3d printed video games

How Sony & PlayStation are Utilizing 3D Printing to Accurately Portray In-Game Characters

The development of in-game characters and props is significantly more difficult than how it is often perceived. Although virtual models can be created with ideas or concepts sketched on a…

3D Printing for Gamers — A Few Questions For: U-Dimensions

Gamers and 3D printing. 3D printing and gamers. It’s a tale as old as time, in that very twenty-first century way. We’ve seen gaming and 3D printing come together in…

3D Print to Survive the Apocalypse: A Look at the Overlap Between 3D Printing and Gaming

This spring, game developer Holospark will be releasing Earthfall, a first-person co-operative shooter game set in a post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest that has been ravaged by aliens. The invasion, along with…

3D Printed Map of Legend of Zelda’s Hyrule Draws Internet-Wide Attention, Helps Creator Launch Business

It’s been a great month for gamer children of the 1980s and ’90s. First Nintendo released the NES Classic Edition, sending many people I know racing to the nearest department…

Maker Uses 3D Printing and Raspberry Pi to Build a Mini NES with Working Mini Game Cartridges

While it wasn’t the first home video game system, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is unarguably the most iconic and important in the history of the video game industry. When…

Gambody Launches Online Workshop for Painting 3D Printed Models

Thanks to 3D printing marketplaces like Gambody and—to some extent— MyMiniFactory, gamers from all around the world have been able to 3D print replica models of their favorite video game…

Introducing the Pirakeet: A Tiny DIY and Low-Budget 3D Printed Gaming Console

As video game consoles and graphics seem to get more and more sophisticated, for some reason handheld games also seem to grow more popular. This is especially the case for people of…

Use Shapeways SVX Format to 3D Print Game Code As a Model

The worlds of gaming and 3D printing continue to overlap in very compelling ways. For example, there are 3D printing services, like FabZat, that allow a game fan to order a…

3D Print a Half-Life 2 Turret/Sentry Gun That Can Shoot Mini Marshmallows

If you’re even a casual gamer, you’re likely at least somewhat familiar with Half-Life 2, even if you haven’t played it yourself. The first-person shooter game was released in 2004 to…

Making Fallout 4’s Robot Butler Mister Handy Real Using 3D Printing

The development of a video game is probably the last place that you would think to find rapid prototyping being used, but it turns out 3D printing played a key…

Pac-Man Celebrates 35th Birthday — is Launched into Space as 3D Printed Model

Who doesn’t have the classic video arcade music and linear-chomping action of Pac-Man ingrained in the ’80s-driven recesses of their minds? Even most young kids these days are well-familiar with…

3D Print Your Own Tabletop Retro Arcade Cabinet

In this age of X-Stations and Play-Boxes, video games have become a decidedly solitary pastime. And while that seems like it’s how it has always been, back in the ’70s…

Nin10do: A 3D Printed Modern Day Working Nintendo Entertainment System Created by a Magician

Poof! And the rabbit pops out of the hat! This is what some may consider to be “magic,” while others will simply call it an illusion. Obviously the latter is…

3D Printed Small Scale Models of Video Game Consoles Past and Present

  Okay, gamers, you can put down the controller or joystick or handheld device, step away from the keyboard. Pop your knuckles, stretch your thumbs or pop a pizza in…

Kickstarter Campaign Launches for eNcade, Portable 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Gaming Tablet

The grass is always greener. And the gamers of this generation really do have the best of all worlds and all technology, as they can time travel in their gaming…

Nerfenstein Creates Amazing 3D Printed Cosplayer Props and Weaponry

For those who love playing video games, there is something cool about actually seeing props and weapons from those video games in the real world around us. There is a…