Beautiful New (Unofficial) Zelda Screens

Posted by Owen Johnson at 1:21 PM Jan 28, 2010

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25 Hilarious and Awesome Pieces of Mario Fan Art (Part Two)

Posted by David Savage at 3:43 PM Aug 07, 2009

Due to artists' complaints, we've had to remove all the images in this post. Sorry if you were sent here with promises of cake and the hopes of seeing some cool Mario fan art. If you'd like to see our other fan art posts, click here.

8-Bit Fatalities

Posted by J. Matthew Zoss at 10:07 AM May 08, 2009

Ever wonder what it would be like if you could retroactively apply the violence of Mortal Kombat to the games that came before it? One Flickr user did, and the result is the gloriously violent "8-Bit Fatalities" series. Nothing like adding a bit of ridiculous ultra-violence to the family-friendly games of our childhood. Check out the rest of this awesome collection here.

Weekly Fan Art - Lara Croft Non-Porno Edition

Posted by J. Matthew Zoss at 11:35 AM Apr 20, 2009

Obviously, Lara Croft has a following. Obviously, a lot of those followers are dirty, dirty pervs. Finding X-rated pictures of Lara on the internet would be about as hard as... well, finding X-rated pictures on the internet. So I've decided to challenge myself to find non-porn pics of the Tomb Raider star that were still horrible enough to qualify for Weekly Fan Art. Could I do it? Well, duh. You wouldn't be reading this if I couldn't. I'm just that good! Or at least, the art is just that bad. I mean, just look at the pic above. She's got ass-crotch, for god's sake!

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Weekly Fan Art: The Street Fighter Edition

Posted by Gary Hodges at 9:17 PM Apr 08, 2009

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Weekly Fan Art: Smash Bros. Edition Round One

Posted by J. Matthew Zoss at 8:55 AM Mar 30, 2009

In last week's Prince of Persia edition of Weekly Fan Art, I ended with a call for suggestions on what series I should tackle in the future. Smash Bros. was the first thing shouted out, and man, what a subject it turned out to be. You see, the recipe for a quality WFA is a combination of shitty drawings (obviously), "chibi" versions of characters, crossovers with Sonic the Hegdehog for some reason, and a healthy dose of homoeroticism. The Smash Bros. fan community delievered on all fronts, with the exception of the Sonic crossover nonsense, because he's already in the game. I could probably use Smash Bros. for a subject for weeks, and the giant fire-shitting Bowser above only scratches the surface of what you're about to see. 

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Weekly Fan Art - Prince of Persia Edition

Posted by J. Matthew Zoss at 11:32 AM Mar 23, 2009

Aww yeah. What's the best way to start your week off right? Coffee and donuts? Hookers and an eight ball? If you answered "Weekly Fan Art, of course!" then you have serious problems. I don't know about you, but this column makes me cry every time. Then again, I do have to clear my search history every time I put one of these together, so my wife doesn't inadvertently discover that I was looking at pictures of Scorpion sucking Sub-Zero's dick. I wish I was kidding. Anyway, this week's entry on the Prince of Persia is mercifully fellatio-free!

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Weekly Fan Art - The Potpourri Edition

Posted by J. Matthew Zoss at 5:22 PM Mar 16, 2009

In doing the research for Joystick Division's semi-beloved Weekly Fan Art Column, I tend to accumulate more crappy video game drawings than I can actually use. Much of it gets deleted, but some of it survives, cluttering my computer with garbage-y fan wankery that would make anyone who searched my hard drive think I'm a creepy, maladjusted shut-in. Which is, of course, true. Anyway, here are some of the remnants of previous editions, plus a few bits from a few aborted columns that never saw the light of day, like Mr. Marcus Fenix from Gears of War above and a big-handed Dante from Devil May Cry below.

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Weekly Fan Art - Metal Gear Solid Edition

Posted by J. Matthew Zoss at 2:26 PM Mar 09, 2009

Welcome to another edition of Weekly Fan Art. This week's entry on the Metal Gear Solid is downright restrained compared to last week's Mortal Kombat entry, which is somewhat odd given the downright bonkers nature of the Metal Gear series. If you've never played it, the Metal Gear Solid series is about a super-soldier names Solid Snake - kinda. He actually only stars in two of the four games. I'm not even going to try to explain it. Let's just look at some pictures, 'kay? 

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Weekly Fan Art: Mortal Kombat Edition

Posted by J. Matthew Zoss at 8:15 AM Mar 02, 2009

Like Halo, there's enough Mortal Kombat art out there that I might end up running more than one week of MK fan art. But for now, I'll just show you some of the best of the best, and maybe we'll come back to revisit the Outworld tournament another time. I'd been thinking that Mortal Kombat was somewhat of a second-tier fighting series, taking a backseat to franchises like Street Fighter and Soul Calibre. Apparently I was wrong, as this edition of Weekly Fan Art has it all: Chibi versions. Terrible MSPaint creations. Crossovers with Sonic the Hedgehog. And, of course, homoeroticism. And I'm not even going to post the Scorpion-on-Sub-Zero hardcore cocksucking drawings I found. I really wish I was kidding about that.

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Weekly Fan Art: Halo Edition Part 2

Posted by J. Matthew Zoss at 10:52 AM Feb 23, 2009

Last week, I inflicted Part 1 of the Weekly Fan Art: Halo Edition upon the internet. Are you ready for Part 2? I sure am, but that's mostly because I've been drinking heavily since last night. Damn the academy and their Space Chimps snub! As bad as that was, it's still not as bad as what I have in store for you, thanks primarily to the misguided belief that Halo is somehow sexy. Ugh. If you're ready, read on.

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Weekly Fan Art: Halo Edition Part 1

Posted by J. Matthew Zoss at 9:52 AM Feb 16, 2009

I'm going to make a confession. Over the last couple of weeks, I was starting to worry that Weekly Fan Art was unsustainable. Surely there isn't a never-ending supply of hilariously bad video game art out there, I thought. I've already had to throw out some of the characters I thought would be perfect fits for this feature due to lack of material. The well, I feared, might be running dry already.

But then came Halo. Hoo boy. And I thought Dragon Ball fans were messed up.

You see, there are two kinds of bad Halo fan art: Regular and Red vs. Blue. Red vs. Blue, as you may know, is a video series created with the Halo engine. It's a funny series about a war between two factions of Halo's Spartans. But there is a small, dedicated group of people out there who think it's actually about a bunch of hot guys fucking each other. In armor. Yeah.

There's so much material based on Halo that I'll actually be spreading it across two editions of Weekly Fan Art. I'll be saving most of the erotic Red vs. Blue material for next week for your safety. You've been warned.

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Weekly Fan Art: Crash Bandicoot Edition

Posted by J. Matthew Zoss at 11:15 AM Feb 09, 2009

The Weekly Fan Art column has covered the biggest names in video game mascot-dom, like Mario and Sonic. Now it's time to turn our attention to gaming's most prominent also-ran: Crash Bandicoot. Despite being the video game equivalent of The Simpson's Poochy, Crash Bandicoot has, based on my rough estimates, starred in about 17,000 games. Somehow this "edgy" character has survived where equally stale, designed-by-focus-group characters like Bubsy the Bobcat and Blinx the Timesweeper have failed. But with success come bad fan art. And boy oh boy does Crash have some bad fan art!

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Weekly Fan Art: Zelda Edition

Posted by J. Matthew Zoss at 6:24 PM Feb 02, 2009

Slightly behind schedule, here's this week's Fan Art update. We've tackled Mario, Sonic and Resident Evil. Now it's time to take on the series that gave us our trademark Blue Pig Ganon review scale. For better or for worse, this week's fan art roundup is less* homoerotic than the previous entries. So you should feel safe reading on, right?

*Does not guarantee a complete lack of homoerotic material.

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Weekly Fan Art - The Resident Evil Edition

Posted by J. Matthew Zoss at 10:43 AM Jan 26, 2009

In honor of today's release of the Resident Evil 5 demo, this week's Fan Art column is devoted to the Resident Evil series and its characters. Unlike some franchises, Resident Evil doesn't star one central character, instead featuring a wide cast and some truly memorable supporting characters and monsters. In other words, you won't see an individual desecrated after the jump. No, you'll see shameful, shameful versions of an entire in-game universe.

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Weekly Fan Art - The Sonic Edition

Posted by J. Matthew Zoss at 9:41 AM Jan 19, 2009

After debuting this column with Mario, it's only fitting that the second edition go to his longtime rival, Sonic the Hedgehog. What I quickly learned while scanning the interwebs for funny Sonic art is that Sonic fans seem to take the character seriously - way too seriously. Much of the art is simply copied from official art, making it neither funny or interesting. That being said, I did manage to find some choice examples to share, at great personal cost to my sanity and soul.

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Weekly Fan Art - The Mario Edition

Posted by J. Matthew Zoss at 1:39 PM Jan 12, 2009

Welcome to the first installment of what promises to be a horrifying regular feature here on Joystick Division! Inspired by our much more frequently-updated sister site Topless Robot and its emotionally scarring Fan Fiction Friday column, I bring you Weekly Fan Art! Celebrating the lamest, weirdest and most vomit-inducing video game fan art, I figured I'd start things off with the biggest game mascot of all time: Mario. There are literally thousands of Mario art pieces out there, including some which are truly very cool. These, however, are not cool at all. Hit the jump to revel in the shittiness!

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