Two well-known creators in the miniatures gaming space are suddenly getting way into nail art — you know, the other painting hobby enjoyed by millions of people around the world. Brent Amberger of Goobertown Hobbies fame and Casey, the creator of eBay Miniatures Rescue, showed up at this year’s AdeptiCon convention with a clever new way to paint your miniatures — and it could make one of the hobby’s most hated features a thing of the past.The hated feature in question is the humble waterslide decal, which hobbyists across dozens of different franchises have come to loathe over the years. Done well, using something like Microscale Industries’ Micro Sol and Micro Set, decals can look great. But it can be incredibly challenging to get a decal to lay flat on a curved surface — you know, stuff like shields and the shoulder pauldrons on Space Marines. Even if you’ve mastered the process, which is ably described in the Winterdyne Commission Modeling Blog guide to Waterslide Decals (included as part of our larger miniatures painting guide), it can still go pear-shaped on you if your surface isn’t properly prepared. The result? A ghostly white outline surrounding the art on the decal itself.Brent and Casey, partners in the newly formed Goblin Hobbies, recently discovered nail art stamping plates. These chemically etched metal plates can be made to feature any kind of two-dimensional art that you like. Drop a little paint on the plate, wipe it smooth, and you can pick the image up off the plate with a silicone pad. Just gently press the pad onto your miniature, and Bob’s your uncle. Their silicone pads are even transparent, so you can see your model through the handle to line things up perfectly.Image: Goblin Hobbies via YouTubeImage: Goblin Hobbies via YouTubeThe technology to do this kind of thing with ink and paint has been around for centuries. I’m sure my grandfather had something similar for his basement printing business in the 1940s. But its application to nail art is relatively new. Goblin Hobbies hopes to bring it even further, into the mainstream of hobby miniatures gaming. They even have dreams of licensed kits for your favorite factions from universes like BattleTech and Warhammer 40,000.The first batch of starter kits recently showed up at their distribution hub. They include compatible paint and two plates filled with useful designs — including that notoriously challenging checkerboard pattern common on many miniatures. Sets start at $50.See More:

ZeniMax Online Studio has unveiled its 2025 plans for Elder Scrolls Online. As you might recall, the studio announced the transition away from the yearly Chapter model toward a more seasonal content release cadence. This begins with Seasons of the Worm Cult, which marks the return of the enemy faction originally seen in the base game's main storyline. Indeed, this will be a continuation of that storyline after over ten years, with many fan-favorite characters like Razum-dar, Skordo, Gabrielle, and Vanus Galerion making a comeback for the occasion. Elder Scrolls Online will also be updated with a new zone called Solstice, a tropical island where Argonians and High Elves live together. The main city is called Sunport, and it's run by Corelanya Elves and Tideborn Argonians, mostly outcasts from the respective races. The latter are actually a new Argonian tribe that hasn't been seen before in Elder Scrolls Online, though there are also new Argonian Behemoths and Stone Argonians on Solstice that players will encounter as foes. It's here that players will face off against the Worm Cult once again. Initially, though, they'll only be able to access half of the island. One of the twists is that there will be a server-wide event to take down the so-called Writhing Wall erected by the necromancers and access the rest of the island. The whole community will participate in this event (which is set to begin in late Summer), even those who do not purchase the new content pass, which is essentially the equivalent of the old Chapter. It reminds me of something like The Gates of Ahn'Quiraj, a server-wide event in vanilla World of Warcraft where individual player contributions determined exactly when any given server would get access to the raid. Of course, whereas World of Warcraft had many servers in each region, the same is not true for Elder Scrolls Online, which employs a megaserver structure where there is only a single server per region (and platform). In this case, players will aid the Fellowship of Stirk in taking down the Writhing Wall. Anyway, the biggest addition to the game is actually something else entirely: the developers are introducing full-fledged subclassing. That's right, once you have at least a character at level 50, you'll be able to access skill lines from other classes, although you will always have to maintain at least one skill line from the original class that you picked during character creation. This means that a Templar character could add one skill line from Dragon Knight and another from Sorcerer, and this is just one of many possible examples. According to the developers, there are now over three thousand combinations of skill lines. Critically, there will be an account-wide progression for all skill lines. This means that if you have already unlocked a skill line with one character, you can use that skill line on any other of your characters through subclassing. As for Season of the Worm Cult, a Prologue Quest is available today, but the first real part of the new story will be delivered in June, with the rest coming throughout 2025, starting with a second update in late Summer. With the June patch (Update 46), ZeniMax is also adding the new 12-player Trial called Ossein Cage, a gigantic vault located in Coldharbour, Molag Bal's Daedric realm. Ossein Cage holds a powerful relic called Dolorous Cista that absorbs pain and transforms it into power; it's up to the players to prevent Molag Bal and his Daedric servants from getting their hands on it. ZeniMax Online also stressed that work continues on a variety of other aspects, from PvP (especially RvR, following the Cyrodiil Champions test) to revamping the new player experience, the returning player experience, the graphics look of the game, and the combat feel, and the user interface on PC. For a lot more on subclassing, Season of the Worm Cult, and everything else coming to Elder Scrolls Online, check out this interview with Studio Director Matt Firor, Game Director Rich Lambert, and Executive Producer Susan Kath. As a side note, the game has now reached over 26 million players since launch, up from the 25-million milestone of a few months ago.

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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - A Visual Archive $60 | Releases September 9 Preorder at Amazon Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace set the tone for the Prequel Trilogy with its lavish costumes, impressive sets, and cutting-edge special effects back in 1999, and if you'd like a closer look at how the film was made, then you'll want to check out this new book. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - A Visual Archive will be released on September 9, and you can preorder it for $60 through Amazon. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - A Visual Archive $60 | Releases September 9 This 296-page hardcover book offers behind-the-scenes photography and concept art from the Phantom Menace, as well as filmmaking anecdotes and extra physical content like booklets and foldout pages. For Star Wars fans who enjoy looking at the bigger picture, the book also goes into detail on how the movie built the framework for future spin-off series, like Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, and The Mandalorian. There's also a deep dive into the Phantom Menace's merchandise, comics, and spin-offs, so you're getting a comprehensive look at the first film in the Prequel Trilogy and its place in pop culture history. Preorder at Amazon If you're looking for more reading material on the creation of the first Star Wars prequel film, there's the Star Wars Insider Presents The Phantom Menace 25 Year Anniversary Special that launched last year in celebration of the film's 25th anniversary. It's packed with vintage interviews from the long-running Star Wars Insider magazine, along with essays, art, and high-quality stills from the movie. It's available for $19 at Amazon.This is the second Star Wars: A Visual Archive book, the first was Visual Archive for Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Similar to the Phantom Menace, the Return of the Jedi book is packed with photography and concept art that explores how the movie was made and its legacy in pop culture. You can pick it up at a nice 50% discount at Amazon, dropping the price to $32.50 (was $65).Continue Reading at GameSpot

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I originally had a good deal of skepticism when Sony announced a film based on Helldivers 2, simply because it’s hard to imagine how the game can translate into a movie. Someone’s already made Starship Troopers, after all, and it’s hard to imagine the antics that emerge from your typical match translating to the big screen. Over time, my position has softened, and a large part of that is because of the phenomenal work fans are doing in creating their own cinematics inspired by Arrowhead’s work. One fan, posting on Reddit under the name Sad-Needleworker-590, posted his own trailer using a few clips of in-game cutscenes, voice lines from the game, and footage filmed from his own games. The end result is chilling; some of the shots of a lone Helldiver jogging through a blood-red sunset or preparing to face off against an Automaton Factory Strider genuinely gave me goosebumps. There are also some great action scenes, cut short enough to provide thrilling glimpses into the action-packed, lethal life of a Helldiver. The trailer took about four days to put together. “I like Helldivers because it brought back to me that forgotten feeling of a good video game,” Sad-Needleworker-590 told Polygon via direct messages. “Even if it uses same game mechanic in every mission it still really fun to play with random people, or friends. And the game looks really good, each shot is cinematic masterpiece itself.” I’ve also enjoyed following Martechi on YouTube, who creates works in the Warhammer 40K and Helldivers 2 universes alongside his own setting. Martechi creates videos that look like they could exist in some theoretical, wildly ambitious update from Arrowhead themselves. Using the mechanical context of his user ID and the Super Destroyer HUD, this cinematic space battle between Automatons and Illuminate looks real enough to fool the unwary observer. While some fans don’t care to fight the Illuminate, YouTuber EPG-6 created an animation called “Showdown” in which a Helldiver uses a hatchet and a shield to go head-to-head with an Illuminate Overlord. I, for one, absolutely hate fighting the Overlords because they can take so many shots, so it’s satisfying to see one in such a tense tussle with a Helldiver. Lumis Entertainment is another YouTube channel with some intriguing teasers for upcoming projects. One video is called Helldivers 2 – Teaser and shows glimpses of an upcoming animated fan film. In a longer crossover animation called Helldivers 40,000, a Helldiver is on the rocks against an oncoming Terminid swarm. Just when hope is lost, drop pods arrive, bringing Space Marines. As a fan of both franchises, I feel comfortable agreeing that these two would get along famously. There’s no news on the upcoming film, besides knowing that Arrowhead itself won’t be too involved in the production. “We’re not Hollywood people, and we don’t know what it takes to take a movie,” Arrowhead Game Studios creative director Johan Pilestedt said back in January. PlayStation Productions and Sony Pictures will be at the helm, but if these fan creations prove anything, it’s that the gameplay can nicely translate into cinematic snippets.