3d printed video games

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

  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…

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…

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…