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Devil May Cry 4 - Unlockables and Art (Xbox 360)

Devil May Cry 4 features the same Gothic-inspired supernatural setting which fans have gotten used to over the years, while a new protagonist, Nero, and the awesome power of his Devil Bringer are introduced. In the game, you'll be able to familiarize yourself with Nero's powers, such as the ability to slam ...

30 July 2008
09:02 GMT

mixtART Brings Cool Art to Mobile Phones

Hands-On Mobile, the famous American wireless entertainment company, has prepared a new and cool service for all the mobile users who like art: mixtART - coming this fall to a handset near you(r pocket). What's mixtART all about? As Hands-On puts it, with mixtART consumers will be able to buy "original works of ...

25 July 2008
06:25 GMT

Nuclear Blasts Provide with Foolproof Art Authentication Method

World War II and the Cold War era saw several thousands of nuclear tests being carried out throughout the world, including the atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which literally put an end to hostilities in World War II. During that time, significant amounts of nuclear fallout have been produced,...

5 July 2008
05:55 GMT

Get Your Face Featured in Fable 2

If you remember the good old days when games only "knew" 256 colors and occupied less than 10 Mb on your computer's HDD, you must remember the things called developer cameos - usually a picture of the team of developers, hidden somewhere within the game. Well... these days are long gone and a new era has started...

2 June 2008
03:23 GMT

Use Your Drawing Skills on the DS

To be honest, I have never considered drawing as the best party game in the world, but Sega wants to prove me (and everybody who agrees with me) wrong and it is planning to release Pictoimage, the game that will spice up all the parties you'll ever attend starting now. And, yes, as you can already imagine, it is...

26 May 2008
05:35 GMT

The Oldest Art: Cave Wall Paintings

The first Homo sapiens employed caves against the cold or the hot weather, or to shelter against rains and wild beasts. Even chimps in Senegal were found to use caves against heat and rain. But what is more important is that caves have preserved many aspects of the life of the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) people. Incl...

14 February 2008
09:27 GMT

7 Amazing Issues About Indian Civilization

1. India was one of the cradles of the civilization. Here emerged two religions of high philosophical and moral content: Buddhism and Brahmanism. Indian literature started over 3,000 years ago with the sacred books called Vedas and the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata; it was profoundly religious and poetic, and com...

12 February 2008
16:31 GMT

Sperm Art: He Paints Using His Semen!

Art is meant to represent the impossible beyond our imagination. This is beyond the way our imagination regards art, but maybe, in fact, we are conservative and obsolete...The British Jordan McKenzie, 40, involves in epic auto-sexual orgies for creating a new exhibition, which is the result of his masturbating and ej...

14 January 2008
14:11 GMT

Scientists Discover the Beauty Sense Locations in Our Brains

Is beauty something we learn or are we born with the sense of aesthetics? A new research published in the journal PLoS ONE suggests that at least partly our sense of beauty is instinctive.The Italian team presented original and distorted pictures of Classical and Renaissance sculptures to 14 subjects with no experien...

22 November 2007
02:48 GMT

World's Most Expensive Piece of Contemporary Art: Diamond-encrusted Skull Sold for $100 Million!

The head hunters from the rainforest could definitely not achieve this. A diamond-covered human skull made by British artist Damien Hirst was sold to an investment group for $100 million.The skull named "For the Love of God" has a platinum top, 8,601 gemstones embedded on it and it is regarded as the world's mos...

5 September 2007
16:11 GMT

Flashing as a Form of High Art. Thanks, Chicas!

I bet that when you saw THIS, or THIS, or THIS, you didn't believe that there would come a day when you could look at Britney's antics from a totally different perspective. To put it in another way, the thought probably never crossed your mind that, one great day, all this flashing and seemingly insane beha...

30 July 2007
08:11 GMT

The Egyptian Civilization, 10,000 Years Older than Thought

While early Europeans were decorating cave walls with paintings of bisons, aurochs and lions, 15,000 years ago the ancient Egyptians made similar rock face drawings and etchings. "It is not at all an exaggeration to call it 'Lascaux on the Nile,'" said expedition leader Dirk Huyge, curator of the Egyptian C...

12 July 2007
02:49 GMT

Paris Hilton's Nude Corpse on Display

In case the name of Capla Kesting Fine Art gallery doesn't ring a bell, maybe it will do so after you hear that it's the same art venue that also displayed the statue of a naked Britney Spears giving birth on a bearskin (called 'Moment to Pro-Life: the Birth of Sean Preston') and a bronze statuet...

28 April 2007
05:42 GMT

Restoring Artwork with the Help of Science

Art forgery dates back more than two-thousand years. Roman sculptors produced copies of Greek sculptures. Presumably the contemporary buyers knew that they were not genuine.Art restoration is a process that attempts to return the work of art to some previous state that the restorer imagines to be "original". This wa...

23 April 2007
08:30 GMT




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