Luke Plunkett

This Is The Sega We’d Like To Remember

Amidst all the rubbish Sonic games and Hatsune Miku, it’s easy to forget that Sega was, once, cool. Very cool. It’s something artist Oggy hasn’t forgotten, with this tribute to the company’s vehicular heyday that I wish my wife would let me paint all over our living room wall. レトロゲーム [PIXIV, via VGJunk]

Gunpoint Sticks Stealth Gaming’s Finger In The Light Socket

Tom Francis, by day a writer at PC Gamer, is by night the main man behind Gunpoint, an upcoming stealth game for the PC which I’ve been playing for the last few days (and looking forward to for the last few months). Gunpoint is, like last year’s Mark of the Ninja, less of a blockbuster…

X-Wing Tabletop Game Pays Awesome Tribute To Dark Forces

The X-Wing Miniatures tabletop game, which I like very much, has a new line of tiny little spacecraft on the way. Joining the eight units already available (Xwing, A-Wing, Y-Wing, TIE Fighter, TIE Interceptor, TIE Advanced, Slave One & the Falcon) are four new ships. They are the B-Wing, Lambda-Class Shuttle, TIE Bomber and HWK-290.…

When Famous Horror Directors Play Terrible Games Based On Their Movies

Here’s a treat. Popular YouTube gamer The Angry Video Game Nerd managed to sit down and play games with the one and only Lloyd Kaufman, co-founder of Troma and the director of classics like Toxic Avengers. The game he played? The various versions of Toxic Avengers. Which, well, yeah. Weren’t great. Toxic Crusaders – Angry…

LEGO Helm’s Deep Redefines The Term “Epic Battle”

This isn’tthe first time we’ve seen the wettest battle from the Lord of the Rings trilogy recreated in LEGO, but it’s easily the most impressive, at least in terms of scale. I don’t know how he got so many minifigs to pad out the scene, and I don’t want to know. All I know is,…

Aussie Star Wars Isn’t Exactly Canon

This is Aussie Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Bloke. For those living outside the antipodes, think of it as anthropology meets popular culture, because just about every reference they drop in this thing is perfect Aussie Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Bloke [YouTube]

So A Live-Action Wreck-It-Ralph Would Look Pretty Great

We’re between major conventions at the moment, not to mention between big game releases, so sadly, this isn’t the biggest cosplay roundup we’ve ever had here on Fancy Pants this week. But the stuff that is on show this week makes up for downfall in numbers. As you can see above, Wreck-it-Ralph cosplay can be…

Skyrim Gets Giant Monsters Courtesy Of Fantastic Mod

Of the literally thousands of mods I’ve seen for Skyrim over months, this is probably my new favourite, by virtue of the fact it adds giant monsters, turning the game into a very Nordic Shadow of the Colossus Or, you know, Monster Hunter Each mythical beast has its own lair – a location on the…

Googlehas hired industry legend Noah Falstein (Sinistar, Fate of Atlantis) to be its “Chief Game Designer”. And won’t say why. Google Glass games? First-party Android development? Bigger/better search engine tie ins?

The Internet Reacts Stupidly/Hilariously To GTAV’s New Trailers

Continuing the trend begun last year, the internet has followed Rockstar’s release of three new Grand Theft Auto V trailers with a collection of some of the worst – and by that virtue the best – comments from YouTube. Collected on the Tumblr linked below, they are like diamonds, shining through the mud. Grand Theft…

Having Helped Build Halo 4, He’s Now Building Worlds At Valve

I like to think of Paul Pepera’s art as the realisation of childhood dreams. Rendering what we imagined our LEGO constructions to be in our heads, not as they actually looked, all clunky and basic and sharp. Now an artist at Valve, Pepera has also worked at places like 343 Studios, id Software and Timegate,…

Iron Man As Assassin’s Creed (And Dragonball, And…Daft Punk)

Aussie artist BossLogic has done these insane mashups of Iron Man, turning Tony Stark’s mechanical alter ego into an Iron Assassin, Iron Mega Man, an Iron Saiyan (hey, that sounds awesome) and even Iron Punk. Oh, and also Iron Gundam, Iron Magneto, Iron Wolverine, Iron Superman, Iron Predator… You can see more of his amazing…

Nobody Wants The Next Xbox To Be “Another Way Of Looking At Facebook”

Speaking with Edge, former Lionhead boss and Microsoft exec Peter Molyneux wins some brownie points for his hopes on what the next Xbox will offer. Peter Molyneux on the next Xbox: “I don’t want another way of looking at Facebook” [Edge] To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on…

Aliens: Colonial Marines Dev In Trouble, Owe Pizza Restaurant Money

Timegate studios, the co-developers of the awful Aliens: Colonial Marines, are in serious financial trouble. Filing for bankruptcy protection in a Texas court, they owe a lot of people a lot of money. Some of the people on their list include Epic Games (for the Unreal Engine), online service Agora Games and a video game…

Wow, Rome’s Most (Allegedly) Debauched Ruler Looks Just Like Joffrey

On the left, the Emperor Caligula, one of the most famous – and notorious – rulers of ancient Rome. On the right, Jack Gleeson as Joffrey in the Game of Thrones TV series. It’s a cute likeness if the physical likeness is all you see. But Caligula has long held a reputation – one that,…

The Ass Nintendo Doesn’t Want You To See

There’s new Fire Emblem DLC out today. The Summer Scramble pack. It adds a beach map to the game as well as “many conversations between the parent characters who normally do not support each other in the main game”. Yet it also takes one thing away. When the pack was released in Japan, it featured…

Gaming In 1982: Moustaches, Tiny Shorts & Colecovision

These two photos, belonging to Richard Braunstein, are perfect. Just perfect. Perfect because they capture what it was like playing games in the days before giant couches and giant TV sets. Perfect because these are two grown men playing video games in 1982, smashing stereotypes. And perfect because this is a photo of a Colecovision…

Your Original iPhone Will Soon Be Officially Obsolete

If for some reason you still have an original iPhone lying around, know that the revolutionary 2007 device is about to be declared obsolete. Not by your friends. By Apple. While it’s long stopped receiving software updates, and barely any games will run on the thing, it’s technically still been seen as an active device…

Even The Megacities Of The Future Are Crawling With Zombies

Just when you think you’ve seen every kind of zombie story the world can throw at you, it throws you one more. Past Away is a hybrid comic/adventure game being developed by Christopher Middleton, where you play as a futuristic pizza delivery pilot who has to survive the zombie apocalypse. Being essentially an interactive motion…

Wow, Sid Meier Just Made A New Video Game

Legendary game designer and Civilization co-creator Sid Meier is a bit like Tom Clancy these days. His name’s on a whole bunch of stuff, but the level of involvement he actually has with each project, even Civilization games, varies. There appears to be little doubt how much of a hand he’s had in this latest…