Luke Plunkett

Xbox One’s External Storage Not Ready For Launch

Good news reminder: the Xbox One supports external storage. Bad news update: the Xbox One won’t support that feature at launch. While announcing the capability at E3 back in June, consoles released in November won’t let you plug in an external drive, Microsoft’s Larry Hryb explaining in a podcast that “the team is working on…

Have You Already Played A Next-Gen Console?

Did you go to PAX? Did you wait in line to play a game on the Xbox One or PS4? Did you make it to the end and actually play one? Do you want to tell us what you thought? If you answered YES to all of the above, well…tell us what you thought. Until…

Guess You Guys REALLY Wanted A New Mega Man Game, Huh

Boy, you guys sure showed Capcom. Having consigned Mega Man to the dustbin of history, the Japanese publisher is probably kicking itself watching the Kickstarter for the series’ spiritual successor – Keiji Inafune’s Mighty No. 9 – blow past its funding goal in just 24 hours. Having asked for $900,000, the game – which is…

Deported Boy Uses Minecraft To Stay In Touch With American Friends

Rodrigo Guzman is ten. Born in Mexico, he’d lived in Berkeley, California since the age of 2, attending Jefferson Elementary, one of the best schools in the area. That was until he and his parents, en route to Mexico to renew their visas, were expelled from the country by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Stopped…

Let’s See How “HD” The Homeworld Remakes Really Are

While Blackbird go changing the letterhead of their strategy game from Hardware: Shipbreakers to Homeworld: Shipbreakers, publishers Gearbox are working on their own games in the franchise, namely the HD remakes of the two main Homeworld games. Let’s see how they’re getting along. At the studio’s PAX panel earlier today, some images were shown comparing…

John Marston Died On The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail is a game with a blunt message: you will all die. Repeatedly. Educational, perhaps, but also bleak. It could do with a little lightening up. So I love this crossover by Microsoft artist Claire Hummel, which keeps the Western theme but adds some Red Dead Redemption to soften the blow. My two…

Now That’s Some Extraordinary Cosplay

Fighting games. League of Legends. Final Fantasy. Mass Effect. These, and more, are the things people dressed up as last week, and did a damn fine job of along the way. While you’ve seen some of the cosplay that went down at PAX already tonight, that’s a single event in a single city. There’s a…

Go Forth, Space Knights, And Shoot Blue Lasers

Brandon Liao is an artist at League of Legends developers Riot Games, but today’s Fine Art isn’t about lanes or monsters. It’s mostly about space guns and some incredible sci-fi architecture. You can see more future soldiers and fancy castles at Brandon’s personal site (thanks Concept Art World!) To see the larger pics in all…

Cliff Bleszinski project sneak peek number four. No name for the thing yet, so I’m just going to give it the working title of “The Last of Them”. As shared on Twitter.

Team Fortress 2 Characters Wish One Lucky Guy A Very Happy Birthday

Well, here’s about the best birthday present a boy could wish for. Reader Kevin was at Valve’s DOTA International tournament last month, and while there got in line for some autographs from the game’s voice actors. While waiting for his turn, he had a flash of inspiration His brother Robin, whose birthday was coming up,…

There’s A New Homeworld Game Coming

Did you think PC strategy game Hardware: Shipbreakers looked a lot like Homeworld? Good. Because the developers have been given (or returned) the keys to the franchise. While Gearbox works on re-releasing the original Homeworld games in HD, Blackbird Interactive, comprised of some of the team behind the old Homeworld classics (including art director Rob…

Don’t Scream During Zombie Games. The Cops Might Turn Up.

Reader Mathue sent us this clip over the weekend, captured while he and his friends were playing some DayZ. It shows, he says, the kind of language – shrieked at the top of her lungs – that caused the cops to reportedly turn up to one of his pal’s houses, fearing MURDER. From 0:56 onwards,…

Double Fine’s Adventure Stars Commander Shepard, Jack Black

Picking up where he left off with Brutal Legend, it’s been announced that comedy actor Jack Black will be appearing in a sort of “cameo” role in Double Fine’s upcoming adventure game, Broken Age. Joining him will be Jennifer Hale – aka Commander Shepard – and a range of other actors, some of whom have…

The Great McNugget Rampage Of 2010 Returns, Assumes Ultimate Form

In 2010, this video of a woman going bananas at a drive-thru – because she couldn’t buy chicken nuggets and really wanted chicken nuggets – went viral. It’s impressive footage, but sadly, no audio of the event was captured. Three years later, someone’s got around to fixing that. It’s not the actual audio. Duh. But…

PSP Games Are Helping Unborn Children Grow Up Happy

Bright colours, cute characters, a nature theme, Sony’s LocoRoco has made the perfect baby room for reader Scott and his in-development, soon-to-be-released next project. If you think those are just vinyl decals, nope. They got some specialists in to hand-paint the whole thing, which has turned out just great

Your Favourite Movie & TV Stars Have Come To Life

Artist and toy wizard Scott Petterson makes custom action figures. Big ones, with real clothes, and faces that look just like some of your favourite TV and movie stars, from stuff like Bladerunner, The Walking Dead and Dirty Harry. Oh, and Johnny Cash There are two things that make Petterson’s work stand out. The first…

A Man Who Makes Video Games Move

No disrespect to concept artists, but it’s always great when I get to run a Fine Art on something other than traditional 2D work, if only because that’s what we end up running most of the time. Today’s a great day, then, because we’re looking at one of the animators who has brought series like…

A 38-Hit Combo. Using A Horse

Need further proof of just how crazy the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure fighting game is? Watch this. Yup. That’s a horse. Amazing. Jojo’s All Star Battle Gyro Combos [YouTube, via @Richmond_Lee]

The Internet Reacts Like Idiots To The “Official” GTAV Trailer

Another Grand Theft Auto V trailer, another round of people commenting on YouTube, saying the worst/best things you could possibly say about the trailer to a video game. It’s almost as if some super-smart guys were in there making these up, but there’s a perfect mixture of ignorance and brutality that I think might just…

Accused Kickstarter Scammers: “We Are Not Scamming Anybody”

Earlier in the week, the developers of upcoming Ouya exclusive Gridiron Thunder faced allegations that their Kickstarter was a scam, something they tell Kotaku is simply not true. Looking to discuss accusations that their game was little more than a ruse geared towards securing funding from Ouya under a new exclusivity funding scheme, I spoke…