Luke Plunkett

Weedcraft, A Game About Growing And Selling Weed

Weedcraft, out on PC next year, is a management game where you’re put in charge of a company that’s involved in all aspects of growing and selling marijuana. You can design your own blends, expand your business, hire staff and run the facilities the business needs to keep growing. Whether the actual game is as…

Behind The Scenes Filming A Mortal Kombat Game In 1995

Series co-creator Ed Boon shared a very cool video earlier today, showing some behind the scenes action from Mortal Kombat 3’s motion capture filming. Bit and pieces of this kind of stuff tend to pop up every now and again (like the MK1 photos we posted in 2014), but this is particularly great, because it…

Art house Cook & Becker are trying something a little different with a new line of art books. They’re art notebooks, which leave space for your own sketches and notes while also featuring those from the game they’re featuring (Horizon and Witcher 3 are available now, with The Last Of Us coming soon).

Play As Bowsette In Super Mario 64

Someone paid modding mastermind Kaze Emanuar to build a playable Bowsette in Super Mario 64, and he duly obliged. It’s not just a visual gag, she’s also got a permanent fire-throwing ability. His indifferent “Someone paid me to do this shit” is almost as good as the mod itself. While the creation of the mod…

Thanks Bunches

Timofey Stepanov is an artist from Russia who has worked on games like Zera You can see more of Timofey’s work at his ArtStation page

FIFA 19 vs PES 2019: Which Is Better?

Will somebody please put Pro Evolution Soccer out of its misery. I started reviewing these two games together all the way back in 2012 because I felt that this rivalry, the last remaining true contest in all of sports gaming, deserved its own unique look at how each title shaped up. It was also because…

“Video Games” Was On Jeopardy Tonight, And It Did Not Go Well

There’s a reason the three contestants left the category until last. Here’s some video: To be fair, “Halo” wasn’t that far off, and I always thought Joust had you flying on fictional ostrich-like animals, not actual ostriches

The Art Of Telltale Games

The closure of Telltale this week brings an end to over a decade of adventure game development that touched on everything from Back to the Future to Bone to Monkey Island to Batman to Game of Thrones I thought tonight, then, we could look back at a bunch of the art that went into some…

Our Favorite Cosplay Photos From Oz Comic-Con

Photographer Prasanna Welangoda, who we last saw covering the Sri Lanka Comic Con, has been in Australia recently, and was able to get some shots from Oz Comic-Con’s Brisbane show last weekend. I’d love to add as many credits here as possible, so if you know (or are!) any of the cosplayers below, get in…

New Darth Vader Game Is Coming To Oculus VR [Update]

Vader Immortal is a new series of virtual reality games coming to the just-announced Oculus Quest headset. Here’s the trailer: Not much to go on there, other than the fact it looks like you’re playing as some scmuck who gets kidnapped by Darth Vader then forced into some kind of Indentured Sith Apprenticeship Scheme. The…

Pokémon Stars At Milan Fashion Week

Fashion/streetwear label GCDS had a show at Milan Fashion Week a couple of days ago, and Pokémon was all over it. Both the mens and womens spring/summer line for 2018/19 featured Pokémon designs, from knitted sweaters for the guys: To boots: To full-blown Pikachu cosplay: And they weren’t the only ones! Jeremy Scott’s show had…

Sony Is Finally Allowing Cross-Play On The PS4 [Update]

Having resisted for so long, Sonyis finally giving in and allowing cross-play on the PS4 “for select third party content”, meaning PlayStation 4 owners will soon get to play the same game against people on competing consoles. In a blog post, Sony say: Following a comprehensive evaluation process, SIE has identified a path toward supporting…

X018—a “global celebration of all things Xbox”—will be held in Mexico City on November 10-11. There’ll be thousands of fans in attendance, but announcements will be streamed online as well.

Here, A Bowsette Amiibo, I Hope You’re All Happy

Nintendo has of course released official Peach Amiibo. But it’s up to people like GandaKristo turn them into something fans truly want The custom Amiibo creator extraordinaire has created the masterpiece you see here. And the back: Perfection. We’vefeatured her work here before, but in the time since our last showcase and this she’s also…

Scrabble Adds 300 New Words, Like “Sheeple” And “OK”

Four years after its last update, the official Merriam-Webster Scrabble Dictionary is having around 300 new words added to the ranks. AsAP reports, 20 of those start with Q, like “Qapik”, which is “a monetary unit of Azerbaijan, equal to 1/100 of the Azerbaijani manat”. Also added are some Asian culinary treasures, like “bibimbap” and…

Xbox One Getting Mouse + Keyboard Support

FPS games (and…strategy games?) are about to get a lot more precise on the Xbox One, with the announcement today that Microsoft is “enabling mouse and keyboard support on Xbox One for select Xbox Insiders in the coming weeks.” It’s a game-by-game thing, with developers free to choose whether they implement the added compatibility or…

Telltale Says “Potential Partners” Could Finish The Walking Dead

The demise of Telltale has left the end of their flagship series The Walking Dead up in the air, but a statement from what’s left of the company tonight suggests there are a few options left on the table to get the game’s story wrapped up. While that’s enough to give fans some hope that…

Once Upon A Time…

Gray Rogers used to be an artist at Telltale, where he worked on series like Game of Thrones, Batman and The Wolf Among Us You can see more of Gray’s work at his ArtStation page

Football Fans Throw Controllers Onto Field In Protest Against Esports

A football game in the Swiss league was halted on Sunday when fans threw tennis balls—and control pads, some emblazoned with the words “FUCK ESPORTS”—onto the field. As the Associated Press reports (via Eurogamer), the Young Boys vs Basel game in the Swiss Super League was held up for around two minutes while stewards cleared…

New Death Stranding Trailer Stars A Very Golden Troy Baker

Kojima Productions closed out this year’s Tokyo Game Show with a Death Stranding presentation, complete with a short new trailer starring Troy Baker and his very expensive mask.