Luke Plunkett

Lost TV Show Goes A Little Bit FPS, A Little Bit Rock N’ Roll

We’ve seen it in a sequence in Doom already, but that was a movie about an FPS, so it doesn’t count. This, though – an FPS sequence in the TV show Lost – counts. Counts for…something. What it is, exactly, we’re not sure. But hey, since there’s a very good chance the writers and creators…

There Is A Fourth, Mysterious Need For Speed Game In Development

EA have hit the big, red reset button on the Need For Speed franchise. As we heard, three new games are coming. No, wait. Seems there are four new games coming. Blackbox – despite recent layoffs – still have the manpower and the time to work on not just NFS: World Online, but a “future…

Xbox Live Catches Super Bowl Fever

Super Bowl’s on this weekend. People are excited. Few as excited as Microsoft seem to be, as they’ve just announced that, all day Sunday, Xbox Live will be going bananas for all things football. For the 24 hours that encompass the day, Microsoft will be setting up a dedicated Xbox Live “channel” called “Football Fanfare”,…

Nintendo Shares Fall As Far As They’re Allowed To Fall

Some people are beginning to seriously question whether the Wii bubble has burst. They may be right, they may be wrong, either way, investors are listening. And investors seem to be taking it all on board. Following comments made by analysts such as Hiroshi Kamide yesterday, Nintendo share prices started falling. And falling. And falling…

Faith And A .45 Development Comes To A Halt

First announced early last year, Deadline Games‘ Faith And A .45 looked promising! It had biplanes, tommy guns and a sexy, ginger-haired lady. Basically, it made the Great Depression look fun! So it’s with a heavy heart that we hear tonight the game’s been put on pause. Why? Because despite featuring biplanes, tommy guns and…

When The RZA Wants To Game, He Is Supplied With A Dev Kit

The RZA is in Wu-Tang. And the Wu-Tang Clan ain’t, if you must be reminded, nothin’ to fuck with. So when the RZA needs a 360 to game on, he doesn’t game on no 60GB. No, Bobby Digital is given, as you can hear on this clip, a dev kit. Just so the dude can…

Just To Clear, No, That DS Game Did Not Feature An Islamic Chucky Doll

Hick news channel WTNH’s bleeding edge report on Crave’s Baby Pals for the DS had a few holes in it. One of the biggest was the fact the channel didn’t bother contacting the game’s publisher. Oops. GamePolitics, however, did, and asked Crave to deny (or confirm!) whether the bathtime baby in their kids DS game…

PAL PlayStation Store Update

Is Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix available this week on the PAL PlayStation Store? Let’s check! Hmm…no, no Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix that I can see. Again. Which leaves the PAL Store update looking a little worse for wear. Oh, except for Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars. That’s probably worth looking…

EA Hit The Reset Button On Need For Speed Franchise, 3 New Games Coming

It’s official: the sheen has well and truly worn off the Need for Speed franchise. Once a guaranteed smash, recent titles have under-performed badly, leading EA to announce a total reboot for the series. Speaking with Eurogamer, EA have revealed that there’ll be three new NFS games released in 2009, the idea being to seperate…

Is The iPhone Getting A New “Premium” Games Store?

There are hundreds of games on the iPhone at the moment. Problem is, most of them are awful, little more than rubbish flash games with a $0.99 price tag. According to a report on PocketGamer, however, Apple may be looking at a way to get around this, by dividing the App Store‘s games into two…

Let’s Break Down Nintendo’s Biggest Selling Wii Games (Let’s!)

You’ve seen us break down Nintendo’s DS sales. Now let’s look at the Wii sales! Since this includes the Christmas quarter, sales are looking good, in both Japan and The West. These are the sales numbers for the period April 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008, and include not just total Wii game sales, but…

Survey: 47% Of PC Game Purchases Are Digital

Getting sales data for the PC market is hard. The NPD Group try, but they don’t cover digital downloads, so there are big holes in their data. Enter Rock Paper Shotgun’s ginormous reader survey. In an effort to try and get a sense of how many PC purchases are of the digital variety, the PC-focused…

This Is The New Xbox Experience That Could Have Been

Design firm Grid/plane worked with Microsoft on early design ideas for the New Xbox Experience. While the NXE we ended up with is a different beast, it’s interesting looking at what could have been. While Grid/plane’s ideas obviously centred around a new menu system, they also “dreamt up an immersive 3D environment for users to…

Has “Something Big Gone Wrong” At Nintendo?

Respected analyst Hiroshi Kamide thinks so. Following Nintendo’s announcement last night of a cut in profit forecasts, Kamide thinks the revision was made because the company know “something big has gone wrong”. “Today’s revision suggests that the roaring pace of Wii growth that we’ve seen until now may be over”, Kamide told The Times. “The…

Batman: Arkham Asylum Screenshots, Trailer

While one Batman game lies rotting in the dirt, another, more promising title lives on. And it’s been a while since we heard/saw anything on Batman: Arkham Asylum, so let’s go take a look! Or, more importantly, let’s take a listen. Ah, Mark Hamill. You were born to play Luke Skywalker, but we live to…

Take A Closer Look At Halo 3’s Mythic Map Pack

The official Austrian Xbox blog has posted a few screenshots of Halo 3‘s Mythic Map Pack, along with – for the first time – some names and descriptions to go along with them. The first map – Sandbox – has a variety of vehicles at your disposal, as well as allowing extensive modification via Forge.…

Not Everybody Is Losing Money (Just Ask PopCap!)

Times are tough. You’re no doubt sick of hearing that. But it’s true! Money is tight for developers and publishers the world over. Unless your name is Nintendo or Activision. Or, in this case, PopCap. The developers of Peggle and Bejeweled, having picked up some sales data from the NPD Group, announced today that retail…

Here Are Your Madden Bowl XV Participants

Despite the onset of some troubled economic times, EA will still be spending big at this year’s Super Bowl. Part of those festivities will be the 15th Madden Bowl. So who’s playing? Seven current NFL players will be picking up the controllers and vying for digital bragging rights, including a player each from the competing…

Casual, Online PC Games On The Up & Up

comScore today have released figures showing big increases in the number of people playing PC games online. Not the Crysis/Counter-Strike kind of online gaming, though. The Newgrounds kind of online gaming. Wait, casual games? Yes, casual games. Sit down, you’re about to learn something. Seems the number of Americans playing games on casual online gaming…

Street Fighter IV Arcade Cabinets Touring Britain Next Month

It doesn’t look like Street Fighter IV arcade cabinets are going to make it (officially) out of Japan. Ah well. If you live in Britain, come February you’ll get a chance to play one. Albeit temporarily. Capcom are bringing a few cabinets to the UK, and will be rolling them down mainland Great Britain (sorry…