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Barnaby Ward Pits Cute Girls Against Monsters and Giant Robots [Art]io9 - Nov 30, 2008 Nearly all of Barnaby Ward’s comics and narrative illustrations feature beautiful young girls, slender, hip, with unruly hair and too much eyeliner. But these girls provide an anchor for Ward’s far wilder depictions of … Also tagged: art, robots, illustration, manga, drawings, mecha |
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Monsterpocalypse is a Rampaging Good Time [Monsterpocalypse]io9 - Oct 30, 2008 Anyone who ever spent a Saturday afternoon as a kid gleefully watching Godzilla or Gamera battle weird space dragons or giant robots while destroying the vital infrastructure of Japan has got to love the idea of … Also tagged: games, review, godzilla, gamera, kaiju, monsterpocalypse, privateer press |
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Who's The Tallest Giant Robot Of Them All? [Giant Robots]io9 - Oct 20, 2008 All giant robots are just not built the same. Some mechas tower over your city, while others just sort of tower over your garage. When the fate of the world depends on giant robots smashing each other — as it so often … Also tagged: top |
io9 - Sep 4, 2008
As pilot Boris Vassilev directs his heavy-class 'Mech into the five-acre arena, the thundering footfalls are nearly drowned out by the crowd's roars of delight. Viewers in five systems are watching this live, as Boris …
Also tagged: games, wizkids, gladiators, mechwarrior, battletech, solaris vii
io9 - Aug 18, 2008
Rumors have been flying for months about the live-action remake of 1980s giant robot series Voltron. But now it looks like we're close to achieving liftoff, with new financial backers who say they want to do the …
io9 - Aug 8, 2008
Kaiju fans probably already have their eager hands on issue #0 of the new Monsterpocalypse comic book, but the rest of us can head down to our local comic shop and put in a pre-order for issue #1 starting this week …
Also tagged: games, kaiju, monsterpocalypse, privateer press, desperado publishing, sky sentinel, across the pond studios
io9 - Apr 30, 2008
The raging forest fires of the future will be fought, not by puny humans, but by giant hulking robots like this one. (Note little human figurine for scale.) This robot, designed by student Jordan Guelde in a senior …
io9 - Apr 23, 2008
I am convinced that this giant robot, from the 1957 movie Kronos: Ravager of Planets, is perhaps the very best of the abstract giant robots. And by "abstract," I mean Kronos here looks basically like a modernist …
Also tagged: robots, movies, found footage, kronos
io9 - Apr 2, 2008
If you've ever wanted to climb into a giant, customizable battle robot and have blazing gun and sword fights with other giant robots, your desires are about to be fulfilled. You can do it all, for free, in the new …
Also tagged: games, robots, mmorpg, robotech, exteel, battletech
io9 - Mar 20, 2008
Over on Flickr there's a great collection of Japanese toy robots who've been Photoshopped to look half-menacing, half-romantic by giant robot enthusiast Jeff Simmermon. Here's his do-up of Godzilla (click to see …
Also tagged: photography, godzilla