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Web Fans Give Video Games the Art-House Movie Treatment

by Evan Shamoon on April 13, 2009 at 10:14 AM

The Gaming-Age forums (GAF), known around the Web as a haunt for rather savvy game-culture aficionados, is playing host to one of its best 'what-if' roundups yet: the GAF Collection of video games.

The GAF Collection roundup asked users to contribute reimagined video game box art in the style of the Criterion Collection, the well-regarded, if slightly highbrow, distributor of classic and modern art films (head over to Criterion's site to get a feel for its minimalist approach to cover design).

Forum users created new artwork for games of exceptional artistic merit like 'Shadow of the Colossus' (pictured), 'Metal Gear Solid,' 'Rock Band,' and more. Sure, there are a lot of poorly executed ideas, but for every few Photoshop fails, there's a gem like this 'BioShock' cover. The project comes hot on the heels of Olly Moss's Video Game Classics Series, which re-imagines video game packaging in the style of Penguin Classic novels.

Keep it coming, Internet. Keep it coming. [From: The GAF Collection via Buzzfeed]


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