Luke Plunkett

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Metal Gear Solid V’s E3 Trailer Isn’t Waiting For E3

Konami just released MGSV: The Phantom Pain’s E3 trailer a little ahead of time. I guess someone went nucleeeaaaaarrrrrrrrr. In case you would somehow forget that this is a Hideo Kojima joint, the trailer runs for over five minutes, and in between action sequences like a tank + helicopter assault we see some more tender…

Because The World Needs More Dreamcast Action Figures

Before you go losing your shit now, know that this is a custom action figure, not something you can buy. Yeah, I know. Sadness. Still, we can all admire the craftsmanship. It’s certainly a lot better than any of the official Space Channel 5 figures that have been released over the years. スペースチャンネル５ うらら [fg]

Saved By The Rollerskates

Julien Renoult is a senior concept artist at Insomniac. He is also one of the finalists in the 2014 Into The Pixel awards. His “character grouping” from Sunset Overdrive was easily my favourite among the 2014 entries in the competition. A graduate of the esteemed Gobelins school in France, Julien got a little more exposure…

Titanfall’s Not The Only Sci-Fi Game With Parkour

To recap: the best thing about Titanfall was not the mechs. It was the wall-running. So the more games doing that sort of stuff, the better. Ascend is an indie title made primarily by Tommy Wong (an artist in the games business), which he’s been working on for years now. Like Titanfall, it has mechs,…

Skyrim NPCs Finally Get A Holiday

Skyrim’s NPCs have been toiling through their clockwork lives like, well, clockwork since 2011. It’s time for a break. This mod programs a series of holidays into the game, occurring on certain days in the Skyrim calendar. There’s lore supporting them, and each holiday is a little different; some involve gathering in a town square…

Sailor Moon Fan Has Been Cosplaying Her Whole Life

On the left, Jemaica Murphy as a kid. On the right, Jemaica Murphy today. [via Reddit]

The World’s Most Badass Tom Cruise Cosplay

Peter Kokis is a cosplayer and a sculptor. His suits aren’t made of spandex, cloth and fiberglass; they’re made of everyday household items that Kokis takes, shapes and somehow transforms into robots and suits of armour. His latest work pays homage to Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow. While it may not be an exact…

Watch Dogs Will Be Blamed For Traffic Sign Hacking

The MS-ISAC, a group established to “improve the overall cyber security posture of state, local, tribal and territorial governments”, isn’t even waiting for people to hack traffic signs to blame it on video games. It’s getting out ahead of the trend. A recent report issued by the body, about a notorious “Saudi Arabian actor” who…

IGN Says The Last Guardian Has Been Cancelled. Sony Says It Hasn’t.

IGN is reporting that, according to “sources” privy to an internal Sony meeting last week, Sony’s The Last Guardian – long in development limbo – has been canceled. Only for Sony to come straight out and deny it. The IGN story reads: While many at IGN have been eagerly hoping for the appearance of The…

Lara Croft And Jason Statham Were Both Models In A 1997 Men’s Mag

Here is something wonderful. The November 1997 issue of FHM (British edition), which I just found lurking (and well-preserved) in a box in my garage. I guess I kept it thanks to a teenage obsession with Tomb Raider model Rhona Mitra (who appears on the cover), but I’m glad I kept it thanks to a…

Let’s Take A Minute And Appreciate How Pretty This Art Is

Alberto Mielgo is one of the greats. Artist, animator, illustrator, art director, he’s done it all, and done it for companies like Disney, PlayStation, Dreamworks, Xbox and the BBC. Oh, and he also won an Emmy for his work on the beautiful Tron: Uprising. While the normal thing to do here is post a gallery…

It’s-A Mario, Just Not As You Know Him

Hey, remember how cool art site/idea Sketch Dailies did a Link showcase the other day? They’re back today with Mario, and it’s just as good. To recap, Sketch Dailies issues a challenge every day for artists around the world. Usually it’s a character, or a type of character. So today’s is Mario, but that doesn’t…

Slender Man Creator “Deeply Saddened” By Stabbing

Eric Knudsen, the creator of fictional horror character Slender Man, has issued a public statement in response to the tragic stabbing in Wisconsin that left a 12 year-old girl fighting for her life. Knudsen’s spokeswoman Sue Procko issued the statement to the Associated Press, which begins “I am deeply saddened by the tragedy in Wisconsin…

Xbox One Games Might Soon Look A Little Better

Ever since launch, many multiplatform games just haven’t looked as good (or run as smoothly) on the Xbox One as they have the PlayStation 4. Going forward that gap might be closed. At least a little. From launch until now, developers had to leave some resources on the console’s GPU free for Kinect integration, which…

The World’s Largest Video Game Collection Is Up For Sale

Michael Thommason, who is certifiedas having the world’s largest collection of video games, is putting them up for sale. Meaning the buyer isn’t just getting a ton of games, they’re getting a title as well. Guinness confirmed Thommason had 10,607 games last year, but he’s since picked up a few hundred more, so the winning…

EA Just Can’t Keep The Next Battlefield Game A Secret [UPDATE]

I’m sure a few months back EA had a nice, clear marketing scheme laid out for its next Battlefield game, Hardline. A scheme that’s now in tatters. [UPDATE – EA has now released the trailer officially] ORIGINAL POST – The game was revealed in the press ahead of time. So EA made a very brief,…

The Art (Well, Some Of The Art) From Watch Dogs

So, the game itself is…OK . But the beauty of this concept art feature is that the quality of a game is irrelevant. We’re here for the 2D imagery, not the 3D interactivity. The images you see below are all taken from the game’s big official art book, which has been available for a couple…

Oh hey. Those awesome action figures from Boss Fight Studios that I wrote about in March? There’s now a Kickstarter to help get them up and running. If you want to support a company that can make badass action figures that can actually pose like real humans, get on it

Bringing Back The Good Old Days Of PC Game Boxes

The idea behind IndieBox is very simple: Sell indie games in a box. Why? Because getting a game in a box, with a colour manual and a poster, is a really nice touch, that’s why. Sure, it’s easy to get an indie game on Steam, or in a Humble Bundle, or however, but that’s not…