Luke Plunkett

Viper II Gets The Virtual On Model Treatment

Virtual On model kits have always been popular with giant robot fans, but with the recent release of Oratorio Tangram on Xbox Live Arcade, demand has increased. Hence, this new Viper II. Released by Kotobukiya, you can pre-order it now for around USD$50 from Hobby Search. As you can see, the detail is pretty great.…

This Horrible Device Will Automatically Switch Your Consoles Off

Once was a day parents had to do their jobs, and manually enforce the amount of time a kid spent playing on a console. Now, all they need is the GameDr. This awful thing attaches around the outside of the your console’s power plug, and claims to be tamper proof. It can be programmed to…

A Complete History Of 3D Graphics Cards

Donning their historian caps, Maximum PC have gone through the archives and posted a complete history of perhaps the biggest thing to hit PC gaming in the last 20 years: the 3D graphics card. Some of you might be too young to remember this, but PC gaming wasn’t always a choice between GeForce and Radeon.…

Square Enix Totally Loses It, Releases 20-Disc Soundtrack [Update]

Look, we all know that Square Enix like to milk the merchandising teet dry, but this, this is something else. Does the world really need a 20-disc soundtrack for, of all things, the SaGa series? Square certainly think so, because to celebrate the series’ 20th birthday this year, they’ll be releasing just that. A mighty…

Team Fortress 2 Characters Actually Respond To Customer Correspondence

When TF2’s Scout received his update, the ad on the game’s blog was done in the style of an old-school mail-away. And you know, some people actually responded. What’s more, Valve responded back. Yes, people stupid/smart enough to print out the coupon and send it in have been getting real letters in the mail. Real…

PC Sales Charts: Killing Floor Wipes The Killing Floor

Funny what happens when you’re the developers behind Red Orchestra and you go and release a new game about zombies. Your game goes to #1! Yes, Tripwire’s Killing Floor has maintained its run at the top of the Steam charts, strong pre-sales from preceding weeks continuing into strong sales now that the game is actually…

Ratchet & Clank Coming To LittleBigPlanet?

If Insomniac’s official Twitter account is anything to go by, then yes, we should soon be expecting Ratchet & Clank to be popping into the world of LittleBigPlanet for tea and biscuits. While we’re normally slightly sceptical of any and all messages blurted out across this season’s social networking weapon of choice, this message couldn’t…

DJ Hero Controller, Gameplay Fully Revealed

Just as we speculated, those early shots of the DJ Hero controller weren’t showing the whole thing. That was being saved for, what else, an article in Game Informer magazine. In addition to the turntable, there will be a second, clip-on component, which includes a cross-fader, effects dial, “Euphoria” button (ie star power) and the…

Have You Been To An Arcade 7000 Feet Above Sea Level?

Probably not. This one is located in the Indian city of Darjeeling (yes, like the tea). And while it’s not much of an arcade, that’s still pretty high. Lee Bradley, writing for the still-got-that-new-site-smell Bitmob, tells of his travels to both the city and the “arcade”, which is really nothing more than “a collection of…

Already, Another Lips On The Way

It’s barely been six months since the release of Lips, Microsoft’s shameless swipe at SingStar’s karaoke crown. And now, with E3 just around the corner, it seems it’s already time for another Lips game. The Royalty Network – a site cataloguing the latest licensing and royalty deals in the world of music – has made…

British Sales Charts: Go, Rhythm Heaven, Go!

Wii Fit is about to set some kind of sales record in the UK, but we couldn’t care less. Because the most interesting story of the week is the fact Rhythm Heaven is still selling! Yes, the game – known as Rhythm Paradise in the UK – was at #8 last week, and is #8…

Here’s Your E3 2009 Floor Plan

The organisers of the Electronic Entertainment Expo have released the floorplan for this year’s show. Let’s all take a look, shall we? Yup. There’s plenty of video game companies occupying plenty of floorspace with video game company booths. Just as expected! Nothing really stands out as being potentially incendiary (the “big three” being split amongst…

Age Of Conan Fighting On, Attracting New Players

For a while there, it appeared that Funcom’s Age of Conan was on its last legs. Players were leaving, servers were closing. But still, the game lives on! Funcom’s latest financial report states that “a significant increase in new customers in Q1 compared to Q4 has led to a stable and solid subscriber base”, meaning…

Yeah, LEGO Half-Life 2 Would Be Pretty Great

The guys at LEGO gotta make money. So they license Star Wars, and Harry Potter, and Rock Band. But if they didn’t have to make money, we like to think they’d license Half-Life 2. Sadly, that probably won’t happen. Ever. So we’ll have to make do with these custom HL2 LEGO figures and playsets, exquisitely…

Heads Roll At Valve Over “Leaked” Team Fortress 2 Vid

There has been speculation that the “leaked” Team Fortress 2 video from the weekend was not leaked at all. Speculation that, in light of events at Valve HQ today, seems entirely without merit. Incensed at the lapse in security, the company’s notoriously mean Team Fortress 2 blogger (byline says Robin Walker, but we have our…

New WoW, Gears Of War Figures For Your Adult Bookshelf

Fans of either Gears of War or World of Warcraft (or both!) will be happy to know there’s now more things to spend their disposable income on, with the release of some new figures. The latest additions to NECA’s line of Gears of War line feature a Lambent soldier (which is a San Diego Comic…

No, The Game Boy Advance Is Not Dead

With the Nintendo DS now the undisputed heavyweight champion of the handheld gaming space, we got to wondering: what’s become of the humble Game Boy Advance? Is it dead? Ask yourself: when was the last time you saw a Game Boy Advance on a shelf? Or heard about a new Game Boy Advance game? Or…

Capcom Japan May Pull Out Of E3

Looks like Capcom’s travel lockdown may not be confined to just Keiji Inafune and Malmö, Sweden. Turns out Capcom Japan may yank all international travel over swine flu fears, which would include, yes, E3. Capcom have told British trade site Develop that the Japanese branch of the company are yet to commit 100% to attending…

So, How Does The Tony Hawk Controller Work?

You’ve heard the announcement, you’ve seen what the controller looks like, you’ve already formed half-informed opinions on the whole thing, but do you know just how the new Tony Hawk peripheral actually works? Josh Tsui, president of Robomodo (the developers behind the game), told Crecente in his latest “Well Played” column that “Playing on the…

Sony Rumble Lawsuit Back, Guy Claims Sony Ripped Him Off

In 2007, Sony settled a long-running dispute with Immersion, a company holding patents for control pad rumble technology. The world moved on. But now, the lawsuit (or at least part of it) is back. A guy by the name of Craig Thorner, an engineer who held a few patents related to rumble tech, was a…