Luke Plunkett

Samus Aran, Reporting For Duty

Here’s cosplayer Dani Buzzini channeling Samus Aran with a suit that not only looks the part, but lights up as well. Photos by Peterson Sim

Resident Evil 7 Is Coming To Nintendo Switch As A Streaming Game

Capcom’s Resident Evil 7 is getting a Switch release in Japan later this week. It’s a weird thing, though; users will only have to install a 45MB game file, while gameplay will be streamed via the cloud. So while it won’t take up much storage space (or cost much, since it’ll be selling for around…

It’s been two years since Overwatch first launched, and as part of the celebration Blizzard made this cute little stop-motion video. It’s like Toy Story, only Reaper is a bigger asshole than Woody ever was.

Animated Dungeons & Dragons Boards Look Like The Future

Paper? Cardboard? Plastic models? That’s some 20th century D&D shit. The adventures of the future look like this. Dynamic Dungeons is a one-man effort to get tabletop gaming looking as good as possible through the use of animated maps. Birds fly overhead, water rolls in, that sort of thing. Here’s a woodland scene, for example,…

Crusader Kings II Is Now A Board Game, So You Can Murder Your Friends In Person

Crusader Kings II, a sprawling PC game with around 17,534 buttons and menus, is coming to tabletops, and has been condensed so much that it’ll be playable in 2-3 hours. Not that this is a bad thing! If I want to spend dozens of hours managing an empire I’ve got the video game for that.…

Broken Nintendo Handhelds Turned Into Beautiful Game Boys

The hinges on old Nintendo DS handhelds were notoriously weak and would often give way, but where most would bee a broken console, modder Joe Bleeps sees an opportunity to salvage the hardware and create something new: the Neon Advance. Because the bottom half of the unit is still intact, and because the older DS…

Some Very 2018 Cosplay

I love this so much. That’s itsvictra with the memeplay, but know that this is not his first attempt at cosplay that is both terrible and incredible at once. Here’s Exodia from Yu-Gi-Oh: And maybe my favourite Smash cosplay of all time:

Paradox’s Next Big Strategy Game Is Set In Rome

Paradox, makers of epics like Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis, have a new grand strategy game coming called Imperator: Rome The debut trailer doesn’t show much (actually it doesn’t show anything), but Paradox fans should know what to expect: granular control over all aspects of your faction, as you “relive the pageantry and challenges of…

Hungry For Tauntaun

Greg Danton is a concept artist who has done work for companies like Microsoft and Relic. You can see more of Greg’s stuff at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game…

Valve Sends Terrible Statue To DOTA 2 Fans, Now Has To Send Another

Last year’s Dota 2 Battle Pass had a reward for anyone reaching level 2000: a physical statue of Baby Roshan. Those pieces are now finally reaching mailboxes, and they’re so bad that Valve has had to apologise and announce that a new version will be made and sent out in its place. Here’s what the…

Halo Is Coming To Arcades

Microsoft just showed off Halo: Fireteam Raven, a lightgun shooter for the arcade that’s set during the events of the first game in the series. It’ll be out this Summer at Dave & Busters.

Watch This Good Lil’ Documentary About Big Japanese Games

This is Ebb & Flow, a 40-minute documentary about the resurgence of Japanese video games that features interviews with people like Katsura Hashino (Persona), Yoko Taro (Nier) and Toshihiro Nagoshi (Yakuza). It’s funny to think back on now, especially given Nintendo’s wild successes during the same time, but during much of the PS3/Xbox 360 generation…

The Queen & The Crone is the next DLC for the excellent Total War: Warhammer 2, and includes “a number of new elite units, quest chains, magic items and skill trees, all centred around Queen Alarielle the Radiant and Crone Hellebron”. It’s out on May 31.

Microsoft Announces New Controller For Gamers With Disabilities

Microsoft has a new control system on the way designed specifically for those with limited mobility, which through a base unit and add-ons will make playing Xbox One games a lot easier for those who might struggle with the current controller. The Xbox Adaptive Controller features a large white base unit, which has a few…

Nothing Is Mightier Than The Sword

Eddie Mendoza is a concept artist at Apple who draws some very cool robots. You can see more of Eddie’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video…

This beautiful thing is a hand-made remake of the classic board game Cathedral, put together by fanSqueazle   .

Dark Souls Cosplay That’s Good Enough To Die For

Here’s a pair of Russian cosplayers, zep-hindle & shion. They’ve not just made some incredible Dark Souls armour, but managed to include a very good and real Sif as well. shion is Ornstein, while zep-hindle is Artorias. Photos are by Nikolay Zharov

Cliff Bleszinski Shares Some Scrapped Game Ideas

Boss Key Productions (Lawbreakers, Radical Heights) co-founder Cliff Bleszinski has been sharing some unfinished game ideas on Twitter today. We don’t normally get to see unrealised game pitches, but with Boss Key now out of business, I guess there was no point sitting on these any longer. Part of the pleasure of running our Fine…

LEGO’s Architecture Series Is Still So Good

I get it, there are lots of adults out there buying lots of LEGO, but for me, the best adult LEGO has always been the company’s fancy architecture series, which now has two very slick new additions. I’ve always loved them because, as much as I adored LEGO growing up, I feel like most of…

STALKER 2 Is Back, Now Aiming For A 2021 Release

STALKER 2 was first announced in 2010. It was practically cancelled in 2012. Now, in 2018, GSC Game World is trying all over again. GSC boss Sergiy Grygorovych has left a small note on his Facebook page saying “Today 15.05.2018 I officially declare: ‘GSC GAME WORLD DEVELOPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2’”. There’s also a link to a…