Luke Plunkett

Mom Honors Pledge, Plays Mario With Son On Wedding Day

As if weddings weren’t sweet enough. When The Toast’s Mallory Ortberg (formerly of Gawker) asked this question last year, she got what turned out to be one half of a reply. The other half came this week, with an update. If they were late, at least they had an awesome excuse. (via nrvalleytime @ NeoGAF)…

Here’s What Assassin’s Creed Rogue Looks Like On PC

Assassin’s Creed Rogue was released in November 2014 and almost immediately forgotten. Which was a shame, since it was pretty good, but also understandable, since Unity was both louder and flashier. Well, the delayed PC release of Rogue is hoping to make up for that. If you’re curious to see how it looks, I’ve recorded…

A Moment Of Appreciation For EVE Online’s Starship Design

It’s widely known to the outside world for its politics, but EVE Online is also a rather pretty video game, especially when it comes to the unique and varied design of its spaceships. Capitalising on this — and, you know, the huge amount of people actually playing the game — Dark Horse are releasing a…

Basement Is Basically Breaking Bad: The Video Game

Basement, an indie strategy game currently in development, is about a “scientist that has been forced to do not exactly legal stuff underground”. You know where this is going. It’s a strategy and management game all about making, then selling, hard drugs. Starting off in a small basement, you’ve got to manage production, hire employees…

Elite: Dangerous now has “Wings”. As in, you and your buddies can team up and fly through the galaxy, sharing map locations, comms and even bonuses for trading. 14 year-old Luke is like “holy shit, finally”. Contact the author at [email protected]

Food for thought.

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Oh, So We’re Gambling With Guns Now, OK

Jamie-lee Lloyd is a character artist at Rockstar North, the developers of the Grand Theft Auto series. As is customary with most Rockstar artists, you won’t be seeing any GTA work here, but what you will be seeing is some A+ work on some very detailed ladies and gentlemen (and some stuff he did pre-Rockstar…

Cop Fired For Making Racist Threats On Xbox Live

What’s dumber than a police officer saying “I get paid to beat up n*****s like you” out loud? Saying it into a microphone where someone else is recording it to put it on the internet. A Deputy from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office has been fired after he was filmed making threats against an opponent…

Cities: Skylines: The Kotaku Review

Cities: Skylines is a game coming in hot. The People want a good city-building game to play, and it’s been a long time since they got one. So there’s a surprising amount of excitement and expectation for Colossal’s attempt at fixing SimCity’s mistakes. Regardless of what you’ve been hoping for, whether you’ve been interested in…

State Of Decay Was Secretly Full Of Penises

You remember zombie game State of Decay? Turns out that at one stage that game was full of dicks. And I’m not talking about the players. XBLAFans spoke with Geoffrey Card — a designer with the game’s developers Undead Labs — at PAX, and he revealed that a bunch of contractors working on the game…

Surely The Best Way To Play Mario Party

Step 1: get a sweet setup like this. Step 2: drink. Step 3: love/hate your friends to death. The custom N64 here (made by Zoki64) is nice, but it’s the controllers that really make it. One for each character, with the added bonus that you can also use them for Mario Kart! (via it 8-bit)

What If We Could Control The Aliens?

Artist Marek Okon recently had an idea: what if instead of trying to shoot the Aliens, we could control them instead? It’s a premise that’s actually been explored in the universe’s fiction before, but that certainly didn’t look as cool as this concept does. You could also file this under: Genuinely Useful/Massively Dangerous Applications For…

World’s Best Peter Griffin Cosplayer Tries A Mario Speedrun

That sounds like something a headline generator would come up with, but I promise you, this is a real thing that happened. In this clip, Robert Franzese (aka Real Life Peter Griffin) takes on Super Mario Bros. and beats it in under an hour. Slow by professionalspeedrunner standards, impossibly fast by Peter Griffin standards. Weird…

Report: There’s Another New Ghostbusters Movie, Starring Dudes

Deadline is reportingthat, in addition to releasing a Ghostbusters movie starring a team of women, Sony will also be making one starring a bunch of men. Just in case you ever wanted to see what it would be like if some guys wanted to bust some ghosts for a change. This movie will reportedly be…

Awesome Fighting Game Let You Cut Other Player’s Heads Off

You can keep Street Fighter, Tekken, King of Fighters and Dead or Alive. My favourite fighting game pre-dates every single one of them, starred large men in furry underpants, and rather than lasting minutes could, if you knew your moves, be over in seconds. Because you weren’t using fists. You were using giant swords. Sure,…

Oh, Hey Gwen, Didn’t See You There

Julio Cesar is an artist and illustrator working out of Fortaleza, Brazil. You can see more of Julio’s work at his personal site, DeviantArtand ArtStationgalleries. 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.…

Mod Turns Halo Into Serious Military Sim

I’m sure there are Halo fans out there who are super into the universe but feel like the actual combat of the series is too, I don’t know, comical. This mod for ArmA III will fix that for you and then some. It’s looking to take ArmA — normally a very serious military simulation set…

The Ultimate Assassin’s Creed Cosplay

Ezio, is that you? Superstar cosplayer Leon Chiro is no strangerto top-shelf Assassin’s Creed cosplay, but this latest venture is easily his best yet. Not just for the costume — though it is a fantastic replica of Ezio’s outfit — but for the complete package. Chiro (who is Italian) went and shot on location in…

PC Game Adds “Women In History” DLC

Europa Universalis IV is a verygood video game, but there are always ways to make it a little better. In this case, by adding some DLC that’s not only poignant, but makes the game a little more realistic as well. As it stands, EUIV — a game which spans centuries of European history, from the…