Luke Plunkett

Report: PS3 More Likely To Be Online Than 360 Or Wii

We know all three current-generation home video game consoles can connect to the internet, but which one is connected to the internet the most? A new study claims to have the answer. The Diffusion Group reckon that, having presumably polled a sample group of console owners, that the PlayStation 3 enjoys the highest level of…

Dead Rising Was “Too Japanese”

Man, Dead Rising was great. Was a little quirky, though. You could put that down to the fact it was about zombies and public bathrooms, but the game’s developers have a simpler explanation. “The first Dead Rising was built in a very Japanese style”, Capcom’s Shinsaku Ohara told CVG. “We had some help from America,…

Heavenly Sword Devs Working On Devil May Cry 5?

According to a site transcribing something from the latest of Game Informer (we know, we know), Heavenly Sword developers Ninja Theory have been put to work by Capcom on a fifth Devil May Cry game. “Loose Talk has learned that Enslaved isn’t the only game Ninja Theory is working on-we’ve heard that the Cambridge, England…

NSFW: Where Internet Trolls Really Come From

Click to viewInternet commenters can sometimes be insightful, maybe even genuinely funny, but for the most part, they’re obnoxious trolls. Sad, but that’s life. I always thought most came from suburban America, but it turns out I was way off the mark. And some people wonder why we keep our commenting front door locked In…

Nintendo Says 3DS Is “Our Next Handheld Platform”

Dispelling any doubt over the significance of the upcoming 3DS, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has told BusinessWeek that the console is the company’s “next handheld platform”. “We have ideas of what we want to bring to the consumer that we can’t do with the current DS model”, he said. “The Nintendo 3DS for…

Your First Look At Gears Of War 3

While we already know Gears of War 3 is on its way in April 2011, the game made its public debut earlier tonight on the Jimmy Fallon show, giving us our first 73-second look at the Xbox shooter. As you can see in the teaser trailer shown above, Gears of War 3 introduces a number…

3D TV Sets Aren’t Great For Drinkers, Kids, Pregnant Women Or The Elderly

If James Cameron, Nintendo and Sony have anything to say about it, 3D is the future not just of movies, but of gaming as well. I wonder, though, if they’d read the safety guidelines before getting so carried away. With Samsung’s line of 3D television sets now on the market, their accompanying safety information has…

Why The Halo MMO Was Cancelled

A few years ago, Microsoft-owned Ensemble Studios, the team behind Age of Empires, was working on a Halo massively-multiplayer online game, code-named Titan. That project ended up a bust, and was cancelled by Microsoft. Here’s why. “We had all this incredible talent, we had the right people, the right passion, we had a phenomenally successful…

Call Of Duty: Battle Of The Activision Logo [Update]

The courtroom drama unfolding over the Call of Duty franchise is in many ways big, and important, and heavy, but it’s not entirely without petty crap. Take Modern Warfare 2’s use (or, not) of the Activision logo, for example. Seems that while a wrangle was going on behind the scenes prior to Modern Warfare 2’s…

Online Gaming Rig Redefines The Meaning Of “Multiplayer”

This guy doesn’t just play massively-multiplayer title EVE Online. He plays it as multiple characters, so that he can get more of the good stuff. Thing is, he doesn’t use software. He does it the old-fashioned way. Multiple monitors, multiple mice, even multiple keyboards, all connected with conduit pipe and, of all things, dowel. At…

Old Game Sells For Over $30,000

Remember that crazy auction for an old Taiwanese bootleg masquerading as Atari classic Air Raid? Well, it just went under the hammer. For over $30,000 Yes, when the dust settled over the weekend’s bidding, 52 shots at taking home the game had been made, with the winning bid coming in at $31,600. Not bad considering…

Sony’s Motion Controller Has A New Name

The “main” part of Sony’s motion controller, the wand bit, is the PlayStation Move. The other, smaller peripheral? We originally called it the “sub-controller”, but it appears that title was a work-in-progress, its final name being the… Navigation Controller. Boring, yeah, but then, so was “sub-controller”, so at least this is an improvement. And doesn’t…

Darksiders: The Book Of Hell (And Pretty Ladies)

A few months back, publishers THQ promised that early purchasers of Darksiders would get their hands on a “Hellbook”, featuring concept art from the game. Well, those “books” are now on their way, and they look pretty good. Course, they’re not really “books”. Just a collection of digital art, including things like pre-production art, promo…

You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet

Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of classic Nintendo series like Mario and the Legend of Zelda, hints that while his past deeds are what have made him famous, we shouldn’t discount his future, either. “In the past five years I’ve been working on such unusual titles like Wii Fit Plus and Wii Sports Resort”, he told…

Modern Warfare 2 Guest Stars On Family Guy

This week’s episode of animated comedy series Family Guy ends with a special treat: a cameo appearance from Modern Warfare 2, complete with the game’s community manager. In case you miss it, the guy killing Peter straight away is FourZeroTwo, otherwise known as Robert Bowling, the “public face” of the Modern Warfare series and a…

Darksiders: Hellbook

Splinter Cell Goes Cheap, Thanks To Busted Merchandise

The Splinter Cell Conviction collector’s edition has just been reduced in price, from $80 to $70. It’s hardly an act of charity, though; you can instead thank some dodgy USB drives for the savings. According to a “random sampling” of the USB drives, which were among a number of goodies included in the collector’s edition,…

Pray For A True Tan In Space

Metroid’s conclusion, the HD version. As seen on Albino Raven

Modern Warfare 3 Being Held Up By Legal Confrontation

The legal stoush between publishers Activision and former Infinity Ward bosses Jason West and Vince Zampella isn’t just giving us all some entertaining reading. It’s also holding up development of Modern Warfare 3. The court documents surrounding the case, released earlier today, show that one of Activision’s main complaints is that West and Zampella’s attempts…

Mass Effect 2: Kasumi – Stolen Memory Micro-Review: Boredom Amongst Thieves

Mass Effect 2’s first substantial piece of downloadable content since the game’s release, “Kasumi – Stolen Memory,” does a lot of things right as far as DLC goes. Problem is, it also does a lot of things wrong Presenting gamers with the chance to add another member to their crew of galactic misfits, Stolen Memory…