Luke Plunkett

Hey Sony, People Are Having Sex Live On The PS4

Give people a camera and a means to broadcast and you can bet that, sooner or later, they’ll use it to film themselves doin’ some sex. Even if it’s using a PlayStation 4 (warning: NSFW content follows). In case you’re not aware, the new PS4 has a program called Playroom. If own a PS4 camera,…

Most Trolls Aren’t Assholes, They’re Just Having A Bad Day

In part because it’s the biggest game on the planet, and in part because its community has a pretty poor reputation, the developers of League of Legends have been looking at some unique ways to combat unsavoury behaviour in the game. And are coming up with some refreshing results. “We really wanted to figure out…

The Ultimate Warrior Has Died

The WWE is reporting that The Ultimate Warrior (born James Brian Hellwig), has passed away at the age of 54. Just days ago, he was present at Wrestlemania 30. He is survived by his wife Dana and his two daughters. I haven’t been into wrestling for over 15 years, but when I was a kid,…

A Game For Salty Fighters

Based on a recent act of fight stick destruction, Stick Chucker doesn’t care if you win or lose a game of Street Fighter. It only cares how far, and how hard, you can throw your stick once you lose. Come for the free game, stay for the awesome soundtrack, which for $1 is totally worth…

Sad Face, Great Art

Anna Lakisova is a freelance Ukrainian artist who has worked in video games for the last few years. I just…love this stuff. We don’t get to showcase nearly enough stupid cats and egg monsters here on Fine Art. You can see more of Anna’s work at her personal site and CGHub page To see the…

TraumaticCandy gets Hatsune Miku’s colour scheme just right. Photo by Zandra Murray

Leon Chiro and Artemis Entreri bring the Final Fantasy beefcake. Photo by Xenolink

If EA Isn’t The Worst Company In America, Who Is?

EA’s reign as the Worst Company In America (note: as voted by readers of a website, not every human American) was ended this year, as the publishing giant was knocked out in the first round by Time-Warner Cable. So who went on to take EA’s crown? Comcast did, regaining the title they first won back…

Man Smashes Phone With Hammer, Phone Gets Dangerous Revenge

So, some guy thought it would be cuhraazy to film himself smashing a new Samsung Galaxy S5 with a hammer. I wonder, though, if he expected his hammer to hit something that it probably shouldn’t have hit. As you can see, it all starts pointlessly enough. Dude smashes the front of a new phone with…

FOX Go Bananas After Family Guy Game Gets Released Early

There’s a new Family game for mobile, called Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff. It’s not out yet, but for a few hours earlier today, it was accidentally made available on New Zealand’s app store. Something FOX was not very happy about. As Touch Arcade reports, because the game was live on an app store,…

Armello Is One Of The Prettiest (And Most Interesting) Games Of 2014

Wow. It’s been nearly two years since we first saw Armello, an Australian game that I said at the time was like Game of Thrones, only with animals. Two years of development since that impressive debut trailer have led to a game that doesn’t just look great, but sounds great too. Armello is an RPG…

GI Joe Figures For Grown-Ups

Marauder, who for years have been making custom weapons and accessories (sandbags, etc) for “adult collectors” of GI Joe-scale figures, have decided to step up and start making figures of their own. If GI Joes are for kids, then these things are for the grown-ups of the Call of Duty generation. Designed for both figure…

Titanfall Fish Markets Struggling For Business

It’s been two years since we last showcased the art of James Paick. In that time he’s worked on projects like Titanfall, so it’s time to take another look. I love this kind of Titanfall art. Yeah, the giant robots and spaceships are cool, but this environmental stuff does a better job than the game…

Help A PC Classic Return From The Dead

Outcast is one of the best games ever made for the PC. It is also, sadly, one of the most underrated, meaning that it’s never got a sequel. Or a spin-off. Or even a shitty mobile game. But hey, now we’re hopefully getting something. Last year, the creators of Outcast got together and bought back…

Game Of Thrones Game Has You Slapping Joffrey. A Lot.

Remember those sweetGame of Thrones fighting game images? Well, while that’ll (likely) never happen, we can now play the next best thing. Artist Roberto Flores, whose 2D fighting take on Westeros was so damn good, has teamed up with friends Albert Li and Alex Shum to make King Slapper. It’s very much in the same…

Special Xbox 360 Controller Knows How You’re Feeling

We never did get that Nintendo Vitality Sensor (though the company is now working on something grander). A researcher at Stanford, however, has gone and done something similar, only for an Xbox 360 controller. Gregory Kovacs, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, worked with Texas Instruments (and his students) to develop the pad, which takes…

The Unluckiest Grand Theft Auto Player In The World

I’m sure this guy has had some good games of Grand Theft Auto Online, where everything just went his way. This was not one of those games. It’s actually a little surprising he lasted that long… En Şanssız GTA V Oyuncusu [YouTube, via John Romero]

Meet The World’s Coolest Character Creation System

When I first saw Korean MMO Black Desert last year, I thought it looked too good to be true. Now it’s looking way too good to be true. The developers (Pearl Abyss) released this video today showing the game’s character creation suite, and it just blows every other character creation suite in video games out…

Report: Drone Hacked, Crashes, Injures Athlete

Drones don’t just exist for pretty videos and convenient delivery. They also exist to be a hazard to athletes, with a crash in an Australian triathlon injuring one competitor and leading to accusations of hacking. According to a report on the ABC, at around 9am on Sunday a camera drone that was filming the Endure…

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