Luke Plunkett

A BioShock PC That Lets You Browse Online For Hats, Garbage Food & Racist Rhetoric

BioShock Infinite’s steam(balloon)punk world had a lot of impressive technology, but nothing that could actually play, well, BioShock Infinite. That would have been both too meta, and too implausible. And yes, I know that world featured cyborgs and floating cities Reddit user CodyOdi has filled in the blanks with this casemod, turning a weird PC…

This Week’s Best Cosplay Includes Dirty Lara, The Other Mario Brother And A Strangely Feminine Metal Gear Outfit

A few familiar faces return in this week’s cosplay roundup, old costumes with new modifications or lavish new photoshoots. Those who aren’t new? They’re just as good. This week we’ve got some gender-bending Metal Gear cosplay, the return of a potato-nosed Mario brother and a Tomb Raider shoot that had everyone, cameraman included, up to…

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Out In May, Has Michael Biehn

If the last part of that headline didn’t make you happy deep inside, then this post – and this game – is not for you. With a lack of any official PR helping keep players in the dark aboutthe finer details of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, we’re left with piecemeal bits of info like…

Portal 2’s Atlas & P-Body Look Even Better In Real Life

Toy Company threeA held a show in Taipei over the weekend, and making their debut were the finished models (we’ve seen earlier iterations before) of Portal 2’s co-op robots Atlas and P-Body. These will be expensive, but for collectors, they also look like they’ll be totally worth it. Note the detail on the paint job…

The Shooter That Lets You Play As Three People At Once

Signal Ops is a new indie shooter that, instead of just giving you one player to control and one screen to control them on, gives you three. Like Space Hulk, then, only cuter, and way more effective, seeing as this is a proper, fluid game, not an ancient, tile-based experience. You play the part of…

Planescape Torment’s Successor Is Now The Biggest Kickstarter Game Of All Time

The spiritual successor to Planescape Torment, Torment: Tides of Numenera, once held the record for being the fastest Kickstarter to hit $1 million. It quickly lost that honour, but that’s OK. It’s now got another record to its name, that of being the most successful Kickstarter video game of all time, raising over $4 million…

First-Person Shooter is a fantastic video put together by The Verge, part of this larger report, which looks at the way cameras are being used by police to record when they pursue, and sometimes fire upon, suspects.

Raiden Cosplayer Can Be Easily Confused With Actual Raiden

It’s probably not my favourite Raiden cosplay, but for effort and application it’s now a comfortable number two. Cosplayer Xailas7 wore this to the Metal Gear Rising launch party in LA, and if he wasn’t the star attraction there, well I just don’t know. It’s incredible. From the contacts to the hair to the detail…

So This Is A Game Where You Play As The Moon

Ever since The Mighty Boosh, I’ve wanted to be the Moon. Playing as people and aliens and robots is all well and good, but to be a celestial body? One that some people think is made out of cheese? Yes please. So it’s nice seeing the reveal of Lune, “a game of exploration and adventure…

BioShock Infinite: The Movie Gives You All The Story With The Gameplay Cut Out

As a shooter, BioShock Infinite isn’t that great. People came for the story and world, and that’s what most people seem to have loved and have taken away from the experience. Naturally, then, somebody went and made a video including only BioShock Infinite’s “best” bits. Gameplay footage is kept to a bare minimum, mostly transitions…

Full Throttle’s 1993 VHS Promo Tape

This is a 1993 promo for Lucasarts’ Full Throttle, starring The Gone Jackals, the band who feature in the game’s fantastic soundtrack. The clip above features the most memorable track from the game, that used in the intro, but as I outlined in this feature on the band and its soundtrack a couple of years…

The Beautiful Concept Art Of BioShock Infinite

Ben Lo is a Canadian concept artist who currently works at Irrational Games in Boston. An environment concept artist, in this gallery you’ll see a selection of his works that contributed to the design of BioShock Infinite’s Columbia. They are, as you’d expect given how beautiful the final product was, absolutely gorgeous. You can see…

If This Really Is Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon’s Soundtrack, Then Oh My God

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, ie the worst-kept secret this week in video games, has unravelled a little more, with Aussie artist Powerglove seemingly behind the game’s soundtrack. His Soundcloud page has a number of tracks bearing the “box art” for the expansion/DLC/whatever the hell it is, and they are exactly what you think that…

A Microsoft Creative Director ‘Doesn’t Get The Drama’ Around Always-Online Consoles, Devices

Adam Orth is a creative director at Microsoft Studios. That places him pretty high up on Microsoft’s video game chain of command. Not the top, but he’s an important guy. Anyway, earlier today, Adam took to Twitter to seemingly talk about our report that the next Xbox console will require an always-online internet connection While…

If You Like Final Fantasy Or Zelda, You Need To Play Evoland

I killed a few hours this morning playing Evoland, a new JRPG/Action RPG released on Steam. It’s a strange thing. It’s a game, sure, but it’s also a history lesson and a love letter to two classic and venerable genres, all of which makes it well worth the $10 asking price. Evoland is, as its…

Fans of classic Star Wars game Jedi Outcast should know that Raven’s Mike Gummelt popped into our comments section today to discuss with readers the development of the game. And share amazing starfighter mods. Well worth a read

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Screenshots Show, Yup, This Expansion Is 80s Crazy

No, it’s not an April Fool’s joke The 80’s-infused Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a real thing, and these appear – note they haven’t been officially released – to be its first screenshots. Still no word exactly on what it is – a standalone expansion, DLC, new areas, whatever – but it certainly looks…

I don’t mean to alarm you, but the 20th anniversary edition of Another World just hit Steam

Another Sega Studio Bites The Dust

Sega’s Australian development studio, once known as Creative Assembly Australia and responsible for games like Medieval II: Total War, is to be closed down. Sega confirmed the move with Kotaku today, saying the developer will be shut down “later this year”.

Jet Li Says Video Games Can Totally Be A Sport

Well, here’s an unexpected champion of the plight of the professional gamer: martial arts/acting legend Jet Li. Attending a PvP event for Age of Wushu, a martial arts MMO, Li said “If poker card games and chess both have the players sitting down and are considered sports, why not virtual gaming as well.” “There are…