Luke Plunkett

Only One Man Can Tweet More Than Hideo Kojima… His Swedish Alter-Ego

Mysterious Metal Gear game The Phantom Pain was the star of last week’s Spike VGAs. The Twitter account of its “Head CEO” Joakim N. Mogren, complete with wonderfully photoshopped Kojima head, is the star of your Monday. I’ve got no idea if this is an official joke account or just a joke account, but given…

The Next Assassin’s Creed Game Will Be Set In… Brazil?

Ubisoft Brazil managing director Bertrand Chaverot has reportedly told local site TechTudo that the next game in the publisher’s blockbuster series will be taking place in the South American nation. That’s about all he says, with no further details, but GameSpot says they’ve verified the translation, which is interesting. You’ve got to wonder whether he…

Star Wars Collection “Appraised” At $120,000 Up For Sale

And you thought an $8000 action figure collection was impressive A man from Waco, Texas is selling an enormous lot of Star Wars merchandise on Craigslist, which he began collecting in 1977 and which he says has been valued at over $120,000 Included in the sale are a life-size statue of Han Solo frozen in…

“Hey Guys, Just Because It’s Got Tits Doesn’t Mean It Needs To Be Talked To”

It’s not exactly secret knowledge that Xbox Live, even in 2012, is home to some rather unsavoury chat. But the manner in which this salvo is delivered, and the reaction it receives, serves as a pretty tidy example of just what it’s like to actually be on the receiving end of it. RMP = Random…

In My Dreams, This Zelda Poster Is Hanging At My Local Cinema

Or at least at my local game store, perhaps to raise awareness of, oh, a HD re-release for the Wii U. Or a 3DS re-release. Or something “Windwaker” Inspired 13×19 Inch Print [DirtyGreatPixels]

A Motorised LEGO Batmobile? With Guns And Flame Effect? Yes Please.

This is Paweł “Sariel” Kmiec’s LEGO Tumbler, from Chris Nolan’s recent Batman trilogy of films. It looks brilliant in still images, but then, still images are pretty much the least impressive thing we’re going to see here. Built from LEGO Technic, the Tumbler is remote-controlled, and as you can see, can really move. There’s also…

These Bad Game Ideas Are Actually Kind of Awesome

Game designer Scott Jon Siegel is sick of trying to make good games. So he’s collecting his thoughts on bad games. Only… his bad game ideas are better than most other people’s good ideas. They’re ditching the whole “video” thing, they’re games that take part in the real world, most of them relying on injuring…

‘Til Death, Or Ganon’s Next Evil Scheme, Do They Part

This is not a Photoshop mockup, an artist’s impression. These are real wedding rings, crafted by Romanian goldsmith Zsolt Székely, a talented guy who specialises in creating custom, one-off designs for aspiring couples. Like the lucky pair who tied the knot with these amazing Zelda rings. Zsolt Székely [Official Site, via Fashionably Geek]

Crippled By Disease, This Artist Found a Way to Keep Drawing

Francis Tsai is an artist who has worked in comics, film, gaming (tabletop and card) and video games, for clients like EA, Rockstar, DC Comics, Eidos and Marvel. Widely-published, awarded and respected within the field, he’s one of the most talented artists going around. Sadly, Francis was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease in 2010, a…

OK, So Peter Molyneux’s Next Game Is Looking Pretty Nice

GODUS, the next game from Peter Molyneux and his 22cans development team, is a spiritual successor to classic PC game Populous. That game had a cute visual style, one that GODUS looked to be cashing in on, but without video footage, how could we tell? Oh. With video footage. The clip above gives you an…

A Skyrim Dagger That Stabs In The Real World

Master props builder Bill Doran has truly outdone himself this time, grabbing The Elder Scrolls series’ Keening Dagger with both hands and wrenching it from the games into the real world The level of work and materials that went into building it are insane. The handle is made out of polyurethane resin. The finer details…

Beware, An Assassin’s Creed III Bug is Wiping Save Data

There’s a bug—thankfully, a relatively rare one—that’s wiping people’s save data under certain circumstances when downloading the game’s new DLC. The new Hidden Secrets pack, which basically just collects various preorder bonus gear and missions, is for most people just fine. But if you try and download it while already playing the game, you can…

The Inside of an Amazon Warehouse is a Terrifying Sight

You’ve no doubt ordered something from Amazon, once. Maybe you ordered something from the site just now. It carries all kinds of stuff for all kinds of people, but have you ever wondered where it’s all kept? Well, it’s kept in gargantuan warehouses like this one. Which is no doubt being looked after by top…

Turns out we liked our Tumblr so much we couldn’t bear to part with it. So we kept it around

The Year’s Worst Bullshots, aka, Screenshots That Lied To You

It was back in 2005 that Penny Arcade first coined the term “bullshot”, giving a definition to the practice of doctoring video game screenshots to make them look better than the game actually is. You’d think the intervening seven years, the rise of the video trailer and a growing awareness of the practice would have…

Total War’s Studio Will Soon Be Making Warhammer Games

Sega and Creative Assembly have announced today that the British development house, famous for its Total War strategy games on the PC, will be expanding to take on a number of Warhammer video games. Sega says “a new high-calibre development team has been set up at Creative Assembly’s UK studio to work alongside the existing…

That is One Giant, Over-Sized Game Boy You’ve Got There

This is a Game Boy made by MaboroshiTira. It doesn’t work, in so much as you can’t put a regular cartridge in it and play it. Because, uh, it’s made of cardboard. Its buttons do press in, though, which is a bonus, because really, just looking at this thing is pleasure enough. MaboroshiTira [DeviantArt, via…

How Adventure Time’s Creator Beat Up On Small Kids (In a Video Game)

Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward tells Edge magazine about his favourite games. Others listed include Altered Beast and, awesomely, Klik & Play My favourite game: Pendleton Ward [Edge 248, Christmas 2012]

Steampunk Princess Peach is in Another Manor House

Should Nintendo ever work up the courage to really mess with the setting of Mario games, there are worse ideas they could have than to have the plumber fighting his way through some Dickensian clockwork castle. And if he did, well, the lady he was trying to rescue would need to dress the part as…

There’s a Lady Killer Stalking These Lands

I’ve been featuring a ton of Assassin’s Creed III art here lately, so it’s about time I showcase some from its handheld stablemate Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation These images are the work of Nacho Yagüe, a senior concept artist at Ubisoft Toronto. You’ll see not only a selection of his work on the first Vita…