Art Feature: Sweetochii

Today's art feature comes from deviantART member Sweetochii. An artist hailing from the United States, Sweetochii's style is cute, chibi-fied and fun. 

Check out a few examples of her work below.

Mario Digital Painting

Beanie Squirtle

Red Dead Redemption-Chibi Marston

L.A. Noire Sequel Is A Maybe?

Fans yearning for a sequel to L.A. Noire may be in luck after Rockstar announced via News Wire that the franchise could make a return in the future.


"While there won’t be any more DLC or additional content for the current release of L.A. Noire (we’re all too busy working on Max Payne 3, GTAV and other games to come), don’t count out the possibility of a new game in the L.A. Noire franchise in the future. We simply have not decided anything," reads the News Wire post. "We don’t always rush to make sequels, but that does not mean we won’t get to them eventually – see Max and Red Dead for evidence of that – we have so many games we want to make and the issue is always one of bandwidth and timing."

Last year's L.A. Noire was a fantastic game, so it would be great if a sequel is eventually in the works! 

London Gaming Con: Cosplay Masquerade.

The London Gaming Con came to The Rocket Complex this weekend, which I attended for today. There were a few Q&A's, live performances, panels, freeplay set-ups and stalls to peruse. However, it appears that a convention is not complete nowadays without a nod towards the cosplay culture, and the London Gaming Con slotted in a few cosplay events, including the one I caught, the Cosplay Masquerade.


The Cosplay Masquerade allowed cosplayers to come up on stage and present to the audience their outfits. Unlike a much larger convention like the London MCM Expo, the cosplay in this one was pretty scarce, but a handful of costumed gaming fans sauntered up onto the stage and paraded their outfits nevertheless.

If I am being honest, I did not know who many of them were supposed to be cosplaying as (I'm assuming many were of anime's I have never watched), but there was also a great John Marston (Red Dead Redemption), Mr Fantastic (Fantastic Four) and Toadette (Super Mario). There was also a rather bizarre human version of Portal's GlaDOS, which I doubt I would have picked up on if she had not mentioned who she was meant to be.


The audience were encouraged to vote on their favourite costume by cheering when the presenter (the costumed Mario once again) pointed to them with his microphone. The costume that generated the loudest cheer was declared the winner. At the end of the parade and vote, it was decided that the guy dressed as John Marston gained the most cheers, so he won the title of best cosplayer at the London Gaming Con. It's great that a gaming related costume won this, so congratulations!

The London Gaming Con will be returning at some point next year, in what I hope would be a much bigger venue with a larger variety of things to take part in (the space really limited what could be presented unfortunately). Maybe this will also get the cosplayers flocking in larger numbers, if you're into that kind of thing.

A Collection of Posts

Hello all,


Once again, I've been busy writing elsewhere on the web as well as my personal gaming blog, which you are currently reading from right now.

Retro Kingdom
First of all, I've recently started writing for Retro Kingdom, a collaborative retro blog by myself and Lewis Terry from App Kingdom.


Here are my most recent posts:
Donkey Kong Country
Dragon Warrior Monsters
Mario Paint
Aladdin

MCM Buzz
I'm pleased to announce that I've bagged myself a press pass to cover the London MCM Expo in October for MCM Buzz! I shall be doing a few interviews, writing up coverage for all the events, browsing the stalls, etc. 


Do not be shy! If you see me, by all means come and say hello. I shall be handing out some 8-Bit Girl flyers (I hope) during the convention as well!


Here are latest articles:
Dragon Quest X Goes Online for the Wii and Wii U
Red Dead Redemption "Myths and Mavericks" DLC Revealed
An Interview with Christaan Gough (The Sci-Fi Guys)

Gamers Daily News
I was appointed as a guest contributor for Gamers Daily News this month. This means that I shall be posting up any of my game musings whenever I feel I have something worthy enough to share.


My first (and hopefully not my last!) article for the site:
My Favourite Game: Link's Awakening


I know many of my readers like to read my other posts around the internet, and so I shall be doing regular update posts like this from now on to let you all know what else I have been writing.


I hope you continue to enjoy my writing on and off of 8-Bit Girl, and please do not hesitate to get in touch via my email address!


Kayleigh Powis