Luke Plunkett

New Sega Book (For Adults) Has Pop-Ups

Specialist publisher Read-Only Memory, the team behind A+ books like the Sega Genesis Collected Works, are trying something different. Instead of releasing another coffee table book about video games, they’re releasing a coffee table book about video games that also has cardboard pop-ups of old Sega arcade cabinets. The book is called SEGA Arcade: Pop-Up…

The Best Cosplay From Anime Expo, The Hottest Show Of 2018

Anime Expo is one of the biggest nerd shows of the year, but this year it was also the hottest. Literally. Held between July 5-8 in LA, temperatures soared during the con to reach well over 100 degrees, which wreaked havoc with cosplayers and attendees alike. For anyone just visiting the show, those are gross…

A Two-Faced Opponent

Elias Ravanetti is an artist and illustrator from Italy. You can see more of Elias’ work—he’s got a particular affinity for creature design—at his ArtStation page Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal portfolios. If you’re in the business and have…

Giant Mech Fighting Game Will Crush Cities Underfoot

Override: Mech City Brawl is a game with two hooks: one, you’re controlling a huge mech in a fight against other huge mechs, and two, in true Tokusatsu fashion, the buildings underneath those mechs are gonna get trashed There’s both online and local play, as well as a singleplayer campaign. However, the most interesting mode…

In 2018, A PC Game Is Being Made In DOS

MS-DOS, the text-based operating system people used to use before Windows took over the planet, was how PC games were played in ancient times. It’s been dead for decades, but one developer figures 2018 is as good a time as any to make a brand new game for it. Having raised $100,000 in a Kickstarter,…

Mapmaker, A Board Game About Gerrymandering And How Terrible It Is

Gerrymandering—“a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries”—is a problem in a lot of places, but few are as badly affected as the USA. So a group of young Texans decided to make a board game about it to highlight the issue. The Houston Chronicle…

This is Roof Rage, a platform fighter (see: Smash Bros.) that supports up to eight players battling each other locally. There’s also 1v1 online play, and fights against bots. It’s currently in Early Access

Fortnite is fun, but Forge Labs figured it’d be funner if they added some Halo to the game. So they went and built Halo 2’s classic Lockout map in Playground.

Boss Fight

Pedro Krüger Garcia is a concept artist and illustrator from Brazil. You can see more of Pedro’s work at his ArtStation page Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal portfolios. If you’re in the business and have some concept, environment, promotional…

Red Faction: Guerrilla Deserved Better

Red Faction: Guerilla was released in 2009. Now, in 2018, it’s back with a re-release, and playing through it again has been a melancholy experience. I first played the game at release on an Xbox 360, because that’s how I played games back then before everything was released on Steam. At the time, I remember…

Please Don’t Ever Nerf These Custom Overwatch Nikes

When reader Cong Cao wanted to get his girlfriend Mavis a birthday present this year, he skipped the whole “buy her a corny gift” angle and went straight to the heart. Because she’s a big Overwatch fan, and of D.Va in particular, he decided to get her something related to the game and character. But…

Some excellent My Hero Academia cosplay from nickrod99

Always Two, There Are

Rong Chen is an artist from China. You can see more of Chen’s work at his ArtStation page Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal portfolios. If you’re in the business and have some concept, environment, promotional or character art you’d…

God Bless Nintendo Switch Skins

The Nintendo Switch’s docked design isn’t just practical, it’s also perfect for skin manufacturers (and Nintendo themselves) to have some fun with. I have never seen a console dressed as toast. Now that I have, I want more. And a 3DS skinned like a cup of tea to go next to it. The same company…

New Warhammer 40K Game Is All War, No Talk

There are, at last count, 1,537,284 Warhammer games on the market, and yet somehow none of them have been in the 4X genre. So hi there, Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War It’s tough to truly innovate in this space, since its fundamentals breed similarity, but while Civilization is the most well-known 4X (eXplore,…

*NEW MEME COSPLAY* *ME* *OLD MEME COSPLAY* 

I like cosplay. But as we’ve explored recently, I have a special spot in my heart for meme cosplay Especially when it involves actual quality cosplay! In this case- some Sailor Moon buyer’s remorse. Neptune is tanzoir, Usagi is mathildesommer and Uranus is sophieriis

Canadian producer Murda Beatz just released this Fortnite single. The video is pretty good!

Them’s Fightin’ Words

Vladimir Krisetskiy is a concept artist and illustrator from Russia. You can see more of Vladimir’s work at his ArtStation page Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal portfolios. If you’re in the business and have some concept, environment, promotional or…

Here’s Super Mario 64 Running At 60FPS In Widescreen HD

Mario tinkerer extraordinaire Kaze Emanuar has come up with an improved way to run Mario 64 at a silky-smooth 60FPS, in widescreen. While that sounds like an easy thing to do —just double the frame rate!—doing that speeds up everything (the game originally ran at between 20-30fps), so Kaze had to do some tricks like…

A $175 Statue For Hanzo Mains

Here you go, Hanzo mains. The only statue you’ll ever buy. Out in Q4 this year, he stands 13″/33 cm. Being a statue, he does nothing but stand there, looking very Hanzo. He’s the fourth in a line being released slowly by Blizzard, which already includes Mercy, Widowmaker, Genji and a $450 D.Va.