Luke Plunkett

New Gran Turismo x Lamborghini Collab Looks Like A Batmobile From 2076

This is Lamborghini’s Vision GT, a new car unveiled in the flesh tonight at the Gran Turismo Championship World Finals in Monaco. It looks like something Bruce Wayne would take to an open track day, but despite this physical unveiling, the car is actually only going to be made digitally inside Gran Turismo Sport The…

The Mandalorian Is Built On Classic Star Wars Art

The show at large is leaning on a lot of cues from 1977, so of course the first round of concept art released for The Mandalorian is doing likewise, with very strong Ralph Maquarrie influences. Below is a wide range of art from the show’s first two episodes, which means yes, there’s some Baby Yoda.…

Civilization VI On PS4 And Xbox One Works, It’s Fine

I’m not here to review Civilization VI again, or its two expansions. I’ve done that already. What I am here today to tell you is that all that stuff is now available on PS4 and Xbox One, and against my best instincts and predictions, it’s absolutely fine. Prior to playing, and as someone who hadn’t…

The Master & The Apprentice

Vyacheslav Gluhov is an artist at Saber Interactive, the studio behind games like Spintires and ports of stuff like The Witcher 3 You can see more of Gluhov’s work at his ArtStation page

Toyota Is Ending Its Weird Holdout From Racing Games

As one of the biggest car companies in the world, it sure was weird when back in 2017 Toyota simply stopped licensing its vehicles to racing video games. It was even weirder that the company, despite its size, never actually explained why that decision was made. Aside from an appearance in Gran Turismo Sport—whose licensing…

Queen In The North

Max Birdfall is an illustrator and concept artist based in Russia. You can see more of Max’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Our Favorite Cosplay From Armageddon Expo 2019

Most of our cosplay show coverage comes from North America and Europe, so it’s great tonight to get the chance to feature some amazing work from the southern hemisphere instead. Namely, this year’s edition of Armageddon Expo, which has been going down in New Zealand since 1995. All photos and video by Mineralblu, and you’ll…

Jedi: Fallen Order Pays Tribute To A Lucasarts Star Wars Veteran

Fallen Order is a game that, between its echoes and scanning, has a lot of incidental background fluff. Amongst all that, though, is a lovely tribute from a son (who worked on Fallen Order) to his father (who worked on a ton of classic Star Wars games back in the 90s) Respawn level designer Nicholas…

Say No! More, A Game For Anyone Who Has Hated Working In An Office

Which would be…nearly all of you? This is Say No! More, coming next year for PC, Switch and iOS. Described as “a One-Button-Game about saying ‘No!’ and a stolen lunchbox”, you don’t really say “no” as much as you blast it into people’s faces with the power of 1000 hairdryers. If nothing else, it looks…

Overwatch Voice Actors Hit BlizzCon Cosplaying As Their Characters

Back in March, we ran a little feature on Carolina Ravassa, the voice actor behind Sombra who spent a day cosplaying as the Overwatch hacker. That was at Katsucon, but for BlizzCon 2019, she was joined by two other cast members, Anjali Bhimani (Symmetra) and Matthew Mercer (McCree). Cosplayer Melanie Jasmine (below, left) made Ravassa…

Prepped For Launch

Tom Straughan is an artist based in Germany. You can see more of Tom’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Huh, They Even Redesigned Sonic’s Sneakers

Sonic’s well-received cinematic make-over didn’t just make changes to the hedgehog’s eyes, nose and mouth. Even his sneakers, done in collaboration with Puma, got a rework. In the original, nightmarish trailer, Sonic was wearing a very real pair of Puma Speed 500s (pictured above), and back in May there were plansfor Puma and Sega to…

Modders Add Cut Pokémon To Sword & Shield

Now that Sword & Shield is out, fans are free to pick through the game’s code, and of course one of the first things that’s being done is the addition of some Pokémon that didn’t actually make it into the game SciresMfrom Project Pokémon has posted some video showing off the work he’s done so…

There’s an Assassin’s Creed “audio drama” coming in 2020 starring Rogue One’s Riz Ahmed, set “in the late 1600s” while “familiar characters from the games will also make appearances”.

Valve Announces New Half-Life Game

After some whispers earlier in the week, Valve has come out and confirmed it: the company is working on a new title called Half-Life: Alyx, which it describes as a “flagship VR game”. And that’s all we know! There’ll be more revealed on Thursday at 10am PT, as the Tweet says. I’ve wondered for years…

Capcom has announced Street Fighter V: Champion Edition, a bundle that includes almost everything released as part of both Street Fighter V and its Arcade Edition. That’s “40 characters, 34 stages and over 200 costumes.” It’s out in February 2020 for PS4 and Steam and will cost $30

Google Panics, Adds 10 More Games To Stadia’s Launch Lineup

Perhaps spooked by the fact the only people who seem to care about the impending launch of their Stadia home streaming platform are those noting everything wrong with it, Google has at the 11th hour—this thing is released in two days, on November 19!—almost doubled the number of games that’ll be available when it goes live.…

An Australian Pokémon Game Would Be Amazing

We’ve had Hawaiian Pokémon, we’ve had British Pokémon, and after seeing this incredible fan art project by VivinkArt, I’m convinced it’s time for an Australian Pokémon next. It all began a few months back as a simple joke: (Yeahnah is incredibly common and mighty useful Australian slang that basically means yeah, I understand and/or empathize…

Twelve months after the release of the first issue, the team behind boutique games mag A Profound Waste of Time is back with a second. This time around there are features with Keita Takahashi and Tetsuya Mizuguchi. You can get it here

Using A Toy Lightsaber Seems Like The Best Way To Play Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Custom controller pioneer Rudeism is back with a very nice setup for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, which involves a lightsaber, a glove, and what looks like some very gratifying force powers. The lightsaber is just a plastic toy version with motion sensors in it, while the glove also has motion sensors, with thumbsticks and buttons…