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Bethesda concept artist Adam Adamowicz, who created amazing art for Fallout 3, Skyrim and other Bethesda titles, has passed away after a long battle with cancer. The sad news was quietly announced by Pete Hines after Skyrim won big during the Academy of Arts & Sciences awards at DICE. A lovely tribute to the man who helped create some of the wonderful games we enjoy, and written by a fellow concept artist, can be found over on Awesome Robo. Our thoughts and most sincere condolences go out to each one of his family and friends.

Concept art for a Day 1 Studios pitch, based on the steampunk comic Gotham by Gaslight, has surfaced thanks to a posting from its artist, Julie Farrell. Discovered by Supererogatory, the UI art was created two years ago, according to, but it looks as though THQ didn’t bite. According to what Farrell told Joystiq, the game would have had a story mode, grenades, a “slowmo” button, and shooter elements. Speaking on her portfolio page, Farrell said at the request of THQ, she has taken her art down, but it is still viewable over on Kotaku. Gotham by Gaslight was created by writer Brian Augustyn and featured art from Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. The comic, a one-off from DC, took place in turn-of-the-century Gotham City, and focused on Bruce Wayne trying to stop Jack the Ripper.

Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has shared a sketch – a “graffiti” – by long-time series artist Yoji Shinkawa, which was the genesis of Metal Gear Solid’s cyborg ninja.

A cyborg ninja character of some kind has appeared in every core Metal Gear game since. See the full sketch through the break.

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To hype up the upcoming release of their latest Kirby game, Nintendo has released a batch of high-quality Kirby artwork. More »

Amazingly talented sand artist Natalya Netselya has released a video featuring her latest work using her favorite medium, and it’s the first one she has ever created for a video game, and what better one to base it on than Uncharted 3.

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Complete your weekend with the shorts posted below. You can ask God to forgive you for it at church tomorrow.

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On holiday weekends, those with post quotas to meet spend a lot of time weeping quietly over their empty inboxes, RSS feeds and IM contact lists. To save you time, I’ve rounded up the barrel-scrapings which result.

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The New York Museum of Modern Art will be holding an art exhibit featuring several indie video games next month.
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The winners of 2011′s Into the Pixel have been announced and 17 works of videogame art have been selected.

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Are games art? Yes. They are. Don’t argue! It’s the law.

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It’s hump day. Lucky you. Not much left of the week, or today for that matter, so, no need in trying to escape. Have some short stuff to close it out with instead.

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Into The Pixel is now accepting digital game art submissions until April 15 for the 2011 exhibit to be held at E3 in June.

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These little snippets of Metroid prime concept art were one of the must-sees of the weekend. You don’t want to be left out, do you?

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Donglu Yu, an artist who worked on Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, has released some of the artwork she created for the game. It’s very nice too.

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What might have been! Concept artist Charlie Wen went through several designs before settling on God of War’s distinctive protagonist, as revealed by a stash of concept art.

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Ninja Theory’s Alessandro Tain is set to reprise his art director role on the reboot of the Devil May Cry series, transitioning from Enslaved: Odyssey to the West’s colourful post-apocalypse to DmC’s shabby metropolises.

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The debate on whether or not games are art will never end. BioWare head Ray Muzyka knows which side of the fence he’s on.

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Film critic Roger Ebert has u-turned on his assertion that games can never be “art” – after 4,500 comments on his article claimed otherwise.

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Remember the mysterious “non-game” art image for Assassin’s Creed that popped up thanks to Twitter earlier in the month?

Well, guess what? It’s for an artbook, unsurprisingly.

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Those that live in DC, near the US capital or who just fancy a road trip, will be pleased to know that the Smithsonian American Art Museum plans to host an Art of Video Games exhibit.

The game-themed showcase will “show the development of visual effects and aesthetics during four decades” of vidoegames.

Neato.

Bad news though – it won’t hit the museum until 2012. The world ends that year, ya know.

More through Joystiq.