Luke Plunkett

An Action Figure Was Nintendo’s Star Of E3. Here’s How To Make Your Own.

The star of Nintendo’s E3 was not Nintendo, nor the company’s software lineup. It was an action figure known only as Non-Specific Action Figure While obviously not a real figure, meaning you can’t buy one of your own, in the months since E3 Gametista’s Andrea Campton has tracked down the parts needed to make one.…

Here’s One Shadow Of The Colossus… Colossus You Won’t Want To Stab In The Face

While this looks like an expensive statue based on 2004 classic Shadow of the Colossus, it’s a little bit more than that. Well, OK, it does work as a statue, but its more practical use is that it’s an external hard drive. Reddit user foxfoxwaltz has posted an album showing the piece in all its…

One Man Can Sing a Hobbit Song As Well As A Whole Room Of Dwarves

When a house full of dwarves starts singing Misty Mountain, it’s perhaps the saddest moment in the new Hobbit flick. Partly because of the effect of so many little dudes singing in such deep voices. So nerd vocalist Peter Hollens—who you may remember from his Game of Thrones theme—does a good job here with just……

If You Like Video Games (Or Roxanne), You’ll Want To Contact These People

So design house Dark Igloo has the greatest contact page a website has ever had. Instead of an email link or, worse, an email form, they’ve got… look, just play it. And turn up the speakers. Contact [Dark Igloo, via Laughing Squid]

The Shadow of The Colossus Movie Has A New, And Talented, Writer

Normally when we learn about the people responsible for writing movies based on video games, there’s a round of muted applause. If we’re lucky. More often than no there are groans. So it’s a nice surprise to learn that the long-in-development hell Shadow of the Colossus movie project—which last year got a director—now has a…

We’re One Step Away From Mechs Charging Cannons On Horseback

It’s not every day we get to feature the work of an artist who, amidst pieces drawn up for video games and trading card companies, has also dabbled in the style of 19th century battlefield paintings. But we are today. So today is a good day. You’re looking at the works of Karl Kopinski, a…

I’m Drinking Soda. This Game Is About Drinking Soda. And Nothing Else.

This is Soda Drinker Pro. For those days that games about guns and murder are too much. You drink soda. In a gripping first-person perspective, from which you can really feel the can in your hand and really taste the fizz as you quench that thirst. The challenge comes not from the foes you will…

Second Wave, the next DLC for our 2012 game of the year XCOM, will be out very soon

Borderlands 2 Designs So Good You’ll Shoot Things To Get Them

Indonesian artist Machine56, who you might have seen here once or twice before, has more game-related design goodness to share, this time with a range of Borderlands pieces. Due to be released soon on Gearbox’s store, there are designs for shirts and hoodies, as well as some tantalising ideas for masks, something the artist has…

A Serious Game About The Syrian Conflict Has Been Barred From The App Store

Apple’s notoriously haphazard approvals policy for App Store games continues unabated. Only a few months after a historical game about the Second World War was blocked for daring to use flags, a serious game about the current conflict in Syria has been barred for much the same reason. Pocket Tactics discovered last night that Auroch…

What’s Left Of Your PlayStation 2 Collection?

With the news that Sony has officially ceased production of the PlayStation 2, the biggest and perhaps most important chapter in the history of home video gaming comes to a close. It made me a little teary last night, so much so I sat down with my silver PS2 and played some old games. Looking…

See How A Woman Transformed Herself Into Commander Shepard

Continuing their series of Project Cosplay videos, Firefall developers Red 5 present this short film documenting the process by which “professional” cosplayer Crystal Graziano (note: sponsored by Red 5) transformed herself from regular human into Commander Shepard. It’s a really interesting video; you normally only see cosplay at the very end of the process, but…

This Shark Prefers To Dine On Angry Birds

If Gameloft ever wants to shed its reputation as a studio that copies other people’s ideas and repackages them, then they probably shouldn’t be releasing games like Shark Dash Not that it’s a bad game. It’s decent! But it’s as shameless a ripoff of Angry Birds as you could hope for, copying most of that…

It’s A Monitor That Sits on Your Desk. And Your Lap.

Small-time peripheral company GeChic feel that there’s a place in the market for a portable monitor. A slimmer version of your desktop monitor that can run on battery power. After using one for a week I’m not so sure, even if their hearts are in the right place. With an official title of “On-Lap 2501M”,…

Wonderful Lord of the Rings Art That Goes On And On

Chinese artist Jian Guo is a very talented man, and a massive Lord of the Rings fan. The gorgeous images you’re about to see are testament to this. The Hobbit piece up top is a highlight (and a timely one at that), but there are pictures from other Tolkien works here as well. You can…

Fantastic Grand Theft Auto V Art Brightens Up Your Monday Morning

Over the weekend, Rockstar collected every piece of promotional art so far made available for Grand Theft Auto V, cleaned them up, made sure each had a nice big background behind them then then scaled them to wallpaper size. Some feature the game’s main protagonists, some don’t. Some give us a good look at locations…

Get a Good Look At Nvidia’s New Gaming Handheld

PC hardware company Nvidia dropped quite the CES bombshell tonight, revealing a quirky new gaming handheld that doubles as an Android device as well as a means of streaming your PC games to a portable 720p display. To go with the information from Project Shield’s announcement, here’s a gallery of images giving you a good…

StarCraft’s Kerrigan Is The Queen Of Blades Cosplay

The standout piece of cosplay this week is the StarCraft Ghost photo you see above, by Jessica Dru. If you think it looks just like Kerrigan does on StarCraft II, that’s because Jessica actually got her hands on the official Kerrigan costume Blizzard used to promote the game. Some might call that cheating, but I…

Nvidia, Out Of Nowhere, Announces A New Gaming Handheld

Nvidia just surprised a whole bunch of people by announcing, of all things, a dedicated gaming handheld during the company’s CES press conference. Based on the new Tegra 4 mobile chip, also announced at the show, it’s code-named Nvidia Shield. There are 5-10 hours of battery life, and it’s based on a clamshell design, sort…

Someone Is Re-Building The Entire Planet In Minecraft

Using a program called Worldpainter, a builder by the name of lentebriesje is trying to recreate all of planet Earth in Minecraft. At a 1:1500 scale. That is a lot of blocks. His Earth is based off this very large, very fancy 3D map of the planet, and while it doesn’t include anything man-made, it…