Luke Plunkett

Praise The Sun, Sir Samus Of Metroidia

This is sithodahbringing a little Dark Souls to his Metroid cosplay.

Pokémon Go’s Battery Saving Mode Is Coming Back To iOS

One of the more puzzling decisions made recently in Pokémon Go was the removal of the game’s handy battery saving mode for iOS users. Turns out there was a very good reason for that: it was busted. Niantic have said today “We had removed this feature as several users were experiencing it to be buggy,…

Every Xbox One S Has A Tiny Master Chief Inside

Look at him. Cute as a button. Just don’t go trying to find him on yours, if you ever decide to pick one of these things up. That’s because, just like Sony’s nice little PlayStation screws, Master Chief is inside the computer He was discovered in this teardown of the new console by Ifixit, etched…

The Best Console Commercials Of All Time

Trailers for video games are a weird beast, as misleading as they can be esoteric. Free from the burden of trying to directly sell you a piece of art, commercials for video game hardware are often a lot more fun. While most console sales are (surely) made through stuff like company loyalty, word of mouth,…

Eat A Snickers

Kevin Hong is an artist from NYC who most recently did some work for Miyamori, an upcoming RPG set in a small town in Japan. (That top gif isn’t from Miyamori…it’s the piece below with the girl walking up the steps. The gif up top is from RPG Indivisible.) You can see more of Kevin’s…

[New Warhammer 40K Game Announcement]

There aretoo many damn Warhammer games. Anyway, here’s one more, and it actually looks OK. It’s called Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach, and it’s a straight-up turn-based tactics experience. Classic 40K, basically, only without the painting. It stars Space Wolves, which is awesome. Also promising is that it’s a Slitherine joint, the same publishers behind games…

Overwatch, Hearthstone Knocked Offline By DDoS Attack (Update: Fixed)

Looks like some banned Overwatch players might be reacting a little more poorly than we’d first thought, with a DDoS attack knocking the game—and by extension a lot of other Blizzard titles—out of service this afternoon. UPDATE: Fixed: Original story continues below: It started with login issues: Then: And: Blizzard has since said that “Our…

EA’s FIFA series used to do indoor and street soccer. It doesn’t anymore, so into that void comes indie effort Metris Soccer, which is out on PC on August 24.

Surprise, Telltale’s New Batman Game Is Busted On PC

The new Batman series from adventure game specialists Telltale starts out OK, but in technical terms—at least on PC—the game is a mess. At time of posting the game’s Steam reviews are a constant stream of complaints, users upset at everything from control woes to game-breaking bugs to performance lags. Here are some of the…

When Catching Every Pokémon Is Interrupted By A Turkish Military Coup

Aras Scimemi has caught all 145 Pokémon currently available in Pokémon Go. He’s not the first to do so, but the story of how he got them is a little more harrowing than others. A 20 year-old computer science student at the University of Virginia, Scimemi started playing Pokémon Go as soon as it was…

Yo Bro Is It Safe Down There In The Woods? Yeah Man It’s Cool.

Note: that’s not my headline. That’s the actual name of this piece, by Serbian concept artist and illustrator Tomislav Jagnjic. You can see more of Tomislav’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…

This is KenJu, an unreleased arcade game from 2005 that had been thought lost. Until collector ShouTime got his hands on it You can read more about KenJu’s brief, early historyat Arcade Heroes

Tiny Man, Or Giant Cliff?

Daniel Schmelling is an artist from Germany who has worked across video games, books and graphic design. You can see more of Daniel’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 Art is a celebration of the…

Disney Princesses As Disney Princesses

Not dudes. Not Game of Thrones characters. Not a pile of rocks. Just…princesses. What a novel concept. Who knows if it will ever catch on. Photos by Saffels. Cosplay by Traci Hines (Ariel), Courtoon (Cindarella, Rapunzel), LifeofShel (Snow White & Anna), Hendo Art (Pocahontas) and Maid of Might Cosplay (Elsa). If you dig what you…

Leo Camacho brings that Cowboy Bebop swagger. You can see more of Leo’s cosplay at his Facebook page

Cosplayer Hired To Make Prop For New Ghostbusters Movie

When the team behind the new Ghostbusters movie needed something for the movie made within a week, they turned to cosplayer and props maker Shawn Thorsson to get it done. That something was the silver ghost hood ornament found on Ecto-1, which actually gets some pretty prominent screen time. You’d think that because of that…

Branching Paths, a documentary about Japan’s indie development scene, is now available on Steam

Some Of Comic-Con 2016’s Best Cosplay

Now that 2016’s San Diego Comic-Con is in the books, it’s time to look back at what’s probably cosplay’s biggest event of the year. Because it’s so big, and because posting an image gallery on a website couldn’t hope to include even a fraction of those present, here’s a 7-minute video instead. It was shot…

Good evening. Here is a Persona 5 combat trailer. If there’s a cooler UI out there, I haven’t seen it.