Luke Plunkett

This Guy Built Traffic Lights to Tell Him When His Pals Were on Xbox Live

Obviously feeling that the Xbox 360’s notification system wasn’t good enough, Kiwi Andrew F. went and built himself something a little more elaborate: this set of traffic lights. Basically an Arduino hooked up to the internet, it pings Microsoft’s servers every five minutes to see if Andrew’s friends are online. If nobody is online, the…

Ninja Gaiden Cosplay to Slice Your Eyeballs Wide Open

Snapped at DragonCon 2012 by Elysiam Entertainment, this is a human looking as close to Ninja Gaiden’s Ryu Hayabusa as a human could ever possible look. Amazing. ZomG Dragoncon 2012 Friday! [Elysiam Entertainment, via Cosplay Blog]

War of the Roses: The Kotaku Review

Despite the blockbusters out this week, and other more than worthy time-killers like Retro City Rampage, the game I’ve spent most time with lately is a multiplayer PC game called War of the Roses Developed by Fatshark, and published by Paradox, it’s a team-based multiplayer title that onlookers will say reminds them of a third-person…

XCOM Has HD Cutscenes, But They’re Hiding

If you’re playing XCOM on PC, you might have noticed a little discrepancy between the standard in-game visuals and those of the game’s cutscenes, which can look a little blurry. You can actually change that. Reddit user loinbread did some looking through the game’s folders and found that, in addition to the video files that…

Looks Like There’s a Problem With Borderlands 2’s Compatibility Update [Update]

We’re getting emails from people who own Borderlands 2 on Xbox 360, saying that they can’t download the new Mechromancer compatibility update Seems that, when prompted to download the new content, they’re being greeted with the above message. My advice? You might have to sit tight. This is the same message you get when trying…

League of Legends’ Playoffs Will Try Again Tomorrow

After suffering serious technical hiccups and even allegations of cheating, League of Legends’ World Playoffs will try and finish up tomorrow at 5pm Pacific Time. The three unfinished matches will be streamed on Twitch and Own3D, and they’ll take place at USC’s Galen Center. Riot promise that the broadcast and playing conditions will be to…

Team Fortress 2’s Mann vs Machine mode just got a pretty big update

Before You Start: Tips for Playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown the Best Way

Saving the world ain’t easy. It takes strategy, preparation, determination and more than a little luck. So don’t be thinking you can just fire up XCOM: Enemy Unknown and see alien corpses pile up at your feet. Go in with that attitude and the only corpses you’ll see are those of your trusted and highly…

This Animated Street Fighter Movie Isn’t Being Made in Japan

Brazilian artist Victor Hugo has quite the thing for Street Fighter, and I’ve quite the thing for his take on the fighting series, falling as it does somewhere between “next-gen fighting game” and “Hollywood animated movie”. So it’s great to see him putting that to some serious work, teaming up with an animator friend for…

There’s a Samurai Predator, and He is Beautiful

Leaving arguments about canon at the door, get a look at this new Predator figure from Hot Toys, in which Japanese artists Takayuki Takeya (paint) and Yuji Oniki (sculpting) were tasked with coming up with their own take on the sci-fi legend. The premise might be a little corny, sure, but the figure they’ve come…

College Poster Banned For Featuring a… NES Zapper

According to a report from the College’s newspaper, Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia has refused permission from students to put up a poster on campus because it featured a gun. A fake, plastic, video game gun from the 1980s. Designed to advertise a “game-themed social night”, the students were forced to remove the…

The Other Brothers: Mario Never Had Dogs Like This

It’s been a while since we checked in on indie platformer The Other Brothers, so it was a treat today that I actually got my hands on the game. What you see above is the game’s first level. What you maybe can’t see is that, to go with the retro-inspired aesthetic, it’s got some retro-inspired…

Populous Developer Making a New God Sim

Topia is an upcoming iOS game from Crescent Moon and Glenn Corpes, formerly of Bullfrog and one of the brains behind Populous So you can see where some of the inspiration for Topia is coming from. Pitched as “world creation simulation”, you play a “god and shape the land as you choose, by the use…

Um, Maybe You Shouldn’t Have Hidden From the Zombies in That Church…

Artist Patrick O’Keefe has worked recently for a list of clients that include a number of Electronic Arts’ studios, such as Visceral Games and EA Black Box. In today’s gallery, then, you’ll find pieces from games like Dead Space 3, along with other personal and professional work. You can check out more of Patrick’s stuff…

Alan Wake’s More Realistic Bad Guys Are Terrifying

Comedy crew Mega64 are at their best when they’re out in the wild harassing innocent bystanders with obscure video game jokes, so… yeah, this take on Remedy’s Alan Wake is Mega64 at their best. Mega64: ALAN WAKE [mega64]

Oh Man, Somebody Made a Mass Effect Space Strategy Game

Today’s reason why mods are the greatest thing in all of PC gaming: a small team of fans has turned space strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire into a Mass Effect experience. Mass Effect – Dawn of The Reapers is a big mod for Sins that doesn’t just add Mass Effect units and technology…

Two Pro Gaming Mice, One Weekend of Gaming

I spent the weekend giving my trusty Mionix Naos 5000 a rest in favour of two mice from Zowie, a company that caters exclusively to the competitive gaming crowd. It was an interesting weekend. See, normally, whether personally or professionally, I’ve only ever enjoyed the extreme ends of the PC gaming mouse spectrum. A spectrum…

A New Zero is the Coolest Shooter I’ve Seen in Years

It may not look like much, but it’s got it where it counts. The game you’re about to see here is A New Zero. It’s under 1MB in size. And is built entirely on procedurally-generated animation. A project that’s been underway for over four years now, it’s built entirely on physics, meaning every single thing…

“This is Like…if Gabe Newell Took Acid…”

“What is this I don’t even” reads the video’s description on YouTube. I’d say that pretty much nails it. [Vinesauce] Vinny – Half-Mind [YouTube, via PC Gamer]

The first patches designed to get MW2 map Favela back in the game will be out next week