Luke Plunkett

Wild Conspiracy Theories Abound In Death Of FPS Russia Producer

Last week, a body was discovered in Carnesville, Georgia. It belonged to 32-year-old Keith Ratliff, who was a producer on the YouTube series FPS Russia. Ratliff had died of a single bullet wound, execution-style, to the back of the head. FPS Russia has not posted a new video since. FPS Russia is a massive online…

Call Of Duty Survey Hints At Next-Gen Console Downloads

Call of Duty fansite Charlie INTEL is claiming that it managed to get hold of some screengrabs, taken while users were completing a survey for Activision on the future of the series. What’s interesting about these surveys is that they mention what could possibly be a next-gen console feature. While the site has edited the…

Steam’s New Built-In Game FAQs Are Pretty Good!

First announced last month, Valve today announced the formal release of its Game Guides Feature, adding the ability for users to compile their own guides to games (or parts of games), then have other users enjoy and rate them. While there’s not exactly a tome of reference material there now, what is there shows the…

Enormous LEGO Metal Gear Rex Is Looking For Tiny Plastic Men To Crush

Not to be outdone by a toy company selling models that are already finished, LEGO builder Rags naRock has his own version of Metal Gear Rex to share. And I dare say it’s more impressive. Using around $900 worth of LEGO parts, the thing is enormous, and if the scale isn’t enough to knock your…

Bow Before Your New God Of Ninja Turtles Cosplay

There can’t be many harder characters to cosplay as than Krang, the wonderfully bizarre villain from the original TMNT animated series. Partly for his size, yeah, but also for the fact he’s a talking brain who lives in a giant clear tank right where a human’s guts are supposed to be. Which should make accurate…

I Pity The Fool Who Doesn’t Enjoy This LEGO A-Team Van (That Actually Moves)

It wouldn’t be enough for a replica A-Team van to simply sit there. The A-Team drove around real fast smashing into stuff, so damn it, replica LEGO models should too. Hats off to LEGO builder vmln8, then, who has done just that, building the team’s van and sticking fully-functioning remote controls inside it, which can…

New Bill Wants To Turn Game Labels, Sale Restrictions Into Law

Democratic congressman Jim Matheson has introduced a bill known as “H.R. 287″, which is the latest attempt to introduce tighter controls on the way video games are sold in the United States. Despite the presence of ESRB labels on games sold in the US, and retailer policy to forbid the sale of adult-only games to…

Early Far Cry 3 Concept Art Shows Scrapped Ideas, Luxury Resorts And… Fun Parks

When a game is in its infancy, a lot of ideas get kicked around. Here are some from the very earliest stages of Far Cry 3 development, when the team had settled on a tropical island setting and… little else. While we can see some areas and ideas that made it into the final game,…

Apple’s Stance On Controversial Games Is A Little Insulting

Apple has had some problems recently with “serious” titles on its iOS store, which have been falling foul of some rather tight restrictions of what can and can’t be represented in a game. We’ve seen a Second World War game barred for using historically-accurate Japanese flags, and more recently, a game about Syria knocked back…

A Wii U Commercial Was Pulled Because A Single Person Complained

In Britain, the Advertising Standards Authority operates under a fairly simple rule. If even a single person complains about a commercial, they take a look at it, and if they agree, they can pull the ad from the airwaves. Which is exactly what happened recently with a Wii U commercial. You may have actually seen…

Boy, These Nintendo Consoles Are Gorgeous

Slovenian artist Zoki64 paints old video game consoles, turning the old into things that look brand new. Anyone can paint on a console, that’s the easy part. What’s so good about Zoki64’s work is that he pays attention to the finish, and not just the paint, giving his consoles a gloss that makes them look…

Report: Microsoft Replacing Xbox Chat With Skype For Next Console

According to “A person familiar with the matter”, website CVG is reporting that, as part of Microsoft’s continuing efforts to consolidate Skype (which it now owns) as the standard communications platform for the company’s products, it’ll “become the default chat service on the next generation Xbox console”. What would this mean, exactly? Who knows, the…

Microsoft Has A New, Real Warthog To Drive Around In

A few years back, Microsoft had special effects wizards WETA build a replica Warthog vehicle from the Halo universe. It was awesome, but with the ol’ jalopy undergoing a subtle redesign for 343’s new Halo games, I guess they needed a new one. So they had a new one built. Aria Group, who make replica…

If you liked the soundtrack to the amazing Catzilla, the artist responsible is offering an EP of the stuff

What EVE Online’s Weird & Wonderful Players Look Like Away From The Computer

You might think, given the game’s abundance of politics and griefing on an intergalactic scale, that the kind of people who play EVE Online are complete psychos. Well, you’re only half right. Ezra Morris and Ben Ritter from Motherboard went to the EVE Fanfest in Iceland last year, and while there, brought a nice camera…

Who Needs A Screen, When You Can Play Games On A Sheet Of Water

It’s a gimmick, sure, but it’s a neat one: this is a sheet of water vapour that, thank to some fancy add-ons, has been turned into both a screen and a touch-screen device. Letting you get your Fruit Ninja on. As you can see, the controls work pretty well! I mean, it’s also entirely useless,…

The Man Behind The Next Generation’s Graphics Hardware Deals Is Facing Industrial Espionage Charges [UPDATE]

According to legal documents obtained by tech sites Ars Technica and Extremetech, four former employees of hardware company AMD are facing a number of charges related to industrial espionage over allegations they stole “thousands of confidential documents” before leaving to work at rival company Nvidia The four named in the suit are Robert Feldstein, Manoo…

The Last Guardian Isn’t Out Yet, But This Custom PC Hardware Is

Not content with pleasing the world with his Shadow of the Colossus hard drive enclosure, Reddit user foxfoxwaltz seems to be on a mission to turn his entire desk into a Team Ico playground, as he’s also done this amazing Last Guardian speaker enclosure. Seeing as this would look incredible just sitting there as a…

Go Behind The Scenes Of Cyberpunk’s Stunning Debut Trailer

It’s got almost nothing to do with the game itself, since it shows absolutely none of it, but the debut trailer for Cyberpunk was still an exciting thing to watch, primarily because it shows at least the game’s art design has the whole future noir, Blade Runner thing down pretty well. You may be forgiven…

The Ancient Heraldic Shields Of… Adventure Time

If your family is from a place on the planet that means it has a heraldic shield, chances are it’s actually pretty simple. I know mine is. If only I lived in the Land of Ooo, where my allegiance would get me seeing something like these framed at my Nanna’s house. If I decided to…