Detail from “Everyone,” a print created by game designer Anna “Auntie Pixelante” Anthropy. Originally designed as the cover art for her upcoming book Rise of the Videogame Zinesters, this artwork features 204 different pixel portraits, all drawn by Anthropy, who is apparently a finely tuned pixel art machine.

You can closely inspect the artwork yourself, marveling at all the different styles she used for the portraits, by purchasing the 12.25” by 17.25” print for $25 (or $30 outside of the US).

See also: More Auntie Pixelante works

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Anamanaguchi poster for a July show in Williamsburg, illustrated by Maré Odomo and designed by Cory Schmitz (click for a larger image). I am swooning all over this.

The art is based on Adrian Tomine’s ”Super-hero Girls” piece for Weezer, adding extra touches like the yellow Game Boy, Totoro pillow, Wavebird controller, and Famicom. You can also see some Anamanaguchi bits like Frug, the Four Loko can, and band members Peter and Luke (represented here by the lesbian rockers).

Attract Mode will sell 24” x 36” prints at the show.

Buy: Anamanaguchi albums

Hear also: Anamanaguchi tunes

[Via Cory Schmitz, Mare Odomo]

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Ancient map of Hyrule by Bill Mudron (click for a massive version). Paying tribute to the The Legend of Zelda series, which celebrated its 25th anniversary last week, this map features all the areas and item/palace/dungeon locations from the The Adventure of Link and the original Famicom/NES game.

Mudron, whose name you should know from his Nintendo History System chapbook, is selling 24 x 36-inch versions of the map printed on archival premium matte stock for $40 each. Here are a couple close-ups of the poster:

You can grab the prints here.

Buy: The Legend of Zelda games

See also: More The Legend of Zelda posts

[Via Bill Mudron]

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Extra Dimension System Highround Action Game: Golgo 13 (click for a larger version of the sumi-e poster).

Though Vic Tokai later used the same artwork for the Japanese cover of The Mafat Conspiracy, this was a rare promotional poster for Golgo 13’s first NES game, Top Secret Episode, that the publisher gave away at the ‘89 Summer Consumer Electronics Show.

I spotted this at Chris Bieniek’s Video Game Ephemera, a neat site full of scanned and uploaded game materials like this — old newsletters, brochures, promo videos, etc. It’s definitely worth wasting your afternoon there!

Buy: Golgo 13 DVDs, manga, and games

See also: More Golgo 13 posts

[Via @expdotzine]

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No More Heroes 2 poster. Grasshopper Manufacture is giving five of these awesome movie-style posters to Twitterers. The Japanese tweet about this giveaway asks fans to talk about their favorite No More Heroes characters, along with the reason for that preference and the #NMHXmas hashtag. But the U.S. side asks only for retweets of this message.

One of the five posters given away will be signed by Suda 51 and NMH character designer Yusuke Kozaki. The rest will merely be rad posters. That you should try to win.

Buy: No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

See also: No More No More Heroes 2 stuff, Follow Tiny Cartridge on Twitter

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The Last Story promotional poster (click for a larger image). You probably already saw the awesome artwork on this game’s Wii hardware bundle, but this is the most splendid piece out of everything Nintendo revealed today.

Sadly, this isn’t the actual art that will adorn the disc’s case. Those who preorder the game in Japan, though, will receive an excellent “Elements of The Last Story” bonus with a mini soundtrack and visual book encased in this fine box:

Before you ask, no, nothing regarding the game or its bundles/bonuses have been announced for North America yet, which seems to be the theme for all our posts today.

Preorder import: The Last Story game, Wii bundle

See also: The Last Story gameplay trailer

[Via Andriasang, Desu]

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GameStop’s preorder poster bonus with copies of Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light (click for a larger version).

If you like The 4 Heroes of Light’s U.S. boxart enough to hang it up, here you go! Though very first-run copy also includes another poster, which isn’t as attractive but should appeal to fans of the RPG’s chibi character designs.

Of course, Amazon also has its own great preorder incentive for The 4 Heroes of Light: a $10 game credit.

Real talk: what are you going to even do with a poster for this game? Probably the same thing you did with that Dragon Quest IX poster you got at the GameStop/Best Buy events (or the Etrian Odyssey III poster you’re going to get next month): either roll it up and put it in your closet, or leave the damn thing lying around so you can accidentally step on it one day and feel terrible about it.

Preorder: The 4 Heroes of Light at Amazon & GameStop

See also: The 4 Heroes of Light media, info

[Via Joystiq]

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“Explorer’s Poster” for Etrian Odyssey III, included with each launch copy of the first-person, dungeon crawling RPG. This nice extra comes in addition to the art book Atlus has promised to those who preorder the game.

This full-color offers “a lush collage of characters set against the crystal blue backdrop of Armoroad’s seas” on one side, and “skill trees for all of the starting character classes” on the other. That way, you can check out special abilities and unique characteristics without having to reference GameFaqs, like you’re doing right now with Dragon Quest IX’s classes!

Preorder: Etrian Odyssey III (Sept. 21st)

See also: Etrian Odyssey III media, preorder bonus

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“Know Your Weak Points!” by Olly Moss (click for a larger version). This poster design, which serves as a cheat sheet for video game bosses, classic monsters, Greek figures, and Karate Kids, goes on sale tomorrow with the release of A Life Well Wasted’s fifth podcast episode.

See also: More ALWW art by Nick Derington

[Via ALWW]

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Grand Scribblenauts artwork (click for larger image).

Edison Yan, the same 5th Cell artist behind the “Post #217” scene, painted this wonderful piece. I wonder if we’ll ever see a poster or print of this (preferably unmarked with developer/publisher/game logos)?

I love these details:

• The hero from Lock’s Quest in an airship
• Chef atop a panda and carrying a spatula
• Surfing ninjg
• Werewolf on the back of a flying superhero
• Young girl in green waving around a leek and riding a fez-wearing elephant
• T-Rex on a god damn motorcycle

[Update: Someone found a giant version of the artwork — a 4642 x 6000 PSD. You can print your own poster with that! You can download the zip file here.]

Preorder: Scribblenauts ($27.99)

See also: Edison Yan’s Scribblenaut-ized Street Fighter, Final Fantasy VII characters

[Via SirPenguin, Indigo Pearl, o0achilles0o]

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Scribblenauts’ “Post #217” scene poster included with the latest issue of Nintendo La Rivista Ufficiale, the Italian edition of Official Nintendo Magazine.

I wonder if ONM’s British edition or any U.S. publications will offer the poster? Don’t forget that you can grab a wallpaper-sized version from IGN, too!

Preorder: Scribblenauts ($27.99)

See also: Edison Yan’s Scribblenaut-ized Street Fighter, Final Fantasy VII characters

[Via theluma]

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