Luke Plunkett

Ten Indie PC Games You Must Keep An Eye On

There are so many small teams out there working on so many promising PC games that it’s often impossible keeping tabs on them. You read about them, you like the looks of them, then the world keeps spinning and you forget all about something you may otherwise have loved. That’s a shame. So we’re going…

The Mouse Of The Future Might Be This Weird Little Thing

This is the iMotion, a controller concept by Intellect Motion. It’s a mouse, that you hold in the air, which doubles as a motion-sensor, and triples as a means of getting haptic feedback. All of which sounds awfully ambitious, not to mention tiring (holding the thing in the air for prolonged use doesn’t look ideal),…

Orbitor, a very pretty game we’ve looked at previously, has been signed to a console publishing deal. So expect to see it…everywhere.

1.26 Billion Facebook Profiles, All In The One Place

Artist Natalia Rojas, who calls herself a “creative technologist”, has devised a way for a single webpage to host all 1.26 billion Facebook user profiles. What’s more, it’s interactive, meaning you can actually find yourself amongst this sea of humanity. It’s a staggering image. Organised by the date a user joined, you can track people…

Let’s Appreciate Grand Theft Auto V’s Panoramas For A Second

Using GTA V’s in-game Snapmatic app – and a very steady hand on the right thumbstick – reader Timothy made some panoramic shots of Los Santos by stitching photos together in Photoshop. They’re great! Grand Theft Auto 5 Panoramas [Flickr]

Adventures In Skyrim Co-op (Cosplay)

Skyrim’s fun, but Skyrim five-player co-op sounds better. That ensemble is joined this week by some fantastic Sailor Moon, a terrifyingly realistic GlaDOS and, awesomely, some Magic: The Gathering cosplay. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand”…

Terrifying Robot Can Solve Rubik’s Cube In Less Than One Second

As soon as it gets bored with the cubes, we are all going to die Don’t Blink: Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube in a Second [Bloomberg]

You Can Play Star Fox Multiplayer On Steam, Via Team Fortress 2

Star Fortress is only in pre-alpha, the devs kicking the tyres to see how stuff works, but already it looks incredible. If only because it’s Star Fox. Running as a multiplayer game. On the PC. As a Team Fortress 2 mod [TF2] Star Fortress [Gray Mann Gaming]

How To Get A Job With Nintendo

They’re the godfathers of modern video games. Creators of some of the most beloved games of all time. For many, it would be a dream working for Nintendo, but seeing as the company runs pretty much everything out of its Japanese offices, that’s impossible, right? Well…not quite Programmer Anditto Heristyo recently applied for a job…

Second Life Turns 10, Gets Creepy Facelift

Yes, Second Life still exists. Yes, there’s enough money left in it to upgrade the engine. No, I don’t know anyone who has touched this thing since 2006 either, so if you find one, tell them they’re a very special little unicorn.

I Had No Idea Schwarzenegger Was In Skyrim

Come for the admirable attempt to recreate Predator using Skyrim. Stay for maybe the best Schwarzenegger impersonation I have ever heard. Especially since it’s not like there’s practice reference for the man saying “THROTHGARD!”. Skyrim At The Movies: PREDATOR – TYRANNICON [YouTube]

First-Person Shooters? I’ll Take A First-Person Scorer, Thanks.

I’m right in the middle of playing both FIFA 14 and PES 2014 (I’ll be comparing them here next week). But as I play them – and in particular the former, which is looking old – my mind drifts to what the football games of the next (or next) generation could/should look like. And I’m…

Don’t Laugh. Klingon And Elvish Are Real Languages.

You might think Lord of the Rings’ Elvish, Star Trek’s Klingon and Game of Thrones’ Dothraki are all just collections of silly words, but nope. They’re actual, real languages, no different from English, Spanish or Japanese. This TED Talk by John McWhorter explains why this is. It’s not just a collection of words that makes…

The Pirates Of The Future Don’t Buckle Swashes

Sergi Brosa is a Spanish concept artist and illustrator who works mostly as a freelancer and on comission pieces. Why a comic publisher or video game studio doesn’t have him on their books escapes me, because Sergi’s stuff is insane Be sure to scroll to the last image. Then…keep scrolling. If you can. You can…

The Xbox One Can Trim Your Fat, That’s Why It Comes With Kinect

Until December 2014, everybody who gets an Xbox One will have free access to something called Xbox Fitness. Which is basically a collection of videos that use the Kinect’s sci-fi powers to help you lose the weight you accumulate playing all your other games. The vids appear to simply be pre-existing fitness productions, but tie…

The Best Game This Year Is Jumping Into Swimming Pools (And Failing)

You know the best thing about GTA V? It’s not the scale, the cars, the missions or the guns. It’s the fact there are swimming pools. And a brutal physics engine. This is the good Jackass game we never got. I had a lot of fun with the GTA physics… [thanks Will138!]

Thief Has An Old-School Homage Mission. Which Is DLC. Sigh.

Hey, here’s where there should be some good news! The upcoming Thief game, which already has people a little worried, thought it was doing the right thing by including a mission that was a straight homage to Thief II’s bank heist. Which it immediately spoils by making it pre-order DLC. I’ve said before how awful…

We Already Know He’ll Have Mother Issues

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We Don’t Need A Metal Gear Movie. We’ve Already Got A Real Snake.

When the Metal Gear movie is done – if it’s ever done – it’ll be 17 hours long, 16 of which will be people talking about something you don’t quite understand. What a drag. So let’s watch this much shorter Metal Gear movie, made by one of the world’s best cosplayers, instead. The man in…

Star Citizen, You Just Keep Looking Better

You know, I think Chris Roberts’ pitch for Star Citizen probably went something like this: “Hey, I made Wing Commander, so I’m going to do that again. Oh, and also, Battlestar Galactica was awesome”. The game’s not out until the end of next year, at the earliest. Which is about the only bad news in…