Luke Plunkett

The Witcher 3’s Wind Is Beautiful

There are a lot of things that keep me coming back to The Witcher 3, but few are as effective—or as quaint—as the game’s wind. Yes, the game looks gorgeous by traditional reckoning. The textures, the lighting, the animation, it’s a good-looking video game by video game standards. But there are a lot of good-looking…

Jet Set Radio Sure Loved Its Graffiti

It's the heart of the game, even more than its skating

And I Would Have Got Away With It Too If It Wasn’t For You Damn *BZZZZTTTT*

Yi Liu is a concept artist from China with a penchant for cyberpunk futures. You can see more of Yi’s art 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…

Oh God This Waluigi Cosplay

This is how Mick Ignis went to Comic Con this year. I will not sleep easily tonight. He had some make-up help from Cig Nuetron, who was looking just as awful/amazing as Wario (while that’s Rannie Rodil as Mario & Luigi’s Princess Shroob):

The Detective Will See You Now

Liana Anatolevich is an artist from Russia. This is some of the most badass stuff we’ve had on Fine Art in a long time. You can see more of Liana’s work at her ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is…

Completing Portal Without Moving The Camera

Here is Imanex with today’s instalment of Video Game Things I Never Even Thought Of But Are Very Impressive Now That I’ve Seen Them This is a complete playthrough of the first Portal game, with the catch that the mouse is not moved once to adjust the camera. What’s cool about this is the absolute…

Civilization VI’s Newest Leader Seems Overpowered

Civilization VI has had a quiet few months, interrupted today by the announcement of the game’s newest leader: Amanitore, a Nubian Queen. She marks the debut of both the person and the faction in the Civilization series, and aside from the expected level of amazing character design and animation present in Amanitore herself, what she…

Pokémon Go’s Next Two Legendaries Are Moltres And Zapdos

Pokémon Go Fest may have been a disaster, but if there was one bright spot to be found in the weekend’s events, it was the unlocking of a couple of Legendary Pokémon for folks to catch. Over the next couple of weeks, there’ll be two more. Niantic announced today that Moltres will be available between…

Dragon Age Cosplay Takes To The Hills

This is Enaylaas Dragon Age’s Cullen Rutherford. No convention shots here: she figured if you’re going to do some Dragon Age cosplay, you’d best find some snowy fantasy landscapes to stand in front of.

Chris Guyot made this series of animated portraits from Overwatch. This looks like the best kids TV show that never was

It’s 2017 And The Witcher 3 Cosplay Keeps Coming

May it never cease. Here’s Prince Arias Blood & Wine’s Orianna, with the video by Milligan Vick

A Spartan And His Very Large Rocket Launcher

Luke Kopycinski is an artist who worked on Halo Wars 2. Specifically, he did a bunch of the game’s cards, the system used to build units in Blitz multiplayer mode 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…

Kingdoms and Castles Is A Very Fun City-Building Game

Kingdoms and Castles isn’t the most challenging or complex city-building game I’ve ever seen, but it is one of the best to just pick up and start playing. The game—which was released on PC earlier this week—randomly generates a small patch of land for you, then asks you to build a lil’ Medieval settlement on…

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The Art Of Strike Vector EX

Strike Vector EX is a dogfighting game that’s fresh out on Steam (it was released on console last year). And it has some of the best art you’ll see on this feature in 2017. EX is actually a re-release of Strike Vector, a game we featured on Fine Art in 2013. This new version came…

A Brutal Recap Of The Very Bad Pokémon Go Fest

So Pokémon Go Fest was a disaster. If you were lucky enough to not be there, and want to catch up on just how awful the whole thing was, this video recap by bobvids will get you up to speed. Spoilers: there is a lot of booing.

Now Here’s Demon’s Souls Running On A PC

In case seeing Persona 5 wasn’t impressive enough, here’s footage of another big PS3 game—Demon’s Souls—being entirely playable on a PC courtesy of an emulator. It’s running through a fresh update of RPCS3, the same emulator that was powering Persona 5 the other day. And while it’s not a perfect emulation—and has some hefty hardware…

Blizzard’s Official Doomfist Cosplay Is Incredible

Blizzard is at the San Diego Comic Con, and as part of their presence they’ve got some official cosplay of the newest Overwatch character, Doomfist. It is, even by Overwatch standards, absolutely fantastic. The company hired Henchmen Studios to create the costume, which took a team of 14 people six weeks to construct. It involved…

Behind The Scenes On A Game Pitch

Tendril is a studio that was hired three years ago by Ubisoft Toronto to help sell a game idea to Ubisoft’s HQ in Paris. That game is Starlink, and their pitch involved all kinds of work, from “preliminary vision” through to concept development, ship design, environments and even a trailer. You can see both the…

Winning A Tough Civilization VI Game Without Firing A Shot

There are few more difficult ways to win Civilization VI than to score a Culture victory (which is kinda busted) on the game’s hardest difficulty setting. Hats off to Tater596, then, for not only pulling it off, but managing to do so without going to war. Figuring that to win with such strict conditions wasn’t…