Luke Plunkett

How To Best Play Virtual On, Xbox 360 Style

Virtual On is great. Its return, a blessing. But also a curse! See, part of what made Virtual On so great in the arcades was the game’s twin-stick controller. Which the Xbox 360 doesn’t have. Even the Dreamcast version had a nice twin-stick peripheral for home use, but on 360, you’re stuck using the control…

First Look At New Aliens vs Predator

While everyone’s been focused on Gearbox’s Aliens game, Rebellion’s Aliens vs Predator title has slipped beneath the radar. Until now! Previews of the game have begun appearing in European magazines, and while they consist of little more than a bunch of screenshots, they do manage to reveal that the game is set 30 years after…

It’s A BioShock 2 Screenshot Extravaganza!

Here you go. A whole bunch of screenshots for BioShock 2. Enemies, settings, characters, weapons, water, masks, the works. Enjoy!

Prototyping The Wii’s MotionPlus

The Wii’s new peripheral, MotionPlus, will be with us soon. And we know what it looks like. But here’s what, but for the grace of God, it could have looked like. The following pics were spotted on a European Union trademarks database, and show the progression of the device, from early prototype to production model.…

Anyone For Lifetime Final Fantasy Sales Figures?

As part of a corporate strategy meeting, Square Enix yesterday revealed the lifetime, worldwide sales figures for three of their biggest franchises. And no, they don’t mean The World Ends With You. The three biggest (at least in terms of units sold) are Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts, and when you combine every…

PC Sales Charts: Zombies vs Nazis vs Lich Kings

It’s a case of three different charts, two different weeks and three different games at the top, with WoW, Left 4 Dead and Tales of Valor all duking it out atop the PC charts. Yes, with the Christmas season and recent run of AAA “proper” games well and truly over, things are back to normal…

Sony: The Wii Owns The Closet

It’s a shame, but corporate smack talk seems to have gone out of style since the likes of Peter Moore and Ken Kutaragi left their posts. Today, though, Sony are bringing it back. And good for them! While some dismiss this kind of business as childish – purile, even – we don’t. Bring it on!…

A $500 PC That Can Kick Crysis’ Ass

Even though the game came out in 2007, people still go all “boo hoo” over Crysis’ graphics settings. Say they’re prohibitive, use them as a benchmark. Well, you can murder those settings for $500. At least, you can according to Maximum PC, who cobbled together the following rig for $509 (a bit over, we know,…

Will Wright: Why Spore Wasn’t Released On 360, PS3

For such a big game, you’d have thought Spore would release on every platform under the sun. But it didn’t. Just PC, Mac, DS and iPhone. Here, Will Wright explains why. In an interview with GameDaily, Wright says it was a matter of balancing output with creativity: You know, we either [port the game to…

PS3 Tie Ratio Overtakes Wii Tie Ratio

Matt Matthews, now at Gamasutra, is a graph fiend. If it’s displayed as bars and/or pies, he’s all over it. And he’s all over some new NPD data, showing an improvement in the PS3’s tie ratio. The “Tie Ratio” is basically the ratio of games to consoles in the market. So if, say, the Xbox…

New Gothic Lolita Shooter Trailer

Cave’s fantastic fantasy shooter DeathSmiles is coming to the Xbox 360. Microsoft, understandably proud of this, showed a trailer for the port at yesterday’s press event in Tokyo.

There Will Be Dante’s Inferno On The PSP As Well

We already knew that Dante’s Inferno was coming for the PC, 360 and PS3. We did not know that a PSP version was also in development. Do now. EA have announced that Sony’s handheld will be getting its own version of the game, which is EA Redwood Shores’ (the Dead Space guys) take on the…

Sega Once Again Considering Changes To Business Operations

For the third time this decade, Sega have announced that they are considering making big changes to the way the company is structured. The first of these was in 2001, when Sega pulled out of the hardware business. The second was in 2004, when Sammy took over the company and Sega’s many satellite studios were…

Amazon Now Selling WiiWare Games, Too

Earlier in the month, Amazon began selling Xbox Live Arcade titles. Now they’re selling WiiWare games too. So, yeah, you can now buy your digital Wii games from someone other than Nintendo. If that’s something that’s been really tearing you up inside. Since a move like this was rumoured at the time of the original…

The Life & Times Of Nintendo’s Game Boy

Haven’t you heard? The Game Boy is 20! And to celebrate the occasion, Gizmodo artiste and Game Boy fetishist Jesus Diaz has whipped up this handy timeline, charting the machine’s highs and lows. You know, looking at this has reminded me; if there’s one console I’m going to buy this year, it’ll probably be one…

Where A Pro Wrestler Dresses Up As Marcus Fenix

Don’t know much about TNA Wrestling myself, but I’d imagine that the fanbases of TNA and Gears of War dovetail elegantly. Which explains the following, strange video.

Play Old Sierra Games, For Free, In Your Browser

There once was a time, before closures, before Lucasarts, when the name “Sierra” meant premium PC adventure gaming. Those days are, sadly, long gone. But they will not be forgotten! If you head over to Sarien, you can take part in a little project that’s part-game, part-museum piece, with old Sierra adventure games running in…

It May Be Safe To Play Demigod Now

Demigod had a regrettable launch. Too many pirates, server infrastructure couldn’t cope. But after a week we’re sure Stardock would rather forget, things are looking up! A status report on Stardock’s site lets us know that while for an unfortunate few the online-only game is effectively broken, for “most people” things are “working pretty decently”.…

There Must Be A LOT Of People Pirating Advent Children

If you’re thinking of pirating a copy of Final Fantasy Advent Children, we may as well let you know that Square Enix have been “monitoring illegal upload and public communication” of the movie. In a press release issued today by the company, Square say that since Advent Children Complete was released on Blu-Ray earlier this…

Project Gotham Devs Unveil New Racing Series

When Activision lured Bizarre away from Microsoft, it wasn’t to make platformers. It was to make racing games. Like the one Bizarre are working on now, called Blur. Revealed in the latest issue of French magazine/Edge accompaniment Joypad, Blur seems be offering everything Bizarre did so well with Project Gotham – namely fast cars, exotic…