Luke Plunkett

Medics Aren’t As Smoky (Or Hairy) As The Men With The Guns

Starcraft II’s iconic “man in large helmet” shot gets a gentler makeover. By VonSchlippe, thanks Doug!

So, Microsoft, Why The Xbox Live Price Hike?

This week, the price of a subscription to Xbox Live Gold went up. Want to know why? Here’s the reason Microsoft is peddling. “In 2002 it was strictly multiplayer gaming,” Xbox Live’s Craig Davison told Gamasutra. “Now we get those Call of Duty map packs before anybody else does. We’ve got Gears and Halo, of…

Shadows Of The Damned Bringing Rock N’ Roll Straight To Hell

Shadows of the Damned, a game being worked on by Goichi Suda (No More Heroes) and Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil), has a new trailer out. Click through to see if it features leather jackets, demons and rock n roll. Well of course it does. Shadows of the Damned will be out next year on PS3…

How The Weak US Dollar Is Good For Video Games

The US Dollar is as weak as it’s ever been at the moment. That’s (generally) bad news for Americans, but for everyone else? It’s good news if you buy video games and like to save money. It’s long been a complaint from gamers in territories like Europe and Australasia that video games are disproportionately priced…

Your Christmas Tree Needs Video Game Console Ornaments

Last holiday season, reader Dave wowed us with his laser-cut controller ornaments. This year, he’s getting into the Christmas spirit early with these console ornaments. There are plenty of machines represented: NES, PS2, Xbox, Dreamcast, SNES, PlayStation, PS3, Genesis, Xbox 360, even the Nintendo 64, they’re all included. The pack will cost you US$35. And…

Nintendo World Store Gets A New Coat Of Paint

The Nintendo World Store in New York City has just reopened after its first major refurbishment since opening back in 2005. While both floors of the store have been given a facelift, as you can see via these photos from Wired.com, if you’ve ever been there you might need to have some of the changes…

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Michael Jackson’s Glove, Reduced To A Game Freebie

Michael Jackson’s white glove, which he first wore when performing the moonwalk for the first time, became a trademark symbol of one of the greatest musicians to have ever lived. And it’s now free for purchasers of a Wii game! Ubisoft, the publishers of Michael Jackson The Experience on Wii, will be bundling a replica…

New Xbox 360 Bundle Includes Forza 3 and Alan Wake

Microsoft yesterday revealed a new Xbox 360 bundle for the holiday season, one which packs a 250GB console in with two games. It’s the same one as we’ve already shown you for the Canadian and European markets; namely, one that also packs in a boxed copy of Forza 3 and a token for a downloadable…

Indie Devs Not Happy With New Xbox 360 Dashboard

The new Xbox 360 dashboard is clean. It’s very white. It’s also got a lot of indie developers for the platform upset with Microsoft, accusing the platform holder of putting their baby in the corner. Xbox Live Indie Games used to be somewhat easily found in the “Games Marketplace” section of the dashboard. Now? They’ve…

Timesplitters On The Comeback Trail

When Far Cry developers Crytek bought shuttered British studio Free Radical, many wondered how long it would be until we saw the return of the Timesplitters franchise. That time may be soon. According to a report on Eurogamer, Crytek UK – as Free Radical is now known – is “talking with various publishers about the…

Take A Peek At God Of War III’s Gorgeous Art Book

Got a knock on the door this morning. Was the postman with my God of War III art book. Let’s take a look at the thing, eh? The book is available from Ballistic, and comes in three variants, one for $65, one for $129 and the one you see above for USD$300. [God of War…

Guitar Hero Becomes Synthesizer Hero

Confession: I adore Jan Hammer. So a mod turning a plastic guitar into a synthesizer is looking – and sounding – pretty good about now. Granted, the quality of tune possible with this crude mod isn’t up to the lofty standards of Mr. Hammer, but it’s the thought that counts, and this was a pretty…

World Of Warcraft’s Biggest Fan Immortalised In Game

“Red Shirt Guy”, who shot to internet fame last week for his intimidatingly deep knowledge of World of Warcraft lore, has been turned into a character in the game’s latest expansion by developers Blizzard. That’s him there on the right – Wildhammer Fact Checker – complete with his red shirt. Before you cry fake, Blizzard’s…

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But you can never tell him the odds…by monkeyminion, as seen on Gamefreaks

Let’s Sit Down And Grow A Tree

Phew. So many shooters out at the moment, or games set in the apocalypse, or that just involve killing things. What we need is to relax for a moment and just grow a tree. Bohm, an indie game “coming soon”, lets you control the growth of a tree. And that’s it! The player can “generate…

Army Simulator Is Short On Graphics, Big On Steering Wheel Peripherals

Everybody knows that armed forces around the world train using what are essentially advanced video games, but it’s rare we actually get to see one in action up-close like this. Seventy-five Australian Army soldiers are about to embark on a peacekeeping mission to the Solomon Islands. Before leaving they’ve been familiarising themselves with the terrain…

These Disks Are Not Toys (OK, Maybe They Are)

The whole “urban vinyl” craze has been on the slide for years now, but we can still spare a tip of the hat for misshapen plastic figures when they represent classic video game storage mediums. This is Squid Kids Ink’s “So Analog” line, featuring a NES cartridge (called “10-Doh!”), a 3.5 inch floppy disk (“A-Drive”)…

2010’s Global Console Sales At A Glance

Some supplementary information provided as part of Nintendo’s latest financial results has got something interesting tucked away amidst all the chest-beating: global home console sales data for 2010. That’s data for all three home console platform holders across the United States, Europe and Japan from January 2010 until around September. What’s interesting is that, considering…