Luke Plunkett

What an American City Would Look Like at the End of Humanity

Whether you want to imagine the first days of Life After People, the next instalment of The Walking Dead or a sequel to Tokyo Jungle (Seattle Jungle?), you should check out these stunning images of what an American city looks like without a single person to be seen. Rather than be shot at dawn in…

Transform Grand Theft Auto IV Into Zelda, Mass Effect, TMNT or Halo

The PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV allows for mods. We’ve shown you some of these before. But I’ve never seen a collection so diverse, and so impressive, as that of modder William Peddell. Posting on the GTA4-MODS forum, he’s made a speciality of transforming the game’s star into everyone from Zelda’s Link to…

You Can Get a 250GB Xbox 360 For $99 (But There’s a Catch)

Microsoft is expanding its “pay as you go” plans for the Xbox 360 in the United States, adding a 250GB console (and a 250GB console + Kinect) to go alongside the 4GB console that’s been available for a few months now For $99, you can get the 250GB unit (the 250GB + Kinect deal is…

Not Even Famous Developers Could Save This Game From Kickstarter Failure

It’s quickly becoming accepted that for a game to really hit the big time on Kickstarter, it needs the involvement of people gamers can trust. Minimising risk, and all that. So you’d have thought a project involving the co-founder of id Software (Tom Hall) and the designer of Wizardry 8 (Brenda Braithwaite, both above) would…

The Sad, Sweet Story of Justin and His Big Day Out Playing PlayStation Games

Every Wednesday, the Freddie Mac Foundation sponsors a segment on local news channels in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Washington DC, turning the cameras on one of their kids who is in need of adoption. The latest was Justin, a “quiet, reserved child” who sure does love video games. So for his turn…

In Dishonored, Stealth is For the Boring

Having got the fancy ending for Dishonored, I thought I had some skills. Turns out my only skills were patience and cowardice. The way Flakked gets things done in this video shows me that my second, more violent playthrough might be a lot more interesting That slide near the end is the stuff of highlight…

Oh Look, a Game About Starting Street Riots

You’d think that, in the wake of last year’s London riots, developers would be wary of making a game based on civil disturbance, even when you consider its a topic rarely covered by games anyway So it’s nice to see Dot Product’s upcoming Wildfire Worlds not only tackle the subject, but do it in a…

This is Orange 5, Standing By

Atey Ghailan is another of the talented team at Atomhawk Design, a British studio made up of a ton of former games industry artists. If you like what you see here, you can check out Atey’s blog or CA.org page for more. (thanks ConceptArtWorld!) To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if…

Medal of Honor’s Launch-Day Patch Notes Are Hilarious

There’ll be a day-one patch available for EA’s Medal of Honor: Warfighter (it’s out later today), and as the publisher advises, you’d do well to actually download it before trying to play the game. Otherwise you’ll run into an epic list of glitches and broken features Note that these are for a game that has…

Microsoft has released the list of games and apps that will support Smartglass when it launches on Friday.

2012 Game Title of the Year: Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement

There’s Already an Assassin’s Creed Movie, and it’s Awesome

While we wait for a feature-length movie about Assassin’s Creed, the kids at Corridor Digital have put together this five-minute clip for Assassin’s Creed III that is way better than it has any right to be. If I had to gripe, it’d be that the fat British guy needed more screentime than the skinny one,…

Xbox 360 Owners Sure Do Love Drone Strikes

Here’s a question from tonight’s US Presidential debate, put to Xbox 360 owners watching it on their system and taking part in the interactive polls. @carolynmichelle [Twitter]

X-Wing: Miniatures: The Kotaku Review

Lucasarts seems intent to never release another game in the X-Wing (video game) series so long as I live. That’s fine. Whatever. I can cope with that now that I can clear a tabletop and play a game of Fantasy Flight’s X-Wing (the miniatures game) instead. Built on the same bones as Wings of War…

Brilliant New PlayStation Commercial Makes Drake Fight Kratos

Here’s a new PS3 commercial – and spiritual successor to last year’s “Michael” – for the upcoming PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. It’s certainly something. While I disagree with my colleagues who think “Michael” was Sony’s best-ever ad for the platform, this is certainly the best commercial I’ve seen for a Sony gaming product in a…

Classic NES music gets a soothing, modern makeover courtesy of The Electric Witch’s wonderful NEScapism

You Will Not Believe What This Ripley is Made of

Take a look at these images of Ellen Ripley, star of the Alien series. Take a good look. Squint if you have to. Now let me tell you that these are not photographs of Sigourney Weaver, taken while filming the movie. Nor is this a 3D image, made using data captured from the film. No,…

Pinch the Sugary-Sweet Cheeks of Guild Wars 2

Canadian artist Jeffufu, a big Guild Wars 2 fan, has been paying tribute to the game of late with some amazingly adorable pieces of fan art. We’ve got a Golem having a tea party. A Jackalope’s field trip. And some Quaggans cuting up the joint. There’s four images here, with more at the link below.…

The Wedding of the Dead Craves Brains, Not Cake

Josiahx was recently married, and decided to do something a little different for his wedding photo. Like turn the celebration into a zombie apocalypse story. Not with dress-ups and a ton of money spent, though, just through the magic of Photoshop. You can see how the image was put together in the neat little timelapse…

By The End Of The Month, The PS3 Will No Longer Be Fighting Diseases

After five years, 15 million users and over 100 million computation hours having been crunched, Sony’s partnership with Stanford University’s Folding@home project will draw to a close at the end of the month. The program, which has allowed PS3 owners to donate their console’s processor towards crunching scientific data for the university’s Alzheimer’s research team,…