Luke Plunkett

Sealed Box Of Pokémon Cards Sells For $408,000

As the great Nute Gunray once said, this is getting out of hand. As more and more people realise the value in old Pokémon cards, more and more people are flocking to opportunities to catch, if not them all, then at least once card worth a ton of money. Which probably explains why (via Polygon),…

I Am In Love With Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Wilderness

If you’d asked me between 2015-2020 why I loved The Witcher 3, I’d probably have drawn up a very long list of things. In 2021, though, following the release of both Cyberpunk 2077 and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, that list is a lot shorter. It’s basically now just “the wind” and “the sun”. In earlier, more…

Fly Delta, Fly Chunky

Duncan Halleck is a concept artist and illustrator currently working on Utopia Syndrome, an upcoming point-and-click horror/adventure game You can see more of Duncan’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Man Fined $270 For Breaking Lockdown To Play Pokémon Go

Look, weren’t we only just warning people last week to be more careful playing this game in these strange and uncertain times? The BBC reportsa man in England—a nation currently in lockdown in an attempt to curb a rampant infection rate arising from a new, more contagious strain of Covid-19—has broken the country’s strict restrictions…

Controlling Mario Kart And Smash Bros. With An Exercise Bike Looks Like Fun/Hell

Look, man, I get the idea here, but I am playing video games to not exercise, not to exercise. But I admire the ingenuity on display, and can fully appreciate that my steadfast determination to die slowly in this husk of a body may not be everyone’s approach to health and fitness. The idea of…

Goldeneye Meets Mario In The Perfect Nintendo 64 Game

This is a custom Goldeneye map and mod by StupidMarioBros1Fan that turns Peach’s Castle into what is essentially a murderhouse. So much murder. It’s funny, when Mario jumps on these guys to remove them it’s fine, but when you shoot them in the face with a silenced pistol it’s…deeply unsettling? If you ahem know how…

Abandoned MF DOOM Game Sounded Cool

News of MF DOOM’s death a couple of weeks ago led to an outpouring of tributes from artists around the world, from movie-makers to his peers and fans in the rap game. One that caught my eye in particular was this project by Chafomon, an abandoned fan project for the Game Boy called MF Doom:…

Postal Worker Caught Stealing “PlayStation And Nintendo” Console Deliveries

A USPS supervisor in Middletown, Connecticut has been sentenced to nine months of “home confinement” and a $20,000 fineafter being caught stealing items like iPhones and “PlayStation and Nintendo gaming devices”. Via Polygon, 34 year-old Zoheb Deura, who has since resigned from the US Postal Service, was caught following an investigation by the U.S. Postal…

Hades x Techwear

Alfonso Maesa is an illustrator and concept artist from the Philippines. The images you’re seeing here have a strong techwear and/or streetwear vibe, imagining characters from games like Hades and The Witcher 3 as though they’d spent a few thousand bucks on their outfits instead of just throwing on some robes and having at it.…

Portal 2 Fans Are Making An All-New Campaign

Desolation is a Portal 2 mod, though that descriptor really sells it short. It’s closer to a full-blown, fan-made sequel to Valve’s series. Set a few hundred years after Portal 2, and in a part of Aperture Labs that dates back to the 1980s, its star, Diana, “is fitted with Aperture’s BRACE cybernetic system, featuring…

It’s 2021, There’s Still A Pandemic Going On, Be Careful Playing Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go made over $1 billion last year, which means loads of you are still playing it. Which is great! But hey, just remember, we’re still somehow in the middle of a global pandemic, and so going outside isn’t always the smartest idea. Pokémon Go to its credit knows this, which is why the game…

New Nintendo Switch Is In Mario Colors And Looks Fantastic

Yeah, the Switch originally launched in red + blue, but this new colour scheme for the console is even more red + blue. Announced earlier today and out next month, and part of Nintendo’s 35th birthday celebrations for Super Mario Bros., the Switch itself and both Joy-Cons are red, while accessories have a blue trim.…

A Full Throttle Movie Script Has Been Written By Moon’s Director

Duncan Jones, director of movies like Warcraft and Moon, has spent his time in lockdown better than most of us. He’s written a full-length “fan script” for classic 1995 adventure game Full Throttle It’s pretty good! While it deviates in some parts and whips up some new material in others—the original game is a lot…

The Lucasfilm Games Name, At Least, Is Back

LucasArts is dead, but for some reason, the powers behind The Brands have decided that the company’s previous name—Lucasfilm Games—is something that needs to be resurrected, so will now be on the box and the ends of trailers for every Star Wars game going forward. The announcement of the brand’s return means it is “now the…

Please Play This Wolfenstein vs Monkey Ball Game

Return to Castle Monkey Ballis what happens when you take two very different and beloved games and smash them together in a way that on paper sounds terrible, but which in practice is so very very excellent. Made by Nickireda, it’s a fantastic homage to both games, combining the pioneering visuals and Nazi-killing premise of…

Custom Black PS5s Go On Sale, Then Don’t, After Website Claims “Credible Threats To [Their] Safety”

Last week, a website popped up promising to sell brand new PS5 consoles that would be purchased, painted black, then resold for a $100 premium. That’s no longer going to happen. SUP3R5 began taking orders—priced at $649—for these black PS5s on January 8 and claimed to have quickly sold out. This should have been the…

$250 Pokémon Plush Is Also A Nightmare Bed

Oh hey, here’s a giant new Gengar plush, I wonder what happens when you roll its tongue out and oh no. Selling for $250, it’s pretty cool as an enormous plush, if collecting those is your thing. This is more than just a cuddly toy, though, as Gengar’s trademark tongue rolls out and is kind…

Witcher 3 Mod Gives Geralt A Snowboard

This is VGX Snowboarder, a Witcher 3 mod that lets Geralt climb to the top of a snowy peak and then shred his way back down. Made by Feregorn, it adds a snowboard to Geralt’s inventory, and it works pretty well! Rounding out the whole thing is the addition of some goggles, that you can…

Announced last year, the English-language version of Ask Iwata—a collection of the former Nintendo President’s popular Q&A sessions with developers—will be out on April 13. 

Twitch Removes “PogChamp” Emote

Twitch has removed the extremely popular “Pogchamp” emote from its service after the man featured in it, streamer Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, tweeted some Extremely Bad Shit about the events currently unfolding in Washington. Here’s the tweet in question, in which Gutierrez directly calls for “civil unrest” for a “#MAGAMartyr” following a shooting that took place…