Luke Plunkett

Report: G4 As We Know It Is As Good As Gone

According to a report on Variety, G4 – one of the only TV stations in the world with a “geek” mandate – will be “rebranded” early next year, resulting in a change of focus and possibly a change of name as well. In other words, it’ll be an almost entirely new/different channel. NBCU, the station’s…

League of Legends has introduced a new streaming integration and curation service. Think of it as LoL TV.

Maybe “Bad” Games Are Just Lacking In Confidence

Renaud Charpentier, of Total War devs Creative Assembly, may have a point. So many “bad” games, which to be fair most people would call simply “average”, aren’t offensively terrible. They’re just boring. Bland. “Competent”. The ones that stick with us, even if they don’t play so well, stick with us for a reason. Like, say,…

A Second, Very Brief Look at Insomniac’s Next Big Game

Resistance and Ratchet & Clank developers Insomniac took to the spotlight at E3 2011 and revealed Overstrike. A game that we’ve basically not seen since. Well, it’s back, and with a new name, and once I stop thinking it sounds like the name of a racing game, I’m sure everything will be just fine. This…

One of the PC’s Best Strategy Games is Coming to the iPad [Update: No It’s Not!]

As hinted at a month ago, Paradox Interactive, masters of the big PC strategy game, will be shrinking one down for play on something a little more portable. Hearts of Iron, the company’s big World War Two series, will be hitting the iPad on October 4. Those wondering just how it’s been shrunk down, there’s…

A Giant Desert Party For Fans of Fallout, Wasteland, RAGE, etc.

Well, not just for you. Fans of Wasteland, RAGE, Borderlands or any other game set in a post-apocalyptic desert are more than catered for at Wasteland Weekend, which will be held in the Mojave Desert at the end of the month. While originally conceived as a Mad Max-inspired event, it’s since taken on wider influences,…

The Art of a Man Working on Blizzard’s Next MMO

The last time we featured the art of Nick Carver was in 2008, when the dude was looking for a job. Today, he seems to be doin’ OK, as he’s a senior artist at Blizzard. Having spent over five years at Free Radical, later Crytek UK, Carver has been at Blizzard since 2009, where he’s…

The Unpublished Nintendo Comic That Said “S**t”

Howard & Nester was a comic staple of Nintendo Power for much of the magazine’s run, but there’d always been one storyline kept out of the public eye. Until today. This issue was never intended to run in the magazine; instead, it was specially made and given to former Nintendo of America icon Howard Phillips…

Most Arcade Games From The 1980s Have Been Smashed To Pieces

While there are plenty boutique arcades and bars across the world that are home to old Asteroids cabinets, and private collectors who own working versions of Centipede, they account for barely a drop in the ocean of the total number of arcade cabinets manufactured in the 1970s and 80s. We’d like to think those machines…

First Footage of Wasteland 2 Stares a Robot Scorpion in the Face

Until now, we’d only seen artwork and a screenshot of the upcoming Wasteland sequel, but here’s your first look at the game in motion. OK, so there’s not much motion at all, and the scene in question is the same from the screenshot, but the point of this was to show off the game’s various…

Welcome To The Last Of Us’ Jungle In This Giant Gameplay Demo

Naughty Dog’s presentation of The Last of Us at PAX over the weekend ran for over fifteen minutes, and contained plenty of new footage for the upcoming game about post-apocalyptic interpersonal relationships / surviving hordes of angry plant people. It’ll be out next year.

Phoenix Wright is Back in These First Ace Attorney 5 Screenshots

Scans? Who needs ’em when you’ve got actual screenshots of the newest entry in the Ace Attorney series, which not only sees the return of Phoenix Wright, but marks the series’ first foray into 3D visuals. These official images, released by Capcom, are a mix of artwork and in-game shots, showing the game’s new 3D…

Glenn Beck vs One of The World’s Most Famous Game Creators

Conservative pundit Glenn Beck has his fans, but famed video game developer Warren Spector reportedly isn’t one of them. Talking on his radio show earlier this week, Beck recounts the tale of when one of his staffers ran into the Deus Ex and System Shock legend at the recent GameStop Manager’s Conference (the employee also…

Half-Minute Hero is coming to the PC. It’ll be out on September 27. Please watch the trailer

YouTube Trolls Turn This Into One of The Game Trailers of The Year

Indie outfit Big Men Games are currently working on a strategy RPG game called GUTS, which would otherwise be unremarkable if not for the fact one of the three men in the team – Chris Haga – used to work for Blizzard. On Diablo III. Once word of this got out trailers for GUTS, which…

Finally, a Battlestar Galactica Game Worthy of the Name

Actual Battlestar Galactica games have been pretty awful. Most fan-made mods never end up being finished. But Diaspora, one of the more promising attempts to put players in the cockpit of a Viper (or a Raptor), has actually made it to the finish line, and is now available for download. You should get it. Now.…

Ubisoft Gives Up On Its Stupid PC DRM

For the last few years, Ubisoft’s attempts at battling piracy have been something of a running punchline, seeming to achieve little but annoy the company’s actual paying customers. Looks like all the protests have finally sunk in, because the publisher has told Rock, Paper, Shotgun it’ll be rolling back most of its most offensive methods.…

These Guys Are Turning One of Fallout’s Great Characters Into a Movie Star

If you’ve played Fallout: New Vegas, you may have come across Lanius. Second Legate. Military commander of all Caesar’s Legion’s forces in the field. Sharply-dressed badass. Well, a group of Aussie filmmakers are trying to bring the man to the big screen, roping in a bunch of talent that includes former WETA effects men, professional…

Medal of Honor’s “Authentic” Marketing is Still a Joke

This is “Dog”, supposedly an Australian sniper who’s been brought in to advise Electronic Arts on development of the new Medal of Honor. Make sure the game is an “authentic special operations experience”. I’m guessing by “authentic” they mean “we got the uniforms right”. Because last I checked even special ops soldiers can’t go into…

Bros Are Blowin’ S**t Up in Broforce, And it Looks Awesome

I look at this trailer for Broforce, and I see Terraria. Being blown to pieces Due out next year from South African devs Free Lives, it’s a blast, and I know this because you can download a playable build right now People keep talking about making the video game equivalent of The Expendables…how about somebody…