Luke Plunkett

Total Tank Simulator Sure Looks Familiar

Total Tank Simulator is coming on PC for anyone who, like me, misses Battlefield Heroes dearly. And let’s get this out of the way first: It has nothing to do with Totally Accurate Battle Simulator Despite the name, premise, art style and color scheme looking a lot like Landfall’s cult hit, this is actually coming…

I’ll Pass On These $1140 League Of Legends Sneakers, Thanks

League of Legends has a fashion collab with Louis Vuitton that’s now out and available to purchase. If you’ve ever wanted to spend over $600 on a video game T-shirt, now’s your chance. There’s a line of mostly women’s focused apparel and a pair of sneakers available, and as you’d expect with such a gaudy…

You Better Believe This Is Another Witcher 3 Art Post

Andrzej Dybowski is a freelance artist who has recently worked on stuff like League of Legends, The Witcher 3 and Metro Exodus You can see more of Andrzej’s stuff at his personal site and ArtStation page

Table Manners, A Video Game About Very Bad Tinder Dates

This is Table Manners, a video game in which you sit down across from your date, pour them a glass of wine, thrust fish in their face, spill food all over the table then set everything on fire. Or at least that’s how I envisage spending most dates in this physics title, which looks a…

Phoenix Point Is MIA On Xbox Game Pass

Phoenix Point, the latest strategy game from XCOM creator Julian Gollop, was released last week on the Epic Games Store. It was also supposed to be out on the Microsoft Store and Xbox Game Pass, but it’s not, and Snapshot Games have basically had to admit “we dropped the ball.” In a statement released on…

Our Favorite Cosplay From Oni-Con 2019

Last month, the 2019 instalment of Oni-Con was held in Galveston, Texas. It’s an annual show celebrating anime, manga and video games, which means by default there was also tons of great cosplay there as well. All photos and video below were taken by Mineralblu. You’ll find each cosplayer’s social media account details, the character…

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Igor Piwowarczyk is an illustrator from Poland who we last saw on Fine Art helping out on Blizzard’s anime-style trailer from 2018 You can see more of Igor’s stuff at his ArtStation page

RIP Gamerankings.com

Older heads might remember Gamerankings.com, a site that rounded up reviews from all over the place and gave them an overall aggregated figure out of 100, as a cornerstone of forum arguments the world over back in the day. Sadly, it’s about to close its doors. I’ll be honest: I wasn’t even aware the site…

Amazon Customers Buy Nintendo Switch, Get Sent Condoms, Tambourines, Electric Toothbrushes Instead

There are reports coming out of the UK that at least a dozen people who bought a Nintendo Switch as part of Amazon’s Black Friday sales did not get sent a Nintendo Switch. Instead, they’ve received everything from air freshener to photopolymer resin instead. The Mirror has been rounding up some of the complaints, which…

Snoop Dogg Is Now A Sports Game Commentator

Because why the hell not, Snoop is now an official commentator in EA Sports’ NHL 20 While this might sound like a random event generator got us to this point, there is a reason behind it: Snoop has done actual NHL commentary work in real games, which if you’ve never heard it is wonderful: Here’s…

On December 12 another wave of classic games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online. From the SNES there’ll be Star Fox 2, Super Punch-Out!!, Kirby Super Star and Breath of Fire II, while for the NES there’s Journey to Silius and Crystalis

Me? Oh, You Know, I’ve Just Been Working And Stuff, Just Trying To Get By, How About You?

Mintautas Šukys is an illustrator and artist who works at Goodname, an outsourcing company in Lithuania that handles stuff like concept art for video games. You can see more of Šukys’ stuff at his ArtStation page.

New PlayStation Commercial Rips Off Loads Of Artists

A big new commercial for PlayStation Japan, pitched as a music video featuring all the platform’s big holiday games, has a lot of cool animation throughout. Pity, then, that loads of it is copied—down to the smallest detail—from other people’s work. Here’s the trailer in question: Ian Jones-Quartey, creator of OK K.O.! (who has also…

Nazi ‘Joke’ Gets Legendary Player Removed From FIFA 20

Holland’s Marco van Basten, one of the greatest players of the 20th century, has been removed from FIFA 20 after being caught on camera making what he called a Nazi “joke.” Van Basten works as a commentator for Fox in the Netherlands, and was in the booth following a game in the Dutch league on…

Nuns With Guns

Lola Zhang in an artist based in Pasadena. You can see more of Lola’s stuff at her ArtStation page

There’s a new Starship Troopers game coming called Terran Command. It’s an RTS, and interestingly it’s being handled by the same team behind Order of Battle, which I like a lot.

Man Accused Of Using His PlayStation 4 To Sell Cocaine

Last month, the FBI got in touch with Sony and requested information on a PlayStation 4 user who it’s alleged has been using the PlayStation Network to sell cocaine at “$34,000 per kilogram.” As Motherboard report, the request came in the form of a search warrant filed on October 22, which was asking Sony for…

Phoenix Point Is A Bigger, Messier XCOM

Phoenix Point is a new turn-based tactics game designed by Julian Gollop, the driving force behind the original XCOM, released back in 1994. In 2019, he’s back to build on the experience he helped pioneer all those year ago. Slight problem, though: he’s not coming in to fix anything that’s broke. XCOM 2 did so…

In The Valley Of The Gods ‘On Hold’ As Developers Work On Other Valve Games

Campo Santo’s follow-up to Firewatch, In the Valley of the Gods, was supposed to be out at the end of 2019. Since being bought by Valve, however, the game’s situation has changed. In a statement sent to Polygon, Campo Santo co-founder Jake Rodkin explains that since the purchase, the In the Valley of the Gods…

The Art Of Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds

The Outer Worldsis one of the best games of the year, so it’s a treat tonight to be sharing some of the concept art that went into the game’s production. Below is a sample of work from some of the artists responsible for the game’s look, ranging from character art to weapon design to environments…