Luke Plunkett

Black Ops On PC Patched: Is It Now Up To Scratch?

Call of Duty: Black Ops developer Treyarch has pushed live an update for the PC version of the game, promising to fix many of the issues that have plagued the title since its launch earlier this week. Users have been complaining for a few days now of two major issues: intermittent “lag” in multiplayer matches…

GameStop Customer Shot And Killed During Armed Robbery

Tragic news coming out of Atlanta tonight, as a 40-year old man has been shot and killed after interrupting an armed hold-up at a GameStop store in Conyers. Fox News reports that Adrian Tyrone Snow walked into the store in the middle of a robbery, with suspects Giovannte Maddox and Demarkus Williams having already tied…

Report: Kinect Only Cost $56 To Make

The Xbox 360’s fancy motion-sensing camera Kinect may cost you $149, but according to a report from UBM Tech Insights, it costs Microsoft a whole lot less. UBM have got hold of a Kinect, torn it apart to examine each of its components then tracked how much each of them cost. What they found was…

The Plumber Is Coming Here? We Shall Double Our Efforts!

By Dave Wilson, as seen on Rampaged Reality

Valve Is Killing The PC Market, Apparently

According to a report on trade site MCV, two “big-name digital retailers” for the PC market are staring down the barrel of financial ruin, while two major British retailers are reportedly considering a ban on games that include Steam integration. “Publishers don’t give a shit, they don’t care what happens to the customer. Which is…

There’s A Touch Of Nintendo In This Tower Defence Game

This is Glory Days, an upcoming DSiWare strategy game from Odenis. If you think it looks like renowned Nintendo series Advance Wars, you’re not the only one. That’s where the similarities end, however, as instead of being a turn-based strategy title Glory Days is actually an innovative tower defence game, which is played by rolling…

Tales Of Vesperia’s Figure Is Not A Brooding, Menacing Monster

Tales of Vesperia, one of the best Japanese role-playing games of this hardware generation, now has one of the prettiest action figures of this hardware generation as well. And yes, I said pretty. It’s not like he’s ruggedly handsome. Or even regular handsome. So pretty it is. He’s Imperial Knight Flynn Scifo, one of the…

A Man In The Middle Of The West vs Japan Development Divide

We hear a lot from Japanese developers (and Western pundits) about how the Japanese development scene is dead, but what about a Western developer who works for a Japanese publisher? What does he think? Julien Merceron is Global Chief Technology Officer for Square Enix, the company behind the Final Fantasy series, giving him a unique…

I’ll Take Rockstar Sandbox Games For $500 Thanks, Alex

As seen on Rockstar

A Minute’s Silence For Cannon Fodder And The Great War Dead

Is it sad that the closest video games are able to come to commemorating Veteran’s/Armistice/Remembrance Day is the poppy flower featured in the intro to 1993’s Amiga classic Cannon Fodder? It is a little, yeah. Especially when you consider one of the only other games to evoke a feeling of loss and respect for those…

Developer Changes Name Because The Old Name Was Dirty

Wet developers Behaviour used to be known as Artificial Mind & Movement. Then they shortened that to A2M (which has an alternate, rather NSFW meaning). And that’s why they’re now known as Behaviour. Behaviour CEO Rémi Racine tells Eurogamer that initially, the team was unaware of any other meanings for the studio name, until the…

Kinect Is A Blessing For This Family

With a (mostly) disappointing launch lineup and some niggling problems, it’s easy to get down on Microsoft’s Kinect. Try sparing a thought, though, for the parents of a four year-old autistic boy, for which it’s been a revelation. Gaming Nexus writer John Yan has penned an account of his experiences playing with Kinect with his…

The PlayStation 3 Is For Giant Babies

At least, that’s what these new commercials for the console in Latin America are saying. The Move one below is…OK, but boy that top one is something special. It’s great to see some quality PlayStation ads again that don’t involve Kevin Butler. It’s not that I don’t like Kevin, it’s just…he’s very brash, and Sony’s…

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STALKER TV Show Pilot Looks As Bleak As The Game

Cult favourite PC shooter series STALKER is trying to earn itself a TV series deal, with the game’s developers paying for the production of a pilot episode. The show has been put together by a media outfit called Transvision, and as you’ll see in the clip below, is doing a pretty good job of capturing…

Darkstalkers Cosplay Has Never Been Classier

What is this, a high fashion editorial? An ad trying to sell me an expensive bottle of cologne? Nope. It’s some exquisite cosplay featuring Morrigan, star of Capcom’s fighting game series Darkstalkers If you recognise the model (well, the Morrigan one) that’s because it’s Filipino model Alodia Gosiengfiao, the “queen of cosplay” Helping things look…

Someone Spent $335,000 On Virtual Real Estate

In 2009, Jon Jacobs set a world record for the biggest ever sale of an online item. It was a space station in online sci-fi game Entropia Universe. This month, in the same game, he’s broken that record. In a single transaction with another player, John Foma Kalun, Jacobs offloaded a mall, a stadium, a…

Kinect’s Star Wars Game Will Have You Force-Waving Your Arms In 2011

The Star Wars Kinect game, which so enthralled us before so quickly disappointing us when first revealed earlier this year, has around twelve months to get things right, with a release pencilled in for late 2011. “We have a Kinect Star Wars game coming out for next holiday”, Kinect’s creative director, Kudo Tsunoda, told the…

What If Star Wars Was A…Classic PC Adventure Game

We’ve seen what Star Wars would look like as a classic Lucasarts adventure game, but artist Andy Rash’s glorious pixel art looks so much like a classic Sierra adventure game that it’s tough not to wonder what could have been. Imagine, instead of reliving the original Star Wars trilogy through fast-paced action games like X-Wing,…

How To Turn A Great Cartoon Into A Video Game

Adventure Time is the best new cartoon I’ve seen in years. So it’s nice to see that the first person putting down sketches on how a game adaptation would work is Pendleton Ward, the man who created the show. Don’t know what Adventure Time is? Come on, grab your friends. It’s not an official project,…