French photographer Patrick Curtet has been around the world and back again. He’s traveled to exotic locales and photographed some of the most beautiful cars in existence, but that solo-gallivanting lifestyle was only the beginning of what has grown to be a wildly successful photographic career. Curtet, having conquered much of the European market, recently moved to Los Angeles with his family. He hit the ground running as soon as he got here, landing high profile shoots with some of the bigges

Since 1995, 3FX has consistently taken complex technical ideas and turned them into dynamic visualizations that actively attract and engage the viewer in ways that strike a perfect balance between education, science and marketing. The award-winning 3FX team established themselves as experts in creating scientific visualizations...

Each week, Fast Travel helps you get caught up on everything going on in the gaming industry. We start by highlighting a few of the week’s biggest news pieces. Then it’s on to a dollop of indie news (so you can feel cultured and well-informed about something outside of the mainstream). Followed by a big helping of “The Best Thing on the Internet, This Week.” And finally, we gather up all the week’s headlines and mix them into a TL;DR pie.

Every Tuesday, Foresight for the Week is your guide to the gaming industry for the next 7 days. With game and DLC releases, news about upcoming cons and events, and information on the latest patches and updates in gaming, Foresight for the Week helps you stay on top of everything gaming.

Blizzard has thrown a lot of money at the inaugural season of the Overwatch League. Since it’s announcement last year, they have built a brand new stadium...

CS:GO has long been a powerhouse in the esports sphere, but strict Chinese censorship laws have kept the game from the world’s most populous country for years. Of course, there have been ways for Chinese gamers to get their hands on the game, but its never had dedicated Chinese support or servers like it does now. The game is releasing as technically free when you sign up for a CS:GO account through Perfect World, but there is a catch...

Nintendo had yet another Direct event this week and they dropped quite a few bombshells in the process. New games were announced, release dates were revealed, but still no announcements were made about a Super Smash Bros. for the Switch...

Rocket League’s Autumn update is packed with cool new features and unlockables. There’s a new seasonal arena on the way, plenty of tweaks to old arenas and a brand new taco rocket trail, which is exactly as awesome as it sounds. The update rolls out September 28 and comes with both...

Nathan Smith was asked to produce a series of visual works for a large UK organisation earlier this year. The brief was to create a robot that was both intelligent and inquisitive, and who would elicit an emotional response from the viewer. Staying true to the brief, Nathan used a limited and subtle color palette made up of mostly of whites and grays. He managed to create an image that felt edgy and cool, while remaining non-threatening, even with...

Photographer Maxine Helfman recently had the opportunity to photograph James Franco the artist, not James Franco the actor. The shoot was for the New York magazine and the goal was to capture...

The World Illustration Awards 2017 Exhibition is now open to the public! This week the WIA returns to London’s Somerset House for a sixth year. The exhibition will display highlights from this year’s shortlist, comprised of both emerging and established talent. With over 2,300 entries from 64 countries and eight categories of competition, this year’s exhibition features one of the most diverse collections of arts the WIA has ever seen...

The developer behind of Clash of Clans and Boom Beach has been acquired by Chinese powerhouse Tencent. The deal, in which Tencent will receive an 84.3% stake in Supercell, is worth $8.6 billion. That puts a valuation of around $10.2 billion on Supercell, solidifying it as one of the biggest mobile game makers in the market.

Vivendi just landed a huge blow in their ongoing battle with the Guillemot brothers. Yves Guillemot and his brothers founded Ubisoft nearly three decades ago. In 1999, Michel Guillemot branched out and founded the mobile-centric Gameloft. Ever since then, Yves has been the face and CEO of Ubisoft and Michel the face and CEO of Gameloft until recently, that is. Now, Vivendi is looking to take the Guillemot brothers out of the equation completely.

E-sports have been touted as the next big thing for a while now and although the popularity inside the gaming community is immense, they have yet to go truly mainstream. Now, Eleague is trying to change that.

As long as there’s been competition, there have been people willing to cheat. From knocking your friend’s controller out of their hand when they’re about to score to using mods and hacks of all sorts, cheating has been ingrained into gaming culture, for better or for worse. Now though, companies like Ubisoft and Blizzard are ready to get rid of it completely.

Microsoft dove head first into their E3 press conference. As the lights dimmed and the audience quieted we got our first official look at the Xbox One S. The new console is 40% smaller than the original Xbox One, it’s white, it comes with up to 2 TB of storage, it plays 4k video and best of all, it’s only $299 and will be available in August. Alongside the updated system is also a new white Xbox controller boasting extended range and extra grip.

The NBA is an incredibly lucrative business. Players are paid huge sums of money just to put a ball in a hoop. Current NBA stars are routinely getting nine digit contracts thanks to new TV deals and the massive revenue streams they bring to teams. While some players are smart about it all, a lot of them just don’t know what to do with that kind of money. Plenty of former players have gone bankrupt thanks to mooching “friends” and family, poor investments and, in some cases, just bad luck.

Being a voice actor might sound like a nice and easy job, but that certainly isn’t the case when it comes to video games. From constant screams to endless retakes, the work can be long and arduous, with fewer benefits than you might expect. That’s why the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) recently asked occupational health and safety regulators in California to investigate the supposed mistreatment of voice actors inside the gaming industry.

For at least half a decade, people have been talking about the impending doom of discs. Physical video games were supposed to go the way of cartridges, tapes, and floppy discs, and rumors of brick-and-mortar stores (i.e. GameStop) becoming irrelevant have swirled around before this console generation even started. Yet, discs have somehow managed to persist.

Michael John McLeod, a CS:GO player from Connecticut, is suing Valve for being complicit and instrumental in the creation and sustentation of an illegal gambling scene centered around CS:GO.