Luke Plunkett, Author at Kotaku

Square Enix, Modern Warfare 2, If Only

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By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009

Scribblenauts Figure Only Needs One Word: Aaawwww

Despite a groundswell of internet love, Scribblenauts isn’t quite at the stage where they’re churning out official action figures. Still, that doesn’t stop people making their own. This custom Munny figure, by Don Schwabs, is great. Great for the figure, yeah, but also great for the tiny pencil. So cute! Scribblenauts Munny by Don Schwabs…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009

Battlefield Heroes Changes Coming

For the first time since the game went into open beta earlier this year, significant changes are being made to one of the classes in EA’s free-to-play online shooter, Battlefield Heroes. That class is the gunner, for whom three of his abilities have now been modified. – The gunner’s “grenade”, the explosive keg, now not…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009

Let’s Tap (Your iPhone)

Let’s Tap, former Sega talisman Yuji Naka’s quirky Wii party game that involved…tapping things, is coming to the iPhone as a series of individual apps. The main Wii game is being broken up into five apps, with the first – Tap Runner – available now. You can play the games the same way you did…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009

Blomkamp: Master Chief Is A Victim Of The Military-Industrial Complex

You may be as sick as we are of hearing how the Blomkamp/Jackson Halo movie is dead. For all that chatter, however, you probably never heard what it was about Halo that got Blomkamp interested in the first place. Sure, there are lasers and aliens and intergalactic fighting. If you were born with a penis…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 21, 2009

More Crazy Russian S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Cosplay

Russia’s fascination with cosplaying characters from bleak shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R. shows no signs of easing up, with a fresh batch showcasing an improvement in photography skills from the plucky fans. These shots are from a little trip to the wilderness near Vyborg, Russia, which took place last month. You can’t see it, but we’re on our…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 19, 2009

Trine? There Will Be More Trine

We like Trine! Do you like Trine? Odds are good that, yes, you also like Trine. So you’ll be chuffed to hear that, in the future, there will be more Trine. Frozenbyte CEO Lauri Hyvärinen has told G4 “There will be certainly more Trine, but in what form, platforms and such, that still remains a…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 19, 2009

Behind The Scenes Of Sony’s E3 Press Conference

Time for another video showing some of the neat making-off stuff behind Sony’s unnamed, upcoming motion controller. This time, it’s the stuff that made the company’s E3 press conference, as well as some demos that didn’t quite make the cut.