machinarium

We drank the wild, wild Kool-Aid in Dirk Erik Schulz's cereal mascot art last year, and boy, he has been busy since. Schulz's balls-tripping style, with its floppy, Ren and Stimpy-ish look and vintage animation feel now encompasses a mouthful of modern pop culture icons, including the starter Pokémon breeds and Rango. His d...

Long before video game cut scenes were as viable, if not superior to, in-game animation, comic books and sequential art elements afforded a successful story-telling technology for the 8, 32 and even 64-bit generations of consoles. While word balloons, stills with narrative captions and even primitive motion comics are typically featured only as novelties in many of today's games, they're far from