The Development team working on Hellblade have released their second developers diary for the game titled, Development Diary 2: Art Inspiration. In the video blog members of the team discuss what they’ve discovered about the cultures of the artefacts and say that it was “a great reference gathering trip.

It’s worth noting that the developers aren’t replicating the objects that they seen and are referencing but are using them as a standard model to build upon. This is represented beautifully at the 1:43 mark of the video where we can see some sort of hell-beast get a very heavily inspired Norse headpiece that changes the entire look and feel of the creature.

Hellblade is currently being developed and published by Ninja Theory (not to be confused with Team Ninja) for the PlayStation 4. Being a person that loves art and it’s role in games, I have complete faith in their abilities to make an inspired yet original art style for their game. After all, they are the folks behind DMC: Devil May Cry.

Check out the new dev diary released by Activision which shows some amazing footage from the game. It shows how the main character James Heller can accomplish secondary objectives to get some rewards in the game. There isn’t much spoiler material here, since it’s not the main story. The dev diary contains 5-min of footage.

The game will be released next year on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Tell us what you think in the comments section below.

Digital Extremes has released a new developer diary for their 2012 FPS/survival horror, The Darkness II. Lead Narrative Designer Ryan Mole, Lead Designer Tom Galt talk about the game’s story, how it will pan out and affect the gameplay, who the main baddie is, and what the game’s protagonist, Jackie, wants to accomplish.

The video also shows some pretty good, cel-shaded, gothic style gameplay footage.

The Darkness II releases in February next year on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Stay tuned for more info.

Bethesda has released a new dev diary for their upcoming mega RPG, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Todd Howard talks about dragons in the game and how they are handled. Have a look at it.

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Bethesda’s Todd Howard, game director of the upcoming The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, has explained what the development team has done and what changes it has made to make sure that Skyrim on the Xbox 360 looks better than their previous titles on the system did.

Speaking in a dev diary (via TheGamerXperience), Howard said: “We’ve pretty much rewritten all the graphics and the gameplay system, as well as used a new face system and interface system.

And we knew coming off of Fallout 3 on the Xbox 360, that there was a lot we could still do to really harness the power of it. There is just this unlimited amount of detail we put into the world, from little things like forks and berries to mountains and dragons.

“We want all of that scale on the screen at once, and that’s kind of the trickiest thing for us to pull off, but it’s ended up really nice.”

“We’re just really thankful that so many people have taken to the kind of games that we make,” he went on. “Because they are big crazy things that we enjoy, and not a lot of people don’t make them, so the fact that they’ve been successful allows us to keep doing it, so that is really rewarding.”

The dev diary is given above. Enjoy.

Skyrim releases November 11 on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

Insomniac has released a new developer diary for their upcoming FPS Resistance 3, discussing the weapons we, humans, will use in the game- what they will be, how many there’ll be, how they’ll play out and all. Details about weapons such as  Magnum, Carbine, and Marksman and upgrades are also given. You can watch it all above.

Game’s out next month exclusively on the PS3.

The game releases on September 6th for the PC, PS3 and the Xbox 360. What do you think of the dev diary? Please tell us in the comments section below.

The first ever developer diary for Microsoft’s upcoming Turn 10 developed racing sim Forza Motorsport 4 has been released. It has the developers talking about the Bernese Alps in Switzerland and how it feels in the game to race there.

This is, as Turn 10 says, the first “in a series of videos”. So stay tuned to GB, we’ll hit you up with more of these as they come our way.

Forza Motorsport 4 releases this October for the Xbox 360.