Luke Plunkett

Princess Zelda Cosplay Walked Straight Out Of Breath Of The Wild

This Princess Zelda cosplay by LayzeMichelle gets better the closer you look. While the overall look is fantastic, the real killer here is in the details, like how all her accessories (even a Sheikah Slate!) are finished and coloured to match the game’s cel-shaded look. She even made the flowers, which took ten hours to paint,…

If The Mass Effect Games Had Kids

Early in the development of Mass Effect Andromeda, the team’s artists spent a week doing nothing but coming up with cool ideas. One of them that didn’t make it into the final game, but which was at least explored in this art, is having Mass Effect kids running around. Having children in your big open…

Music Clip Uses Video Game Guns For The Tunes

Look, I know that sounds unbearable, but this is very good.

A Tribute To My Indestructible DualShock 3

Back in 2013, I had some very unkind things to say about the DualShock 3’s design. Those points still stand—this is a bad controller for playing video games—but in the years since I’ve grown to appreciate one thing about the DS3: it can take one hell of a beating. I bought my first PlayStation 3…

The Art Of Endless Legend & Endless Space 2

Amplitude are the creators of beautiful (and excellent) strategy games like Endless Legend and Endless Space. Today we’re looking at the work of two of their artists. Which means a lot of the stuff you’re about to see is going to look familiar, only bigger, since most of it is only ever visible in-game as…

These are the top two reviews for Civilization VI on Steam at the moment. I wonder what happened between the 773d and 774th hour to make him think, no, you know what, this is a bad video game.

Here’s A $900 Chun-Li Statue

Pop Culture Shock Collectibles are releasing a Chun-Li statue that comes in three distinct varieties. The cheapest are not cheap by any definition of the word. The three versions are a classic Street Fighter II outfit ($925), her Street Fighter Alpha skin and her “battle dress” from Street Fighter V (both $900). They’ll all be…

Persona 5’s New Game Plus Is Great

I finished Persona 5 a few weeks ago and, unable to get my magical high school friends out of my head, decided I’d jump back in and give its New Game Plus mode a try. It’s not something I normally do with games, but I’m sure glad I did it here. I don’t usually bother…

Röki, An Adventure Game About The Deep Dark Woods

Röki is an upcoming adventure game about a girl who heads out into the wild and runs into a lot more than just some deer and snow. It’s the product of Polygon Treehouse, a new studio founded by two former art directors at Guerrilla Cambridge. The game is due out in 2018. While the stills…

Only 90s kids will remember Mega Man’s nightmarish mascot visage. From Blake J Harris’ book Console Wars, via VideoGameArt&Tidbits

Hot Cartridge Art For Nintendo Games That Do Not Exist

Oh hey, it’s time for Famicase, an annual exhibition held at Japanese indie games store Meteor which invites artists from around the world to design Famicom cartridges for titles that do not actually exist, but maybe should. You can see a range of highlights below. Note that the last one, a homage to Sega’s pissing…

Let’s Appreciate This Fine Video Game Hair

Johan Lithvall is a character artist at Starbreeze who specialises in hair. Which sounds crazy, until you take a moment to appreciate just how much hair a modern video game character has, and how good it looks blowing in the breeze. Lithvall got to work with Guerrilla on Horizon Zero Dawn, which means he’s one…

Wonder Woman Cosplay Is Here To Save The Day

This is Panteronaas the new DC’s cinematic take on Wonder Woman. Photos by GK Studios

Diego Maradona And Konami Are Now Best Friends

What a difference a couple of months makes. In March, football legend Diego Maradonawanted to sue Konami for including a digital version of himself in PES 2017 without his permission. Now, in May, he’s signed on to become an ambassador for the series. El Eco reportsthat the agreement comes after an out-of-court settlement, in which…

DOTA 2 Is Getting A Co-op Campaign With A Story

DOTA 2, usually a video game about saying mean things to other humans over the internet, is embracing the spirit of togetherness later this year with the release of a series of co-op story missions, part of a campaign called Siltbreaker. Anyone owning a 2017 Battle Pass will be given access to the campaign, which…

In case you need some practice before throwing actual video game controllers, Prey has you covered. It took me half an hour to leave the game’s opening area because of this.

The Long Dark is an excellent sandbox survival game, but its promised story mode has been a long time coming. The first two of five episodes will finally be out in August, and here’s a trailer for them.

Civilization VI Offers Free Stuff Because Of Currency Rip-Offs

I have seen many reasons given by major publishers for the distribution of free content, but international currency discrepancies is a new one. Yet that’s what is happening with Civilization VI, with 2K announcing a whole range of new stuff that’s going to be given away free to owners of the game’s Digital Deluxe edition.…

Korean Politician Uses Overwatch Video On The Campaign Trail

Sim Sang-jung is a politician currently running for President in the wake of South Korea’s disastrous corruption scandal. She (or at least someone on her campaign team) knows that a good way to reach out to the kids is with Overwatch Play of the Game videos, in which her kills are political owns. Thanks Peter!

18 Years Later, Germany Gets An Uncensored Version Of Half-Life

The Half-Life that was released in Germany in 1998 was a little different. Instead of marines there were robots, and instead of dying horribly the scientists would just kind of sit down and be sad. Well chin up lads, in 2017 Germany’s Half-Life is now as human and violent as everyone else’s. An official update…