Luke Plunkett

The Kojima Game That Made You Play In The Sun

Hideo Kojima is famous for being the driving force behind stuff like Metal Gear and Snatcher. But today, we’re going to talk about another of his games: Boktai, a quirky little Game Boy Advance title that asked the player to go outside and get some sun. While that sounds…odd, it was for a very good…

PC Shooter Removes Single Tree From Game, Just For One Guy

A few weeks back, SprayAndPlay made a request that a single tree (pictured) be taken out of Tripwire’s Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, a multiplayer PC shooter released earlier this year. And now, the tree is gone. On the surface, it seems like an odd request. But when you hear the explanation, it starts to make…

Last Of Us Cosplay Went To Chernobyl To Get The Apocalypse Just Right

When Maulisn’t busy being the best damn Witcher cosplayeron the planet, he’s got time to do some stunning Last of Us work. Oh, and head into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone so that the location could look as post-human and apocalyptic as possible. Before you ask, yes, visitors and tourists can be granted brief access to…

OpenRA, the open source project that takes Westwood’s classic RTS games and makes them prettier (and better) on modern systems, has just turned 10. Here’s a new trailer to celebrate.

A Very Detailed Look Inside Finn & Jake’s House From Adventure Time

Max Degtyarev is an artist from Russia who specialises in cutaways, my most sacred of artistic fetishes. One of his latest works is Adventure Time’s Tree Fort, and it brings a ridiculously detailed and realistic vision to the cartoon universe. Below you’ll see not just the full illustration, but some detail shots as well showing…

Huh, Black Mesa Is Still Not Finished

I played Half-Life remake Black Mesa, and really liked it! I also in the intervening years completely forgot that it wasn’t technically finished, since it ended on Earth and not, as the original game did, on the alien planet Xen. That’s because Black Mesa’s developers thought, like the rest of us, that Valve’s ending sequence…

After Three Years, Someone Actually Beat Threes

Oh, you thought Threes was just an endless little time-waster for subway rides and long lines? Turns out you can actually beat the game, a feat accomplished for the first time a mere three years and four months after Threes was first released. Or, to be more precise, as Threes co-creator Greg Wohlwend points out,…

Nice Cosplay, Texas

A-Kon, a convention in Texas that attracts over 30,000 fans, was held between June 8-11 at the Fort Worth Convention Centre. Here’s some of the best cosplay in attendance. Both the video and photos below were shot by Mineralblu, and you can see more shots from A-Kon at his Facebook page

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Overwatch Cosplay, Still Raining From Above

Cosplayer Kara Corvus made this Pharah costume (and rocket launcher) out of EVA Form and Worbla. It’s so good. Photos by Gil Photography.

Chile’s Football Team Did A Nintendo Switch Goal Celebration

Chile’s national football team, reigning South American champions, played Cameroon in the Confederations Cup yesterday, and after scoring what they thought was their first goal (it was later called back for offside) celebrated with a homage to their current Mario Kart obsession. Via Nintenderos and Goal.com, here we can see that some members of the…

Jonathan Sullivan, a member of Madden NFL’s development team, was shot and killed on the weekend. A 23 year-old man is in custody charged with second-degree murder.

Nintendo Fans Need A New Series To Complain About

Nintendo fans have spent years frustrated that the Metroid series, once a pillar of the company’s console lineup, had been left to rot. Now that not one but two new Metroid games are coming, it leaves them/us with an important decision to make: what to complain about next The obvious culprits are out. There’s a…

The Hall Of Ancient Treasures

OK, phew, E3 is pretty much done! Let’s get back to some Fine Art, and we return with a feature on Allison Carl, a freelance illustrator and designer. You can see more of Allison’s work at her personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left…

Studio Ghibli Cosplay Gets The Age Right

Here’s Manuel D’Andrea with some Howl’s Moving Castle cosplay, which features a very special guest: his 85 year-old grandmother dressed as Sophie. Photos by Andrea Aureli

The Xbox Has Brand New Avatars

Remember Microsoft’s Avatars, those wobbly caricatures that danced around the Xbox 360’s dashboard? They’ve been sidelined ever since the release of the Xbox One, but that doesn’t mean the company has given up on them. They’re being overhauled in the Fall, given not just a new look, but loads of new features as well, from…

Virtual Reality Mario Kart Looks Like It Could End Friendships Forever

Namco Bandai’s VR ZONE amusement center in Shinjukudoesn’t just have a Neon Genesis game. It also has virtual reality Mario Kart. And Dragon Ball Z If you’re wondering how/why this is happening, remember that Namco Bandai has released a few arcade versions of Mario Kart, the latest of which—Mario Kart Arcade GP DX, which this…

E3 2017: A Cringe Compilation

Video games do not have the decades of experience that, say, sports has when it comes to live television. So when everyone gets together for an event like E3, the broadcast entertainment you enjoy at home doesn’t always go according to plan. Here, as is becoming tradition, is bigMooney06‘s roundup of those moments when the…

Mod Brings Super Mario Odyssey’s Hat Powers To Super Mario 64

Boy, that was fast. Only a day after Mario’s new bodily-possession-via-hat powers were revealed in Super Mario Odyssey’s E3 trailer, modder Kaze Emanuar has released a download that will let you do the same thing in Super Mario 64 And not just enemies! As you can see, it also works on objects like the birds…

Small Fire Interrupts E3 Spider-Man Panel

Earlier this week, Insomniac were hosting an E3 panel about their new Spider-Man game. The show ended up being postponed, though, when audience members noticed that there was a small fire up on stage blowing smoke across the stage. Turns out that one of the lights above the stage had caught fire, and so all…