Luke Plunkett

Xbox 360 Fans, This Sports Jersey Is For You

The Seattle Sounders, the Major League Soccer team of choice for Xbox 360 fans, today released a new shirt, one that brings the team’s strip more in line with the colour scheme of the side’s sponsoring console. It’s called “Electricity” (yes, these things have names), with a “Rave Green” trim. Lovely stuff, marketing team, but…

Blizzard Bans 320,000 Cheaters From Warcraft, Diablo

Blizzard, the company behind the Warcraft and Diablo franchises, does not screw around when it swings the banhammer, booting 320,000 online accounts tonight from some of its most popular games. “We’ve recently banned over 320,000 Warcraft III and Diablo II accounts that were found to be violating the Battle.net Terms of Use”, a statement on…

Online Gaming, In Pictures!

The statistics involved in online gaming – whether that be on PC or console – can be overwhelming when presented as raw numbers. Thank heavens for infographics, then. You may have seen some of these before, you may not have, doesn’t matter. They always look better in green, with controllers and ODST troopers pastered all…

The Best Game I Played Today Was Over Ten Years Old

Today, Outcast was released on retro downloadable games service Good Old Games. It’s only $6, so I’m going to recommend it to almost everyone. And not because it’s a good game. No, the thing that struck me after returning to Adelpha was how ahead of its time it was, something you can only notice having…

Ladies, Do Not Try And Sell A Nintendo Wii Over Craigslist

A pair of women from Toledo, Ohio thought it would be a good idea to try and sell their Nintendo Wii consoles via Craigslist. Ladies: it is never a good idea to conduct video game business over Craigslist. In two completely unrelated incidents, one woman was assaulted when a prospective “purchaser” came to her home.…

For Hitler’s Xbox Live, The War Is Over

In 2007, Adolf Hitler and Xbox Live helped start an internet meme that started the whole world laughing. Three years on, the distributors of the film the clip is based on have yanked it from YouTube. The clip, and countless others that have been posted in its wake, took footage from the award-winning 2004 film…

Pokemans

Princess Leia / Buneary Chewbacca / Ursaring R2-D2 / Snover Obi-Wan Kenobi / Alakazam Luke Skywalker / Chimchar Yoda / Bulbasaur C3-PO / Mr. Mime Boba Fett / Zangoose Darth Vader / Cubone Han Solo / Treecko

Iceland’s Volcano Cannot Destroy Iceland’s Video Games!

The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano may have wreaked havoc with international game distribution, but what’s it done to Iceland’s game studios, like EVE Online’s developers CCP? “We want to assure you all that we are in no danger whatsoever, and that things are running smoothly here at CCP’s HQ,” CCP spokesperson Sveinn Jóhannesson Kjarval…

What Is This, Final Fantasy XIV, Or The Princess Bride?

I’m not that interested in Final Fantasy XIV, what with it being a massively multiplayer game and all, but man, I’m interested in anything and everything related to Cary Elwes. Like this guy. He’s of course not Cary Elwes, nor will he be voiced by the star of The Princess Bride, Glory and…Robin Hood: Men…

FFXIV

Play Dr. Peter Venkman (On Your iPhone)

ESP Training is a new game/application for the iPhone that, were it not for a fantastic connection to Ghostbusters, would be a fairly nondescript app. Lucky for that connection, then! The game seeks to test your extrasensory perception abilities by asking you to place your iPhone down on the table, guess which shape is being…

Making Avatars That Aren’t White Dudes Is Hard

Since the majority of video game players in the West are white, when they play a role-playing game, it’s not hard to have their character looking and dressing like them. But what if you’re not white? Fox Harrell (above), an artist, computer scientist and avid gamer, has written of the problems he’s run into in…

Xenosaga Statue Is Like A High Definition KOS-MOS

Epic sci-fi series Xenosaga inspires devotion in its die-hard fans, and KOS-MOS is a Xenosaga character that inspires devotion in their…hearts. Here’s a new KOS-MOS figure. But be warned. She is expensive Due out later this year, it’s actually a statue, hence the extra detail and inflated price-tag over what you’d expect from a standard…

Art Can Be Games Too, You Know

Games as art? Not my kind of discussion, really. Games can be what they want to be, and what you want them to be. Whatever. But art as games? Now this is something I can get behind. Italian group AIOMI put this together, showing that as dour as the old lady is, the Mona Lisa…

A Celebration Of Some Amazing Video Game Manuals

As Ubisoft today bids farewell to the printed instruction manual, other publishers will surely follow suit. I, for one, am a little saddened by this, as some of my best memories in gaming involve…reading the manual. Sounds weird when you type it out like that, I know, but don’t you judge me! Just like few…

Nintendo’s Kooky, Room-Moving Wii Accessory Kit

Tired of moving your Wii from one room to another? No, me neither, but just in case you are the type of person who has to shuffle their console from room to room, Nintendo’s new “Wii Migration Connection Kit” has you covered. Out now in Japan, and as an official first-party deal, it’s a box…

Nintendo Blames DS Piracy For 50% Sales Drop In Europe

Nintendo has been cracking down hard on sellers of R4 cartridges (and similar devices) lately. Want to know why? The Japanese company is blaming them for a 50% drop in sales of DS games in Europe. According to a report on the Asahi Shimbum’s website, Nintendo reckons sales of the devices – which allow users…

Game Manuals

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Not all great manuals had to come from the dawn of time. Rockstar put a surprising amount of work into San Andreas’ PC edition, with the game box remodelled into a tourist guide to Grand Theft Auto’s fictional state. Where the guide began and the manual ended was often a…

KOS-MOS Statue

This Is A Nice, Nice Xbox 360

When a Hollywood special effects master sits down and whips up a custom Xbox 360 console, this is the end result. Designed by Richard Taylor from WETA Workshop (ie the Lord of the Rings special effects guys, who were also down to work on the aborted Halo movie), the one-of-a-kind console – which is part…