Luke Plunkett

What “The Cloud” Actually Looks Like

The cloud. Microsoft would have you think it’s the real power behind the Xbox One. Google would have you think it’s a magical place where everything is kept. Pity, then, that it’s not quite as magical as that, even if the truth is interesting in its own way. Filmmaker Timo Arnal has made Internet Machine,…

Journey & Banner Saga Composer Might Get Fined $50,000

Austin Wintory, the composer behind the soundtracks to games like Journey and The Banner Saga, might be in trouble for…doing his job. The American Federation of Musicians, his own union, is thinking of fining him $50,000. For making video game soundtracks. He details the background and causes for this in the YouTube video below, in…

Spec Ops Studio Now Making A PC Game With Giant Airplanes

E3 isn’t all about multiplatform AAA console titles. There is space for PC games, and also space for awesome PC game trailers. This is Dreadnought. It’s coming out of Yager, the developers of Spec Ops: The Line (and also Dead Island 2). These guys have a passion for sci-fi flight. Their very first game was…

Sony Is Making A Sonic Movie. And It’ll Have Real Humans In It.

Sonic the Hedgehog might be coming to the big screen. Sony Pictures and Sega will be working with Japanese animation studio Marza Animation Planet to make a movie that’s part-animation, part-live action. Yup. Live-action. Be afraid. Be very afraid. The Hollywood Reporter says Evan Susser and Van Robichaux are writing. ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Movie in…

Titan Gets Its Face Punched Off In Titanfall Series

There’s a live-action Titanfall series coming. This is its second trailer. In case you couldn’t tell from the lack of actual live-action action in many parts, it’s the work of a VFX studio. Titanfall: Free The Frontier [Playfight VFX]

Project Cars, You Continue To Look Amazing

This PS4 trailer doesn’t tell the game’s whole story – it’s also coming to PC, Xbox One and Wii U – but this new trailer for Project Cars shows just how good a video game can look when you put new/big hardware to work.

Incredible! (sorry). Cosplay by hazu-nyan, photo by Lunckens

E3 Winners & Losers: Day Zero

Forget the nuances of preference and the pointlessness of starkly dividing subjective events into overly-simple categories. E3 demands winners and losers, so it is glory and blood that it shall receive. Day Zero, so called because the show doesn’t actually begin until June 10 (there were only press conferences today, the showroom floor was closed),…

Mark Hamill, As The Joker, Tells Luke Skywalker He’s His Father

Is it weird that it sounds like the Joker’s voice is more “right” than Luke’s? The footage was uploaded on Friday, and features Hamill fielding questions at one of Disney’s Star Wars Weekends. [via Geekologie]

Capy’s Below is looking very nice in this gameplay demo given to Spike. Below Get More: Comedy Central

GTA V Is Coming To PC, Xbox One & PS4

Well, you saw this coming. Grand Theft Auto V is coming to next-gen consoles and the PC The PC. Mods. For this game. Oh, it’s going to be the best In terms of new content, GTA Online is getting some new stuff (read more about that here), while the PC version will “feature a video…

No Man’s Sky, You Win E3, Forever

Spaceship fighting. Space dinosaurs. Pretty colours. No Man’s Sky looked great when it debuted last year, but now it just looks like the most exciting video game on the planet. or any planet. UPDATE – There’s another gameplay video!

Grim Fandango Is Getting Remastered For PS4, Vita

Holy shit. Holy shit. Grim Fandango is getting remastered. And it’s coming to the PS4 and Vita. Holy shit.

There Is Last Of Us DLC In…Diablo III. Huh?

The infected enemies (clickers, etc) from The Last Of Us Are headed to…the PlayStation 4version of Diablo III. As DLC. Um, OK. Yay marketing.

Dark Souls’ Successor Is Coming To The PS4

Well, From Software’s rumoured Project Beast is a real thing. It’s called Bloodborne. And it’s coming to the PS4. Dark Souls/Demon’s Souls fans, this one’s for you. Here’s the game’s debut trailer: Face your fears as you search for answers in the ancient city of Yharnam, now cursed with a strange endemic illness spreading through…

Destiny’s E3 Trailer Is Full Of Expensive Space Magic

This is Destiny’s big, expensive E3 trailer. I dunno. The more I see of this game, the less it looks like its “cowboys in post-apocalyptic space” concept art it debuted with. I liked that.

PS4 Owners Can Play Destiny This Weekend

It’s just been announced that Destiny’s beta will be available first on PlayStation consoles. It’ll go live in July 17. Though if you can’t wait a month, you’ve got another option. This weekend, anyone who owns a PS4 console will get the chance to play the game’s early alpha. To get in on that action,…

Far Cry 4 Gameplay Video: Oh Man ELEPHANTS

Ubisoft has so far only shown Far Cry 4’s intro. This, though, this is seven minutes of gameplay that is a lot more impressive (even if you do need to watch it with a pinch of salt at hand). I’m a little suspicious of just how “real” this gameplay is – the transitions are too…

There Is No Dana. Only Cosplay.

Time for a break from all the E3 madness. So here’s Ivy95 cosplaying like it’s 1984 and she knows exactly who to call. Photo by MC Illusion

Less Terrorists, More First World War Games Please

Valiant Hearts used to be sneaking up on us, but the WW1 game just hit the prime time with a spot during Ubisoft’s E3 conference. And doesn’t it just look lovely. That dog is going to die, and we are all going to be very, very sad. Just…get ready for it.