Luke Plunkett

Oh Hey Hawkman

Here’s the ever-excellent Knightmageas DC’s Hawkman, with photos by Gwen Graham. The very classical location is the President McKinley Library in Niles, Ohio.

Another Glimpse At The Future Of Video Game Visuals

Quixel is a company that sells textures and other assets (similar to the way games like Battlefront are able to achieve almost photo-realistic visuals). That’s amazing work for the present, but the future is obviously going to look even better. Rebirth is a short film made by Quixel that shows where we’re at in 2019.…

The Rainbow Warrior

Tano Bonfanti is a concept artist and character designer from Argentina who has worked in video and board games. You can see more of Tano’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Ironman Completes All Five Souls Games Without Taking A Hit

As tough as it is, The_Happy_Hob has just put the Dark Souls series well and truly in its place, completing all five games—the three Dark Souls, Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne—in a row. Without taking a single hit Just finishing them back-to-back is a Herculean task in itself (it took over 12 hours!), but doing so without…

Sea of Thieves’ next update, to mark the game’s 12-month anniversary, has something cool: a series of quests that you can tackle solo. It’ll be out April 30

March At Dawn

Jama Jurabaev is a senior concept artist at Lucasfilm, and has recently worked on movies like Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Ready Player One and The Crimes of Grindelwald You can see more of Jama’s stuff at his ArtStationpage.

Cosplay Is Outgrowing Cosplay Conventions

For decades, cosplay conventions have followed the same basic formula: everyone goes to a hotel or convention centre, they meet up, they take photos, they party after then they go home. As cosplay grows in size and scope, though, some cosplayers are finding that the same ol’ same ol’ just isn’t enough anymore. At the…

Konami’s New Anniversary Collections Bundle Castlevania, Contra And More

To celebrate the company’s 50th birthday, Konami is releasing a set of bundles called the Anniversary Collections, which will round up a ton of games from Castlevania, Contra and the company’s arcade past. The first pack is called Arcade Classics, and will be out on April 18 for $20. It’ll include stuff like Haunted Castle,…

April Cannot Come Soon Enough

Song Nan Li is a concept artist from China working in the games business. You can see more of Li’s stuff at his ArtStation page

The Classic Dune Board Game Is Coming Back After Over 30 Years Out Of Print

With a new Dune movie on the way, it’s time to start digging up the property’s old tie-ins, and there’s no better place to start than the critically-acclaimed—and long out of print—board game. Designed by the same team behind Cosmic Encounter and first published in 1979, Dune would be re-released in 1984 alongside David Lynch’s…

Spaniards Create Nintendo Tribute To Donald Trump, Just To Burn It Down

Fallas Week is held every March in the Spanish city of Valencia, and involves locals building huge displays of prominent and historical figures which are adored, awarded prizes and then burned to the ground It’s a festival with a centuries-old tradition, but many of the displays are ultra-modern, few more so than this incredible Donald…

System Shock 3’s First Trailer Is Here

It’s been in development for a few years now, but we’ve finally got our first proper look at System Shock 3—which sees the return of Warren Spector to the series—at this year’s Game Developers Conference. The trailer is only a teaser, running for just over 30 seconds, but whatever. It’s System Shock 3! The game…

Our Favorite Cosplay From Emerald City Comic Con 2019

The Emerald City Comic Con, held in Seattle, draws around 100,000 visitors each year, and many of them are cosplayers. Here are some of our favourites from 2019’s show. These photos were all taken by Smorgan Images. You can see more of Smorgan’s photography at hispersonal account and cosplay page UPDATE: And here’s a video…

This Is Arthur, Survived The Apocalypse, 13/10

Alexander Sköld is a freelance concept artist and illustrator from Sweden. You can see more of Alexander’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page

Here’s Towers, A Game About A Big World With Big Animals

This is Towers, a prototype/demo made by a small team of developers, including some of the same folks behind Hawken. It looks a lot like Ico cosplaying as Monster Hunter Here’s a trailer, which the team say is 100% in-game and being controlled by human players (well, the people are being controlled, the monsters are…

Hearts Of Iron IV’s New Expansion Doesn’t Really Make A Splash

I really enjoyed grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV at release, but one thing that sucked was the way navies worked, which was boring and not fun and made using some of the game’s biggest powers a massive pain in the ass. HOIIV’s latest expansion, Man The Guns, is an attempt to fix that.…

Ocarina Of Time Is Now Playable In Co-Op

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time is one of the quintessential singleplayer video game experiences. But now, thanks to the work of some modders, it can also be played with another Link there to fight alongside you. Beginning development last year, OoT Online is an effort by a small team of fans to transform…

Star Destroyers At Sunset

Tomasz Jedruszek is an illustrator from Poland who has done a ton of work for stuff like Magic cards, Warhammer 40K, board games and video games. You can see more of Tomasz’s stuff at his ArtStation page

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Cancelled Dreamcast Game Looks Like An Online Pioneer

These days, Visual Concepts are best known as the studio behind the NBA 2K series. But at the turn of the millennium they were making a demo game for the Dreamcast that, as rough as it looked, was very much ahead of its time. That game was called Internet Game Pack, and as Hidden Palace…