Luke Plunkett

“Fraud” Pretends To Be Ubisoft, Tries Cancelling Watch Dogs’ Trademark

Well, this is weird. Someone has asked the US Patent & Trademark Office to scrub the trademark for Ubisoft’s upcoming Watch Dogs. A request that’s been called “fraudulent”, since it didn’t actually come from Ubisoft. Earlier today, the publisher sent a notice to the USPTO (emphasis added): Ubisoft Entertainment submits this Petition to the Director…

Haha, The Need For Speed Movie Looks So Terrible Guys

If shitty FMV sequences from video games were still around, and had gotten more expensive while still being as inherently shitty, this what I’d expect them to look like. It’s a shame we get the advice “you might want to close your eyes for this” at the 1:15 point in the trailer, and not the…

Indie RPG Wants To Change The Way You Fight Monsters

Cradle is promising to be “an open-world adventure”. Built using CryEngine 3. I think this one is for you, PC gamers. Of course, it’s easy to make big promises while your game’s still in development. And it’s easy to have a game looking good when there aren’t any characters on the screen. The combat system…

Miranda, Those Are Not Practical Space Combat Boots

What’s in store for this week’s cosplay roundup? Well, we’ve got some Mass Effect. Some Attack on Titan. Some Kiki’s Delivery Service (yes!), some Castlevania, some Alice. And of course, it wouldn’t be complete without someone dressed as Elizabeth from BioShock Infinite. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big…

New Transformers Movie Somehow Looks Worse Than The Last Three

I don’t know how they did it. I didn’t think anything could scrape under that bar. RIP, Dinobots.

A Broken Super Bowl Is Way More Fun Than The Real Thing

The real Super Bowl is going to be played between two teams of professional athletes. This Super Bowl featured a team of genetically-engineered supermen and a team of pencil-legged children. The results were not pretty. Concluding his excellent “Breaking Madden” series, in which he’s tried to do all kinds of horrible things to EA’s sports…

Track: Threats | Album: The Evil Jeanius | Artist: Jean Grae & BSBD Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.

Yakuza 5 was first released in Japan in December 2012. It is now January 2014 and there’s still no word on a Western release. Fix this, Sega!

Hey Link, Lay Off The Lon Lon Milk

Just think, somewhere out there is a parallel universe where we all grew up watching La Légende de Zelda, a European stop-motion animation series starring this chubby, lovable hero. (This is actually a 3D image done in our own universe by Gerard Dunleavy, via Blue Dog’s Eyes)

If Only More Sci-Fi Games Were This Colorful

Garrett Hanna works at Carbine Studios, where he’s been contributing to the eyeball-bursting art style of the sci-fi MMO Wildstar. You can see more of Garrett’s work at his personal site (thanks CAW!). To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click…

GTA V Looks Pretty Good As A First-Person Game

Hey look, more mods for the console versions of Grand Theft Auto V. Unlike the last one, however, this one is a little more practical. It gives you a proper first-person viewpoint (not the static one already in the game) while controlling a vehicle. It doesn’t look like it works while on foot (the camera…

For The Love Of Buttons

Screw touchscreens. There’s something satisfying about the press of a button. The push, the give, the click, the release. You just know something’s going to happen. This video, called I Love Buttons, pretty much sums it up. God, the buttons that have a heavy pop are just the best. The clip was made by Nicolas…

Even Wii U DLC Is Getting Cancelled

Warner Bros. has reportedly cancelled all upcoming DLC for Batman: Arkham Origins. Seems the poor Wii U just can’t catch a break. Companies cancelling games (or failing to announce ports) for the console is bad enough, but not even bothering to bring over DLC? That’s some of the easiest money to be had in video…

Report: Windows 8 Update Will Bring Back The Desktop (By Default)

Here’s where embarassing corporate backpedalling is a good thing: according to The Verge, the next update for Windows 8 will see every machine boot straight to the desktop mode by default. You know, like we used to, in the good old days. While there’s long been an option to boot straight to the more conventional…

Hey there, tiny TRON arcade dog. What’s up? [Space Ghost Zombie]

Our Pirate Games Need More Kraken

Eduardo Peña is an artist who’s worked on games (that you do and don’t know about) and movies (that you certainly know about…like the Hobbit trilogy). Formerly of Immersion Games, he’s now at Singapore’s FZD School of Design You can see more of Eduardo’s work at his CGHub page (thanks Super Punch!). To see the…

Live Out Your 80s Mech Combat Fantasies With A PC Shooter

Strike Vector, you had my curiosity at last year’s E3. Now you have my attention. Made by a small team and featuring some pretty amazing visuals, Strike Vector is what I can only describe as a combat game. It may look like a flight sim in parts, but it’s not really flight; each round is…

Postal Worker Stole 200 Video Games, Sold Them

If you ever had a video game go missing in the mail in the Boston area, it may be because a former postal worker has pled guilty to stealing over 200 games from packages he was supposed to have been handling. James L. White, 68, was in a Federal court on Tuesday facing theft charges,…

Nintendo Confirms It Will Make Apps (And Maybe Games) For Phones

Nintendo has confirmed it will soon be releasing content for mobile phones. And games could be part of it. Japanese news outlet Nikkei first reported the news that Nintendo would produce smartphone content earlier this week, which Nintendo partially denied. Turns out they were both kinda right. At a business presentation in Tokyo today, President…

Damn, This Star Wars LEGO Trailer Is Really Good

Yes, it’s for an iOS game. A toy commercial thinly-veiled as a top-down shooter. But just look at this trailer. It’s amazing. The Dewback cops. The busted-up Falcon. The Harrison Ford/American Graffiti gag. It’s drowning me up to my eyeballs in charm. The game’s out tomorrow, but who cares. Let’s just watch this clip over…