boxopalypse, Now

The box art for MotorStorm: Apocalypse, which got its release date earlier today. U.S. is on the left, Europe’s on the right. Once again, the Old World got the winner; apparently dune buggies move product in North America. [via Playstation.Blog]


January 13, 2011
Nintendo

Quick, How Many Ads Can You Spot On This NASCAR Box

Let’s thank the crew behind the Activision Eutechnyx NASCAR 2011 The Game Lowe’s GoDaddy Cheerios Impala. They gave us some super box art that run real good today. The game releases March 29, part of a sportspocalypse month in gaming.


January 8, 2011
News

First Look At Nintendo’s 3DS Box Art

It’s not just games and the 3DS itself on display in Tokyo today; Nintendo is also showing off the box the new handheld will ship in, along with mock-ups of what 3DS game boxes will look like.