Luke Plunkett

Oh, Turns Out One Can Simply Walk Into Mordor

What was once a throwaway line in a 3.5-hour long movie has, thanks to the slow burn of Sean Bean’s amazingness, become one of the most memorable quips in all three Lord of the Rings flicks. Mostly because he has a point! One does not simply walk into Mordor. Or… can they? Kerry Shawcross and…

Square Enix’s Next-Gen Engine Sure Makes Eyeballs Look Pretty

We may know nothing official about the next generation of consoles, but we do know what Final Fantasy overseers Square Enix hope their games will look like on them, courtesy of its 2012 debut of the Luminous engine These two videos give us a closer look at the tech demo first shown at E3, zooming…

One Real Good Incentive To Work At Blizzard For 20 Years

If you thought the glass controller Sony employees got after five years of service was a nice gesture, wait til you see what Blizzard employees get for twenty years service. They get one of the helmets pictured above. It’s inspired by Diablo III’s Archangel Imperius, with custom tweaks made by its creator, Blizzard’s Vice President…

The World Won’t End This Month (But If It Did, It Should Look Like This)

As you may be aware, there’s a belief that the Mayans predicted the end of the world this month. They didn’t. But just the thought of the apocalypse has people dreaming up ways they’re going to meet the end of days. Like, say, invaders from space. My take on how the world is going to…

Everything You Need To Know About The New Devil May Cry (In Five Minutes)

After what seems like an eternity on the horizon, Ninja Theory’s Devil May Cry reboot is almost with us. To help you get up to speed on what’s going down, here’s five minutes of footage giving you the rundown on DMC, some of it helpful, some of it… less so.

I Don’t Think Samurai Actually Wore Sneakers

But that’s OK, because these are the samurai of tomorrow, not yesterday. They’re by the toy masters at ThreeA, and while there’s no price yet, that’s irrelevant, because I want one Looks like they go on sale on December 20. They say.. [ThreeA]

Chun-Li vs Tifa In a Brutal Fistfight. Who Would Win?

Sorry if that sounded like an idle fanfic question. I couldn’t care less what your imagination says. What I do care about is videos going to the trouble of dressing up professional stunt people/fighters and having them go at it… in the name of idle fanfic curiosity. Chun-Li vs Tifa (Street Fighter 2 vs Final…

Cramming A Giant PC Genre Onto a Tiny iPhone Can Work, You Know

There are few more “PC” genres than 4X. So named because they generally involve asking players to “explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate”, they’re normally set in space, and have so many buttons and menus that you can only really play them on the PC. So when I sat down to play Sidius Nova this morning,…

26 Terrific Pieces of Halo 4 Concept & Promotional Art

OK, so this should be the last batch of art from Halo 4 we showcase here on Fine Art. Hopefully. Maybe. While we’ve done a lot over the past few weeks, it’s hard to resist when the artists involved keep sharing their work, and that work keeps being some of the best you’ll see in…

A Hypnotic Timelapse Video of a Supercomputer Being Built

If you’ve never seen a supercomputer in the flesh, the name is a little misleading. They don’t look as clean as it sounds. More often they’re banks and banks of individual units networked together to form a single hivemind, a gigantic mess of cables, stacks and fans. To give you an appreciation of how much…

Looks like Valve is expanding, buying a small indie studio comprised of former Diablo III and Popcap developers.

San Andreas (2004) vs San Andreas (2013), a Visual Comparison

Using official screenshots and stills from the game’s trailers, a Polish fan site has done a cracking job comparing the San Andreas of 2004 to the one we’ll be getting our hands on in 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V As you can see there are… more trees. And shinier cars. But one thing I will…

An Enormous Gallery Of Warhammer 40K Miniatures Painted To Within An Inch Of Their Lives

I liked collecting and painting Warhammer 40K miniatures when I was a kid, sure, but one thing I liked more was heading to this local store that always had models painted by a professional. Stuck behind glass and painted immaculately, they were so damn expensive I never got the chance to buy one before the…

There’s a Zelda Game On The Windows 8 Store! (Don’t Buy It)

For a store that’s meant to be all about control, it sure didn’t take long for someone to sneak a fairly blatant clone onto Microsoft’s Windows 8 Marketplace. Spotted by NeoGAF user PsychoRaven, the game pictured above is still there at time of posting. Perhaps out of bravery, or at least stupidity, the “creator”, Joeri…

Racist Morons Have Serious Issues With BioShock Infinite

The BioShock games have always had a weightier tone to them than just shooting things in the face. The first game was lightly basted in an Ayn Rand marinade, while the upcoming BioShock Infinite deals with some tricky issues like racism. The developers are to be applauded for this, but at the same time, it…

Steam Wants To Take On GameFAQs, Testing “Game Guides”

Valve began rolling out a new Steam beta feature today: game guides. The aim is exactly what you’re thinking it is. Anyone can make a guide, and they’ll be accessible on a game’s “hub” page, as you can see above. You can upload images, embed YouTube vidos and rope in friends on your friends list…

The Most Popular Video Games Of 2012, According To Google’s Search Results

One of the most interesting ways of determining the popularity of something is to see how many people are looking for information on it via Google. So let’s see what the search engine has to tell us about what people were looking for in 2012. Google has released its “Zeitgeist” report for 2012, showing the…

A Sad Reminder That Some Kickstarter Games Don’t Work Out As Planned

Back in February, a Kickstarter game called Code Hero won a lot of hearts with its promise of teaching players how to actually make a game. It also won a lot of money, with backers pledging $170,000 to get it made, $70,000 over the game’s original target. Since then, though, things haven’t exactly gone according…

Paying Tribute to the Coolest Girls In The World (Even If They’re Not Real)

Girls: Fact + Fiction is an exhibition running at the Light Grey Art Lab in Minneapolis which will be running through January 4. It’s awesome. Since most of you won’t be able to make it in person, though, here’s a selection of some of the best pieces, most of which are available for purchase. The…

Gamespy Says, No, They Totally Did Not Cut People’s Multiplayer Games Without Warning

Earlier this week, Sniper Elite developers Rebellion posted a message claiming that the termination of their game’s online multiplayer was the result of providers Gamespy pulling the plug without warning. Their claims were echoed on the provider’s Facebook page, where gamers began complaining that some of their favourite titles had suddenly and without warning had…