Luke Plunkett

Arkham Horror‘s April Fool’s Gag, Barkham Horror, Becomes Real Game

Earlier this year, Fantasy Flight’s April Fool’s joke was to announce an expansion to Arkham Horror’s card game called The Dogwich Legacy, in which the human heroes were replaced by dogs and the Lovecraftian horrors by cats. The joke came and went, but people loved it so much that it’s now an actual game. Barkham…

Civilization VI Bug Crashes Game Unless You Declare War

There’s a bug affecting the Switch version of Civilization VI at the moment that’s causing the game to crash just before the player claims victory, and the current solution is maybe not the most ideal for anyone with a pacifist’s approach to the game. This Reddit thread (via Eurogamer), beginning with one person complaining about…

YouTube Is Relaxing Its Rules Against Video Game Violence

In a “Policy enforcement update” posted earlier today, YouTube announced a series of changes coming to the site’s content moderation, most of them centred around new distinctions between actual real-world violence and the “scripted or simulated violence” you see in video games. Starting today, “scripted or simulated violent content found in video games will be…

I Scream, You Scream, Gun Screams

Jeremie Feldman is an artist based in France. I’m getting very strong Blame! vibesfrom all of this, and I love it. You can see more of Feldman’s stuff at his ArtStation page

This is New Cities, an upcoming city-builder for the PC with a strong focus on road networks and the economy. I really like the scale of it, those cities look enormous

Streamer Sets World Record By Playing Games For 572 Hours

Last month, Cecilia ran a great feature on Andrew “GiantWaffle” Bodine, who was in the middle of an attempt to set a world record by streaming himself playing video games for 570 hours. Yesterday, he reached the finish line. Obviously, like any world record attempt these days in pretty much any field, participants are allowed…

The Three Amigos

Zak Foreman is an artist at Epic. You can see more of Zak’s stuff at his ArtStation page

GeekOn! is currently running a Kickstarter for a whole range of board game travel/transport accessories, some of which I’ve tried out previously (the portable dice tower + nesting tray is great). Things are a bit pricey individually, so the bundles are where it’s at.

Baby Yoda Has Opened A Pandora’s Box

Awwww, yes, he’s so adorable with his little robe and big black eyes, but have you ever considered the precedent that’s been set with the introduction of Baby Yoda? Now every artist from here to Coruscant is going to be doing mockups of other Star Wars species as infants, and it’s going to go for…

Former Fire Emblem ROM Hack Becomes Brand New Video Game

Once upon a time, there was a ROM hack for Fire Emblem called Midnight Sun. It was cancelled in 2017, but is now back, having spent the intervening years transforming itself into a standalone, original video game. No longer based on Nintendo’s classic series, it’s now called Path of the Midnight Sun, and is more…

Work It, Batman, Work It

If you’ve ever wondered just how important animation is to a game’s ability to convey character, please examine this video in which Batman and Catwoman’s models are swapped over. Taken from Arkham Knight (you can see the original here), it literally does nothing else but swap the characters. And in doing so shows that Batman’s…

Our Favorite Cosplay From BlizzCon 2019

BlizzCon 2019 had a different feel to previous years, as big game announcements shared the weekend with protests against the company’s political actions. One thing that remained constant, though, was the quality of cosplay that fans brought to the show. Maybe it’s the focused nature of the con, maybe it’s just the fact that Blizzard’s…

Sorry Forgot My Keys

Chander Lieve is an artist based in New Zealand who most recently worked on Path of Exile 2. You can see more of Lieve’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Look At This Beautiful Game Of Pathfinder

A group of Australian friends just wound up an epic game of tabletop RPG Pathfinder, and I mean, I already said this in the headline, but just look at the thing. Overseen by DM Paul Houlihan, who also did all the painting (the terrain is a mix of stuff, most of it from Dwarven Forge),…

There Was An F-Zero Novel, And Its Art Sure Was Something

In January of 1992, a novel—not a manga, a novel—was released in Japan based on F-Zero. And anyone used to how the series looked and felt on a console will notice it’s quite…different. With a title roughly translated to F-Zero: And Then, To The Gods Of Speed, these scans and info were all uploaded by…

Facebook has purchased Beat Games, the studio behind virtual reality rhythm game Beat Saber. The developers will “continue to work on Beat Saber across all currently supported platforms”.

The Ultimate Crossover Event

Kontorn Boonyanate is an artist from Thailand whose action figure style has me feeling all gloomy about Disney Infinity again You can see more of Kontorn’s stuff at his ArtStation page

The Pokémon Company Wants To Hunt Leakers On 4Chan, Discord

Earlier this month, before the game’s release, leaked images of Pokémon Sword & Shield starting turning up online. That’s pretty normal for a big video game, but The Pokémon Company are taking the matter very seriously, so seriously that they’re asking a court if they can serve subpoenas on 4chan and Discord. As reported by…

Summer Vibes

Yeonji Rhee is a Korean artist who has worked for companies like NCSoft. You can see more of Yeonji’s stuff at her ArtStation page

Tech-Com: 2029 is an in-development, fan-made game that’s looking to focus solely on the best parts of the entire Terminator series: the all-too-brief shots of the dystopian future war between man and machine as shown in the 1984 original.