Luke Plunkett

Finally, Some Hardware Gameplay Footage. And It Looks Great.

Hardware: Shipbreakers, a strategy game being made by some of the guys behind the Homeworld series, has looked very gorgeous for a very long time. Problem is, in all that time, we’d never actually seen any gameplay footage. Time to fix that, with this surprisingly candid and lengthy footage of the game in action. You…

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The Real Gun That Thinks It’s A Video Game Gun

This is a real commercial for a real piece of hardware. It’s for TrackingPoint, a company that makes laser-guided rifles. The clip above is billed as a “3D Video game-style teaser”. You’d think the idea of sci-fi rifles turning real combat into a video game would be the craziest thing about it, but nope. For…

Voltron Stars Made (More) Real

Maybe because it had a relatively strong lead female character, maybe because it had some hunky dudes, maybe because everyone just likes lions, I’m not sure, but when I was growing up, Voltron was one of the few series the girls in my class liked almost as much as the boys. We’re all being catered…

Warhammer Quest, for iOS, is out today. By all accounts, it’s fantastic.

Get So Close To An Xbox One You’ll Think You Can Touch It

Seeing as precious few people on Earth have actually been up-close with an Xbox One in the flesh, why don’t you check out this 3D model of the console, which you can explore right here. You can rotate, pan and zoom to your heart’s content, getting close to all the lines, ridges and ports there…

The Closest You’ll Ever Come To Seeing A Real Pokemon Museum

Artist RJ Palmer has taken his “realistic” series of Pokemon illustrations and put them all on the one image, which is available as a poster. I am so in love with the “human silhouette for scale” bit it’s not funny. You knew you were onto a good thing as a kid when a dinosaur book…

How To Build A Healthier PC Gaming Table For Under $200

You love your PC. It’s a place you can work at, but more importantly, it’s a place you can game at. The thing is, if you’re using a traditional desk-and-chair setup, the more you game on the PC, the bigger the problem you’re creating for yourself. I don’t want to sound like your mother here,…

Because You Always Wanted A PC That Looked Like A Drone Terminal

This is AIO’s DRN-STN. It is bonkers. Pitched as an all-in-one solution for a gaming PC, it’s essentially a desktop case (one that fits all standard components) with a 24″ monitor crammed in one side and an exterior designed like something you’d find in a multiplayer round of Battlefield. So, yeah, it’s PC gaming’s ugly…

Far Cry 3’s Jason Brody, Standing Sadly In The Rain

Herve Groussin is a senior concept artist at Eidos Montreal, the developers behind Deus Ex and the upcoming Thief reboot. He had until recently, however, been working at Ubisoft for a very long time, during which time he contributed on everything from Assassin’s Creed (where we’ve briefly featured him previously) to Far Cry 3. Before…

Blizzard’s Next Big MMO Goes Back To The Drawing Board

Blizzard’s follow-up to World of Warcraft, a project known only by its codename Titan, has been in development since 2006. And it’s going to be in development a lot longer, after the company announced today it was making some significant changes to both the game and the people working on it. Responding to a report…

Video Game PR Issues Beautiful “No Comment” In Haiku

The Yakuza games are some of the very best on the PS3, so Sega’s silence on a possible localisation of Yakuza 5 is killing me The publisher has since broken that silence, however, responding to a Yakuza fansite. In haiku. Like every single Japan-related PR communication should be. The poem, sent to Yakuza Fan, reads:…

This Navi Is Not Annoying. Far From It.

This is Madison Kimrey, and she’s eleven years old. She is also the first human on Earth to successfully cosplay as one of the most annoying characters in Nintendo’s long, storied history. Seriously, next time you play Ocarina, imagine that instead of a nondescript blue ball your sidekick was Madison, annoyance replaced with this slightly…

One Does Not Simply Screw Up A LEGO Set This Badly

One of the newest playsets in LEGO’s Lord of the Rings line is the Council of Elrond. A key moment in the events of the trilogy, it’s notable not just because it brings the Fellowship of the Ring together, but because the internet has transformed one line into perhaps the series’ most memorable. It’s crazy,…

These Guys Make The Best Damn Trailers In The Business

They don’t use expensive pre-rendered cinematics. They don’t license famous old songs. They don’t play on TV during the NBA playoffs. But that doesn’t matter. Niche PC publisher Paradox Interactive still makes the best video game trailers in the world regardless. Above, you can see their latest, for the very hardcore, very PC game Crusader…

200 People, Retro Multiplayer, No Internet. It’s Madness.

On the weekend, the Personal Computer Museum in Ontario, Canada held its annual “Game Night”, throwing open its doors and letting around 200 people in to get their hands on a ton of vintage video games, which can be played on their original hardware. Thing is, there’s a catch. There’s no internet allowed. Anywhere. If…

Jimmy Fallon’s Game Of Thrones Tribute Is Surprisingly Amazing

Say what you will about Jimmy Fallon’s tenure of the Late Night show, when his team decide to do a Game of Thrones parody, they go all out It was a rough Sunday night without a real Game of Thrones, but if we’re going to sit through ten minutes of homage, it could have been…

Building Sony Monsters, One Polygon At A Time

Bryan Wynia works as a senior character artist at Sony Computer Entertainment America, where he most recently worked on God Of War: Ascension. Prior to that, he was a character artist Naughty Dog, and contributed to the look of both Uncharted 2 and Uncharted 3. You can see more of Bryan’s work at his personal…

Even eBay Is Making The Most Of The Xbox One’s Bad PR

We’ve all had our fun with the Xbox One’s less-than-stellar reveal, but for eBay, the console’s problems are more than just a joke; they’re a way for Nintendo to make some sales. eBay Germany’s Facebook page ran the above ad over the weekend. The image is fine, but it’s the text underneath that’s getting the…

Putting The Xbox One’s Reveal In Perspective

LaserFrog’s summary here of last week’s big console reveal may well be the first time something has been so melancholy it’s made me smile. Then again, it doesn’t matter how you say “bag of farts”, that’s normally enough to get a laugh out of me. Run, Play, Think! – Xbox One Reveal Revealed [YouTube]