Welcome to Cover Art! A section of the site where we look at a retro video game’s box cover art and briefly discuss it’s gameplay and legacy.
Hyper Zone is rail shooter developed by HAL Laboratory. It was released for the Super Nintendo in 1991. Although it’s considered a shallow derivative title, I came to appreciate it thanks to an old friend.
To the average Nintendo gamer, Hyper Zone… [ Read More... ]
Although we don’t normal cover sports games, we’ll make this exception due to the use of Kojima Production’s Fox Engine. For those out of the loop, it’s the graphics and game engine debuted by Hideo Kojima for Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. It’s the one he said will challenge western graphics engines. The first non-Kojima game that has been revealed to use the engine will be Pro Evolution … [ Read More... ]
A cover art for Battlefield 4 has been leaked, although this has not been confirmed, it appears to be legitimate. Not a lot to report here, so take a look for yourself.
Overall, it looks compelling, although one detail that does look suspect is the “TM” on the right appears to be pretty blurry, which could indicate a chop job/hoax. Battlefield 4 is being developed by DICE using the Frostbite … [ Read More... ]
The strange interview begins with Geoff Keighley of Game Trailers TV asking Joakim Mogren, head of Moby Dick Studios, why his face is completely wrapped in bandages. Joakim explains in a vaguely swedish accent it was because of an accident but he will be recovered in time for GDC. Coincidentally, the Phantom Pain trailer which was debuted last year starts off with a character who’s face is covered … [ Read More... ]