Luke Plunkett

Shadow Of The Colossus Cosplay Is Not Screwing Around

Yup, that’s a real horse. I mean, that in itself is not new. We seepeople go to the trouble of using real horses all time in cosplay. But this one is actually being seriously ridden around, which is cool; Wander (cosplayer Rebecka H.T, aka Darkesttears) has around ten years experience with horses, so knows what…

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Not Allowed To Play NES In Prison

Fredrik Neij, one of the founders of The Pirate Bay, was arrestedlast year. He had been planning on spending his time in prison playing video games, but his request to have a NES put in his cell has been knocked back. As Expressen reports(via TorrentFreak), Neij had asked for a retro system so that he…

Drawing Spaceships The Old-Fashioned Way

Jeff Zugale is a concept artist who has been working in and around the video game business for over a decade. Currently at Blind Squirrel Games, he’s also done ad work on series like Call of Duty and Super Mario. He’s currently giving me vivid high school flashbacks with a project where he’s drawing one…

The Best Steam Theme

Sometimes, The Bests covers the big stuff. Other times, like today, it’s the small stuff. Confession: I ask a lot of my platforms and services. I don’t just like them to work well, I like them to look good while doing it. So Steam has forever been in my bad books: it works just fine,…

Giant Pokemon Roams The Deep, Murdering All The Fish

Artist RJ Palmer has been doing the whole “realistic Pokemon” thing for a while now, but it’s usually been a case of “oh wow that’s neat”, not “ahhhhh God I’m never going in the ocean again”. His latest work is the legendary Pokemon Kyogre, who is normally a pretty sleek, futuristic-looking fish, but who is…

OK, so almost everyone in Final Fantasy dresses terribly, but Nick Wanserski at AV Club makes a pretty strong case for Tidus being the absolute worst. Why? The wallet chain is not helping.

GTA V Already (Kinda) Working With The Oculus Rift

It’s not perfect VR, as in this case the headset is simply recreating the mouse/thumbstick view from the regular controls (and not giving you full and proper VR support), but still. This motorbike ride looks like a lot of fun. Falandorn, the video’s uploader, says he managed it using vorpX (a program that converts existing…

2K Australia, a veteran studio that’s worked on everything from Freedom Force to Tribes to BioShock to Borderlands, was shut down today. Kotaku Australia has the story

Read-Only Memory, the guys behind the excellent Sega Mega Drive book from last year, are back with another project. This one’s about the Bitmap Brothers (Speedball, Chaos Engine), and it looks/sounds just as good.

PC Game Officially Runs At 12K Resolution

The idea of 12K (11520×2160 resolution) gaming is nothing new. Even Microsoft has been talking about it for a couple of years now. But it’s one thing to demo it as some pie-in-the-sky ideal of a brighter future, and another for an actual game to officially support the ludicrous resolution at launch. That game is…

Grandmaster Caught Cheating On iPod During Chess Tournament

Gaioz Nigalidze, 25, is Georgia’s current chess champion. He’s also now facing a ban of up to 15 years from the game after being caught cheating during a tournament by looking at an iPod. The Washington Post reports that while competing at the Dubai Open Chess Tournament, Nigalidze kept retreating to the bathroom. The fact…

The 13 Best World War Two Movies

It’s a war that spanned the globe, blew holes across three continents and directly touched the lives of billions, including filmmakers, actors and their crews. So yeah, there have been some pretty good movies made about the Second World War. Many have been terrible, sure, but some have been amazing, worthy of not just being…

EA Is Closing The Only F2P Game I Ever Loved

While most free-to-play games are garbage, regardless of the platform, sometimes one of them sneaks past your defences and actually finds its way into your spare time. Even I, as hostile as I am to the business practice in general, have my weaknesses. One at the moment is Star Wars: Commander, which is a terrible…

Nice Town. It’d Be A Shame If Something Happened To It.

Rhys Griffiths is a freelance concept artist and illustrator from Melbourne. You can see more of Rhys’ work at his personal site and ArtStation page. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner.…

Building Badass Destiny Hand Cannons

Say what you will about Destiny, I think it’s one of the best-looking games in years, with some very cool weapons just lying around for people to cruelly and unfairly pick up. My personal favourite is the hand cannon, because I am a Titan, and that’s just how I like to get shit done. Normally,…

When A Cosplay Rookie Takes Awesome Cosplay Photos

Mario Giancini is a professional photographer who until April 2015 had zero contact with the cosplay scene. Not that you’d know it by looking at these sweet photos. Being a big gamer, and with MegaCon 2015 going down ten minutes away from his house, Giancini went along with his camera and shot the cosplaying attendees.…

PC Case Costs More Than Most PCs

It’s taken three years, but that ridiculously expensive PC case we showed you a while back has finally entered production. And no, it hasn’t had a price cut. Formerly called the MURDERBOX, it’s since been rebranded as something more fitting for an expensive piece of PC hardware: the XFORMA MKII, which has just the right…

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Here’s What GTA V Looks Like On PC

If the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game were a step up from the PS3 and Xbox 360 editions, then consider the PC version a slight step above them. Provided you can run it at its higher settings, anyway. The game helpfully includes its own benchmark test, which aside from helping you test…