Luke Plunkett

Happy Turkey Day!

To: Crecente From: Luke Happy thanksgiving! Not that I even really get what that means, but hey, any day where eating giant birds is a national holiday is cool with me. Here’s what you missed: Capcom Side-Scrollers Coming To Xbox Live, PSN Custom Bayonetta “Figure” Gets The Outfit Right New Afterburner Game Coming To Home…

It’s Christmas Time For Dawn Of War II’s Expansion

The snow is falling, the fires are crackling, we’ve got some new screenshots for the Dawn of War II expansion, Chaos Rising…Merry Christmas, Immortal Emperor!

Sony: Physical Games Not Going Anywhere

Despite the release of the digital-only PSPgo and an increasing push towards the delivery of content over the PlayStation Network, Sony would like you all to know that traditional, boxed stuff is “not going away any time soon”. “Make no mistake”, SCEE boss Andrew House told GI.biz, “when you’re looking at PS3 games and you’re…

Napoleon: Total War Edition Shouldn’t Have Invaded Russia

For PC owners at least, Napoleon: Total War is going to be a pretty big deal. And a game can’t be a pretty big deal these days without a pretty big colletor’s edition, so, yeah. Here’s Napoleon’s. The “Imperial Edition” of the game will come with a copy of Napoleon: Total War, an “illustrated wallchart…

So, When’s Modern Warfare 2’s DLC Due?

Needless to say, when a game sells as many copies as Modern Warfare 2 has, there’ll be millions of people hanging out for its first wave of its downloadable content. But, uh, when is it coming out? Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling has said “DLC is planned fir the wonderfully vauge timeframe of Spring.”. Drop a…

Turn Your Car Into Pac-Man

Waze is a free app for the iPhone that works like Wikipedia for street maps. And to encourage users to help the service grow, the owners have devised a cunning plan: get you playing Pac-Man with your car. Through Waze’s “Road Goodies” program, cherries will be scattered across the map for you to find, then…

Square Enix Cuts European Jobs

‘Tis the season to be…unemployed, sadly, with Square Enix announcing today that job cuts are on the way for the company’s London studio. That’s Beautiful Game Studios, the developers of the Championship Manager series. A Square Enix statement reads “Our current business model does not allow us to compete in a fast-changing industry with any…

All Of EA’s PC Games, 30% Off

Thanksgiving sale alert: EA’s own online store will, until Monday, be selling every single PC game with a 30% discount. That’s every single game. Not just the crummy ones, or he old ones, or the crummy old ones, or the crummy new ones. All of them. So Dragon Age, Mass Effect, The Sims 3, Need…

Red Dead Redemption Moseys On Into April 2010

You can’t see, but if you could, you’d see that I just put down a red pen. I had been using it, over at my calendar, marking the entire month of April. Because that’s when Red Red Redemption is out. No idea when in April. If I’d known, I wouldn’t have had to circle the…

New Afterburner Game Coming To Home Consoles?

Some classification board ratings – one in Australia, one in Korea – have revealed that Sega’s After Burner Climax is on its way to a video game console near you. Just which console is still up in the air. The Australian rating simply says “multiplatform”, while the Korean one was submitted by Sony Computer Entertainment.…

Custom Bayonetta “Figure” Gets The Outfit Right

The actual, offical Bayonetta figure is a little…off. Something’s not quite right about her proportions. This custom “doll”, though, looks set to make amends. Remember, it’s a one-off custom, so forget about buying it. Just look, try and find a way to describe it that doesn’t use the word “doll”, admire how creator “Zin” got…

Capcom Side-Scrollers Coming To Xbox Live, PSN

Capcom announced today that two of their classic side-scrollers will be making a comeback, with re-releases of Final Fight and Magic Sword set to appear on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network next year. Unlike recent Capcom re-releases like Marvel v Capcom 2 and SSFIIHD, these won’t be completely overhauled for the current generation of…

Mass Effect 2 PC System Requirements Ahoy!

BioWare have released the system specs and DRM information for the upcoming Mass Effect 2, putting some potential customers out of their misery and sending others straight to their local GameStop. Here they are, straight from BioWare’s Chris Priestly. So if there’s a problem, take it up with him, not me. OS = Windows XP…

There Is A Lawsuit Featuring World Of Warcraft, Winona Ryder & Depeche Mode

Erik Estavillo is suing Activision Blizzard over World of Warcraft. Erik Estavillo is also a funny guy. That or he’s crazy. It could go either way. Estavillo claims the company “continues to maintain a harmful virtual environment to many of its customers by forcing them to follow [World of Warcraft’s] sneaky and deceitful practices”. And…

We Prefer The Tony Hawk: Ride Prototype

Robomodo, the developers behind Tony Hawk: Ride, have posted some photos showing off the prototype controller used as a testbed before the final design was nailed down. And we love it! Sure, with wires, wood and buttons all over the place it doesn’t have as compact a final form as the retail model, but it’s…

Steam To Come Pre-Installed On Alienware PCs

In what’s probably more important news than you first realise, Dell and Valve have signed a deal whereby Steam will come pre-installed on all Alienware computers. That’s every single one of the gaming PC-makers laptops and desktops going forward. With a free copy of Portal thrown in for good measure. Sounds trivial, but this is…

Mario 64 Used To Have Multiplayer

Mario 64 remains, for many, the pinnacle of singleplayer gaming. As close to a perfect game as you’re going to get. Wonder how that would have changed had the game’s original multiplayer component made it into the final product. In a Q&A session posted on Nintendo’s site, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed that Mario…

SingStar Gets Into The Christmas Spirit

SingStar is normally something you associate with “Europeans”, “drunk women” and “popular music”. But with Christmas coming up, Sony figured it might be a good idea to add “tacky holiday songs” to the list as well. I say tacky because, sadly, when putting the list of Christmas songs together, they didn’t go the preferred route…

WoW Cosplay Goes The Extra Mile With Official Uniforms, Weapons

It’s World of Warcraft‘s fifth birthday this week, and longtime Blizzard collaborator Sideshow Collectibles are going all out. Not with statues, either. With tabards (ie the things you wear over chainmail), giant flags, and even full-size replica weapons. There are two tabards ($80) available, one for the Horde, one for the Alliance. They’ll fit a…

Miyamoto Wanted To Patent “Jumping”

Nintendo’s website has published another Q&A session between company legends Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto. And, like always, there’s some interesting stuff being discussed over upturned tea tables. In this instance, the fact that in the 80’s, Miyamoto thought seriously about patenting the idea of a jumping platformer. Iwata: Donkey Kong involved jumping, as did…