Luke Plunkett

New Tony Hawk Game Has A Freakin’ Skateboard Peripheral

As was rumoured, it’s been officially revealed that the next Tony Hawk game from Activision – called Tony Hawk: Ride – will be shipping with a giant, hulking skateboard peripheral. This is either the smartest, or stupidest, thing Activision have ever done. The announcement was made on the latest episode of GameTrailers TV. There’s a…

Commander Shephard Is On Facebook, Pls Add As Friend

When you finished Mass Effect, did you think it was just you telling the story of the good Captain Shephard? Oh no. It wasn’t just you. Commander Shephard was telling his own tale. And he was telling it on, where else, his Facebook page. Face-punching, sexy alien-bedding, the works, he keeps no secrets. If he…

Sega Releasing New tri-Ace RPG For Western Markets

It’s just been announced that upcoming JRPG End of Eternity – due in Japan at the end of the year – will be getting a Western release, courtesy of Sega. It’ll be out in the spring of 2010. The title will hit Western shores with a new name (Resonance of Fate), and if the Western…

And The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For April Were…

It’s NPD sales day today at Kotaku Tower, which means not only console sales data, but PC data as well. Like the top 20-selling retail PC games for the month of April. Note these are only retail games. So the list doesn’t include titles downloaded over services like Steam and Direct2Drive. But hey, while it’s…

Why Hello There Serious Sam 3

When did we last hear about Serious Sam 3? 2007? Oh dear. Far too long. Long enough, even, to worry the game has been quietly given the arse. But no! Developers Croteam have posted a quick update on their company website, letting the world know that they have “recently started the development on two games”.…

Street Fighter IV Gashapons Totally Nail Chun Li’s Vitals

These Street Fighter gashapon figures (small, collectible figures) will be out in Japan next month. Chun Li fans may want to look into purchasing some. Why? Look at those thighs! Perfect. Bravo, figure makers. Bravo. The rest of the figures are pretty good as well, especially the Ryu one, which gets his dramatic, pouty Street…

Sony Europe Studio Boss Takes His Final Bow

Jamie MacDonald may not be a household name, but as boss of Sony’s London Studio for eight years, he’s overseen some of the most successful game series of all time. But no more. MacDonald has announced his departure from the company, and his last day will be May 29. Over those eight years, London Studio…

Nine Minutes Of BioShock 2 Gameplay

While BioShock 2 is being worked on by a different studio, that doesn’t mean it’s being worked on by different people. Here, a BioShock 1 veteran takes us through nine minutes of BioShock 2. Now, if you’re precious about this kind of thing, there might be spoilers within. Might. We don’t know! If we don’t…

DIY Patapon Cosplay

Unless you find their particular brand of chirpy percussion grating, the Patapon are a lovable bunch. Lovable enough to dress up as, perhaps? Sure, why not. The PlayStation.Blog team have, as part of a contest they’re running, posted five charming little Patapon masks for you to print out, cut out and use to play with…

Tony Hawk iPhone Is (Sort Of) Real

That suspicious-looking video of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 on iPhone from the other day has been confirmed as being real. Sort of. In a roundabout way. Let me explain. The game is running on an iPhone. The developers, LTI Gray Matter, have confirmed this. And they should know, they made the thing. But the…

Lord Of The Rings Online On 360? Maybe

Talk of Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online making the jump from PC to console has been swirling for a while now, but the buzz has picked up considerably following a recent marketing survey. The survey, centring around a 360 version of the game, seems to take the tone that the game’s already been announced,…

In 2008, Sony’s Total Hardware Sales Were Down

Sony have just released their 2008 end of fiscal year report. Within, information on things like money intake, operating incomes, blah blah…oh, and some promising PlayStation division hardware sales for the past 12 months. So how’d the company do? For the 12 months until March 31, 2009, Sony’s games group reported an overall decline in…

Japan Will Surely Enjoy This Limited Edition Monster Hunter Bundle

Monster Hunter 3/Tri will be out soon in Japan. It’ll come in both standard and limited edition flavours. The standard edition, it’ll have the game and a manual, but the limited edition has more. Available only from Capcom’s Japanese online store, it’ll come with a DVD, that includes both a live orchestral performance of Monster…

Some New Games For The 360’s Platinum Range

Microsoft today got around to officially announcing the 360’s redesigned “Platinum Hits” range, which we first saw a month ago. To kick things off, they also announced eight “new” games for the range. We say “new” because, well, not all of them are new to the Platinum Hits series. Indeed, most of the eight highlighted…

PC Sales Charts: Fallout Makes A Comeback

And no, I’m not talking about Fallout 3. I’m talking about Interplay’s Fallout Trilogy pack, which includes Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics, an oldie-but-goodie bundle which made the NPD charts! Joining it on the retail charts were Demigod, Left 4 Dead and Empire: Total War. The Steam and Direct2Drive charts, meanwhile, are a little…

Splinter Cell Breaking Cover

Splinter Cell: Conviction just kind of fell off the radar, didn’t it? Well, if a new teaser website for the game is anything to go by, we should be seeing it at E3 next month. There’s nothing much to the site – teaser websites are like that – but popping up now, only a few…

Yup, New PS3 Firmware On The Way

While these don’t seem to be as frequent – or exciting – as they once were, some people still look forward to the release of the latest PS3 firmware. This news is for those people. Sony have announced that PS3 firmware v2.76 will be released “soon” (which generally means in the next day or two),…

Those Real, Free Sackboys Were Pretty Decent!

When we heard Media Molecule were just giving some Sackboys away, we figured they’d be of a pretty shoddy quality. They were free, after all. Turns out they were better than we thought! Reader Ackers sends in these pics of his recently-arrived plush friend, showing both its build quality and its scale. Looking good! If…

Well, The DSi Didn’t Stay Piracy-Free For Long

I’ve always suspected that whole point of the Nintendo DSi – and its online firmware updates – was not to introduce new features, but to curtail piracy. Fat lot of good it’s done them. See, the DS and DS Lite were easy pickings for anyone looking to play homebrew titles or pirate illegal copies of…

So, How Many Homes In The UK Own A Console?

While Britain is in the grip of Wii fever at the moment, it’s not the first time the nation has gone mad for a games console. So you can imagine console ownership rates are high. And they…are? We think. Can’t be sure, since there aren’t many comparable statistics like this, but it sounds high, so…