Twice a month we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Psdtuts+. This article was first published in October, 2009.
While video game cover art is often as carefully designed as any movie poster, this area of graphic design is rarely given much thought. In this post we'd like to change this by high-lighting 40 brilliant examples of game art and explaining why they are so darn good.
This post was compiled with help from Danny Outlaw.
40. Diablo II
While many games use a Hellish black and red color scheme in their cover art, no game has ever done this quite so well as Diablo II. The embossing used to accentuate the logo and the outlines around Mephisto's facial (skull-ial?) features are a nice tactile addition, while the wizard style hood Mephisto is wearing and strange runes remind players that this is a dark fantasy game, not just pure horror.
