Luke Plunkett

Aussie games writer Alanah Pearce spent a month cataloguing the sexist abuse she receives just for doing her job. Then published it. It’s sad reading

Fighting Game Legends Want To Make A…City-Building Game. Of Course.

If you know the names Tom and Tony Cannon, it’s probably for the fact they helped found, and have been running, the EVO fighting game championships for the last decade. Software engineers by trade, who also helped on the engine side of things with Skullgirls, the brothers are now setting out to develop their own…

With The Press Of A Button, This Game Changes Everything Around You

When I first saw it earlier this year, indie platformer Oliver & Spike looked like one of the most interesting games of the year. It’s built around the idea that, with a single button, you can change the entire world around you. Not just the colour palette or the water level, everything around you. You’ve…

Two Game Developers Travel The World, Playing Games And Helping People

Earlier this year, Battlefield producer Daniel Matros and former colleague Tim Kjell set up something called Charitystream. The idea was simple: stream games online, raise money for charity. It’s a noble goal, yeah, but it’s also something countless others are engaged in. What’s interesting about Charitystream, though, is the direct means the pair employ to…

BioShock Infinite To Give You A New Companion Character?

In Elizabeth, BioShock Infinite gave us the best AI companion since Half-Life 2’s Alyx Vance. For the game’s upcoming DLC, however, it seems we might be getting a new best bud. The CV of 2K animator Michael Shahan yesterday mentioned (it’s since been removed) that one of his most recent roles was “providing animation and…

Variety reports that Scott Stuber (The Kingdom, Ted, Battleship)has signed on to produce Epic’s long-coming Gears of War movie. Who knows, this thing might actually get made!

A new trailer for Hardware: Shipbreakers means, yup, more awesome art

3D builder/magician Psychobob – you’ve seen his stuff before – is selling these Portal-themed drinks coasters, so your companion coffee cup has somewhere to rest its weary butt.

Art Dealer Is Selling The World’s Most Expensive Screenshots

Art dealers Cook & Decker have teamed up with Irrational Games to sell some very large and very expensive prints, each displaying art from BioShock Infinite. Interestingly, the art isn’t taken from the game’s wonderful concept works. They’re screenshots, though the word does them a slight disservice. These are prints based on the super hi-res…

The Game In This Trailer Does Not Exist

The “game” in this trailer, Delirium, isn’t actually a game. You can’t play it, and you probably never will play it. So why is there a trailer? It’s the work of three students – Edgard Ortega, Connor McCampbell and Gudjon Larusson – whose senior thesis project involved constructing a mock video game trailer. The onus…

This Is The World’s Most Fabulous Halo Action Figure

It’s large, detailed and expensive as only a threeA figure could be, but then, Halo is a series that’s long deserved this kind of top-shelf action figure. Though “action figure” kind of sells this thing short. Recreating Halo Reach’s Carter down to the tiniest detail (look at those fingers), this thing will cost $220 when…

Arkham City’s Batman Actor Won’t Be Back For The Next Game

Kevin Conroy, who has voiced Batman in all kinds of stuff, from the classic 90s animated series to Rocksteady’s last two masterpiece video games, will not be reprising his role in the upcoming Batman: Arkham Origins. Unlike the drama surrounding another long-time fan favourite voice actor, though, at least in this case it makes sense.…

Who Said There Was No Future In Starfighter Video Games?

For a genre that was once dominant in the mid-90s, with classics like X-Wing and Wing Commander, the space combat simulator is by 2013 on its knees. Sure, indies and mods try their best to keep things ticking, but one Kickstarter project aside, it’s been a very long time since a developer with serious resources/money…

If BioShock Infinite Was An…Anime

The architecture and setting is about as far removed from Japanese animation as you could get, but that only makes these anime-styled images by doubleleaf all the cooler. We’ve featured doubleleaf’s art here before, and with good reason: it’s not only great art but is often hilarious as well. Not in this case, sure, but…

Meet The New King Of Metal Gear Cosplay

I’ve seen some fantastic Metal Gear cosplay in my time, but boy, I’ve never seen something that, from head to toe, looks this good. Like, look at the wear and tear on his shirt. The facial expression. The make-up. The hair. It is Snake, incarnate. It’s so good, in fact, you should check out the…

Minecraft Creator’s Latest Game Is Now Out (And Free)

While fans wait to play ox10c, the next big release from Minecraft creator Marcus Persson, he quietly unveiled a free Unity game over the weekend It’s called Drop, and if you ever wanted to play Super Hexagon but with typing, well, this is your game. Drop [Site]

What A DDOS Attack On A Website/Game Actually Looks Like

A favourite tool of hackers and other forms of online troublemaker, the DDOS – Distributed Denial of Service – attack is something we see a lot of in video games, whether it be people trying to take down a company’s website or even, in some cases, crash the games themselves. But just how does a…

The Only Thing That Can Make Futurama Better Is Some Team Fortress 2

In memory of Futurama, which last week was killed off for a second time, here’s a Team Fortress 2 video that recreates the show’s classic Robot Hell song & dance routine I like to think that, in developing and releasing the Source Filmmaker tools, Valve had this exact thing in mind. GentleBot Hell [SFM] [YouTube,…

This 4-Foot Tall LEGO Evangelion Could Probably Kick Your Ass

This LEGO recreation of Evangelion Unit 0-1 is 120 cm tall. It weighs just under 10kg, or 20 pounds. It is, with all that towering purple, blowing my socks off. It’s not just the scale that’s impressive. You can pose it, it’s got weapons, and it’s even at the right size so that minifig pilots…

Stealth Bastard Had To Change Its Name To Appear On Sony’s PSN

There once was a PC game called Stealth Bastard. Well, there still is a PC game called Stealth Bastard. That game is now heading to the PSN, where Sony, sadly, have seen fit (following a competition) to have its name changed to the altogether duller/cornier Stealth Inc. – A Clone in the Dark!. Stealth B**tard…