Luke Plunkett

The Red Dead Movie Is Out, And It Sure Is Something

First teased earlier in the month, a 14-minute Red Dead Redemption movie is now ready for viewing. And it’s…yeah. Put together by fans, it puts the map icon on “70s schlock tribute” and doesn’t stop riding towards it the whole damn time. Red Dead Redemption Fan Film [YouTube]

Well, This Indie Combat Game Continues To Blow My Socks Off

Strike Vector is a game that’scome out of nowhere. Worked on by four people, it’s a multiplayer aerial combat game that looks like a whole bunch of people’s dream game ideas from the 90s made real. Screw the combat (OK, not really, because it looks fun), but the game could just be about flying through…

Ten Years Later, A Terrible Game Is Not So Terrible Anymore

In a rush to cash in on the popularity of the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, publishers Bethesda and developers Akella released in 2003 a very strange game. It wasn’t really a Pirates of the Caribbean game. It had been in development as a sequel to Sea Dogs, a 2000 game that itself was…

Forget Call Of Duty, I’m Hanging Out For This Hardcore PC Shooter

Bohemia Interactive’s ArmA III is out later this year, and while for many the series’ super hardcore simulation slant is off-putting, for me it’s just about the perfect implementation of a military shooter. Or tank sim. Or jet combat game. Or truck driving simulator. While the finished game isn’t out for another few months, an…

You Can Now Buy The Internet. The Whole Damn Thing.

If you’ve never seen The IT Crowd, I feel bad for you, son. I also suggest you watch this Up to speed? OK, awesome. Aussie artist Mike Jenkins has started building his own replicas of The Internet, complete with blinking red light, and is selling them for roughly $30. $30, for the entire internet. Bargain!…

Up Close, The Last Of Us’ Infected Are Even Grosser

You only really see them in the dark, or moving fast, or when their heads are exploding, so there aren’t many points in The Last Of Us you can really appreciate how gross the infected really are. Let’s fix that. These 3D renders are the work of Mike Svymbersky, an artist who helped out Naughty…

Someone Finally Built Homer Simpson’s Hideous Green Car

One of the greatest Simpsons episodes all time was Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, famous at the time for Danny DeVito’s cameo as Homer’s brother Herb, but more famous now for the legacy of the car that stole the show. Asked by his brother to design a new car, Homer comes up with…The Homer, a…

Mass Effect Cosplay, Done Right

Anatomic Latex is a store that specialises in, well, latex cosplay gear. For those sci-fi and comic book characters whose outfits can’t be matched with cloth and fabric. You’d think that would be an in for a cheap and pervy cash-in, something more “fetish” than “cosplay”, but surprisingly, these guys take their craft real serious,…

Report: Google Is Making A Video Game Console

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is working on a video game console. What a world we live in. They say the console will be powered by the company’s Android operating system, and seems inspired partly by the relative success of other cheap, simple Android-based consoles like the Ouya and Gamestick. Interesting, the…

Quidditch Is The US Army’s Latest Secret Weapon

Perhaps seeking to open a new front in the war for hearts and minds, the US Army have taken up the ancient and noble sport of Quidditch. OK, no, they’re just taking a page out of Japanese schoolbooks, but there’s something especially amazing about seeing a group of armed servicemen on active duty using taxpayer-funded…

Sony Charges Too Much For PS3 Game, Refunding Customers

The Deadpool game, out this week, looks OK! Maybe not $60 worth of OK, which is what Sony were charging for the game on the PlayStation Network, but that’s fine, because it shouldn’t really have been priced at $60. The retail version was $50, and to make it up to those who paid $10 to…

The Germans Have Built A Robot Ape. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

While American researchers build robots based on safe, friendly animals like puppy dogs, and the Japanese continue to build cute little robot children, the Germans have gone for something a little more brutal: a robotic ape. The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence calls this an “ape-like robotic system”. It’s part of a program designed…

Kojima Wants Someone To Remake Metal Gear Solid, But That’s All.

There was a rumour earlier this week that Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima was trying to sign up a developer to handle a remake of Metal Gear Solid using Konami’s new Fox Engine. It’s not true, though there are the very best intentions behind it. Kojima first said this yesterday morning: There’s a rumor about…

How To Fix Your Broken PS3 After Last Week’s Firmware Update

A week ago, Sony released new firmware for the PS3 that unfortunately messed with a lot of people’s consoles, trapping them on a menu screen. Well, having pulled the offending firmware shortly afterwards, Sony now has a fix for those affected, as well as an updated firmware that hopefully works a lot better. If you’re…

The Art That Helped Sell Everything From Assassin’s Creed To Far Cry 3

Anthony Guebels works for Ubisoft as one of the artists responsible not necessarily for the creation of games, but for the marketing images used for games. He’s worked on all kinds of projects, from Far Cry 3 through the Assassin’s Creed series to Splinter Cell to the upcoming Watchdogs. You’ve probably seen many of the…

Since Nobody Else Is Making New Homeworld Games, This Guy Is

Paul Zakrzewski has done the bulk of the work single-handedly on Void Destroyer, a game that started out as a space combat sim before morphing into a strategy title that, yes, looks a lot like Relic’s classic Homeworld. Which is a good thing. I mean, it’s been a decade since we last saw a new…

Turning A Sick Boy Into A Video Game Hero

Wade Sharp is a young boy born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta, a condition that means his bones are as brittle as chalk, and which stops him playing sports and keeps him inside playing video games. Wade’s Make-A-Wish request, then, was to see how games are made, so Robot Entertainment (Orcs Must Die) were only too happy…

More Pikmin 3 Gameplay Footage Than You Could Throw A Spaceship At

This video runs for nearly seven minutes, and rarely pauses from showing you raw gameplay footage of one of the biggest upcoming Wii U exclusives. Yes, the audio is in Japanese, but you can still soak up the visuals.

It’s Not Wise To Upset This Amazing Wookie Cosplayer

You know, you might think it’s easy cosplaying as a wookie, but it’s not. All that hair, it’s tough getting it to look right. So hats off to mcm1015 here, who has done one hell of a job. Ignoring the easy Chewbacca route, instead we get Snoova, a mercenary created for the Shadows of the…

Turns out GoD Factory: Wingmen, that interesting MOBA/space shooter we showed you a few months back has a Kickstarter. Check it out, this game probably needs to be made.