Luke Plunkett

Next-Gen Call Of Duty, Last-Last-Gen Engine

The next Call of Duty game, Ghosts, will be the first to appear on an entirely new generation of hardware. Despite this, it’s still built on an engine that’s over ten years old, though the game’s developers would like you to think otherwise. Sure, the engine has been heavily modified since then – Modern Warfare…

Don’t Expect Those Xbox One Exclusives To Come To PC

Not that you should have, given Microsoft’s puzzling disdain towards the market, but just in case you were thinking those promised Xbox One exclusives were coming to PC, you can stop. Shacknews asked Microsoft if any of those 15 titles would come to the PC, and the response they got from Matt Booty, general manager…

Happy Wedding Anniversary, Here’s An Epic Gears Of War Family Portrait

For my first wedding anniversary, I went out to dinner. Fancy joint. I thought I’d done a good job. Nope. Turns out I did a terrible job. For Xioo’s first anniversary, he had artist Edward Chua take an existing Gears of War mural he’d done and alter it so that the piece featured he, his…

Gran Turismo Boss Enters Car Race, Quietly Uses Video Game To Help

Not many game developers are able to practice what they preach, mostly because a lot of the stuff they preach involves stuff that doesn’t actually exist. Gran Turismo series creator Kazunori Yamauchi, however, takes his motor racing seriously. Very seriously. So seriously that, schedule permitting, he sometimes races expensive sports cars. Over the weekend the…

Amazon Is Selling Licensed Fan-Fiction, Let’s Hope Games Follow

Well, this is bizarre. Amazon has announced Kindle Worlds, which it calls a “place for you to publish fan fiction inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games”. You might be thinking, well, there already is a place, and that place is the internet, but they key here is that Amazon has signed…

Star Wars Meets Mass Effect In A Crossover Dream Come True

It’s not the firsttime we’ve seen an artist combine the two sci-fi universes, but it is the best time. These pieces by artist Zarnala aren’t the only amazing works in her portfolio, either. There are dogs and cats in there that’ll make your day. Zarnala [DeviantArt, via Uastis Again]

It’s A Half-Life 2 Gravity Gun. In A Bathroom.

Last December, reader Michelle decided to take a swing at building her own replica gravity gun from Half-Life 2. It’s done now, and it looks fantastic. It looks like it was a ton of hard work, from re-modelling the gun’s 3D wireframe to laser-cutting to a ton of painting and fiddly construction, but the results…

Explaining Frames-Per-Second (And Motion Blur)

Frames-per-second. Motion blur. They’re terms you’re probably familiar with if you’ve ever tinkered with game settings or even casually followed games hardware, but just what do those terms actually mean, and how do the laws that govern them actually work? This is how Frames-per-second [Site, via Josh Sawyer]

I For One Welcome The Return Of Our Cyberpunk Overlords

Today’s Fine Art is all about the work of Robin Chyo. An artist who’s mostly worked in the games business, Chyo has either worked for or contracted with clients such as Activision, Fantasy Flight, Microsoft and Universal Pictures. If you remember we actually featured his Modern Warfare 3 work a few years ago. You can…

Please, Let This Be Call Of Duty Dog’s First DLC

Map packs? Please. The future of Call of Duty DLC must surely be new dogs. Hopefully the first will be this Corgi, done by French artist Diana Da Costa, that is so cuddly I am about to die. Collar of Duty [Rated R]

Here Are The Rules For What You Can (And Can’t) Call The Xbox One

The “brand guidelines” for the new Xbox One have been published by Microsoft, and while they’re intended for use by people like advertisers and partners, there’s still some good stuff in there for people like you and me. For starters, there’s information on logos and fonts, in case your ideas for photoshop jokes must be…

When Xbox Jokes Accidentally Become Xbox Marketing

Yesterday, GameSpot’s Carolyn Petit was one of countless people online having a little fun at Microsoft’s expense duringits woeful Xbox One reveal Something one of the employees manning the company’s marketing machine didn’t take into account when using one of Petit’s tweets as a piece of marketing hype (above). Whoops. I understand sarcasm isn’t always…

The One Thing All Three Consoles Could Really Learn From The PC

The PS4, Xbox One and Wii U are all very different consoles, but there’s one thing I wish all three had in common: their digital pricing. Something they could learn from the PC. Steam gets a lot of credit for rejuvenating the PC gaming market, and there’s one area it deserves more praise than anywhere…

YouTube has issued a statement following recent issues like the one surrounding Nintendo and various “let’s play” video creators. It basically amounts to “hey, take it up with the publisher”.

BioSloth Infinite Sweater Is At The Top Of My Christmas List

If there really is a Santa, I’ll be rocking this come December 26. And yes, I know it’s the middle of Summer in Australia on December 26, but fuck it. The BioSloth Infinite Sweatshirt You Didn’t Know You Wanted [Fashionably Geek] BioSloth Sweater [Shelfies]

Ever Wonder Who Does The Art For Game Posters, Ads And Boxes?

Sometimes, the art behind a video game is done by the people making the game. Other times, some of the creative process is handled by an external party, like Massive Black, or Atomhawk Two Dots are another such company, a team of artists who help behind the scenes on everything from a game’s world design…

I Hope This Really Is Xbox One Game Box Art

This box art image appeared on the official Battlefield 4 site today. It may only be a mock-up, since the console was only officially unveiled today, but I hope it’s the real deal. The clean look is a welcome departure from the mess Xbox 360 boxes ended up being, especially when Kinect compatibility was involved.…

This Is Probably Your First Next-Gen Need For Speed Screenshot

As teased on the series’ Facebook page earlier today, along with the text “Have no rules, show no mercy.”

The Xbox One’s 500GB HDD is non-removable. But that’s OK. The console’s USB 3.0 ports will take external storage, reports Engadget, and you can put anything on there you would on the internal drive, including games.

That Xbox One Reveal Sure Was A Disaster, Huh?

Well, I bet this isn’t how Microsoft thought its big day would end. What could/should have been a triumphant exclamation point, the day the next-gen console wars began in earnest, instead turned into a disaster I don’t think any of us saw coming. No matter where you turned today, whether it be Facebook, Twitter, forums…