Luke Plunkett

Life After People (On Halo’s Reach)

When sci-fi shooter Halo: Reach ends, so too does humanity’s presence on the planet. This gallery of environment art for the game shows what the place would look like with everyone gone. That’s not its point, of course; it’s just a collection of in-game art showcasing the talents of Bungie level artist Anthony Vaccaro (with…

The Great PlayStation Car Chase

Darren Suchon, a 42 year-old unemployed man from Lehigh Township, Pennsylvania, likes video games. He likes them so much that when somebody tries to take them away, it results in a car chase, road rage and the cops. Suchon’s girlfriend, Colleen Frable, had last week gotten so fed up with his bum lifestyle that she…

Is Blizzard Banning Starcraft II Players For Cheating In Singleplayer? [Update]

It’s fine to take drastic action against somebody cheating in multiplayer. Those people are scum. But what happens when people begin to be banned for bending the rules of a game’s singleplayer component? Gamer gm0ney is accusing Blizzard of suspending his Starcraft II account for the use of “unauthorized cheat programs”. The thing is, gm0ney…

EA Cancels Steven Spielberg Game

For years now, Electronic Arts and Steven Spielberg were supposed to have been working on a project called “LMNO”. We’d long thought it was dead. Now EA has finally confirmed it. Jake Kazdal, a former EA developer who worked on the game, told the 8-4 podcast “I don’t know exactly what was the thing that…

A Baby Deer Does Not Have 9999 Health

Finally. A Japanese role-playing game where you slaughter defenceless little animals. This is Mark Leung: Revenge of the Bitch, a parody RPG for the PC that, while in most parts a little too crass for our tastes, brought chuckles with this highlight reel called simply “Animals Getting PUNISHED”. Take that, stupid monkey.

The Kinect You Never Knew

In late 2006/early 2007, then-Xbox boss Peter Moore wanted a “Wii Killer” to be the centrepiece of Microsoft’s next E3 press conference. So he had two teams compete to try and make him one. Having seen the immediate success of the Nintendo Wii following it’s launch in late 2006, Kotaku has been told that Moore…

British PS3 Owners Get Movie Streaming

Since Netflix isn’t available in the UK, British PS3 owners will get the next best thing, with movie streaming and subscription service Lovefilm coming to the console

Modern Warfare 2: That’s No “Ghost”!

Ghost don’t eat brains. Though this one shows they can come back from the dead. By DoomCMYK

Who Needs Flower When You’ve Got LittleBigPlanet 2

The first LittleBigPlanet was home to crude recreations of various old-school games. LittleBigPlanet 2 can do a whole lot more. Like recreate Flower, a PlayStation Network game that was released not in 1989, but in 2009, and which was not a simple side-scrolling title but a 3D game that didn’t even feature a main character.…

Take A Look At Minecraft’s Inferno

Minecraft’s Halloween update will bring not just Jack-O-Lanterns and fish, but also these hellish depths. This new “realm” for the game is a fast-travel option of sorts, as time and space don’t quite work down there the way they do down…Minecraft’s other deep places. Take a handful of steps in “hell” and when you swtich…

Europe Gets Red Wii Bundle

It’s not just the Super Mario Bros. 25th anniversary game Europe is getting; the Old World may be in line to receive the new Red Wii as well, albeit with some changes made to the bundle. This box art surfaced over the weekend, and shows what looks to be the official packaging for a European…

Salman Rushdie’s New Book Takes A Cue From Video Games

Controversial author Salman Rushdie has just released a new children’s book, and interestingly, it’s got a strong foundation in video games. Luka and the Fire, a sequel of sorts to a children’s book Rushdie penned in 1990, seems a classic adventurer’s tale of magic, gods, talking animals and a heroic quest. Its primary influence isn’t…

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Steam Down On Monday Morning: Stock Up On Provisions

Better make sure you’ve got a good book and some chores to work on come Monday morning, because Steam will be down for approximately four hours. Valve say that “some” Steam services will be offline during the scheduled server maintenance, but when those services are in-game matchmaking, in-game lobbies, downloading stuff from the Steam store,…

PC Misses Out On BioShock 2 Downloadable Content

The Protector Trials and Minerva’s Den, two downloadable content packs for BioShock 2 on the Xbox 360 and PS3, are still not available for PC owners of the game. And now, they never will be. 2K PR representative Elizabeth Tobey has taken to the game’s forums to break the bad news, issuing a statement that…

Nintendo: We Can’t Blame Piracy For Poor Game Sales

Nintendo, more than any other publisher on Earth, goes after pirates with its teeth out and its guns blazing. So it’s funny to hear company president Satoru Iwata say it’s not an excuse for poor game sales. “I do not think we should attribute bad software sales solely to piracy”, he said during a Q&A…

Night Of The Living Pokémon

Going to have to break this one up over two pages in the interests of Not Suitable For Work Safety. As seen on Game Informer

Kinect Does Not Need This, No Sir It Does Not

And you thought because it doesn’t use peripherals Kinect would be spared a bunch of ridiculous third-party add-ons. Well, you were wrong This is Atomic Accessories’ “Game Boat”. It’s for Kinect Adventures, a game which includes a rafting game. So you blow up the inflatable boat, and…look, I’m not going to dignify this with an…

Now This Is A Joystick

I once had a Thrustmaster “Top Gun” joystick. Best one I ever had. Got me through 2.5 X-Wing games after I’d broken four on the first one. This new one, though, is a lot nicer. It’s called the HOTAS WARTHOG (Thrustmaster’s caps, not ours), and is touted as a “full replica” of the flight stick…

Now You Can Be The Third, Taller Mario Brother

Reader JC has a design up for voting on T-shirt site Threadless, and we think it’s one worth voting for. Unless you hate plumbers. And who hates plumbers? Anyone can be a plumber in this shirt, which makes us wish Threadless was a store that also specialised in caps and hallucinogenic mushrooms. In case you…