Luke Plunkett

Racism, Violence & Madness Make This Awful Hong Kong Game One to Remember

Sleeping Dogs has been one of the most pleasant surprises of the year. Part of the game’s appeal is the fact it’s set in Hong Kong, which raises the question: why aren’t more games based around one of the world’s most iconic and populous cities? The answer may well be that this old thing scared…

Not All Sega Mega Drives Were Made Equally

While these days the release of a new model of hardware is kind of a big deal, signifying as it does important changes in components, capabilities or even a complete redesign, back in the day some companies used to be able to flood the market with different versions of their console and nobody even noticed.…

Incredible Star Wars Posters Are The Good, The Bad & The Ugnaught

Artist Timothy Anderson has combined two of mankind’s greatest creations – Star Wars and spaghetti westerns – and combined them in this series of posters, in which George Lucas’ sci-fi trilogy is shown off like they were the kind of movies Clint Eastwood would star – and squint in – a lot. The bad news…

This Game Lets You Show Cammy Your Thailand

Did you know that, over the weekend, there was an indie game get-together called Jean Claude Van Jam? And that it was all about making games based on Jean-Claude Van Damme? And that it happened only a few days after Van Damme gave perhaps the greatest Street Fighter-related interview of all time? What an amazing…

A Cat Sings The Game of Thrones Intro

The first five seconds are absolute terror. You reach for the stop button. But then…then you find your foot tapping. Your head nodding. And damn it, for the 1000th time, you’ve enjoyed a cat-related nerd video when you know you should know better. [via Topless Robot]

No, Your Scissors Probably Can’t Run Crysis 3 Either

Julius Perdana has built a replica model of a Crysis nanosuit that manages to look better than a professional, factory-made action figure Which is remarkable, given Perdana’s is made out of paper Yes, believe it or not, this is papercraft. Originally designed to coincide with the release of Crysis 2, he’s now produced an updated…

Command & Conquer Generals 2 is Launching Without a Singleplayer Campaign

Just in case the words “Command & Conquer” and “free-to-play” hadn’t got you wary enough for the upcoming C&C Generals 2, there’s now this: the game is releasing without a singleplayer story mode. While acknowledging that one could come later, Bioware Victory general manager John Van Caneghem told PC Gamer that his team “really want…

Beautiful Portraits of The Men And Women Who Made Uncharted

By day, Iki Ikram works as an artist at Uncharted developers Naughty Dog. By night, he’s a keen photographer. In this gallery of images, which he calls simply “dogs”, Ikram manages to combine the two. Each portrait is a developer at Naughty Dog. There are programmers, and there are artists. There are people you’ve never…

Diablo III Interview Leads to Unexpected Facebook Bitching

What should have been a harmless little interview with a video games website has turned into something of an internet Diablo soap opera after David Brevik, the co-founder of Blizzard North and one of the key men involved with the creation of Diablo, said some unkind things about Diablo III. After claiming that Diablo III…

Minecraft Timelapse Reveals Slow-Motion Destruction

Reader Dino Rhymestyle put this lovely video together the other day, using the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft, some capture gear and the relentless passage of time. Setting up a lava drip, he captures the slow, inevitable destruction of a house and surrounding countryside. It’s beautiful. Partly because the game’s music suits scenes like this…

According to a LinkedIn resume, Black Ops II will also be headed to the Wii U

A Game About Debating is Way More Fun Than it Sounds

A Game By Its Cover is one of the coolest independent game jams going around. It tasks entrants with picking an existing piece of fake video game art – often a cartridge from Meteor’s awesome Famicase exhibition – and making an actual game out of it. This year’s edition kicked off in June and closed…

Vancouver, once a boom town for video game development, could soon become a ghost town instead

The People Making the Trailers That Make You Go “Whoah”

Whenever somebody sees a fancy cinematic trailer or intro sequence to a game these days, if they don’t just assume it’s the work of the game’s developers, they assume it’s the work of Blur Studios But Blur isn’t the only team in the field. Another outfit is Plastic Wax, who are based in Sydney, Australia.…

Sleeping Dogs is Actually Shenmue 3, Only With More Punching

Since the chances of us seeing another proper Shenmue game are approximately 3720 to 1, DSimphonyHD figured the next best thing would be to try and recreate Yu Suzuki’s Dreamcast adventure in Sleeping Dogs. It works. It works brilliantly [thanks Nicholas!]

Why Be a Tower Defender, When You Can Be a Tower Attacker?

Last year’s Anomaly Warzone Earth flipped the tower defence genre on its head, putting you in the shoes of the guys trying to get past the powers, instead of the guys building them. It was, to keep things brief, brilliant It’s now got a sequel. Anomaly Korea does the usual sequel thing: there’s new units,…

Commander Shepard Takes Up Space Graffiti, Quickly Excels

Bored with saving the galaxy, and in particular all that mining (couldn’t someone else be doing that?), Commander Shepard has taken to killing some time deploying probes. Creatively. Human Spectre [Tumblr]

Two Mirandas, Catwoman and a Black Widow Walk Into a Bar…

And…look, I’d finish that with a punchline, but I’ve been distracted by somebody cosplaying the lights out as Zelda’s washed-up sailor, Linebeck. Those mentioned and more are the stars of this latest instalment of Fancy Pants, our regular look back at the best of the past week in cosplay. Fancy Pants is a look at…

New Steam Community Feature Shows Testers Prefer Sex, Butts, Memes

When Valve sat down to design its new Steam Community system, it probably figured including the ability to share screenshots would lead to page after page of glorious vistas, hilarious missteps and dramatic explosions. Nope. Turns out most people currently in the community beta just want to see sex. And butts. And Sonic memes. The…

Tyrion Lannister Statue is Just Like The Man Himself: Small, Yet Impressive

Dark Horse will next year be releasing this statue based on the Game of Thrones TV series, featuring the likeness of Tyrion Lannister, who is played by Peter Dinklage. Standing 10″ tall and due in February 2013, the statue will sell for $200. What’s cool is that Dinklage himself was filmed by the show’s crew…