Video game developer Blizzard and Sideshow Collectibles have announced that they are working on a new statue of Arthas Menethil that will be launched during winter of this year.
The official description from Blizzard for the statues reads: “Meticulously sculpted by fine artist Brian Fay (whose body of work inc... |
19 March 2012
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Video game publisher Capcom has announced a Special Edition for Dragon’s Dogma to be offered on the Japanese market.
Its content will include a monster statue modeled after one of the in-game enemies, a booklet detailing the art, a bookmark, a nicely crafted box and a code which will allow gamers to pick up p... |
17 February 2012
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Video game publisher Take Two, via its Rockstar label, has announced that it is launching a Special Edition version of the upcoming shooter Max Payne 3 which will offer gamers both a collectible statuette of the main character and a pack of characters taken from the first two titles in the series.The Special Edition ... |
22 November 2011
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Blizzard is one of the most popular game developers out there, having managed to create for itself a massive fan base. The big number of fans were attracted to the titles made by the company because of their intriguing gameplay, top-notch graphics and solid multiplayer options due to the Battle.Net online service.Amo... |
18 March 2009
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The Iraqi city of Tikrit, the home town of the former dictator Saddam Hussein, now hosts a large statue depicting a shoe, which has been erected to honor the journalist who took both of his shoes off and threw them at President George W. Bush, while he was on tour in the country. People in the area are very pleased w... |
2 February 2009
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Three ancient statues representing the African animal-god Amun were unearthed at el-Hassa, in Sudan, nearly three weeks ago, some 200 kms (120 miles) to the north of the capital city of Khartoum. The statues bear inscriptions that could help experts understand an ancient tongue, one of the few left undeciphered in th... |
17 December 2008
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This is one of the best preserved and oldest large Egyptian statues. A European-Egyptian team discovered the 12-ft-tall (3.6-m-tall) quartzite representation of the powerful Egyptian queen at the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III on Luxor's West Bank. The statue was joined to the broken-off leg of a much larger c... |
1 April 2008
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Since antiquity, people have built statues to the animals. This was done for various religious or cultural reasons. For example, the animal could have represented the image of a god or was linked to local myths and legends, like the famous Roman statue of the she-wolf feeding Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. ... |
27 October 2007
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Megalomaniacs have lived among us ever since antiquity. And if Saddam, Mao and all other historical bizarre characters built for themselves giant statues, why shouldn't the Roman emperors have done the same? At least we enjoy seeing the Romans' good taste...One of those who regarded themselves bigger than i... |
9 August 2007
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Rapa Nui or Easter Island, also called by the locals Tepitothenua (the navel of the world) is an almost barren triangular island of 170 square kilometers, believed to be the most isolated inhabited place on Earth, at 3,760 km (2,300 mi) off Chile, to which it belongs, at 27o 08' S and 109o 23' V. It is a vo... |
3 April 2007
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Greek archaeologists have found a 2,200-year-old statue of the goddess Hera, inside the walls of a city, near Mount Olympus, the place where ancient Greeks believed their gods lived. The headless marble statue was found during the 2006 diggings in the ruins of ancient Dion, some 53 miles (90 km) southwest of Thessalo... |
2 March 2007
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