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Fine Art: The Works Of NCSoft Artist Park Jong Won
Park Jong Won is a Korean concept artist who currently works for NCSoft, the MMO giant behind games like Lineage, Aion and Guild Wars. The art you’ll see below are my favourite pieces from his portfolio, because, to me, they’re the covers to books I’ve never read, but if I saw them staring back at me from a shelf, I would buy in an instant.
Street Fashion Meets Ancient Video Game Art
Serene Weather, a design firm from Korea, put together this fashion shoot using real-world locations and not-real pixellated characters.
This Aged Right-Wing Japanese Composer Is Betting On The Internet Generation
With tensions rising between Japan and China over ownership of a group of islands (called “Senkaku” in Japan and “Diaoyu” in China), and between Japan and Korea over ownership of a different group of islands (called “Takeshima” in Japan and “Dokdo” in Korea), 81-year-old video game composer, Kouichi Sugiyama (of Dragon Quest fame) recently voiced his opinion on the issue, focusing his argument, not against China or Korea, but against the Japanese media.
MVP Baseball Returns, But Only In Korea
Few noticed back in April, if it was even announced stateside, that EA Sports’ MVP Baseball series was returning as an online game in South Korea. It’s an interesting re-emergence of a brand many sports gamers remember fondly, but it offers little hope of the game actually returning in North America.
The Best Video Games Can’t Predict What Kim Jong-Un Would Do To Win War
It is curious that there are far more games on a Soviet invasion of West Germany that never happened than a Communist assault on South Korea that actually did. It is even more curious that there haven’t been more games on a Second Korean War, given how volatile the region is.
