Ruins of The Secret World

There is a city on the moon. 11 days are missing. The Earth is hollow. The tower of Babel never fell. These are just a few of the many premises of The Secret World, a stunning new MMORPG game that…

The Ruins of Nuclear Winter
September 14, 2011 · Apocalypse, Art Ruins, Fantasy Ruins, Nuclear · 1 Comment 

Nuclear winter slathered down across the world like a rain of torrential lead paint, bowing our cities beneath it. Ceilings and structures collapsed under the deluge, walls crumbled, and humanity was washed away by a tide of toxic white sludge….

The Ruins of Ender’s Game
September 10, 2011 · Book Ruins, Fantasy Ruins, Giant Beasts · Comment 

Orson Scott Card’s brilliant novel Ender’s Game is not widely known for its ruins. You’re rather more likely to read it and be blown away by the sheer force of Ender’s personality, by the twisted morality of the story’s central…

The Ruins of Warcraft
April 20, 2010 · Fantasy Ruins, Game Ruins, World Ruins · 9 Comments 

The online fantasy game World of Warcraft is awash with ruins. Half of the in-game quests involve pilfering buried treasure from cities razed by the Scourge, temples leveled by the Lich King, and craters where force field-encapsulated cities once lay….

Ruins of the Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty is an icon, a beacon-fire at America`s shore calling out to all and sundry- `come on in, there`s plenty of room!` To destroy her is to denounce the very idea of America, to throw that generosity…

The ruins of LOST

The TV show LOST is all about ruins.? The island itself is a living museum, a place where the relics of millennia-old statues rest side by side with downed aircraft and underground research stations, all of them abandoned fossils of…

Painting the Ruins of NYC
September 13, 2009 · Art Ruins, Fantasy Ruins, Ruins Types, USA · 4 Comments 

Cities can be destroyed at the click of a mouse button. The ruins of New York are nothing new, we’ve seen them in countless movies as the stunning backdrop to end of the world tales. But how hard are these…

Ruins of Tokyo’s Apocalypse
September 10, 2009 · Art Ruins, Fantasy Ruins, Tokyo-to · 7 Comments 

Tokyo has been ravaged. It was meteors or earthquakes, tsunami or nuclear holocaust, though the cause hardly matters- no one’s left alive to remember it anyway. The apocalypse came and killed everyone, leaving only bits of our cities behind. Tokyo…

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