Luke Plunkett

AI Is Learning How To Build Its Own Video Game Worlds

A team of researchers from the University of Lyon, Purdue and Ubisoft have published a paper showing what may well be the future of creating video game worlds: an AI that is able to construct most of its own 3D landscapes. Similar to Nvidia’s work that is able to conjure its own celebrity mugshots, the…

Guy Builds Robot To Grind (Badly) For Battlefront II Loot Boxes

There are two ways to unlock stuff in Battlefront II. You could pay for it, which sucks, or you could build a sense of pride and accomplishment by constructing a robot to grind progression for you. Lowberg has opted for the latter, whipping up this cute lil’ joke robot that obviously can’t play the game…

Marvel Heroes Developer Gazillion Apparently Lays Off Everyone On Thanksgiving Eve

Gazillion, the studio behind the embattled Marvel Heroes, has apparently been shut down today, with all staff laid off the day before Thanksgiving. As a result the game will also be closing early; originally due to end in December, it’ll now cease operations on Friday. Multipleformer employeeshave taken to Twitter to announce the layoffs, which…

I Miss Far Cry 3

Felicien Nourry is a concept artist at Ubisoft, where he’s worked on games like Watch Dogs, Far Cry 3, Rainbow Six Siege and Assassin’s Creed Unity You can see more of Felicien’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine…

Here’s A Good Look At The New TMNT Arcade Game

Last month,it was announced that there was going to be a new TMNT arcade game, featuring the same kind of four-player co-op that made Konami’s 1989 version an all-time classic. There wasn’t any footage to go along with that announcement, sadly, but there is now. Arcade Heroes managed to capture a ton of footage of…

Hawaii Wants To Fight The ‘Predatory Behavior’ Of Loot Boxes

Here’s Rep. Chris Lee (D) from Hawaii standing in front of a camera and making an announcement about steps being taken to combat the “predatory behavior” of video game publishers, with particular emphasis given to Electronic Arts and its inclusion of loot boxes within Battlefront II And I mean particular emphasis: the video is titled…

The God Of War vs Some Deer

Luke Berliner is a concept artist at Sony Santa Monica, meaning he gets to work on the God of War series. You can see more of Luke’s work 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…

10 Beautiful Screenshots For Your Next Desktop Wallpaper

Hodgedogs, aka Larah Johnson, is a clinical nurse. Born in America but living in Sweden, by day she handles medical matters, but by night she takes some of the best video game screenshots you’ll ever see. The images you’re seeing below weren’t edited or manipulated in Photoshop in any way. Instead, like many other screenshots…

Having been unavailable digitally for years thanks to its licensed music, Mafia is now back on Steam, just a few weeks after it also reappeared on GOG

Bloodborne Enemy Went Undiscovered Until 2017

In 2014, some early Bloodborne footage showed off a big enemy with a flaming hand. It has taken until November 2017—long after fans assumed this beast had simply been cut from the finished product—for that enemy to actually be found within the game. As Moros Nyx shows in the video below, in 2014 a Flaming…

Neverwinter Nights Is Getting An “Enhanced Edition”

Beamdog, a studio made up of many ex-Bioware developers, are releasing an “enhanced” version of classic 2002 RPG Neverwinter Nights. It’s coming for the PC, and while the name might suggest a HD remake, the “enhancements” aren’t anywhere near that extensive, as this trailer shows: Basically, the enhancements are limited to a few pieces of…

Star Wars: Imperial Assault is already one of the besttabletop experiences around, but it looks like the game’s upcoming app release is going to make it even better, allowing for stuff like fog of war and true cooperative play, as the AI takes control of the Empire.

Legendary Nintendo composer Hip Tanaka has released his first full solo album, DjangoIt’s really good You can listen to it below. Via Thumbsticks

That, My Lord, Is A Big-Ass Dragon

Greg Rutkowski is an illustrator and concept artist from Poland who has worked on games like The Witcher 3 and Magic: The Gathering You can see more of Greg’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…

Battlefront II’s Campaign Is Good Star Wars

I know the narrative this game will forever be bound to. I know its problems, and I know the limitations of a Battlefield singleplayer campaign, whether it has lightsabers in it or not. And for the next few minutes, I don’t want to talk about any of those things. I have zero interest in playing…

Here Are Some Alternatives To Loot Boxes

Loot boxes! They’re all anyone can talk about these days. But what if we didn’t have to talk about loot boxes. What if there were other types of boxes we could talk about instead. I wish we could talk about these boxes, and the wonderful secrets they could contain. Hoot Boxes: A box full of…

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has been testing things out in Australia for a little while now, but the game now has an official worldwide release date: November 22 (which is this Wednesday!).

Mother 4, a fan-made sequel for Nintendo’s series that’s been in the works since 2010, isn’t out yet. Its soundtrack, however, is, and you can listen to it here

Everyone Shot First

Helder Almeida is an illustrator and concept artist based in France. You can see more of Helder’s work 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 artists, showcasing the best of…

Streamer Suspended From Twitch For Playing Pokémon Game That Came Out Early In Australia

Australian streamer Mark “Werster” McKenzie received a temporary ban from Twitch last week, because the service said the Pokémon game he was playing was “unauthorised pre-release content”. Even though he’d bought the game from Nintendo’s own store. Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon were released in the US on November 17, but because of time…