#ArtOfTheDay: 'Malenia from Elden Ring' by Michael C Hayes

'Malenia from Elden Ring' by Michael C Hayes.

#CoolArt: 'Sonic The Hedgehog & Shadow' print by Tracy Yardley through Bottleneck Gallery

'Sonic & Shadow by Tracy Yardley.

Officially licensed 24" x 36" giclee prints:

• in a numbered Regular edition of 100 for $50.
• and a numbered Rainbow Foil Variant edition of 50 for $60.

On sale Tuesday October 27 at 12pm ET through Bottleneck Gallery.

Regular Edition

#CoolArt: 'Sonic 30th Anniversary' prints by Mark Hughes through Bottleneck Gallery

'Sonic 30th Anniversary' by Mark Hughes.

Officially licensed 24" x 36" giclee prints:

• in a numbered Regular edition of 100 for $50.
• and a numbered Rainbow Foil Variant edition of 50 for $60.

On sale Tuesday October 27 at 12pm ET through Bottleneck Gallery.

Regular Edition

#ArtOfTheDay: 'Faye' by Megan Lara

'Faye' by Megan Lara.

Card art from the Oracle Deck from the 'God of War: Laufey' Collector Box.

#CoolArt: 'Golden Axe' Video Game Art prints through Moor-Art Gallery

'Golden Axe' prints.

Officially licensed limited edition giclée art prints on 310gsm Canson Infinity Rag Photographique II Archival Cotton paper, in limited editions of 30 for £79.99 each, with embossed Certificate of Authenticity.

On sale Friday October 16 at 6pm UK through Moor-Art Gallery.

Key Art by Boris Vallejo

#CoolArt: 'Castlevania' print by Katsuya Terada through Cook & Becker

'Castlevania: Belmont's Curse' by Katsuya Terada.

Officially licensed fine art print:

• in a 15" x 21" edition of 40 for $119, with a numbered 40th anniversary COA.
• a 20" x 28" edition of 100 for $165, with a numbered 40th anniversary COA.
• and a 28" x 38" hand embellished edition of 20 (+5 AP) for $399, with a numbered 40th anniversary COA.

On sale now through Cook & Becker.

#CoolArt: 'Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol 2' by Krzysztof Domaradzki & Jake Kontou through Apollo Gallery

'Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots' by Krzysztof Domaradzki & 'Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker' by Jake Kontou.

Officially licensed 24" x 36" lithograph prints;

• on MIRRI foil stock with metallic black effects, in numbered Black Metallic Regular editions of 450 for £49.99 each, and as a matching numbered 2 print Black Metallic Regular edition set for £89.99.
• on MIRRI foil stock with metallic gold effects, in numbered Gold Metallic Variant editions of 350 for £54.99 each, and as a matching numbered 2 print Gold Metallic Variant edition set for £89.99.
• also available as a complete 4 print set for £179.99.

On sale Thursday September 10 at 5pm UK through Apollo Gallery.

'Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots' by Krzysztof Domaradzki
(Black Metallic Regular Edition)

#ArtOfTheDay: 'Astarion' by Eleonor Piteira

'Astarion' by Eleonor Piteira.

Cover art for the novel, 'Baldur's Gate III: Astarion', written by T Kingfisher, published September 2026.

Available as a giclee print through Eleonor's Inprnt store.

#ArtOfTheDay: 'Saskia' by Anna Podedworna

'Saskia' by Anna Podedworna.

Card art from the 'Gwent' digital collectible card game published by CD Projekt Red, based on 'The Witcher' novels written by Andrzej Sapkowski and video games.

Winners of the 61st Annual SFWA Nebula Awards Announced

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have announced the winners of the 61st annual Nebula Awards for works first published in 2025, along with the winners of the Ray Bradbury and Andre Norton Awards.

Each year, the organization’s members vote on which stories they consider to be the best novel, novella, novelette, short story and Young Adult story in the genre, as well as the best game writing and best outstanding dramatic presentation.

The Nebula Awards was presented in a ceremony on Saturday June 6 in Chicago as part of the 61st Annual Nebula Awards Conference. 

The Nebula Award for Best Novel

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)

The Nebula Award for Best Novella

• The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia)

The Nebula Award for Best Novelette

• “Uncertain Sons”, by Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)

The Nebula Award for Best Short Story

• “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything”, by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25)

The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• Into the Wild Magic, by Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick)

The Nebula Award for Best Game Writing

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, by Guillaume Broche, & Jennifer Svedberg-Yen (Kepler Interactive), Developer: Sandfall Interactive, Sandfall SAS.

The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• Murderbot: Season One, by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz (Apple TV+)

The Nebula Award for Best Comic

• Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters: The Killing Stone, by Jessica Maison (Wicked Tree)

The Nebula Award for Best Poem

• “The World To Come”, by Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons 12/22/25)

Artist Spotlight: The Art Of . . . Sylvain Sarrailh

Showcasing art from some of my favourite artists, and those that have attracted my attention, in the field of visual arts, including vintage; pulp; pop culture; books and comics; concert posters; fantastical and imaginative realism; classical; contemporary; new contemporary; pop surrealism; conceptual and illustration.

The art of Sylvain Sarrailh.

#CoolArt: 'Sonic The Hedgehog' prints by Dan Mumford through Bottleneck Gallery

'Sonic The Hedgehog' by Dan Mumford.

Officially licensed 24" x 36" giclee print, in a numbered Regular edition of 100 for $50; a numbered Rainbow Foil Variant edition of 75 for $60; and a numbered Gold Foil Variant edition of 75 for $60.

On sale Tuesday April 28 at 12pm ET through Bottleneck Gallery.

Regular Edition

Finalists for the 61st Annual SFWA Nebula Awards Announced

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have announced the finalists for the 61st annual Nebula Awards for works first published in 2025, along with contenders for the Ray Bradbury and Andre Norton Awards.

Each year, the organization’s members vote on which stories they consider to be the best novel, novella, novelette, short story and Young Adult story in the genre, as well as the best game writing and best outstanding dramatic presentation.

The Nebula Awards will be presented in a ceremony on Saturday June 6 in Chicago as part of the 61st Annual Nebula Awards Conference. 

The Nebula Award for Best Novel

• When We Were Real, by Daryl Gregory (Saga)
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)
• Katabasis, by RF Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
• Death of the Author, by Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz)
• The Incandescent, by Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK)
• Sour Cherry, by Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire)
• Wearing the Lion, by John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia)

The Nebula Award for Best Novella

• Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle, by Renan Bernardo (Dark Matter INK)
• The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia)
• The Death of Mountains, by Jordan Kurella (Lethe)
• Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom)
• But Not Too Bold, by Hache Pueyo (Tordotcom)
• “Descent”, by Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld 5/25)

The Nebula Award for Best Novelette

• “Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh”, by Marie Croke (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/9/25)
• “Uncertain Sons”, by Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
• “We Begin Where Infinity Ends”, by Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25)
• The Name Ziya, by Wen-Yi Lee (Reactor)
• “Never Eaten Vegetables”, by HH Pak (Clarkesworld 1/25)
• “The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends”, by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 3-4/25)

The Nebula Award for Best Short Story

• “Through the Machine”, by PA Cornell (Lightspeed 5/25)
• “Six People to Revise You”, by JR Dawson (Uncanny 1-2/25)
• “In My Country”, by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)
• “The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead”, by EM Linden (PodCastle 2/18/25)
• “Because I Held His Name Like a Key”, by Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25)
• “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything”, by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25)

The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

• The Tower, by David Anaxagoras (Recorded Books)
• Gemini Rising, by Jonathan Brazee (Semper Fi Press)
• Wishing Well, Wishing Well, by Jubilee Cho (Atthis Arts)
• Sunrise on the Reaping, by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
• Into the Wild Magic, by Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick)
• Goblin Girl, by KA Mielke (self-published)

The Nebula Award for Best Game Writing

• Spire, Surge, and Sea, by Stewart C Baker (Choice of Games)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, by Guillaume Broche, & Jennifer Svedberg-Yen (Kepler Interactive), Developer: Sandfall Interactive, Sandfall SAS.
• Hollow Knight: Silksong, by Ari Gibson & William Pelen (Team Cherry)*
• Dispatch, by Ashley Jeffalone, Suzee Matson, Chris Rebbert, Chad Rhiness, & Pierre Shorette (AdHoc Studios)
• Hades II, by Greg Kasavin
• (Supergiant Games)
• Blue Prince, by Tonda Ros (Raw Fury, Developer: Dogubomb)

The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation

• KPop Demon Hunters, by Danya Jimenez, Maggie Kang, & Hannah McMechan (Netflix)*
• Sinners, by Ryan Coogler (Warner Bros Pictures)*
• Severance: “Chikhai Bardo”, by Dan Erickson & Mark Friedman (Apple TV+)*
• Pluribus: Season One, by Vince Gilligan (Apple TV+)*
• Superman, by James Gunn (Warner Bros Pictures)*
• Murderbot: Season One, by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz (Apple TV+)*

The Nebula Award for Best Comic

• Second Shift, by Kit Anderson (Avery Hill)
• Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal, by Amy Chu (Berger)
• Helen of Wyndhorn, by Tom King (Dark Horse)
• Fishflies, by Jeff Lemire (Image)
• Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters: The Killing Stone, by Jessica Maison (Wicked Tree)
• Strange Bedfellows, by Ariel Slamet Ries (HarperAlley)
• The Flip Side, by Jason Walz (Rocky Pond)
• The Stoneshore Register, by G Willow Wilson (Berger)

The Nebula Award for Best Poem

• “Though You Always Are”, by Linda D Addison & Jamal Hodge (Everything Endless)
• “They Said Robots Are”, by Casey Aimer (Penumbric 6/25)
• “The World To Come”, by Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons 12/22/25)
• “The Mourning Robot”, by Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/25)
• “Care for Lightning”, by Mari Ness (Uncanny 1-2/25)
• “To Be the Change”, by Nico Martinez Nocito (Strange Horizons 3/10/25)

*Provisional nomination; awaiting acceptance and response on LLM-use.

#CoolArt: 'Sonic The Hedgehog' & 'Sonic The Hedgehog 2' prints through Bottleneck Gallery

'Sonic The Hedgehog' & 'Sonic The Hedgehog 2'.

Officially licensed 18" x 24" screen prints, in numbered limited editions of 100 for $45 each; 3D lenticular prints on 1mm PET, in limited editions of 50 for $85 each, with a numbered digital COA issued by Verisart; and archival pigment prints on multi-layer of acrylic panel, in limited editions of 35 for $125, with a numbered digital COA issued by Verisart.

On sale Friday March 13 at 12pm ET through Bottleneck Gallery.

Regular & Acrylic Panel Edition

#ArtOfTheDay: 'Might And Magic VII: For Blood and Honour' by Boris Vallejo.

'Might And Magic VII: For Blood and Honour' by Boris Vallejo.

Box art for the role-playing video game, 'Might And Magic VII: For Blood and Honour', released in June 1999.

2025 Steam Award Winners Announced

Winners of the 2025 Steam Awards have been announced.

The Steam Awards are an annual user-voted award event for video games published on Valve's Steam service. Introduced in 2016, game nomination and voting periods are concurrent with Steam's annual autumn and winter holiday sales, with the voting process for the 2025 Awards taking place from December 18, 2025 to January 3, 2026.

Game Of The Year

• 'Hollow Knight: Siksong'

VR Game Of The Year

• 'The Midnight Walk'

Labor Of Love Award

• 'Baldur's Gate 3'

Best Game On Steam-Deck

• 'Hades II'

Better With Friends Award

• 'Peak'

Oustanding Visual Style Award

• 'Silent Hill f'

Most Innovative Gameplay Award

• 'ARC Raiders'

Best Game You Suck At Award

• 'Hollow Knight: Silksong'

Best Soundtrack Award

• 'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33'

Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award

• 'Dispatch'

Sit Back and Relax Award

• 'RV There Yet?'

Nominees of the 29th Annual DICE Video Games Awards Announced

The Nominees for the 29th Annual DICE awards, honouring and celebrating the best video games from 2021, have been announced by the Academy Of Interactive Arts And Sciences.

Since 1996, the DICE Awards (a backronym for Design Innovate Communicate Entertain) have recognized games, individuals and development teams that have contributed to the advancement of the worldwide entertainment software industry.

The winners will be revealed at the DICE Awards ceremony, livestreamed on Twitch and YouTube through their media partner, IGN, on February 12 at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas.

Outstanding Achievement in Animation

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• South of Midnight
• The Midnight Walk

Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Dispatch
• Ghost of Yōtei
• The Midnight Walk

Outstanding Achievement in Character

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Esquie
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Maelle
• Dispatch – Courtney/Invisigal
• Dispatch – Robert Robertson III/Mecha Man
• Ghost of Yōtei – Atsu

Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Herdling
• Mario Kart World
• Sword of the Sea

Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design

• Arc Raiders
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Lumines Arise
• Split Fiction

Outstanding Achievement in Story

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Consume Me
• despelote
• South of Midnight
• The Drifter

Outstanding Technical Achievement

• Arc Raiders
• Assassin's Creed Shadows
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• DOOM: The Dark Ages

Action Game of the Year

• Absolum
• Arc Raiders
• DOOM: The Dark Ages
• Hades II
• Ninja Gaiden 4

Adventure Game of the Year

• Blue Prince
• Dispatch
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Hollow Knight: Silksong

Family Game of the Year

• LEGO Party!
• LEGO Voyagers
• Lumines Arise
• MARVEL Cosmic Invasion
• Popucom

Fighting Game of the Year

• 2XKO
• Capcom Fighting Collection 2
• Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
• Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection
• WWE 2K25

Racing Game of the Year

• EA SPORTS F1 25
• Kirby Air Riders
• Mario Kart World
• Wheel World

Role-Playing Game of the Year

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
• Monster Hunter Wilds
• The Outer Worlds 2

Sports Game of the Year

• EA SPORTS FC 26
• PGA Tour 2k25
• MLB The Show 25
• NBA 2k26
• Rematch

Strategy / Simulation Game of the Year

• The Alters
• Drop Duchy
• Europa Universalis V
• The King is Watching
• StarVaders

Immersive Reality Technical Achievement

• Ghost Town
• Hotel Infinity
• Marvel's Deadpool VR
• Star Wars: Beyond Victory – A Mixed Reality Playset
• Unloop

Immersive Reality Game of the Year

• Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked
• Ghost Town
• Marvel's Deadpool VR
• The Midnight Walk
• Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow

Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game

• Baby Steps
• Blue Prince
• Consume Me
• despelote
• Dispatch

Mobile Game of the Year

• Persona5: The Phantom X
• Umamusume: Pretty Derby
• What The Clash?
• Where Winds Meet

Online Game of the Year

• Arc Raiders
• Battlefield 6
• Mario Kart World
• Marvel Rivals
• Split Fiction

Outstanding Achievement in Game Design

• Arc Raiders
• Blue Prince
• Hades II
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
• Öoo

Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction

• Blue Prince
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Hades II
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Game of the Year

• Arc Raiders
• Blue Prince
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Dispatch
• Ghost of Yōtei

The Geeky Nerfherder 14th Anniversary & My 2025 Favourites

It's that time again! Today, December 29, is the birthday of this nerdy blog, beginning all the way back on this day in 2011 with the obligatory introductory blog post. Can't quite believe that I've been doing this geeky blog for 14 years!

 

From the beginning, the aim of the blog has always been to showcase inspiring, cool art and pop culture geekery, from alternative movie poster art, comic art, book and magazine cover art to the artworks on view from the latest new contemporary exhibitions, and the artists that create them.

 

I don't have as much time to work on the blog as I used to these days, life sometimes getting in the way and all that, but it's still a lot of fun to curate, even after all these years; finding the latest cool art, cover art, print releases and gallery shows, showcasing art from some of my favourite artists in my long running 'Artist Spotlight' series (still working my way through the artist alphabet and currently at the letter S), as well as starting each day with an #ArtOfTheDay post - something random from the Geeky Nerfherder image archives.

I'm still relatively active on the socials and they continue to gain new followers, even with the algorithms doing their best to limit any visibility and with the influx of AI slop (which I will NOT knowingly post on the blog or my socials), the number of followers is still in the thousands! WOW! It's always humbling and amazing to know that other people are also enjoying the artworks I'm posting and hopefully discovering new favourite artists along the way as well. But if you’re not already following, here are the links to my social profiles where I post to:

on Tumblr (GeekyNerfherder)

on Bluesky (@GeekyNerfherder)

on Instagram (@geekynerfherder)

on YouTube

on Goodreads

on Storygraph

Stores:
on Threadless (GeekyNerfherder)

on Teepublic

So that's another year almost in the books! There's still been more than enough good stuff to escape into a geeky and nerdy bubble with, despite everything 2025 has thrown up, and here are a few of my favourites from the past year below.

 

#CoolArt: 'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' print by Erik Ly

'Final Expedition' by Erik Ly.

Available as a limited edition print until December 16 2025.

On sale now through Erik's web store.

Winners of The 2025 Game Awards Announced

Winners of The 2025 Game Awards have been announced.

Founded in 2014 by Geoff Keighley, The Game Awards recognizes and upholds creative and technical excellence in the global video game industry.

The winners were announced at a ceremony on December 11 2025.

Game of the Year

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)

Best Game Direction

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)
  

Best Narrative

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)

Best Art Direction

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)

Best Score and Music

• Lorien Testard, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)

Best Audio Design

• Battlefield 6 (Battlefield Studios / EA)

Best Performance

• Jennifer English, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)

Innovation in Accessibility

• Doom: The Dark Ages (id Software / Bethesda Softworks)

The Game Awards' Games for Impact

• South Of Midnight (Compulsion Games / Xbox Game Studios)

Best Ongoing Game

• No Man Sky (Hello Games)

Best Community Support

• Baldur's Gate 3 (Larian Studios)

Best Independent Game

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)
  

Best Debut Indie Game

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)

Best Mobile Game

• Umamsume: Pretty Derby (Cygames Inc)

Best VR/AR Game

• The Midnight Walk (MoonHood / Fast Travel Games)

Best Action Game

• Hades II (Supergiant Games)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry)

Best RPG

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive)

Best Fighting Game

• Fatal Fury: City Of The Wolves (SNK Corporation)

Best Family Game

• Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)

Best Sim/Strategy Game

• Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles (Square Enix)

Best Sports / Racing Game

• Mario Kart World (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)

Best Multiplayer Game

• ARC Raiders (Embark Studios)

Best Adaptation

• The Last Of Us: Season 2 (HBO / Playstation Productions)

Most Anticipated Game

• Grand Theft Auto 6 (Rockstar Games)

Content Creator Of The Year

• Moistkr1tikal

Best eSports Game

• Counter-Strike 2 (Valve)

Best eSports Athlete

• Chovy - Jeong Ji-Hoon (League Of Legends)

Best eSports Team

• Team Vitality (Counter-Strike 2)

Player's Voice

• Wuthering Waves (Kuro Games)