Luke Plunkett

Valve Cancels Paid Mods For Skyrim

Well, that was fast. Less than a week after implementingthe arrangement, Valve and Bethesda have decidedto cancel their paid mods scheme for Skyrim, and issue refunds to anyone who paid for one. The deal, which would allow mod creators to sell their previously-free work on Steam (with Valve and Bethesda taking 75% of the cut),…

RIP Francis Tsai

Acclaimed concept artist Francis Tsai, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2010, passed away earlier today. Our thoughts are with his wife, family and friends. Francis was a supremely talented artist who did work for companies like EA, Rockstar, DC Comics, Eidos and Marvel, as well as releasing his own art book. Even after being…

What The Cast Of Game Of Thrones Did Before Game Of Thrones

They’re famous now for being in Game of Thrones, but what did the cast of HBO’s swords-and-boobs smash do before George RR Martin’s books were adapted? Well, a whole bunch of stuff, some of it terrible, some of it hilarious. This isn’t going to be some IMDB-ish resource; below you’ll simply find one example of…

When Medieval Combat Meets UFC

Let’s say you’re cool with the violence of mixed martial arts, but feel like it’s missing something. The kind of thing you can only really get from two medieval dudes covered in armour beating the shit out of each other with swords. If you’ve suddenly realised that’s you, Russia has you covered. The country’s M-1…

Assassin’s Creed Cosplay, Sans The Assassin

We’ve seen enough Ezio. The world needs more Shay cosplayers, and Italian cosplayer Shivais only too happy to oblige.

Life Is Strange Cosplay!

Remember: you don’t need to cosplay as a character from a blockbusters series. A quaint littleadventure game series is also awesome. Cosplay by LadyxZero, photo by DevilxLady

Please Enjoy These Halo Stabbings

So, yesterday, I posted some animation work and saidwe needed to do more of it here on Fine Art. Tonight, then: more awesome animation work from people who make video games. Up first is Dave Gibson, who worked on Evolve before recently moving to Blizzard: Next up is Will Christiansen, who is currently working on…

Man Executes Computer With 9mm Handgun

Oh, don’t tell me you’ve never wanted to do the same thing. The LA Times reports(via Daily Dot) that Colorado man Lucas Hinch has been given a citation by local cops after taking his PC—which had been giving him blue screens—outside and literally executing it, pumping eight rounds into the side of the computer with…

Why Some Japanese Games Had Such Terrible English

It’s easy to make fun of classic Japanese video games (JRPGs especially) for their poor English, and assume the reason for this was simply one of neglect. Which is kinda true, but there are other reasons behind it as well, and they’re really interesting! In a big interview with Edge magazine last month, American Alexander…

If you were worried that the announcement of Total War: Warhammer (why not Total Warhammer?) is coming at the expense of proper Total War games, Creative Assembly has told PC Gamerthe Warhammer title is being developed by a “completely separate team. The historic thread goes on uninterrupted.” Phew.

Sorry, Yes, Animation Is Also Games Art

You know what, someexceptionsaside, I don’t feature the work of animators nearly enough here on Fine Art. So let’s change that tonight. This is the showreel of Enrico Schoebben, an animator from Germany, and it highlights both his keyframe work and motion-capture editing. Note the heavy presence of TF2 stuff: yes, the Source Filmmaker is…

Destiny Cosplay Looks Snuggly Enough For A Russian Wasteland

rykkeris a cosplayer who is also a big Bungie fan. He’s done some fantastic Halo cosplay in the past, but his latest outfit pays homage to Destiny. Photos by William Tan

You Can’t Play Heists In GTA Online With Randoms

I mean, technically, you can. They’ll invite you, you can accept their invites, and you may then begin a long and difficult sequence of missions with a team of random internet weirdos. You just shouldn’t. I should know, I’ve been trying. Having started a new character on the PC version, and with most of my…

Minecraft’s Rocks Don’t Burn, And Other Geological Lies

Are there kids out there who think the real world actually works like Minecraft? Geoscience Australia, a department of the federal government, seems to think so. So they’ve released a chart that compares the minerals found under the ground in Minecraft to their actual, IRL properties. If you’re old enough to be reading this website,…

Sandstorm Katarina, from League of Legends. Cosplay by nadyasonika, photo by Ignacio Mendoza.

Death From Above

Andy Fisher is an artist who has done work for companies like EA, Dark Horse, Intel and Code Monkeys, along with some comic and illustration stuff as well. You can see more of Andy’s work at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you…

GTA V’s PC Graphics Settings, Compared

We’vebenchmarked GTA V on PC, but if you’re wondering just what kind of difference moving the settings around actually makes, here’s a very helpful comparison video. wiliextreme’s clip goes through everything from texture quality to shadows to MSAA to ambient occlusion, showing the same spot in the game and showcasing just how much better/worse everything…

The Crazy Urban Legend of the Killer Arcade Machine

Let me tell you a story. It involves an arcade game, the CIA, epilepsy, suicide and one of the greatest urban legends in all of video gaming. Long before the internet existed as we know it today, and long before more contemporary hoaxes about creepy video games, came the story of Polybius. It existed in…

We’ve featured both Paul Chadeisson and Strike Vector on Fine Art before, but hoo boy, I couldn’t see this incredible image—done by Paul for the game’s move to Xbox One and PS4—and not share it.

Snatcher, Now On…Virtual Boy?

Snatcher is one of the coolest video games ever made. It also, obviously, never made it to Nintendo’s doomed Virtual Boy, so you’ve got a couple of fans to thank for this unexpected demo of the adventure classic running on the VR system. One of those fans, as outlined in this planetvb forum post (via…