No, this isn’t Metal Gear artwork, nor is it concept art for Death Stranding. But if it look like it could be, that’s because it was drawn by Yoji Shinkawa, who’s done concept art for Metal Gear games since 1997 (and who’s now at the end Kojima Productions studio as we know). The artwork below is for Call of Duty Zombies Chronicles, the latest expansion to the hugely popular FPS Call of Duty: Black Ops III. Shinkawa made some character art as well as a dynamic PlayStation 4 theme for the title.
Mark Rubin, the lead designer of Ubisoft’s now-dead free-to-play shooter XDefiant, has left the games industry following his project’s death.
So much wrong with Xdefiant. At one point they started using the worst ideas for their game and FPS fans saw it in the previews.
"We had other issues though as well that we tried to be transparent about. For one we had crippling tech debt using an engine that wasn’t designed for what we were doing...Another issue we had was having the right resources to make content for the game."
Ubi set them up for failure out of the gate. And he says they had stuff in the pipes that should have been at launch means Ubi rushed it out and the devs didn't.
Localthunk: "The honest reason I don't have microtransactions/season pass/ads/100 DLCs/etc in Balatro isn't just about the ethics of those practices but because when I play other games that have those things it makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots & pans."
While it may not have been The Witcher 4 gameplay, the Unreal Fest 2025 tech demo for CD Projekt Red's latest gave us a good idea of how the finished game might look. We talked to the developers, as well as Epic Games' Unreal Engine team, to find out exactly how the upcoming open-world RPG looks so incredible.
Imagine a Cod game from Kojima productions in a WW2 or WW1 era. I think it would be sick. Also Yoji Shinkawa is extremely talented, his drawings are incredible.
Yoji making a game is like OMG
I'm not sure any other game illustrator can claim a 1st glance impression that makes people instantly know its his artwork, without question. Truly one of the best in the industry!
I wish I could draw like that... Actually, I just wish I could draw! This guy's work is phenomenal, that waterink style is just too cool. Such talent!