Luke Plunkett

Read The PS4 Manual Right Now, If That’s Your Thing

You may not have a PS4 yet, but you can sure as hell read a PS4 manual, since Sony has put the thing online ahead of the console’s launch later this week. It’s…a manual. Most of it may be a little dull since you don’t have the thing yet, but if you’re dying to see…

Kid Only Stops Screaming For Star Wars Theme Song

Ever had a newborn kid? Or even been around one? They are the worst. You treasure any moment of peace and serenity available, and if you see a chance to create one, you take it. If you think this is somehow staged, I can assure you, babies are weird. They’ll find the strangest tranquillisers. My…

Wii U Holiday Commercial Is Not Helping The Wii U

During the boom years, when both the DS and Wii were killing it, Nintendo used to make pretty good commercials. Or, at the very least, serviceable ones. A few years back, though, something changed The Wii U needs all the help it can get this holiday season. This? This is not helping. Specifically, that Dad.…

The PS4 Might Be A Decent Media Server After All

Last month, Sony took the surprisingly unpopulardecision to strip a lot of the media server functionality from the PS4 that made the PS3 such a useful box. Well, the backlash made an impression, with Sony now discussing “how and when we can put these features on PS4”. In an interview with Giant Bomb (spotted by…

A Reminder To Not Feed The Internet Trolls

Whenever someone is bullied – or just plain trolled – on the internet there’s a tendency to focus solely on the attacker. As this interesting post by a former EVE Online Gamemasterreminds us, though, it often takes two to tango. Elizabeth Wyand used to be one of those responsible for keeping things running smoothly in…

Morning! Read this stuff you missed overnight. Or watch it. Whichever! Kinky PC Demo Allows For Virtual Sex, Robot Handjobs The Worst Martial Artists In The World Nintendo, Take My Money, Please Sony Turns Hotel Into Giant Concrete PS4

SimCity Mod Tries To Make Game Useful

Educational outfit Glasslab Games have taken Maxis’ misguided SimCityand tried to wrestle something genuinely useful out of the thing. They’ve come up with a modified version of the game called SimCityEDU: Pollution Challenge!, which not only modifies the core experience, but also can be used to track the way students are learning – and applying…

Hey Sega Fans, Get A Load Of This Mega Drive/Genesis Book

SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works is an upcoming book by Darren Wall that looks like one of the best pieces of Sega nostalgia you’ll ever get your hands on. It features 20 interviews with “original Sega team members”, and has all kinds of stuff like design docs for Mega Drive games and hardware concepts. This…

Fantasy Hospital Game With Sick Kids In Danger Of Ending In Tears

Rakuen isn’t a game about space marines, or fast cars, or professional sports, or multi-hit combos. Instead, you play a sick young boy stuck in a hospital, who is transported to the fantasy world his mother reads him stories about. Its developers claim inspiration from Maniac Mansion, To the Moon and The Legend of Zelda:…

Bullet Bros Is What Happens When Contra Meets Monty Python

With it’s co-op shooting, Bullet Bros initially looks like Contra, or Gunstar Heroes, or any other retro game where two bros go guns blazing into a 2D battlefield. But then you see the tanks. And the grappling hooks. And the piggybacks. The game’s loaded with physics, as you can see in the trailer, and also…

This is a solo Eggplant run in Spelunky. On camera. If you don’t know how hard that is, this guy should really have been playing the Chariots of Fire theme in the background the entire time Recommendation: No, really, he should have. Mute the commentary and put the theme on yourself

Rick Deckard, Meet Daenerys Targaryen

Polish artist Wojtek Fus works for Platige, an effects and animation house who you’ll be familiar with for their effortson games like The Witcher 2 and Cyberpunk. You can see more of Wojtek’s work at his DeviantArtand CGHub pages. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you…

The Worst Martial Artists In The World

Think of this as the internet’s best collection of the worst Street Fighter bonus rounds. I think one there at the end, where the dude falls down the stairs, is faked. The rest? Embarrassingly, painfully real. Ultimate Martial Arts Fails Compilation 2013 [Uniformedia, via Geekologie]

Dark Sci-Fi? Move The Levels Themselves? Sure, Let’s Do It.

Interference is a platformer about stealth. And darkness. And sci-fi. Oh, and stopping the game to move the levels themselves around. There’s a comment that flashes up during this trailer that says “This is what the Flashback remake should have been”. Which pretty much sums it all up. Interference is currently taking pledges on Indiegogo,…

Nintendo, Take My Money, Please

At the end of this month, Nintendo will be re-releasing a game. It’s beautiful. An all-time classic. And it’s…not a video game. Going back to the company’s roots, back when it made real games, this exquisite Mahjong set will go on sale in Japan for just under USD$200. Which isn’t cheap, but look at this…

Kinky PC Demo Allows For Virtual Sex, Robot Handjobs

I remember reading a magazine article twenty years agothat was about virtual sex. And how gadgets and games were going to change the way we knock boots forever. Well, it didn’t really happen, but hey, twenty years later and humanity is giving it another shot. This is the VR Tenga demo, made for an Oculus…

Sony Turns Hotel Into Giant Concrete PS4

Sony’s holding a PS4 “review” event in New York this week, and it’s going down at The Standard High Line, a weird-looking old hotel that’s not exactly in the middle of Times Square. I was wondering why Sony would choose such an odd building for such an important event, but this light show explains it.…

New Ken Block Video Turns Car Into Giant Pinball

Race and stunt driver Ken Block is the master of gymkhana. Don’t know what gymkhana is? It’s this video. In which he propels a car around a “track” like it had been built in a video game and he’d done nothing but play it for ten months straight. This clip was made to promote the…

“Happy” Monday. Have a good weekend? Here’s some interesting stuff from Sunday night to get your week started right Watch A Guy Unbox A Real PS4 Sony’s Official PS4 Unboxing Video Is Hilariously OTT Loki Cosplayer Meets Loki, Universe Implodes Scammer Accused Of Ripping Off Over 100 Kickstarters

How Xbox Live Could Work For Games In The Real World

People have been trying to turn regular tasks – from desk jobs to chores – into games for years. It’s called “Gamification”, and the word makes me want to scratch my own eyeballs out. But this app idea, which brings the concept of stuff like Xbox Live to real world sport, is a lot more…