London got its Great Eastern Street wall tagged with SoulCalibur V; Tanum, Sweden got a mountain's granite face marked with a pair of the new fighting game's combatants.

Namco Bandai enlisted the help of Master Stone Engraver Göran Andersson from SavedInStone to engrave Mitsurugi and Pyrrha on the mountain close to a UNESCO World Heritage Site filled with Bronze Age stone carvings.

“Everyone knows the Soul Calibur characters are among the hardest fighters in gaming – so we’ve decided to immortalize them in granite for thousands of years” says Lee Kirton, marketing director, Namco Bandai. “These characters have only ever existed digitally, so it’s brilliant to record them permanently in a format which remain[s] visible until the end of time.”

“This is the by far most complex and detailed engraving I have ever performed,” Göran Andersson added. “But it was very fun to do.”

via ElectronicTheatre