Luke Plunkett

Pokémon Star In Very Cool Old-Timey Cartoon

Pokémon’s official Japanese Kids TV channel today released something definitely worth four minutes of your time: a short called Chase the Beans, starring Scraggy and Mimikyu. Animated in the style of old 1930s, Fleischer-esque cartoons, there’s no dialogue, just an incredible soundtrack and equally impressive animation.

Nice View

Victorin Ripert is an artist from France. You can see more of Victorin’s stuff at his ArtStation page

NBA 2K20 Is Giving Players “I Can’t Breathe” And “Black Lives Matter” T-Shirts

A number of Take-Two’s games, from Grand Theft Auto to Red Dead, took their servers down for a couple of hours today to “honor the legacy of George Floyd”. NBA 2k20 did as well, but the basketball game is getting more active with its messaging than just going offline. One of the game’s clothing stores,…

Undaunted: Normandy: The Kotaku Review

Undaunted: Normandy is a World War Two game about combat on a very small scale. While there are loads of WW2 board games, too many to count really, this one somehow manages to find room to stand out from the crowd thanks to its elegant game design and focus on the war’s smallest battles. A…

Sims 4 Update Introduces Burning Piss

Thanks to the abudance of mods and player-created content bogging down any given Sims 4 save, plus the game’s age, new updates can often break a bunch of stuff. Something I’ve never seen before, though, is a Sim’s excrement catching fire in a toilet bowl. As RPS report, the game’s latest update has introduced an…

Volleyball Rules

Kofi Ofosu is a freelance artist from Ghana. You can see more of Ofosu’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Report: Old Pokémon Games’ Encounter Rates Are Different On Different Days

Throughout 2020 the source code for a bunch of Pokémon games has been leaking online. As people are coming through the data, they’re making weird little discoveries, like the fact Gen 4 Pokémon games would seemingly adjust their encounter rates on certain days, like birthdays or the anniversaries of tragic events. As Polygon report, folks…

LEGO Asks Stores To Stop Advertising Police, White House Sets

In recognition of everything that’s going on right now, LEGO’s actions for #BlackOutTuesday involved not just a $4 million donation to organisations devoted to racial equality, but a request for sellers to not advertise any sets involving police or the White House. As The Toy Book report, emails went out on Tuesday from Rakuten (who…

After Curfew

Lucia Massucco is a concept artist who has worked on games like Endless Legend You can see more of Lucia’s stuff at her ArtStation page

Sega Is Releasing A Game Gear Micro

To mark the company’s 60th anniversary, Sega has decided to take one of its most notorious systems and re-release it in micro form. It’s not the Dreamcast or the Saturn, though; rather, it’s the handheld Game Gear. It’s launching on October 6 in Japan for ¥4980, which roughly translates to USD$45. There will be four…

The Next Total War Game Is Having A Very Weird, Epic-Exclusive Launch

Having previously been a series that we first associated with DVD drives and then Steam, the next release in the Total War series—the spinoff A Total War Saga: TROY—is going to be a 12-month Epic Games Store exclusive. And it’ll be…free? At least initially. Anyone downloading the game within the first 24 hours of it…

Track: Hate The Police | Artist: Mudhoney | Album: Boiled Beef & Rotting Teeth

Next Call Of Duty Seasons Delayed Because “Now Is Not The Time”

The latest rollout of new Call of Duty content, for Modern Wafare, Warzone and Call of Duty: Mobile, has been postponed due to the current violent police actions against American citizens A short statement released by Activision says that “while we all look forward to playing” the new stuff, “right now it’s time for those…

Gotta Go Fast

Quentin de Warren is a freelance concept artist and illustrator who has worked for clients like Fantasy Flight and Games Workshop. You can see more of Quentin’s stuff at his personal site and ArtStation page

Sonic Fan Site Closes After 21 Years Following Very Bad Black Lives Matter Tweet

TSSZ, a Sonic fan site that had been running since 1999, closed over the weekend, not long after the site’s owner posted a very bad tweet comparing the plight of Black Americans and the Black Lives Matter movement to…some stuff that fictional video game character Sonic the Hedgehog has been through. Though the Tweet in…

Track: Gratitude | Artist: Beastie Boys | Album: Check Your Head

Time For A Batselfie

Vincent Ménier is an artist at EVE Online developers CCP, who has previously worked on stuff like Fortnite You can see more of Vincent’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Oh, Cate Blanchett Is Starring In The Borderlands Movie

Well, this is awkward. Despite my best efforts to persuade her otherwise, Cate Blanchett has officially signed up to take part in the upcoming Borderlands movie, where she’ll be playing Lilith. The news wasn’t announced by Blanchett or her people, but by director Eli Roth, who toldEW “I’m so lucky to have the amazing Cate…

We’ve Got At Least Five More Years Of EA’s NFL Exclusivity

Anyone hoping that Electronic Arts and the NFL’s long-standing exclusivity arrangement was going to go away any time soon is going to have to keep hoping for a few more years, as both parties agreed today to continue the deal that makes EA Sports the only company allowed to release an NFL simulation game. NFL…

The Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Is Getting A Sequel

The Sonic the Hedgehog movie, which is Mostly Fine, did well enough that a sequel is already in development. Paramount and Sega confirmed the news toVariety this afternoon, and while it’s too early for casting announcements (though you’d expect at least Jim Carrey, James Marsden and Sonic’s voice Ben Schwartz to be back), the same…