Luke Plunkett

We Are All This Detective Pikachu Plush

I feel you, Detective Pikachu. 2020 has not got off to the greatest start. This wrinkled and very sad plush, which came out in Japan last year, is available today at the Pokémon Center for $20. He is almost unfathomably cute.

NBA 2K20 Is Laughing All The Way To The Bank

The bedrock of my coverage of the NBA 2K series over the last few years has been how gross the series has become, how it’s so bent toward the whims of advertisers and microtransactions that it’s uncomfortable to even be around, more predatory experience than basketball game. I see a similar sentiment out there among…

Nazi Moron Arrested Over Multiple Swatting Calls

Last week the FBI arrested 19-year-old John William Kirby Kelley, who it’s alleged was part of a group responsible for a range of dangerous swatting incidents. Kelley was also, and I type this with my most surprised face, part of a number of openly racist Steam groups. A release from the ADL, who assisted the FBI…

Locked Out

Lorenzo Lanfranconi is an artist from Italy. You can see more of Lorenzo’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Nintendo’s Theme Park Trailer Is A Trip

We’re only six months (at most!) away from the opening of Nintendo’s big new theme park at Universal Studios, Osaka. That means it’s time to not only get a big hype trailer, but some actual information on the place as well, including a very cool, very Mario feature. It’s a pretty good vid, hinting at…

A Very Frosty, Expensive Game Boy

Artist Daniel Arsham, who in 2018 quietly collaborated on one of the sneakers of the year, often makes and sells very expensive, very sought-after stuff on his personal site. Loads of them are from his “future relic” series, where everyday pieces of tech and pop culture are reimagined as archaeological remains, and the next one…

Minecraft Player Gets Electrocuted Every Time He Takes Damage

Congratulations, Dream and GeorgeNotFound. You have found the worst way possible to play Minecraft For a while now Dream, a Minecraft YouTuber, and his buddy GeorgeNotFound have been working on a way to attach an electrified dog collar to a human arm, then rig it via an Arduino board so that every time a player…

Old-Timey Spidey

Antonio Stappaerts is a concept artist from Belgium who has worked for a number of design studios in the video game business. You can see more of Antonio’s stuff at his personal site and ArtStation page

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Is Deleting Some Players’ PC Save Files

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne came out on PC last week, and while for many it was a hassle-free experience, some older players logged on to unwittingly delete their old save data. The issue appears to be affecting those who haven’t logged into the game for a while, leading to speculation it could be related to…

Harry Potter x Minecraft Map Looks Like A Whole New Game

Over a decade later and it still boggles the mind how much work and cool shit people can come up with in Minecraft. The latest example being this enormous recreation of the world of Harry Potter Minecraft School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a project being run by a small group of students who have…

Oh God This Gundam Handshake Is Excruciating

It’s physically painful to watch. What is even happening here. Why did they animate it like this.

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The Gang’s All Here

Anton Lavrushkin is an artist from Russia. You can see more of Anton’s stuff at his ArtStation page

NBA Free Agency Drama Blamed On Video Games

NBA megastar Giannis Antetokounmpo is due to hit free agency in 2021, and already teams and players are making preparations to try and sign the guy. Things are indeed so crazy that a chat between Antetokounmpo and former MVP Steph Curry the other night, reportedly over PUBG of all things, turned into drama Here’s the…

Our Best Cosplay Footage From 2019

Across timezones and continents, our cosplay photographer Mineralblu went everywhere capturing shots and video from events big and small in 2019. Here, to help kickstart 2020, is a look back at the best of it. This 15-minute video covers 25 shows, from Comic Con to Star Wars Celebration to BlizzCon and everything in between. And,…

The Origins Of Aloy

Louis van Baarle is a character artist from the Netherlands who has worked on stuff like Horizon Zero Dawn You can see more of Lois’ stuff at her personal site, Patreon and ArtStation page

Sensible Soccer Mod Drags The Classic Sports Game Into The 2020s

‘90s classic Sensible Soccer, which alongside NBA Jam is one of the purest expressions of arcade sports simplicity, hasn’t had an official release in over a decade. A new mod for the original, out now, more than makes up for that. Sensible World of Soccer 2020 updates everything that can be updated about the game…

The Battlefront II Popes

Ah, it’s nice to see a Battlefront mod look beyond the Star Wars universe and incorporate spiritual representatives from other faiths. Like *checks notes* the Catholic Church. This mod, by xD0IT, turns Kylo Ren (and what looks like Luke’s face) into a young Pope John Paul II, who in our world was a devout man…

Games Artist Releasing His Own Comic About Space Robots

Ben Mauro is one of the best artists working in entertainment today, and we’ve featured his work on Fine Art a bunch of times. We’re doing it again tonight because he’s releasing a graphic novel called HUXLEY, about “two scavengers who find an ancient robot and get swept up on an adventure that could change…

Fantasy Flight’s Video Game Studio Is Closing

In 2017 Fantasy Flight, a juggernaut in the board game world thanks to stuff like Game of Thrones and Star Wars, opened a video game studio. Barely two years later, Fantasy Flight Interactive is closing its doors. The idea had been for the studio to work in two directions: adapt existing Fantasy Flight games into…