Luke Plunkett

The Super Maria Sisters

Emmanuel Edeko is an artistwe only featured here last year, but I loved his depictions of what he’s calling Maria, Louise and some royal himbos so much I wanted to share his stuff again. You can see more of Edeko’s work at his Twitterand ArtStation

This rules. . 

It’s A Little Rough Going Back To Older Yakuza Games

We’ve been absolutely spoiled for Yakuza games lately, especially if you’re a newcomer to the series who has been able to leap effortlessly from 0 to the Kiwamis to Like a Dragon. But now that some of the older games are out on PC, those interested in reaching back into the series’ history need to…

Cyberpunk 2077 Removes Mod That Let You Bang Keanu Reeves

There was a mod available for Cyberpunk 2077 that let you have sex—or a very unsettling approximation of it—with Keanu Reeves’ character. That mod is gone now. As Eurogamer reports, the mod—really just a collection of skins that could be swapped with certain others in the game—let you transform a “Joytoy” sex robot into Reeves’…

Fallout Mod Pulled After Artist Allegedly Posts “Animated Pedophillic Content”

We only wrote about the big new Fallout: New Vegas mod The Frontierlast weekwhen it was released! And now we’re writing about it again, because the mod has been “hidden” (basically temporarily removed) from Nexus Mods and pulled from its own website after allegations that one of its artists posted “animated pedophillic content on their personal…

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Is Too Damn Long

I finally got around to finishing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla this week. And while I had a great time with the game I also parted ways on a pretty sour note, because like its predecessor, it is just too damn long. There’s a cynical precision to the way modern Ubisoft games are developed. Assassin’s Creed and…

The Art Of Degenesis, A “Primal Punk” RPG

We’ve featured the design work of studio SIXMOREVODKA a ton of times here on Fine Art, but tonight let’s look at something they’ve made for themselves, instead of for somebody else. (They’ve worked with companies like Riot, Guerrilla Games, EA, Nike and Activision Blizzard.) Degenesis is a free-to-play RPG (a tabletop one, not a video…

Japanese-Inspired Nintendo Switch Is A Work Of Art

When Canadian artist Carmina Castillo isn’t making cool stuff like this, she’s turning a Nintendo Switch into something so exquisite I would never play it, but simply put it on a shelf and look at it for the rest of my days. It’s made by applying some wood-style Joy-Con covers and a piece of very fancy…

The Art Of Mike Nash

Australian artist Mike Nash, perhaps best known for his work designing robots for Horizon Zero Dawn and the film Chappie, has died. The news was announced by friends last week on social media. We first featured Nash’s work here back in 2011, and some of his more prominent creations—like the one below—have remained benchmarks for…

Microsoft Wants To Build Chatbots Out Of Dead People’s Data

Black Mirror is satire. I thought we were all on the same page with this. As The Independent reports, Microsoft has been granted a patent on some tech that would allow the company to use people’s (or even fictional people’s) online footprint, looking for stuff like “images, voice data, social media posts [and] electronic messages,”…

Counter-Strike Pros Just Keep Getting Banned For Gambling

Only a few months after a number of professional Counter-Strike players received bans for betting on their own matches, the Esports Integrity Commission has issued sanctions “against 35 players for betting related offences.” These offences took place in Australia, North America and Europe, and the ESIC are working with police in each territory, particularly in…

GTA Characters, Remastered

Hossein Diba is an artist we’ve featured here before, but I thought his latest series of works—turning sketched or low-poly Grand Theft Auto characters into fancy 3D models—was worth a closer look. OK so Niko wasn’t low-poly, but still, he’s over a decade old, so this still counts as a remaster. You can see more…

Modded Sonic Games Are Zoomed Out To The Heavens

Modified versions of Sonic 1 & 2—ripped from their mobile ports, decompiled, then played on a PC—can do some neat stuff, like let you play with the camera zoomed out so far you can see the whole damn level. As Ars Technica reports, these mods allows you to scale the game’s resolution, including pulling everything…

Now A Blastoise Pokémon Card Has Sold For $360,000

Are you OK out there, Pokémon fans? First we had Charizard cards selling for $350,000. Then sealed boxes of first edition cards for over $400,000. Now someone is out here paying that kinda money for a Blastoise. Last week a Blastoise Commissioned Presentation Galaxy Star Hologram card, graded to CGC 8.5 (which isn’t mint, but…

Lost Video Takes Us Inside Nintendo In 1990, Shows NES Consoles Being Made

This 20-minute collection of B-roll footage, shot as part of a news report and only uploaded to YouTube this week, gives us a fascinating look behind the scenes at Nintendo of America in 1990, showing everything from manufacturing to R&D to the Nintendo Power Line. While some of it is narrated or is part of…

1994’s NBA Jam Has Been Updated With 2021 Rosters

I love NBA Jam, and I love 90s basketball, but look, I don’t always want to play as Tom Gugliotta or Kendall Gill. Sometimes, I want to play NBA Jam and play as Alex Caruso or Bam Adebayo, and now I can. This excellent mod for 1994’s NBA Jam Tournament Edition (not 1993’s NBA Jam)…

You Can Buy A 912lb Box Of PlayStation Consoles

What an age we live in. PlayStation consoles, by the pound. From time to time—thanks, Goodwill Goblin!—Goodwill will clear out excess stock online in bulk, and here are two very big examples of that. First, a “GAYLORD OF VARIOUS PLAYSTATION CONSOLES” (as a non-American, I had to google that one, it means a very big,…

Valve, Capcom & Bethesda Fined $9.5 Million For “Geo-Blocking” PC Games

The EU have fined Valve and five publishers a total of €7.8 million (USD$9.5 million) over their practice of “geo-blocking” PC game sales on Steam. This basically means forcing users in a country (say, Germany) to only pay the German price for a game, instead of letting them buy a cheaper version of the same…

The Art Of Cyberpunk 2077

While the game itself may not have entered full-blown development until 2016, some of the stuff you’ll see in this collection of concept and production art dates as far back as 2013. Below you’ll find a big collection of environment, character and 3D pieces from throughout Cyberpunk’s development, from the earliest sketches through to models…

Horizon Zero Dawn’s Last Big PC Patch Has Finally, Mostly Fixed The Port

While it was great that PC owners got to play a big Sony exclusive last year, what wasn’t so great about Horizon Zero Dawn’s port was that it ran like shit. Well, five months later things are looking much better. While players were initially beset by everything from sluggish performance to textures not loading, a…