Luke Plunkett

Facebook Went Down, FIVE People Called 911

Facebook went down for a little bit on Monday, which for most people was a slight inconvenience. Others, however, lost their shit a little. CBS San Francisco report that shortly after the service stopped working, not one, not two, but FIVE PEOPLE called 911. “Our lines are [sic] dedicated to handle life and death calls,…

Giant Transport Has Junk In Its Trunk

Alex Ichim is a Romanian concept artist who has worked for companies like Gameloft. His specialty is large, killer machines. You can see more of Alex’s art at his Deviantartpage. 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”…

But What Do Video Games SMELL Like?

Aside from the gunsmoke and dirt and filtered air and sweat everywhere, I mean. Artist AJ Hateley thinks she has an answer, at least when it comes to the scent of some famous game characters and places. So she’s made this range of candles, designed to give off the smell of the place/person in question.…

Corrupt Cops: The Video Game

This Is The Police is a game about being a cop. A crooked one, who instead of hitting the streets and fighting crime is hitting the streets and trying to make as much dirty money as he can. You play a retiring police chief who, with retirement coming up, is fed up with playing by…

Game Sued For Featuring An American Hero, Dead For 69 Years

General George S. Patton was one of America’s great heroes of the Second World War. He died in December, 1945. You’d think both of those things combined would make it OK for him to star in a video game, but nope. An upcoming strategy game, called Legends of War: Patton, has been sued by a…

How League Of Legends Is Using Your Brain To Stop You Being An Asshole

There’s a problem with jerk players in League of Legends, and in attempt to curb this Riot is doing more than just banning people. They’re using hard science to get inside your head and make you a nicer human being. In this great piece by science journalist Jeremy Hsu we get a look at some…

A Week Of Hate Tweets Sent To Anita Sarkeesian

Twitter is not the nicest place on the internet at the best of times, but even allowing for that, some people receive more abuse than others. A lot more. Anita Sarkeesian, host of the Feminist Frequency series (which explores how women are depicted in video games), hasshared on her blog a snapshot of her online…

Big Hero 6’s Hiro Hamada. Cosplay by liui-aquino, photo by Razrig

Ranger is Calibre, costume & rifle by JayCosplay, photo by Charmaine Morgan (via Cosplay Blog)

The Seedy Side Of The Star Wars Universe

Gustavo Mendonca is an artist who has recently worked on stuff like Halo 5. We sawhis (sadly) abandoned work on Star Wars 1313 back in 2013, but today we’ll be looking at his whole portfolio, including some newer Star Wars stuff (though it’s for other material, not 1313). You can see more of Gustavo’s art…

Australia Makes Civ V History

A year after we firstgot to play the mod that brought a playable Australia to Civ V, the team behind it has beefed it up to look just like one of the game’s “proper” civs. Normally, when a mod introduces a new leader to the game, the leader screen — which for official Civs is…

Skyrim Disguises Let You Walk Around Doing Whatever

Here’s a cool thing: a new mod for Skyrim lets you wear armour and outfits as a full-blown disguise, allowing you to swap sides and trick NPCs across the game world. The mod is called Master of Disguise, and lets you “Suit up as a Dark Brotherhood assassin, a Madman of the Reach, or even…

The Best Anime Series On Netflix

Yes, there are a bunch of older classics on the streaming service, from Trigun to Samurai Champloo. But the best anime on Netflix is something fresher. And it’s not Attack on Titan. Sorry, Attack on Titan fans. That series starts real strong, but its middle is full of so much fat and unnecessary padding that…

That’s a damn fine Wrex. Cosplay by Thoroly-Good, photo by Fluffy Ltd,

Armello hit early access today. I’ve been playing it this afternoon and it’s pretty good! Gorgeous, as expected, but be warned: as advertised, it’s very much a card game, so don’t go into it expecting a more video game-like RPG experience.

PC Game Combines Two Very Unlikely Genres

Starr Mazer is a shmup. Starr Mazer is also a point-and-click adventure game. Which sounds like a nightmare of a combination, but this actually looks cool as hell. It also sounds cool as hell, with a soundtrack that features artists like legendary Capcom composer Manami Matsumae (Mega Man), The Protomen, Alex Mauer and Shovel Knight’s…

Ronin, as you’ll see about three seconds into the above video, is basically Gunpoint vs Mark of the Ninja, a fantasy combination if ever I’ve dreamt one up.

A Gallery Of PC Games Looking Shit Hot

A big, expensive PC can make a video game look beautiful, but not everyone can afford a big, expensive PC. If that’s you, these giant screenshots — which yes, you can use for wallpaper — will have to suffice. These pics come courtesy of NeoGAF’s 2015 PC screenshot thread, where you’ll find images of not…

‘Salty’ Was One Of 2014’s Best Words

And that’s not according to me, that’s according to the American Dialect Society, who earlier this month held their 25th Word of the Year awards. As the Wall Street Journal (via Daily Dot) report, “salty” was named as one of the winners of “Most Likely to Succeed”, a kind of heads-up award for a word…