Luke Plunkett

Unreleased Version Of Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Found After Surviving Development Hell

Hidden Palace and The Cutting Room Floor have, with a little help, got hold of what must be one of the most interesting unreleased video games of all time: an early preview build of Sonic 3 that’s quite different from the Genesis game that was eventually released. As Hidden Palace remind us in their report of…

Red Dead Redemption 2 On Lowest Settings Looks Like It Came From The Early ’90s

Alone in the Dark, is that you? LowSpecGamer has done wonders with Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 now that it’s out on PC, going beyond simply sliding every visual option in the game to “lowest” to tinker with the game’s settings and messing with the way it loads its models. The results are a game…

2K’s Social Media Accounts Have Been Hacked, Posted Some Bad Stuff

Publisher 2K have suffered quite the security breach tonight, as pretty much every aspect of their social media presence, from Twitter to Facebook, have been hacked, with those responsible posting their own ramblings across the accounts. While 2K have now regained control over many of those accounts, some—like the company’s Facebook page—are still hosting the…

Star Wars Is Now In Fortnite

Fortnite’s latest lincesed tie-in is with Star Wars, with classic trilogy Imperial Stormtroopers now available as a skin in the game. It’s available now for purchase in the item store. Or, if you buy Fallen Order from the Epic Store, you get it for free.

Getting The Bag

Devin Korwin is an artist at mobile studio Gameloft. You can see more of Devin’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Unity Of Command II Is A Really Solid World War Two Strategy Game

The first Unity of Command game was good, and had some very smart ideas on how armies are bound by their logistics, but its limited scope and weird graphical choices held it back a little. Its sequel is a big improvement in almost every respect, and I’m in awe at just how good it is.…

Giant Batman Cosplay Is A Work Of Art

One of my favorite cosplayers on the planet, Julian Checkley, has spent the last two years working on a Batman outfit that is so good I’m starting to wonder if he’s actually working for Bruce Wayne on the side. “Everything was sculpted, molded and cast in various grades of urethane rubber by me,” Julian says…

Oculus Rift’s John Carmack is stepping down from his role as CTO of the VR company to try something new: artificial general intelligence, which he says is “possible, enormously valuable, and…I have a non-negligible chance of making a difference there.”

Gonna Take An Eva To Punch This Nazi

Vladimir Manyukhin is an artist from Russia who specializes in matte paintings You can see more of Vladimir’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Twitch Streamer Sentenced After Assaulting Pregnant Girlfriend During Game

Last year, Fortnite streamer Luke “MrDeadMoth” Munday was heard assaulting his then-pregnant girlfriend during a stream in front of the pair’s two children. After being arrested in December 2018, he was sentenced earlier this week and found guilty of a “single count of common assault (domestic violence). As Kotaku Australia reports, he has been handed…

The Uncharted Movie Has Been In Development Hell For So Long That Mark Wahlberg, Once Cast As Nathan Drake, Is Now Playing Sully Instead

Sony has been trying to get an Uncharted movie made for over a decade now, and while the latest attempt to get Nathan Drake’s story on the big screen—starring Spider-Man’s Tom Holland—sounds like it might actually get made, the addition of Mark Wahlberg to the cast this week is a reminder of just how deep…

In The Future, Football Will Be Mechanized

Jake Woodruff is an artist at Playground Games, the developers of the Forza Horizon series. Below is a series of pieces for the National Mech League, an idea that in the future, when a bunch of military and service mechs are no longer needed, they’re put to work playing football. It’s a collaboration between Woodruff…

Red Dead’s Giant Catfish Has Finally Been Caught (In The Game’s Files)

For years, well, one year, since ’18, there’ve been talk of a strange catfish lurkin’ beneath the waters of Red Ded Redemption 2’s channel. I ain’t never seen such a catfish, but folks playin’ the game on the PC reckon it’s there. You just gotta look harder Specifically, in the game’s files, where PC players—like…

Behold, Japan’s Supernatural Cat Festival

Every year, the Tokyo neighbourhood of Kagurazaka plays host to the Supernatural Cat Festival, a celebration of feline friends that involves a whole ton of people dressing up as cats then marching down the street playing music. Among their ranks were cosplayers (Morgana!) and furries, and the whole thing just looks like the best day…

Teenage Fortnite Pro Suspended From Twitch For Streaming With Banned Player

Fortnite pro Cody “Clix” Conrod has received a seven-day suspension from Twitch after he streamed on Monday alongside Zayn, a player who has been permanently banned from the service. It’s the second time this month a player has been punished for even associating with Zayn, after another Fortnite pro, Khanada, got a three-day suspension last…

New Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Trailer Shows His Redesigned Face

Well, it’s here. Let’s see what Sonic looks like now that the redesign is done To recap: When the first trailer for the upcoming movie was shown off earlier this year, reaction among fans (and everyone else) to Sonic’s weird face was…not kind. So Paramount went back to the drawing board, delayed the movie, and…

Nice Doggie. Good Doggie.

Brynn Metheney is an artist specialising in creature design who has worked on stuff like Men In Black, Valerian and Magic: The Gathering You can see more of Brynn’s stuff at her personal site

A Look At How The ESRB Rates Video Games

Danny O’Dwyer’s Noclip documentary series recently got the chance to visit the ESRB and see just how the organization works. The 44-minute video touches on a number of topics. First, it’s a pretty good history of the ESRB, detailing their originsin the wake of social and political hysteria surrounding video game violence in the 1990s…

Witcher Cosplayer Turns Geralt Into A Firefighter, Football Player And Rock Star

Having released one a few years back, Witcher cosplayer extraordinaire Maul has decided to do another one, only this time he’s imagining Geralt jumping through The Witcher 3’s portals and ending up in more Earthly forms of employment. And so we have Geralt, no longer a Witcher, but a firefighter: And a rock star: A…

Red Dead PC Players Find Hidden Princess

Ever since Red Dead Redemption 2 was released last year, some fans have been trying to find Princess Isabeau Katharina Zinsmeister, a missing person who is mentioned repeatedly in the game but (until now) never seen. Now that PC players can dig through the game’s code, though, she’s been found. Observant players might have seen…