Luke Plunkett

See Minecraft Running On A Computer That Costs $35

I realise that one reason for Minecraft’s success is that it can run on older/weaker computers, but this is crazy What you’re seeing here is Mojang’s world-builder running on the Raspberry Pi, a tiny hobbyist computer that’s little more than a glorified chipboard, and which costs only $35. The version of the game has been…

We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat… Well, A Bigger Luxury Automobile

Tonight's Fine Art looks at the work of Alex Brady

Here’s One Developer Who Doesn’t Fight Piracy. He Embraces It.

Sean Hogan, one of the two guys behind the delightful Anodyne, is not Electronic Arts. He’s not Ubisoft, either. Or Activision. He is instead a man who, like Hotline Miami’s Jonatan Soderstrom, isn’t terribly concerned with people pirating his game. Sure, he doesn’t exactly have billions of dollars riding on his multinational business like big…

You Can Play Assassin’s Creed Of The Future. With Guns. Sort Of.

A DLC pack for the oft-forgotten Ghost Recon Online will for the next few weeks make the online PC shooter (technically still in beta) substantially more interesting. Provided you like Assassin’s Creed, that is. And the prospect of Assassins using assault rifles. The pack adds “Abstergo” weapons and a very fetching near-future rendition of the…

Let’s Rank Nintendo’s Controllers, Best To Worst

I published an innocent little story yesterday about an N64 controller that provoked an unexpected response. You see, I hate the Nintendo 64 controller. All my friends hate it. Everyone I ever gamed on the console with hated it. I figured it was pretty safe to share that dislike. Others, on the internet, disagreed. Some…

These Dragon Age Characters Aren’t Real, But They Damn Well Should Be

I showed you the Mass Effect entries in CGHub’s big BioWare competition last week, so today, it’s only fair that Dragon Age gets its turn. Perhaps because of its less iconic visual design, perhaps because people got all cold on the series after 2, but there aren’t as many entries as there were for Mass…

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A Gaming Room For Which The Word “Room” Doesn’t Really Do It Justice

Reddit user ScienceBrah has a personal trainer, and that personal trainer’s name is James. I tell you this only because James has one of the most kick-ass gaming rooms I’ve ever seen. There are so many games—organised properly, thank the Maker—down there he could hand out plastic cards and call it a game library my…

For $25,000, You Can have Your Own Giant RoboCop Killing Machine

This is, as close as we can get in 2013 anyway, a real version of RoboCop’s famous ED-209. It’s reportedly an actual Hollywood prop, built for RoboCop 2, and stands ten-feet tall It won’t move or shoot executives in the face, but then, it’s “only” $25,000, available via an eBay auction. A real executive face-shooter…

RAGE’s Mod Tools Are Daunting, But Might Result In Awesome “New” Games

Having been promised for an age, id Software finally made good last week on a pledge to release a modding tool kit for its ambitious, if slightly wonky 2011 shooter RAGE And what a set of tools it is. If you were hoping for a friendly system full of handy tips and giant buttons, sorry.…

An Almost Perfect Week Of Video Game Cosplay

It’s easy to cosplay as Mario. Put on a fake moustache and some overalls. It’s hard, very hard, to cosplay as Mario and do it well. Today, though, we’re seeing the best damn Mario cosplay I’ve ever seen. And one of the best Lara Croft cosplays I’ve ever seen. Which would have been enough for…

Blonde Twins Playing Walking Dead Music On Harps While Standing Outside An Empty House

At first, I was all, “Why do they keep moving their heads like that? It looks stupid”. Then I realised, they’re so into this they’re looking for walkers. Can’t play more than a few strums without checking their surrounds for trouble. That’s how you stay alive, people. Stay alive and find the time to play…

I Never Thought I’d See An N64 Controller As Beautiful As This One

Funny-looking and with a propensity for their joysticks to break just by looking at them, I think the N64 controller is—and I realise this is a relative award—Nintendo’s worst ever controller. Oh. Except this one, by Zoki64. This one’s wonderful. Painted in a retro style and with a fabulous glossy finish, it looks so hot…

The Game Tank Is An Isolation Chamber For Video Games

In a bid to remove any and all distractions from your gaming, these budding engineers have come up with the Game Tank, a (relatively) small pod that cuts you off from the outside world and leaves you with nothing to focus on but the screen and controls. Right now they’ve built a single prototype unit,…

What Real Cities Would Look Like To God, If God Was Playing SimCity

IBM published this video last year, for a networking tool, not a video game. But I can’t stop watching it, as statistics and icons pop up all over real-world cities, and thinking, boy, as good as the next SimCity looks, I really hope in ten years I can play a game that looks like this

Here’s 17 Minutes Of Wii U Owners Freaking Out About Rayman Going Multiplatform

There are some who would say the decision to bring former Wii U exclusive Rayman Legends to other platforms was a smart business decision. There are other, slightly crazier people—like those in this video—who would use the word betrayal This is 17 minutes of user comments left on Rayman’s Miiverse page, showing that, well, fans…

Gabe Newell’s Knife Collection Is Terrifyingly Impressive

Noted video game composer Sam Hulick (Mass Effect) tweeted this image earlier this evening, having previously “been in his office”, asking “You want a pic of Gabe Newell’s knife collection?” Uh, yeah Try as I might, I can’t see a crowbar… Sam Hulick [Twitter]

Please, Help, I’m Relapsing And Posting More Guild Wars 2 Art

You’d think that the game being out, and out for a while now, would have stopped me lusting after the concept art behind Guild Wars 2, but nope. Not gonna happen. Not when creative director Daniel Dociu is posting fresh pieces. The artist, who you may recognise as the face of Father Grigory in Half-Life…

We Are Going To Play As The Grim Reaper. And Spread The Bubonic Plague.

Don’t get weirded out by this, but I have a bit of a thing for the ol’ black death. Its various outbreaks are some the most fascinating events in centuries, an apocalypse tale straight from the history books. It’s the best part of one of the best movies ever made. Hell, one of my favourite…

The Last Of Us Has A Series, And It Looks Pretty Good

It’s not even out yet, but Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is inspiring enough love from fans that a very slick-looking web series is about to kick off. Set in the same post-apocalyptic world as the game, it’s called What Remains, and regardless of how the acting or story turns out, boy, they’re using…