Luke Plunkett

LeChuck Piece Makes All Other Tattoos Walk The Plank

Not sure how we missed this tattoo of Monkey Island antagonist LecChuck last year. Maybe it was so fantastic it burned clean through our collective consciousness. As seen on Geekologie.

Wii Upscaler Review: Can The Wii Really Do High Definition?

When we first heard about VDIGI’s new VD-W3 Wii upscaler, a product that promised it could bring high definition graphics to the Wii, it sounded too good to be true. “Better review it, then” we thought. Just to be sure. The VD-W3 is hardly a new idea – standalone “upscalers” have been around for years,…

This Is Why You Don’t Buy A PS3 In A Parking Lot

A man from Evanston, Illinois found a PS3 for sale on Craigslist for $250. So he arranged to buy it. The meeting was scheduled to take place in a parking lot. Oh dear. When he got there, he was greeted by two men emerging from a car. They met him, took his money, then…drove off.…

This Isn’t How The Nintendo 3DS Will Work

Nope. However it works, it’ll be more expensive, and advanced, than this. But is advanced always better? This 3D solution certainly has a charm of its own. The 3DS was only announced earlier this month, and will be shown off for the first time at this year’s E3 expo in June. Until then, details on…

Advance Wars: The Board Game!

Nintendo’s turn-based wargame Advance Wars works well as a video game. But as a board game? Yeah, looks like it works pretty well as a board game, too. First designed last year, “Skirmish Wars” is the creation of Andrew Tullsen, Matthew Kloth and Brandon Pennington. It’s not trying anything fancy, which is a good thing:…

What Can 400 Microsoft Points Get You?

In a few hours, Modern Warfare 2’s first piece of downloadable content will become available. If you really, really must have it, chances are you’re going to have some spare change left over at the end of it. After all, the “Stimulus Pack” costs 1200 Microsoft Points, and many of you will be buying the…

Where Posters, Packaging & Box Art Comes From

A few weeks ago, I did a feature on a company that’s responsible for game logos and box art. Today, then, I thought we’d look at something similar: a company that does box art and marketing material. The artwork you’ll see in this post is the work of British firm Head First, an agency that…

Rumor: Xbox 360’s USB Flash Drives Are, Yes, Expensive

Microsoft has a reputation for grossly over-charging for Xbox 360 storage solutions. Now that the console supports USB memory sticks, did you really think anything would change? A pair of listings on retail site GameStop indicate that Microsoft’s first-party flash drive offerings are running a little on the costly side. An 8GB stick is listed…

Wii HD Comparison Shots

Beyoncé Can’t Do That On Television

As you know, pop diva Beyoncé has teamed up with Nintendo to help promote a DS game. This is that game’s TV commercial, which for anyone around the age of 30 has a surprising conclusion. Watch the clip above. That last part with the green look familiar? It will be to anyone who’s ever watched…

When The Bible Meets WarioWare

This game’s called Run Jesus Run/Ten Second Gospel, and it was created by Paolo Pedercini. It’s pretty simple: you’re Jesus, and you’ve got ten seconds to clear a short stage, performing whatever the relevant bible passage calls for. Since the majority of you won’t have a bible handy while playing – or even if you…

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies & Video Games

In case you haven’t already seen it, last year author Seth Grahame-Smith released a great book called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. This year, there’s going to be a video game. Digital development specialist Freeverse is behind it, and describes the title as “a rollicking action title with the perfect blend of zombie slaying action…

New Halo Toys Feature Retro Master Chief, Cannon Fodder

McFarlane toys has released images of their eights series of Halo action figures, due in June. Continuing a pleasant trend, some are all-new figures, including ones from Halo: ODST. The Halo 3 expansion’s Captain Dare and Buck are both present, the latter looking eerily like a gun-toting David Duchovny. Also featured is a Halo 2…

Screens (And Music), Fresh From The APB Beta

APB, a game that can best be described as a massively-multiplayer Grand Theft Auto, is currently in beta testing. One of those testers has been kind enough to pass along some proper, in-game screenshots of the experience. And I am impressed. Not by an inventory screen (above) or a low-fi screenshot (top, courtesy of the…

DSi XL Torn Apart, Just So You Can See What Its Insides Look Like

That DSi XL thinks it’s so smug, with its big screens and its enormous stylus. What it needs is to be taken down a peg or two. Have its guts ripped out, let the internet feast on its insides. Tear-down specialists iFixit have got hold of Nintendo’s latest handheld, and in typical fashion, have completely…

PS3 Loses Linux Support

Ever since it launched in 2006, one of the neater features of the PlayStation 3 has been its ability to run operating systems other than its own. Like Linux. Next month, however, the console will ditch that compatibility. On April 1, Sony will release the next firmware update for the PS3, bringing it to v3.21.…

Kotaku Census 2010: The Results (In Full)

As you know, the results of our little Kotaku Census are in. And while infographics are pretty, I also promised I’d give you the results in full. So here they are! On the whole, they’re great reading. While some questions presented predictable results, and some didn’t really tell us much (the “genres” question was multi-choice,…

Crackdown 2 Screens, Only 492 More To Collect

Crackdown’s Pacific City sure ain’t what it used to be. The buildings got crummier, and the cop’s armour got better. Those delicious green orbs, however, look unchanged. Just goes to show, you can’t improve on perfection.

There Once Was A PS2 Assassin’s Creed Game

The first Assassin’s Creed, much like the second, only came out on three systems: the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. But did you know that, alongside production of the original game, another was in development for the PS2 & Xbox? So says Eidos’ Jonathan Jacques-Belletete, who told 1UP that the last-gen game, like Assassin’s Creed…

Concepts: Could The 3DS Look Like Any Of These?

Since we don’t know what the new Nintendo 3DS looks like, people are having to guess what it looks like. Some guesses are crimes against nature, but others, like these, look pretty good! Most of these are mock-ups from users over on gaming messageboard NeoGAF, and unlike the flights of fancy that plagued the internet…