Luke Plunkett

Unreleased Akira Game Found For The Game Boy

There has never been a good Akira game. There have been bad ones, however, and more interestingly, there have been cancelled ones like this Game Boy effort, the remains of which were recently bought by a video game collector and are somewhat playable. Patrick Scott Patterson managed to get his hands on not one but…

Building Some Of The Biggest Things In Video Games

EVE Online’s Citadels are some of the biggest, most impressive objects in all of video games, some of them designed to be 150km tall. Which presented quite a challenge for the people who actually had to design them. One of those people is artist Pavel Savchuk, who has shared some of his early work creating…

Guy Steals $1 Million From Work, Spends It On Bad Video Game

Kevin Lee Co, a 45 year-old man from Rocklin, California, pled guilty to charges of wire fraud and money laundering, having been caught stealing $4.8 million from his employer between 2008 and 2015. Some of which he spent rather poorly. Co, who used to work in the accounting department of Holt of California before being…

Can a game be too British? Turns out, no. Not yet, anyway. This is Her Majesty’s Special Planetary Investigative Force For Inhabiting New Galaxies, or Her Majesty’s SPIFFING, an upcoming adventure game for the PC, Mac, XB1 and PS4.

When You Gotta Fight A Space Battle At 12 Then Hit The Beach At 3

Ben Nicholas is an artist who has worked for companies like Ubisoft, Adidas, 343 Studios (Halo) and Creative Assembly (Total War, Alien: Isolation). There’s a ton of amazing stuff here, but the Chris FOss-like starships at the top are just the best You can see more of Ben’s work at his ArtStation page To see…

A Beautiful Tribute To Racing Games (Using A Racing Game)

While at first glance these appear to be famous promotional images for classic racing games, they’re actually just a bunch of very well-staged Forza Horizon 3 screenshots. Made by EYui, you’ll probably recognize more than a few, whether you remember a game’s box art or an old ad in a magazine from the PS2 days.…

Rocket League Has A Use For The Macbook’s New Touch Bar

The next time you conclude that the Macbook’s new Touch Bar is only good for Apple commercials and Doom videos, remember that someone is using it for snappy Rocket League text chat. DemiPixel is the one working the macros, using a piece of software that lets you customise your Touch Bar’s behaviour. It…looks about as…

No One Can Hide From This Widowmaker Cosplay’s Sights

The only thing better than Overwatch cosplay is Overwatch skin cosplay This Huntress Widowmaker skin is by Moth Child, and is just fantastic. Photos byThe Nerdy Monkey

New Book Compares Earthbound With Mother 2 [UPDATED]

Clyde Mandelin, a professional translator who runs the excellent Legends of Localization, has released a new book entirely about quirks and cool little features found in Earthbound, aka Mother 2 It’s the second book he’s done with Fangamer. It’s an extremely in-depth comparison of the Japanese and English-language versions of the game, showing where their…

Judy Hopps Would Kick Gandhi’s Ass

This isn’t a screenshot from a functional game of Civilization V, thereare modsat workbehind the scenes to capture this image. But the idea of leading Zootopia’s animals from their original “savage” condition into the film’s more, ahem, civilized state would make for a great Civ mod.

2016’s Most Popular Game Trailers, According To YouTube

As it does every December, Google is in the process of posting some data-filled 2016 recaps. One that’s got our interest is YouTube’s official“top ten” of video game trailers for the year, ranked according to views. Some entries, like #1, will not surprise you. Others, like the Clash games, will…probably not surprise you either. One…

Shadow Tactics Is A Stealth Renaissance

1998's Commandos was a long time ago, but the genre is in safe hands

Some Very Good Dark Souls Cosplay

This is Aussie cosplayer Yeliz(whose work we featured earlier in the year) with one heck of an Artorias outfit. Look at the detail on it! The damage, the chainmail, it’s incredible. She made the whole costume herself, while the sword is by Destroyer Props Photos by SLDixon Photography and HoungT Costography

What An Amazing Photo Of The Nürburgring And…Oh

Piotr Tata is a 3D artist working at Platige, a Polish studio that has done visual work for stuff like Watch Dogs 2, Final Fantasy XV, Hitman and Prey Platige are also working on that cool cartoon Privisa we showed you earlier this year You can see more of Piotr’s work at his ArtStation page…

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Sonic The Hedgehog’s Fancy Coffee Table Art Book

To mark Sonic’s 25th anniversary, art house Cook & Becker are releasing this big art book collecting all kinds of concept and promotional images from the series’ history. It looks a lot nicer than you’d think, given how shiny and gross the series’ art design has gotten over the years, wisely opting to cover the…

Dude Recreates 28 Of The World’s Best Roller Coasters In Planet Coaster

In the real world, Joey Designs works as an architect. In Planet Coaster, though, he’s busy recreating some of the world’s biggest/best actual roller coasters for anyone who wants to use them in their park. As Motherboard report, while the game’s Steam Workshop is full of building homages to Disney, Star Wars and Universal Studios,…

Will Ferrell Starring In Movie About Esports

Will Ferrell is making a movie about esports. ESPN says it “will have similarities with the role he had in Talladega Nights”. His schtick, as exciting and unexpected as you may find this, will be that he’s an old dude playing in competitions where nobody else is over the age of 30, and esports powerhouses…

The Art Of Battlefield 1

Despite being set in one of the darkest periods of human history, Battlefield 1 is a beautiful video game, matching the grim browns of trench warfare with some of the most striking weather and landscapes we’ve ever seen. It’s a pleasure, then, to highlight the work of some of the artists involved in concept and…

No Army Has Ever Breached The Deeping Wall

As I said in my review, Civ VI is a game that allows for a nice degree of urban planning. Or, with the use of a wonder and an army of archers, one hell of a stronghold.