When I go looking for a game and don’t have anything specific in mind, often the cover art is what gets my attention. To me, if the cover of a game looks good then there’s a better chance that the game will be just as good.

Tutsplus have put a top 40 list together of what they think are the best video game covers. It’s no surprise that the list is kind of relative to the sales and/or success of the games too.

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.

Personally, my favourite game cover from that list is for Little Big Planet. Too bad it’s so damn pricey, I would love to own that game :(

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