Luke Plunkett

See How The Wii U’s Menu Load Times Are Getting Faster

A system update due next month will dramatically speed up the time it takes to jump from a Wii U game back to the system menu. You can see just how big a difference it makes in the video above.

The Great Video Game Medley Packs All Your Favourite* Theme Songs Into One Track

Sarah Schachner is a composer and musician who has not only worked in Hollywood on movies like Expendables 2 and the upcoming Iron Man 3, she’s also worked on games like Modern Warfare 3 and Far Cry 3. In this clip, she mashes the themes to Skyrim, Modern Warfare 2 and Halo into one track…

Oh Look, Someone Playing BioShock Infinite On A PlayStation Vita

There’s no Vita version of BioShock Infinite. The game doesn’t officially support remote play, either. But reader John, who has some custom firmware installed on his PS3, hasn’t let that stop him from playing Irrational’s latest on Sony’s handheld. Looks good. So jealous.

When SimCity Roads Are So Broken They Look Like Rollercoasters

This video is called “SimCity TrackMania City”. It could also be called “SimCity Rollercoaster Tycoon City”. YouTube user MiguelM12345 says he “wanted to fill the water space with hand-drawed roads”. And this is what happened. I’m not so shocked that it happened. I’m more shocked it stuck, that the game’s engine can handle it, and…

Here, Your First Battlefield 4 Screenshots

EA has accidentally left the back door to its Battlefield blog open, giving the public access to image files currently being hosted there. Among them are these three Battlefield 4 screenshots, presumably showing action from the game’s campaign. They’re big images, so be sure to click “expand” to see them as nature intended. Well, as…

Tomb Raider has sold 3.4 million copies in a month, is amazing, and yet still managed to miss Square Enix’s internal sales projections, reports Eurogamer. Oh video game publishers.

A Brilliant Poster For The New Star Wars Movie, Starring The Original Cast’s Old Faces

So, the next Star Wars movie will most likely feature appearances by many of the original cast members from the 1977-1983 trilogy. That’s…kinda good news, on paper, but remember, 1983 was a loooong time ago. These guys don’t quite look the way they used to. As this awesome mock-up poster by artist Adam Schickling shows…

Iron Man 3 Isn’t Called Iron Patriot 3, But At Least The Latter Gets His Own Amazing Action Figure

He’s a supporting character, second fiddle to Downey Jnr.’s gold-riddled heroics, but when it comes to flag-waving robot suit ass-kicking, nobody does it more American than Don Cheadle’s Iron Patriot. Hot Toys is releasing this figure based on the suit, and while it’ll miss the theatrical release of the movie (it’s out in May, while…

A Gorgeous Game That Lets You Explore The Titanic. Right Up Until, You Know, It Sinks.

Back in 2011, we showed you footage of a project some fans were putting together, in which the entire RMS Titanic was being recreated using the same engine that powers Crysis 3. Inside and out. That project is now back with a more substantial goal in mind, with the team behind it launching an Indiegogo…

Why Do We Play Games?

It’s a valid question. I mean, as the guy says, we don’t need to. We just…do it. And make it harder of our own free will, by adding rules and stuff. Games are weird Why Do We Play Games? [Vsauce]

Turns Out Video Game Retailers Do A Pretty Good Job Of Not Selling Adult Games To Kids

Last year, the Federal Trade Commission ran a nationwide undercover shopping sting, aimed at testing various retailers’ compliance with age ratings for media products. Kids aged 13-16, without the supervision of an adult, were asked to try and buy things like unrated DVDs, explicit albums and M-rated video games. For all the crap that game…

As we’ve just seen, 3D printers are pretty great for hobbyists and DIY toy-makers. But because the machines can make practically anything, they can make, well, practically anything. Including assault rifles. Which is going to be a problem. 3D Printed Guns [Vice]

Brave Man Invites GlaDOS Into His Home And Onto His Ceiling

When dragonator wanted a new lamp for the roof, he didn’t go and buy one. He made a giant, supremely impressive GlaDOS one. As you do. Built using a 3D printer, as you can see, it barely qualifies as a “lamp” anymore at all. “Elaborate roof sculpture that happens to also illuminate” might be more…

Oh Hai There

British artist Shaun Mooney, who cut his teeth at Traveller’s Tales handheld division working on LEGO games, now works at Atomhawk Design, one of the world’s top creative studios and a team we’ve featured before here on Fine Art His work has appeared in recent games like Guardians of Middle Earth, and he also contributed…

Enjoy Vice City All Over Again As A Fantastic Grand Theft Auto IV “Mod”

It’s been too long since we last saw Vice City Rage in action. Too damn long. An ambitious project aimed at “porting” Rockstar’s classic 2002 game to the more modern Grand Theft Auto IV engine, it may still be looking a little basic in terms of textures, but that modern lighting, physics and handling are…

Soundodger is like a shoot-em-up where you can’t actually shoot back. And it’s entirely generated by the music. Bullet hell? More like music hell. (via Indiegames)

BioShock Infinite Cosplay Is As Impressive As The Actual Game

Last year, cosplayer Anna Moleva did such a good job role-playing as BioShock Infinite’s Elizabeth that developers Irrational Games offered her a job marketing the game If you were wondering what comes next, here’s the end result, from a photo shoot that took place back in Janury. It’s a strange world we’re living in, but…

Two PC Shooter Series Make The Jump To PlayStation 4

Sony announced today that indie shooters Blacklight: Retribution (above) and Primal Carnage (below), both already available on the PC, will also be turning up on the PlayStation 4 when the console is released later this year. Like The Witness, these games will be self-published by developers Both Zombie Studios and Lukewarm Media respectively. Also announced,…

Get A First Look At Broken Age, Double Fine’s New Adventure Game, In Action

Given a name over the weekend, Broken Age, the end result of a record-breaking Kickstarter effort run by Tim Schafer’s Double Fine, now has some gameplay footage. Only a little, sandwiched between interviews with key developers, but then, this isn’t your standard sleep-inducing developer diary. It’s a documentary put together by the very talented 2…

SimCity Gets Twice As Many People In The Game, “Improves Server Response Time By 40x”

Providing a little more detail than was briefly offered yesterday in a series of Twitter exchanges, Maxis’ Lucy Bradshaw has written a blog post outlining the progress that continues to be made fixing SimCity’s back-end woes. “Maxis continues to make huge progress in addressing the lag and server-capacity issues we experienced at launch”, she wrote.…