Luke Plunkett

Simply the Best Assassin’s Creed Cosplay You’ll Ever See

The HDR photography might make them look a little too much like action figures, but that’s a niggle. Everything else about these two, from the photography to the “acting” to the outfits, is just about perfect. The Dutch pair, dressed as Connor and Aveline (from the Vita’s Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation) respectively, were so impressive…

Big Publishers Accused of Trying to Manipulate Kickstarter Fever

The last twelve months have seen an outbreak of Kickstarter fever. Old devs, new devs, indie devs, everyone with an idea and some concept art has been scrambling to the service in an attempt to get their dream game made. Part of the appeal for both backers and developers is that, in theory, it removes…

Guild Wars 2 Player Kicks Ass Using Only His Cheek, Mouth

If you’re a Guild Wars 2 player and have ever complained about a sore wrist, or tired eyes, here’s something that might put your issues in perspective. Keith “Aieron” Knight was born with Amyoplasia Arthrogryposis, which basically means he can barely move his body. At all. Yet he still takes on other GW2 players, and…

The Soundtrack to the New Devil May Cry, Compressed Into a Single Trailer

If I had to pick the kind of music that the new, younger Dante would listen to in Ninja Theory’s Devil May Cry reboot, it would… yeah, it would be pretty much this. Wonder what happens in the game to make him grow up to look like a guy who listens to Joy Division and…

Okami HD’s Still Looking Colourful as a Vomiting Rainbow

You know, as nice as it’ll be having this in “HD”, the more I think about it, the more I don’t understand why this isn’t a Vita game. Because of the brushes, man. The brushes

Final Fantasy XIV’s TGS Trailer Both Dazzles and Bores

Bombastic cinematic sequences mixed with a few too many shots of characters running awkwardly through empty fields…this can only be a trailer for the once-fundamentally-broken Final Fantasy XIV

Ace Attorney 5’s New Trailer Makes Phoenix Wright Look Even Cooler

You’d expect the first 3D Phoenix Wright/Ace Attorney game to look in motion. And whaddya know, it does. Tastefully done, Capcom, you’ve done a great job maintaining the art style of the DS games while spicing things up a little for the 3D-capable hardware.

Dante is Still Punching Bill O’Reilly in the Face

We first saw this back at GamesCom, but here in these new screens for Capcom’s upcoming DMC, we get to see Dante once again playing some chin music for a conservative news pundit who is totally not Fox’s Bill O’Reilly

Might the West Actually Give a Damn About Monster Hunter 4?

I doubt it. But bless Capcom and Nintendo for trying. Here’s the TGS trailer for the upcoming monster battler, which is coming out for the 3DS.

Okami HD will be out on the North American PlayStation Store on October 30.

World of Warcraft’s Battle Chest has been upgraded to include Wrath of the Lich King. No change in price

The Tokyo Game Show Has Begun

While Sony got things off to an unofficial start last night, today sees the actual opening of the showroom floor for the 2012 Tokyo Game Show. The event runs for four days, and over that time we’ll play a ton of games, see even more and check out all the other stuff TGS is known…

Inafune’s Next Game “Delayed” Until Spring 2013 (But Here’s a Trailer!)

Former Capcom icon Keiji Inafune took to the stage at Sony’s pre-TGS press conference to announce that…Sony and his team had decided to delay his upcoming Vita title Soul Sacrifice until Spring 2013. Well, not delayed. He specifically said “we need more time”. So the game’s coming out later than it was supposed to. Semantics!…

My Favourite Mod of All Time Just Got Even Better

If I were to keep a list of my top five favourite games of all time in a tattered black book buried in a tin box in my backyard, only one game from the post-GameCube world would be on it. Empire: Total War. The scale, the gunsmoke, the bombast… for a strategy gamer who also…

Japanese Halo Fan Cosplays as Master Chief, Climbs Mt. Fuji (In Protest!)

Japanese Halo fans are pissed. For a decade, the roles of Master Chief and Cortana have been voiced by Atsuki Tani and Akiko Koike, but for Halo 4, the pair have been replaced by Rikiya Koyama and Ayumi Fujimura. Changing the voice of a man with no face is pretty drastic, so you can understand…

Brilliant Cosplay Drags Batman: Arkham City Straight Off Your TV Screen

Wow. Just…wow. Yaya Han’s Catwoman is great, as we’ve already seen when previously featured, but when paired with that Dark Knight, it just kicks Batman cosplay into a whole new dimension. The giant ears, the texture on the suit, his physique, even the stitching on the front, it’s absolutely perfect If anyone knows who the…

Dark Souls Doesn’t Look so Tough in Big Head Mode

Sharper visuals aren’t the only bonus PC owners can enjoy while playing professional ass-kicker Dark Souls. There’s also the opportunity for an abrupt change in tone. Look at that guy. With his big baby cheeks. You just want to squeeze them. [via Venus Patrol]

The PlayStation Vita Now Comes in Red and Blue

What, you didn’t think Sony was going to let a press conference go by without announcing new PlayStation Vita colours, did you? On sale November 15, Sony will be offering Japanese customers the Vita in Cosmic Red and Sapphire Blue. Shame there wasn’t a gold or purple offered, like we saw last year, but there’s…

Want to Buy Angry Birds On The Sega Genesis?

Earlier this year, a coder “ported” mobile game Angry Birds to the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, running the game via emulation on a PC. Which was cool, but nowhere near as cool as this eBay Auction for a Genesis cartridge supposedly containing the game. Given the game, the system and the timing it would…

Street Fighter and Sonic are Selling Disney’s Next Big Cartoon

Wreck-It-Ralph is about video games, and stars its own original character, but these promo images for the upcoming Disney movie barely feature him at all. Instead, front and centre on this series of theatrical posters are guys like Sonic and, awesomely, M. Bison and Zangief. Exclusive Wreck-It Ralph Posters Feature Video Game Icons [IGN]