Luke Plunkett

Game Of Thrones Subway Map Is A Handy Guide To Westeros Travel

Michael Tyznik, a graphic designer, has built something that could have saved some folks – Arya and The Hound especially – a lot of time and bother. It’s a subway map for the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. I love that not only does it look great, but the lines and stations serve a kind of…

Worlds Collide: Pokemon vs Final Fantasy, Dragon Age vs Mass Effect

Artist Andrew Ryan, who it’s safe to say is a fairly huge BioWare fan, has a portfolio full of amazing images. Images that are a crossover fanfic writer’s dream While many are related to BioWare’s big universes in some manner, like crossing characters between Mass Effect and Dragon Age, there are some outliers, like a…

Lost Akira Game Spotted, But It’s Not Pretty

It’s a shame. For such an awesome manga/film as Akira is, its games have been pretty shoddy. One, however, was so shoddy it was never even released. The storyof this missing game is one that’s eluded folks for some time, but today, we’ve finally got some footage of it (well, the Genesis version at least).…

Gordon Freeman Is A (Relatively) Tiny Murder Machine

Artist Andrew McGee, who did something similarfor Shadow of the Colossus, returns with another “for scale” pic, this time for Half-Life 2. Funny how size, while looking impressive on paper, means so little in that game. I’d fight 1000 Striders before taking on a single Poison Headcrab. Half-Life 2: Freeman vs. Combine [DeviantArt]

If you want to see what marketing regret looks like, scroll down this Twitter thread, as folks respond to Nintendo’s question to “tell us what you love about” Princess Peach.

Twitch Cracks Down On Music In Videos, Users Freak Out

Twitch has made some changes today. Some were pretty boring. Another, however, has a lot of people very upset. The streaming giant has implemented audio monitoring tools similar to those used by YouTube, aimed at identifying the use of copyrighted music in archived copies of user’s videos. The software will scan 30-minute sections of videos;…

What Dune Should Look Like

Mikhail Borulko is a freelance artist based in Russia. This Dune image has stopped me dead in my tracks. I can’t stop looking at it. And wishing it was the poster for a 70s psych rock concept album. You can see more of Mikhail’s work at his DeviantArtand ArtStationpages. To see the larger pics in…

Survival Games Are Moving Beyond “Zombies & Crafting”

Survival games are normally bleak affairs. Tense, unforgiving simulations of desperation and death. So why is it that playing Eidolon, a survival game, feels so…peaceful? I’m someone who is in love with the idea of a survival game, but rarely with their execution. The prospect of eking out a living from nothingness still sounds original…

Mario Kart 8’s DLC Is So Gross

That weird Mercedes DLC for Mario Kart 8 is out at the end of the month. And yeah, it’s not pretty. We initially thoughtthere was going to be one real car made available for the game (for free, since this is sponsored content), but there are actually three. Which gives Nintendo/Mercedes enough cars to make…

One Of The Best PC Games Of All Time Is Now Free

Origin’s “On The House” deal, which randomly gives away free PC games, is doing a very good thing today, because it’s giving away Wing Commander III. One of the greats OK, so it was never that great a game, and especially won’t be now, but you don’t enjoy Wing Commander III for the flight. You…

I Don’t Remember Asuka Ever Being This Peaceful…

Cosplay by Su-rine, photo by Michael la-Cour

I’d ask “why so many Borderlands cosplayers?”, but really, I think the results constantly speak for themselves. Psycho Krieg is, belive it or not, the very handsome Leon Chiro, while Axton is Philippe Lauby. Photo by Shudan

When 90s Tom Cruise Got Stuck On A Game, He Called For Help

In 2014, celebrities playing video games is as natural as the sun rising and the earth spinning. But in the 1990s, it wasn’t. Especially when it came to relatively obscure shooters on the Mac. Hardcore fans of the game might already know about this story (it’s quietly done the rounds for years now among the…

Ganon Is Finally Playable In A Zelda Game

Hyrule Warriors may be a spinoff from the main series, but it’s still a Zelda game. And here we have it, a Zelda game where the series’ most famous villain is finally playable (til now he’s only made playable appearances in Smash Bros. titles). As a character who is only usually seen in dark, moody…

Got A Light?

Chinese artist San San works at Activision Blizzard as an illustrator and concept artist. He’s got an impressive resume of big, recent games, having worked on titles like League of Legends, Saints Row 4, The Elder Scrolls Online and the NBA2K series. He’s also done some movie work, like on the latest adaptation of The…

There’s a little Nintendo Direct going down at 11pm ET for Hyrule Warriors. You can watch it right here.

Men vs Cosplay is a Kickstarted calendarthat’s bringing some of the best male cosplayers in the world together in the name of Gregorian manliness.

NOTE: The game’s title is actually 90S COPS

The Ladies Of Smash Bros.

Artist Adam Vian has drawn up every single female character announced so far for the next Smash Bros. The Lucina one is just killing it Adam is half of SFB Games along with his brother Tom. If you’ve ever heard of/played Detective Grimoire, that was them!

Japanese Arcade Cabinets Are Works Of Art

Is it weird that I am more into arcade hardware than I am arcade games themselves? There’s nostalgia attached to old arcade cabinets, and I get that, but I’ve always been partial to the unique designs employed – and still used – by Japanese companies. Their cabinets always seem…cuter. Like something from the near future.…