Luke Plunkett

The Price Of The 3DS Is Too Damn High (And Other Complaints)

Hey, Nintendo: this whole 3DS launch thing may be the talk of the town this week, but when you peel back the hype of a new handheld what’s left beneath isn’t all high fives and back slaps. No, beneath the new things and smell of fresh plastic there are gripes. And here are my biggest…

See Final Fantasy XIII-2’s Trailer…In English!

We’ve already shown you upcoming role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII-2’s debut trailer, but that was in Japanese. Here it is in English, which should be much more useful to most of you.

Dress Like You Mean To Survive Fallout’s Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland

Thank you, Kai Norman, for this incredible costume, which well and truly brings those badass Rangers of Fallout’s New California Republic to life. The armour is hand-cut out of foam, the mask is assembled out of pieces of plastic and even the coat was sewn together. Handy work. Then again, in the dark, desolate deserts…

There Will Be No Pikmin On The 3DS (Yet)

You may have heard whispers of a Pikmin game being revealed for the 3DS. Those whispers are wrong. Nothing to see here. Move along, move along!

That’s No Moon, It’s An Awesome Star Wars Picture!

Ansel Hsiao is both a big Star Wars fan and a talented 3D artist. Put them together and we get 3D models of Star Wars ships that are so detailed you could use them at a Corellian shipyard. He concentrates on a selection of Imperial Ships (and one lesser-known Imperial Walker), so there are no…

Classic Video Games Deserve Classy Box Art

As we’ve explored previously, video games — especially the classics — deserve better box art than they’re getting. Wonder what we want instead? This is the kind of stuff we want. These retro-inspired pieces by Boris Lechaftois are another take on 2010’s “video games as old books” thing, but in this case there’s no books…

All Strategy Gaming Needed Was A Little World Of Warcraft

You like fantasy, right? You like strategy gaming, right? You like questing with other humans over the internet, right? This is Dawn of Fantasy, an upcoming MMORTS by Reverie World Studios. That’s a massively-multiplayer online real-time strategy game. It’s a mouthful, but it basically means you will be able to — in theory, at least…

New Elder Scrolls Game Will Let You Mod, Mod Then Mod Again

Elder Scrolls fans, don’t sweat it: you’ll be able to use mods in the upcoming Skyrim, as developers Bethesda will be releasing a “Creation Kit”.

Xbox Update Stealth Kills Call Of Duty Pirates

Seems like that innocent little Xbox 360 update yesterday wasn’t just to restore the option to boot the console straight to a disc. It also contained secret pirate-fighting juice. Now that it’s been mentioned, it did seem a little strange that the update came out of nowhere. And for such a tiny fix clocked in…

The Gods Must Be Crazy To Forget About This Game

Capcom’s upcoming Asura’s Wrath was one of the big surprises out of last year’s Tokyo Game Show. So surprising, in fact, the world has been shocked into forgetting all about it ever since. Yet here it is, four months later, returning in a flurry of fisticuffs and religious symbolism. It should be noted that it’s…

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Mad Moxxi Looks Less Bonkers In Person

Meagan VanBurkleo, who we’ve seen before as the Princess of Persia, returns to wow us again with a day spent as Mad Moxxi, a maniacal star of Gearbox’s shooter Borderlands. If you haven’t played the game before, Mad Moxxi is like Tina Turner in Mad Max 3. Only less terrifying While the pictures are great,…

Monkey Island Honoured With…Porn Game Tribute

Monkey Island? More like Spunky Island. Apologies if that appears crass, but I didn’t come up with it: developers Grimmstone did, as it’s the name of their pornographic tribute to Lucasart’s classic adventure game series. Sadly, it’s not a game where you have to trade insults with dangerous women or use rubber chickens to cross…

Your 3DS Guess Is As Good As Mine

We’re just a few hours away from a pair of big Nintendo events in the US and Europe, where actual, useful information pertaining to the release of the 3DS will be revealed. To pass the time, then, let’s make some predictions. There are three key pieces of information we’re likely to have by the time…

Angry Birds Hurl Themselves At The Small Screen

Angry Birds. It’s the craze that’s sweeping the nation. Well, many nations. And soon, it’ll be the craze that’s sweeping TV sets (or computer monitors), with an Angry Birds animated series on the way. Rovio, the developers of the smash hit mobile game, has found a partner (or partners) to “move into production” on an…

When Mods Are Fired For Being Jackasses

Here’s a tip, budding customer service representatives of the world: if you’re going to abuse your powers in a video game and treat your customers like dirt, don’t do it while you’re live-streaming the game An employee of Riot Games, operators of action RTS League of Legends (ironically, about to pioneer a new system aimed…

PS3 Breathes Life Into Prison Contraband

Crims locked up in a Scottish prison have found a novel use for their PS3s: employing them as charging stations for the mobile phones they’re not supposed to have. Prison officials say that the inmates had been stealing computer mice from their labs (used for training and teaching courses), re-wiring them then slipping them into…

Nothing Sega Has Done To Sonic Is This Horrific

You may have seen these cheap LCD games offered as McDonalds Happy Meal toys before. They’ve been run in several territories around the world. But you’ve never seen them advertised like they were in Pakistan. Back in 2004, what must surely be one of the world’s least popular McDonalds outlets tried a unique method of…

The Arcade Game That Posts To Your Facebook Page While You’re Drinking

I’ve only ever seen Golden Tee Golf in places where beer is served, and played by people drinking it, so maybe letting the latest version of the arcade classic communicate with Facebook isn’t the best idea in the world. Golden Tee LIVE 2011 will let players sign into Facebook before playing, and once they drop…

Xbox Changes Coming This Week

Xbox 360 users, two things: one, you’re getting back the option to boot your console straight to a disc, and two, your Xbox.com Gamercards are in for a change. That is all.