Luke Plunkett

This Year, Marcus Fenix Hopes To Cut Back On The Reps

Did any of you make a new year’s resolution? These guys did. Let’s hoping most of them, Gordon Freeman aside, can actually stick to them! You can see the full gallery over on Dorkly, but these are the highlights. While some are reaching at jokes, others – Marcus Fenix in particular – read true enough…

Little Girls Make StarCraft II Sound Like SweetCraft II

You want to know how cute 4 year-old girls are? They can make Starcraft II sound adorable This clip, part of a fan podcast of sorts, may look like the internet’s 1,114,236th home-made video about Starcraft II, but it’s not. Because the interrupting exclamations of a small child make it more heart-warming than the rest.…

Microsoft Researchers Made An Xbox Game

For years, getting a computer to play chess has been a badge of honour for AI programmers. Getting an Xbox Live game to play something 10x more complex, then, seems like something to be proud of. Microsoft has quietly released a first-party game on Xbox Live Arcade called “Path of Go”, a computerised version of…

Hacker Claims To Have The PS3’s Front Door Keys

Famed hacker George “GeoHot” Hotz, who among other things helped crack the iPhone, reckons he’s found what are essentially the keys to the PlayStation 3. And has posted them online for the world to see. While a group claimed last week that they’d done much the same thing, and were in the process of releasing…

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Tactic 3D Sigma Headphones Do 2D Just Fine

Headsets claiming to offer “surround sound” have been on the market for a while now, but I’m yet to find one that really works as advertised. Let’s see if the Sound Blaster Tactic 3D Sigma can change that. Specs Price: US$89.99 Platform: PC/Mac What’s in the box: Headphones, THX adapter, detachable microphone. After a week…

I’ve Got Sand In My Arcade Eyes

While New Year’s in the northern hemisphere means cold weather, down here in Australia, it’s summer time. So instead of huddling in front of a fire, I’m on the beach with a beer, listening to this. To me, summer means three things: Outrun, Coronas with lime and the sweet, sweet sounds of former Kyuss and…

Um, That Sounds…Fun

Sig Hansen, Captain of the ship featured on TV’s “Deadliest Catch”, explains his ideal crab fishing game. We’ll pass, thanks.

Star Wars Has Rarely Looked This Good

Savvy collectors may already be aware of artist Tyler Stout, who whips up re-imagined movie posters. These Star Wars pieces are his latest work. And maybe his best. Sure, his Last Starfighter poster was great, and his Iron Man one was greater, but these are going to take some beating. There are six available, three…

Anime Has Changed

This isn’t a real project. But Metal Gear fans, feel free to dream that it is. By E-Mann

Fans Bringing Japan-Only RPG To The West

Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers is the sequel to role-playing game Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner. Neither game was ever released in the West. That’s not stopping some fans from bringing the former out here, though! A small team is working on localising the entire RPG – first released on the Saturn in 1997 – and…

The Sun Rises, And There Are New Pokémon Toys

Pokémon Black & White will be out in the US in early 2011. That means Pokéfever is back in full swing, and Pokéfever means Pokémon action figures. Or, in this case, “model kits” of the new game’s three starter Pokémon. That means you’ll be able to buy little immovable representations of Tepig, Snivy and Oshawatt…

Mouse Trap’s Got Nothing On Minecraft

This isn’t the first Rube Goldberg machine we’ve seen built in indie PC game Minecraft, but it’s certainly the most impressive. if things start off looking a little pedestrian, give it a few minutes. By the time you hit 3:30, things are picking up, and by around 4:30, they’re getting faintly ridiculous.

These Are Some Of The Guys Who Made Red Dead Look So Good

Half the visual appeal of Red Dead Redemption is in the landscapes. Those were done by Rockstar. But the other half is John Marston’s swagger, or the way a bandit gets caught in his horse’s stirrups. That was done by these guys. NaturalMotion is a company that specialises in, well, natural animation for video games,…

This DS Game Walks Along The Avenue, Never Thought It’d Meet A Girl Like You

Radiant Historia is an upcoming role-playing game for the Nintendo DS. It’s developed by cult favourites Atlus. Who, it seems, are big fans of cheesy 80’s pop. New screenshots for the English-language version of the game were released earlier today, and if you think the words in the text bubble up top look familiar, that’s…

The Year In Disappointments

There were so many things to get excited about in 2010! So many things to cherish! Sadly, life isn’t all kittens and rainbows, and for every up, there must be a down. These are 2010’s biggest video gaming disappointments. Now, before we go any further, know that few of the things we’re listing below were…

The PS3 May Have Just Had Its Front Door Kicked In

Forget jailbreak devices; the same team who broke the Wii wide open now claims to have done the same for the PlayStation 3, leaving Sony’s console at the mercy of homebrewers and pirates alike. During proceedings at the 27th Chaos Communication Conference, a group of hackers gave a presentation called “PS3 Epic fail”. You can…

Two More Super-Villains For Marvel vs Capcom 3?

Marvel vs Capcom fans, you may want to make room in your hearts for two more characters, as a leaked comic looks to have accidentally outed two Marvel super-villains set to join the cast. Some work-in-progress shots of a comic, reportedly based on the upcoming fighting game sequel, turned up recently on the website of…

Mass Effect Just Got Way Too Cute

Alien vigilante Garrus is not pretty. He wasn’t pretty before his face got shot up, and now, he’s even less pretty. Lucky for the kids, then, that this plush based on the Mass Effect gunslinger is so adorable. Sadly, this isn’t an official piece of merchandise from developers BioWare. It’s instead a hand-crafted piece, so…

Make Your Own Minecraft Alarm Clock

Minecraft players sick of emerging from the rocky depths into the dangerous, deadly night, you should maybe be doing a little less mining. That or build yourself what’s essentially a Minecraft alarm clock. This “timer project” servers as a real-world representation of Minecraft’s sun, allowing players to keep track of the time of day without…