The Blue Casket

It’s been said many times that you can’t take a bad screenshot in EVE Online, and this Flickr group certainly supports the idea. As we end our week of gaming photography/screenshotting, we dive into space and take a spin around the beautiful space epic MMO. Next week, normal service returns!

EVE Online @ Flickr

Flickr has a nice Videogame Photography group, with a wide variety of games showing up including Far Cry, Oblivion and GTA. It’s mostly in Spanish, but the photos are what you’re there for. If you’ve just joined us, this week is The Blue Casket’s Snapshots week, celebrating gaming photography.

Videogame Photography @ Flickr

World of Warcraft is exceedingly beautiful. Koinup’s users show this off adeptly, particularly Morgana Le Fay, whose screenshots are taken and edited with extreme care, producing some truly stunning views. If you’ve played WoW before, I suspect you’ll be surprised at how choice of shot and filter has changed the famous MMO world.

Morgana Le Fay @ Koinup

Pentadact, otherwise known as the handsome and intelligent Mister Tom Francis of PC Gamer semi-fame, is great at capturing little moments in games, particularly TF2.  His catalogue of screens over on Flickr are a joy to shuffle through, as is his blog. Tom also wrote the GalCiv diaries, which you may remember from earlier.

Pentadact @ Flickr

Welcome to our Snapshots week, where we’ll be featuring some really quite good galleries of gaming photography. Since many readers of The Runner only go there for the images, we thought we’d start the week with his Flickr account. It’s got full-size photos of a lot of his blog shots, as well as some not posted, and the game looks stunning. Wallpaper-worthy stuff there.

The Runner @ Flickr

Today, we’ve got a whole Let’s Play of the superb roguelike-but-not platformer that is Spelunky. Part One is above, and you can find the rest at the link below. Then go download the final version of Spelunky from Spelunky World and get playing yourself!

Let’s Play Spelunky (via Penny Arcade)

Here’s something – a World of Warcraft diary. It’s not hugely interesting in its contents, but it’s worth a flick through for a very special reason; it ends. The diary charts a player’s life through the whole game, from Day 15 to him stopping play, and it shows how his relationship with the game is completely changed, eventually becoming fed up and leaving. It’s really good, go and skimread it now.

My Illustrated World of Warcraft Diary

Also – no update to The Runner today, unfortunately. It should be up over the next couple of days though, hopefully.

Okay, maybe one more. I promise something non-hero-based tomorrow. Your friend and mine Steve Peacock over at The Reticule has begun a Champions Online game diary. It’s only just kicking off and it could do with some more images, but you should definitely start following it for a taste of what the game’s like. I’m still forming an opinion on it myself, but it’s fun enough to romp around in. Go acquaint yourself with The Exclamation now!

Champions Online Diary

I’m in Champions Online! Hooray for me. The fanbase is slowly emerging, and out of it are pouring the first comics. Here’s one, TrueFoe, but there’s a bunch more over at the official forums. It’s only a few pages for now and a bit OTT perhaps, but I’m hoping we’ll see more emerge soon. The Casket has its own planned for the near future, so eyes peeled!

TRUEFoe

I was pleasantly surprised to find A Pacifist In The Wasteland. Gaming blogs always need a good gimmick, and this one’s well-used but very good:

But the question is can you be a pacifist? Can you get through the whole game without killing a single soul? Well, let’s find out.

Having never played Fallout, this has double awesomeness, and thus is highly recommended. Go over and take a look!

A Pacificst In The Wasteland