Getting into the theme of this holiday takeover of the PlayStation.Blog, we wanted to share with you some of our cool holiday cards. We’ve continued our tradition to send special holiday cards to our partners – each card featuring special exclusive artwork from our artists. Here’s a quick look at the holiday cards from the PS3 era:
2006 – Resistance: Fall of Man
The 2006 Holiday Card celebrated the release of Resistance: Fall of Man and the PlayStation 3, with the Chimera building a Hybrid snowman, right before noticing the Dragon Flamethrower (albeit a red one, instead of the game’s green flames) pointed at them. This card probably would have been banned in Germany.
2007 – Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
The 2007 card celebrated the Drophyd enemy in Tools of Destruction, small goldfish like creatures that controlled death robots. One of my favorite features in that game to this day was the ability to squish the drophyds by stepping on them. Notice the Insomniac moon at the base, and the Lombax doll in its arm.
2008 – Resistance 2
The Splicer was one of our favorite and goriest weapons in Resistance 2, and doing a 1950s style holiday ad for one of the best weapons in the game seemed like a no brainer.
2009 – Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
This card came out at the end of 2009 to celebrate the release of A Crack in Time. It was drawn by Insomniac North Carolina’s Dave Guertinand was the very first tease image we ever released of some of the updated art style being used for Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, as well as showing the four characters together in a way we hadn’t yet. Now you know!
2010 – Resistance 3 / Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One reveals
While we didn’t release a game in 2010, we did show the fully-grown Widowmaker on the cover of Game Informer. Keeping with the 1950s setting of the Resistance franchise, the Widowmaker sits on the Insomniac moon while 1950s-style spaceships attack it.
first one is funny and good wait me or the pic?
The first one is a classic.
Those are all pretty cool!
A Crack in time is the best one IMO although first one is pretty good also
Whens the new episode of the full moon show coming out?
You guys should’ve contacted Hallmark on these cards they would produce millions on request.
Keep up the work. I really want to see more footage for Resistance 3 though ;), you guys might want to keep up with Naughty Dog’s footage XD
Those are flippin awesome!
I love this. Care to go into how the design for the card is decided? Does someone who draws in the office just come up with one and suggest it?
Thanks for sharing too!
Can’t wait for Resistance 3! I haven’t killed Widowmakers in such a long time.
Good stuff. Nefarious and Qwark really sell the Ratchet one.
Kind of a day late, and a dollar short, aren’t we?
Would you kindly make them wallpapers? I would love to use the 2009 one ;D
Seems like a reference to the old Spyro adds.
Is the Full Moon Show coming out today?
this is so kelw
[First One] Those Chimera just wanted to build a snowman!
*snicker* Full Moon! I’m so immature!
yoo insomniac bring trophy support to resistance fall of man. trophies to quest 4 booty too. support your games u made. people want to see trophies for these games. you are not a tiny company. you got 100s of people put someone on trophies for the two games. c’mon get your act together. look at blog share.
very awesome!
The first one is lovely. I will print it for sure. Hope no copyright issues arise.
I agree with #18
Look at Naughty Dog. They patched Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune to have trophies. Surely you can do the same.
Funny stuff!
Why would the first one “probably be banned in Germany”?
Because Germany is VERY strict when it comes to censorship. But that claim was an over exaggeration. They usually ban Swastikas and gory bits.