Luke Plunkett

You Will Never Chop The Head Off These Cute Game of Thrones Figures

I’m not normally a fan of Funko’s Pop! figures, being as they’re just another take on older, existing styles like Munnys, but that was a view formulated before they got the rights to make some Game of Thrones pieces. Which look great. It’s an interesting choice of characters – we get The Hound and Khal…

The NES Fighting Game That Featured Sonic, Mario, Ryu and Goku

I’ve talked about classic fighting game World Heroes here on Total Recall before because it’s amazing. But this, this is something else entirely. It’s called World Heroes 2, but it’s not the official sequel to SNK’s game. It is instead a 1994 pirate Famicom game, one which throws together the biggest video game stars of…

Street Fighter II’s Vintage Art Book is a Thing of Beauty

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Someone is Making a Cyberpunk Text Adventure Game. In 2012.

Text adventures have a long, proud history, one that dates back to the very beginning of PC gaming, before computers could really even do graphics It’s a history that hasn’t had many new entries in the past 30 years, though, as advances in horsepower and the advent of first visuals then colour visuals rendered the…

Why Tanks Are Best in Battlefield 3

Battlefield 3’s new Armored Kill expansion, out later this month, reminds me why I only play maps that have tanks in them, and why I only drive tanks when I’m on them. I mean, um, sure, you could be that tiny little man running around an enormous map with your skin just sitting there all…

What You Get When You Cross a Dog With a Giant Tank

Sam Brown is another of the talented kids at concept art studio Massive Black. His work has appeared in games like BioShock 2 and inFamous. Love his robots. They always look their best when they’re functional, dirty and a little banged up. You can see more of Sam’s work at his personal site To see…

Resident Evil & Silent Hill Fight, Quite Literally, to the Death

YouTube series Video Game Death Match does, well, pretty much what it says it does. It pits characters from different series against one another. But not as some sort of opinion poll of fanfiction contest. As an actual live-action fight, with costumes, effects, the works. This instalment sees Resident Evil killer Hunk face off against…

PAX’s Misfiring Romances Are Equal Parts Adorable, Unlikely

Throw thousands of people who share common interests together for a weekend and love is bound to blossom. PAX is no exception, and amidst all the games, booze and costumes the annual gaming celebration in Seattle brought a lot of like-minded kids together Not everyone managed to seal the deal, though. Some people had to…

Steam Now Charging $100 For Indie Games to Appear on Greenlight

With over 700 games already submitted to Steam’s new Greenlight service, it’s getting hard keeping track of things. It’s also getting tough having to sift through the joke submissions to find the actual games. In an effort to cut down on this, Valve today announced it will be introducing a $100 fee for developers to…

Sounds like Tera isn’t doing so well. The MMO will be merging servers on September 18

Dark Souls Might Get An “Easy” Mode

Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki is thinking seriously about adding an “easy” mode to the game. Speaking to London’s Metro, he says of the notoriously difficult game, “I personally want my games to be described as satisfying rather than difficult. As a matter of fact, I am aiming at giving players sense of accomplishment in…

Skyrim Tattoo Turns Reader’s Boss Into RPG Hero

A reader sent us in this pic of their “middle-aged boss'” tattoo. His name is Jim, apparently, which I guess is short for Dovahjiim? Note that’s Dovahjiim, the Dragon Middle-Aged Man, not Dovahkiin, the Dragonborn.

If The Ouya Fails, You (Probably) Won’t Be Getting Your Money Back

The Ouya console might not have been the first video game project to hit it big on Kickstarter, but it’s easily the biggest, with around 57,000 people contributing money towards a machine that doesn’t even exist yet You’d hope that, come 2013, those 57,000 peoople will see a return on their investment in the form…

Halo 4’s Ten-Minute “Documentary” Is Also One Giant Game Trailer

Well, here’s a pleasant surprise. This is a “documentary” on the making of Halo 4 that runs for over ten minutes. You’d think such a clip would be full of agonising monologues by developers, and it is, but instead of just focusing on talking heads you’re also seeing a ton of of in-game and cinematic…

A PC Game Where You Manage a Space Colony? Wonderful.

Maia is an upcoming indie game where you’re put in charge of managing a sci-fi facility. The world will be procedurally-generated, will contain various different hostile environments, and require you to defend it from hostiles. Which all sounds great. And looks great, too, in this test footage which shows that the game’s proprietary engine can…

Battlefield 3 With The Lights Out Is Like An All-New Game

Despite early predictions that its fancy Frostbite engine would make it almost impossible for modders to mess too extensively with Battlefield 3, there’s a mod that messes extensively with Battlefield 3. And with great results! While seemingly only doing a single thing – turning off the sun and transforming the game’s daytime maps into night…

Tomb Raider’s First 14 Minutes Are About Jumping (And The Slaughter of Deer)

The new Tomb Raider was at PAX. Were you at PAX? Me neither, so this is the first I’ve seen of the demo that was running over the weekend. It goes for 14 minutes, so you might want to make a cup of tea. When you do, and get back, you can join me in…

Easy Modes Can Ruin Games? Um, No.

Alex Hutchinson, the lead designer on Assassin’s Creed III, has some very interesting thoughts on video game difficulty. “A lot of games have been ruined by easy modes,” he tells Edge. “If you have a cover shooter and you switch it to easy and you don’t have to use cover, you kind of broke your…

This is Who We Thank For Bastion’s Gorgeous Art

Jen Zee works at Supergiant Games. A small indie team, Jen is art director (and part-time badass cosplayer), meaning she’s the main one to thank for the amazing colours and vibrant world of Bastion, one of the best-looking video games in recent memory. A Seattle native, Jen has also done work for Gaia Interactive and…

Star Wars Meets Ancient Rome, When Senates Were More Interesting

Custom toy builder Sillof has made quite a name for himself in the past few years turning random action figures into themed, fantasy sets of Star Wars pieces. His previous efforts, like Second World War and Steampunk Star Wars, were great, but this latest one might be the best of all, if only for the…