Luke Plunkett

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Sea Shanties Are Actual Greek Poems

Hi, Luke Plunkett here, your resident sea shanty enthusiast. And I’d like you to know that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, a game featuring mythical creatures, immortal leaps and the most perfect human being ever created (not you, Alexios), takes its sea shanties of all things very seriously. To recap: like a few games in the series…

German Stores Are Giving Fallout 76 Away In Very Sad Promos

GameStop are running a promotion in Germany, Austria and Switzerland where anyone buying a used PlayStation 4 or Xbox One controller gets a free copy of the online shooter. It’s not even a used copy. It’s a brand new copy of the game on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, and all you need to do…

A New Dr. Mario Game Is Coming To Phones

Nintendo just announced a new mobile game partnership with Japanese company Line, which will involve a new Dr. Mario game coming to iOS and Android. It’ll be called Dr. Mario World, and is being co-developed by both companies, with further assistance coming from NHN Entertainment. It’ll be out worldwide in “early summer 2019″. The game…

The New England Patriots’ defensive line has been a monstrous force in the playoffs this year. They also have an anime club, as this terrific Ringer piece details

One Deck Of Cards That Can Play Loads Of Different Games [Update]

Anton Ödman has done a cool and very space-conscious thing: he’s designed a single deck of cards—known as a “multideck”—that can play a wide variety of different types of games, not just those reliant on Kings and Queens and an eight of clubs. Though not a professional designer (nor the first person to try this),…

The Wii Shop Theme Was A Banger

Opening in December 2006, and serving millions around the world for over a decade, the Wii Shop closes its virtual doors at the end of today. While the storefront itself will be gone, though, its theme song will live on forever. The Wii’s low-fi system soundtrack, like the Wii U’s after it, was a beautiful…

Smash Bros. Ultimate Update Adds Piranha Plant, Features Enormous List Of Actual Patch Notes

Nintendo’s patch notes are notorious for saying pretty much nothing. So the latest Smash Ultimate update—which also marks the release of Piranha Plant—contains a nice surprise: a lengthy and detailed breakdown of everything that’s changing, down to each fighter’s specific tweaks. The 2.0.0. patch notescan be found in full here, and really are enormous. Every…

A Very Studio Ghibli Road Trip

Artur Sadlos is an artist based in Japan. He’s worked on stuff like League of Legends, The Witcher 3 and For Honor, but alsothat wonderful Ghibli x Oregon tourism ad from last year We actually featured Sadlos’ work as one of the first ever Fine Art posts, butsince that was eight years ago I figured…

Mod Creates “HD” Final Fantasy VII Using AI Neural Networks

We’ve seen the original Doom made “HD” using AI neural networks, now it’s the turn of Final Fantasy VII, with a mod for the PC version of the game creating backgrounds that have 4x the resolution. The mod’s creator CaptRobau explains how it works: The Remako HD Graphics Mod is a mod that completely revamps…

14 Year-Old Kid Found Apple’s Facetime Bug During Fortnite Session, Tried To Warn Apple

Apple’s massive Facetime bug, which “allows for users to eavesdrop on others while a call is still ringing”, was found as early as last week by a 14 year-old kid who was trying to get his friends together for a Fortnite session. The Wall Street Journal reports that Grant Thompson, from Tucson, was “setting up…

Fake Maps Are The Best Maps

Karl Vesterberg is a freelance artist from Sweden who has a particular thing for fictional hand-drawn maps and city illustrations. This is the kind of work you normally see on a map screen, or board game board, or coffee table guide book, and it is very much my fetish. In addition to the fantasy stuff,…

Look At These Pikachu Sneakers

Yellow? Check. Fluffy? Check. Tail? Check. These upcoming Pokemon sneakers by Glamb will be out in Japan next month, and I love them. There won’t be many pairs made, and those that will be are coming in a fairly limited run of sizing. They’re also selling for USD$250, so these are definitely in “cool shoes…

$100 Dark Souls Statue Is Just The Bonfire

Later this year, Gecco will be releasing their next Dark Souls statue. Unlike previous ones, which have featured characters from the series (and run up $300 price tags), this one isjust the bonfire The bonfire is 1/6 scale, same as the statues, and does actually have some functionality; the sword comes separate from the base,…

A Highlight Reel Of 2018’s Biggest Cosplay Shows

Throughout 2018, our photographer and videographer Mineralblu travelled the country covering cosplay conventions. To celebrate, and to recap some of the amazing stuff spotted at the shows, he’s put together this 15 minute highlight reel. There are 21 shows covered in all, from DragonCon to Comic Con to BlizzCon to New York Comic Con. Cons…

At The Gates Is A Gruelling Strategy Misfire

Jon Shafer, lead designer of Civilization V, has spent the last seven years working on a 4X strategy game of his own called At The Gates, which puts you in control of a barbarian tribe during the last days of the Roman Empire. There’s a lot of exploration and expanding to be had, but also…

Arise, Lukas Skywalking

Nicolas Gekko is a concept artist who has worked on games like Destiny 2 and Elder Scrolls: Legends His entry (which you can see above) was also one of the best in that Star Wars Reimagined contest held a few years back You can see more of Gekko’s work at his ArtStation page.

Last Oasis Is The Most PC Game Imaginable

Last Oasis is an upcoming survival game where the world has stopped spinning, and everyone left alive has to “outrun the scorching sun in a massive Open World.” It’s coming to Steam, of course, and the game’s trailer certainly ticks all the boxes for a game laser-targeted to the platform’s whims: it’s post-apocalyptic, there’s resource-gathering,…

Sunday Drive

David Tilton is a concept artist who most recently worked on Rooster Teeth’s Gen:Lock You can see more of David’s stuff at his ArtStation page.

There’s A (Fan-Made) Persona 5 Board Game, And It’s Great

Last year I wrote about Brother Ming, an amateur designer who came up with his own Fire Emblem board game. He’s now made one for Persona 5, and it’s fantastic The Unofficial Persona 5 Phan-Game (UP5P) is a short game, taking around 30 minutes to complete. It’s pretty small in scale; you can play solo…

A Catalogue Of Some Of The Rarest Consoles Ever Made

I’ve always had a weird thing for collections of video game hardware. Rare colourways, odd promotional designs, Japanese-only releases with crazy hardware features, I live for it. So I’ve just spent the last 24 hours clicking throughthis website, whose goal is to catalogue every console variant there is and ever has been, from fancy PS2s…