Luke Plunkett

If you like your fighting games traditional, you should check out Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm, which came out on Steam last week. It’s made by former King of Fighters devs and artists, having been successfully crowd-funded back in 2013.

Street Fighter II’s Soundtrack Is Getting A Very Fancy Re-Release

Via Tiny Cartridge, Brave Wave Productions have started work on a collection of game soundtracks called the Generation Series. The idea is to take the original soundtracks to classic games, work with experts and the musicians who composed them, remaster them and sell them in sweet new packaging. The first soundtrack to be released in…

Five Nights At Freddy’s 4, The First Trailer

Following the game’s release date change earlier today, here’s the first trailer for Five Nights At Freddy’s 4, now due in August.

The 1938 Aircraft That Came From The Future

In 1938, with dreams of taking out one of Europe’s most prestigious air races, Ettore Bugatti—yes, the car guy—and Belgian engineer Louis de Monge got to work designing an aircraft like nothing the world had ever seen before. With one eye on using the aircraft’s engines as marketing for Bugatti’s automobile business (much like modern…

GTAV On PC Gets Slower, Mod Protection Blamed

Ever since the release of Grand Theft Auto V’s latest update, Ill Gotten Gains Part 2, users on PC have found that the game’s performance has taken a hit. There may be a reason for that. The creators of the LSPDFR (Los Santos Police Department First Response) mods for the game claimthat the performance issues…

The Video Game Community Pays Tribute To Satoru Iwata

Satoru Iwata wasn’t just a successful president of Nintendo, he was one of the most popular public figures in video games. Following his sad passing over the weekend, notable members of the industry (and beyond) have been paying tribute. The first Tweet below shows the flags at Nintendo’s HQ being flown at half-mast. Reggie Fils-Aime,…

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Dies At 55

Nintendo has just issued a short statement announcing that president Satoru Iwata has passed away at the age of 55. The statementreads: Nintendo Co., Ltd. deeply regrets to announce that President Satoru Iwata passed away on July 11, 2015 due to a bile duct growth. Iwata was forced to skip last year’s E3 due to…

Unseen64, the best resource on the internet for information on cancelled/unreleased video games, is putting together a book. It’ll be released next year, but you can help out now here(people donating $25 a month for two months will get a copy).

Game Developers Can Be Sexy Too, You Know

For the third year running, a bunch of prominent (male) developers will be stripping off and getting sexy for a calendar, which you can hang on a wall and use as a shrine to shirtless objectification. I hope your eyeballs are ready. The 2016 calendar will feature devs from BioWare, 343, Riot, Double-Fine, Naughty Dog…

Sure, there were loads of “better” outfits on show at this year’s Comic-Con, but this is still my favourite. If anyone knows who it is, let us know!

Twitch Actually Beat Metal Gear

When Twitch users first began playing Metal Gear Ghost Babel, it was a disaster, and I said as much. It’s time to eat humble pie, though, because in the days since they’ve cleaned up their act and not only progressed through the game, they beat the damn thing Maybe a more “serious” core of players…

comic-con sucks.

Video Of New Hitman Game Leaks

We haven’t seen much of the new Hitman game, which is having a kinda weird digital launch. Until something more official turns up, then, here’s a bunch of footage from a very rough version of the game. The footage’s label says it’s from an “alpha” build, in case you couldn’t work that out from the…

AJ de Ocampo was at the Japan Expo in Paris the other day, and put together these great videos showcasing some of the best cosplay on the continent.

A Different Take On “Medieval” Africa

Sebastian Gromann is a concept artist who works at Karakter, a German studio whose Game of Thrones stuff we’ve featured here before The African images you see below are from his personal project called Big Five, which imagines a world where medieval Portugese settlers land in Ghana and change the course of history. You can…

Girlfriend Drugged So Man Can Keep Playing Video Games

A 23 year-old man has been fined by a German court after drugging his girlfriend so that he could…play some more video games with a friend. The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung report (via The Local) that the unnamed man committed the crime last year, when his girlfriend arrived home late to find him playing console games…

What Microsoft’s HoloLens Tech Might Actually Look Like

Microsoft’s HoloLens tech is impressive, but it’s hard to get across what it looks like to people who aren’t wearing the glasses when they’re not, well, wearing the glasses. So the company whipped up this demo video to help. It’s a bullshot in motion, sure, but it does get the general point across: this isn’t…

Sweet N64 Table Has N64 Inside Table

Considering my only memories of playing the N64 were of playing in large groups and eating a ton of shitty food, this custom console build seems very practical. It sees an N64 stuck inside a table, with the controller leads built in under the surface of the wood so that there’s no tangling. This also…

This is like the Platinum Trophy of Instagram cosplay…

Street Fighter’s Ken Has Been Redesigned

Capcom normally keeps things pretty traditional when it comes to Street Fighter’s classic roster. Characters like Ryu and Chun-Li have barely changed since their debuts in the 80s and 90s respectively. But Ken, well, Ken is now different Finally taking the chance to make him more than just a palette-swapped Ryu, Ken now has a…