Behind the Scenes of L.A. Noire’s Painstaking Production Design: Part Two – Costume & Wardrobe

Behind the Scenes series offers an exclusive peek at what it took to outfit the hundreds of unique characters that inhabit the game’s world, with further insight from Team Bondi’s Simon Wood.

Left: Starting from original sketches done in vintage style, and a collection of fabric swatches; Middle: Erika Heynatz as Elsa Lichtman, meticulously styled for the original photo shoot; Right: The finished product - Elsa in-game as seen in last week's Official Trailer #2.

Behind the Scenes of L.A. Noire’s Painstaking Production Design: Part One – Locations & Set Design

L.A. Noire aims to immerse the player in a deep, dark and extremely faithful recreation of 1940’s Los Angeles, with painstaking steps taken in development to assemble and reflect a digital world as accurately as possible.

Left: Authentic paint swatches from the 1940's were sourced to determine the game's color palette; Middle: From Team Bondi's extensive Los Angeles locations photo shoot - a Hallway from the landmark Barclay Hotel; Right: That direct reference material transformed into one of L.A. Noire's shadowy and dangerous locations.

Castle of Heroes turns one year old with a series of great in-game events

Castle of Heroes turns one today, February 3^rd 2011. Since launch a year ago, Gaia has welcomed hundreds of thousands of players from EU servers in English, French, German, Polish and Italian at http://heroes.gpotato.eu

The year also saw two expansions with the Tower of Babel and Rise of the Guilds both adding in substantial new features for high level players and Guilds.

Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition Latest news from Capcom - Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition Fact Sheet

The ultimate version of Street Fighter® makes its seamless transition to the Nintendo 3DS with Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition.

X360 Kinect hacked to play Angry Birds - X360 PC

KinEmote plays Angry Birds with Kinect on Windows. In this simple use of the new Virtual Mouse feature in KinEmote we play Angry Birds on Windows 7.

Chicks'n'Vixens - Angry Birds clone video game appears on Windows Phone 7

Rovio have said their Angry Birds game will not appear on Windows 7 phone devices until later this year. Not to be outdone Chicks'n'Vixens video game appeared.

New Marvel vs Capcom 3 Two Worlds - Jill and Shuma screenshots - PS3 X360

After a decade of waiting, iconic Marvel and Capcom characters join forces again in a re-envisioned team fighting game for a new generation.

Marvel and Capcom Jill and Shuma screenshots

Supremacy MMA celebrates Jens Pulver's victory at XFO 38

Supremacy MMA brings the brutality of unsanctioned, amateur and unauthorised MMA fighting to the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, favoring fast-and-furious gameplay and underground aesthetics over official branding and television-style presentation.

Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy video game on iPhone and iPod Touch

Anuman is launching the second and final episode of “Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy” on iPhone and iPod Touch.

Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead Mods, missions and movies in line-up for community awards

Bohemia Interactive together with NaturalPoint and RockPaperShotgun.com today announces the end of the nomination stage of the “2010 Community Awards”. The Bohemia Interactive Community Awards is an event which invites the extensive Arma and Arma 2 community to nominate and vote for their favorite fan made content.