Luke Plunkett

Eight Years Into Development, Star Citizen Fans Are Increasingly Upset That Star Citizen Is Still Being Star Citizen

While the wider world has accepted that Star Citizen (and its singleplayer spin-off Squadron 42 campaign) are perhaps never coming out, those who paid for the game back in 2012—and have either paid or kept paying since—are growing increasingly unhappy at developer Cloud Imperium Games’ lack of apparent progress and communication. The latest bout of…

One Of The Leaked Nintendo Games Is A…Hockey RPG

In the dying days of the Nintendo Entertainment System, well into the early 1990s, Taito had plans to bring arcade game Hit The Ice to the console with some pretty substantial additions. It never made it, but that wasn’t for lack of effort; the game was actually completed, just never released. As gaming historian Frank…

Metal Gear Solid V Players Finally Destroyed Every Nuke In The PS3 Version, Triggering A Secret Cutscene

When Metal Gear Solid V was released, tucked away in the code was a cutscene designed to only play once every nuke in the game had been found and destroyed. Earlier today, almost five years later, that cutscene was triggered for anyone left playing on PlayStation 3. This achievement was once thought almost impossible, since…

Gonna Buckle Some Swashes

MinJi K Yoon is an artist at Powerhouse, an animation studio that has worked on games like The Banner Saga and Mortal Kombat You can see more of her stuff at her ArtStation page

Previously Unknown Super Mario 64 Enemy Found, Added To The Game

These big Nintendo leaksaren’t just for curiosity’s sake; there’s a real practical element to them as well, like the fact modders have been able to find lost and unused enemies in titles like Super Mario 64 and get them back in the game. Like Motos here. Motos is an enemy that was designed, created and…

Track: Sweet Caroline | Artist: Neil Diamond | Album: Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show | Mood: UTV

Comic-Con Was Cancelled, So Let’s Remember The Good Times

With the San Diego Comic-Con cancelled (at least in person) for 2020, one of the best cosplay events on the planet ended up being cancelled along with it. Bummer. To help remember a time when people could get together in crowds and dress up, then, here’s a retrospective of the last few year’s worth of…

The Space Crew’s All Here

Yura Koropkin is a concept artist from Russia. You can see more of Yura’s stuff at their Instagramand ArtStationpages.

You Can Play Doom (And Loads Of Other Games) Inside Minecraft

Doom is famous for running on everything from graphing calculators to ATMs, so I guess it shouldn’t be too surprising to see it playable here inside another video game, especially since that game is Minecraft It’s possible thanks to theVM Computers mod (via The Verge), which lets you build your own computer in the game…

Huge Nintendo ‘Gigaleak’ Reveals Tons Of SNES & N64 Secrets, Like Luigi In Mario 64

One of the longest-running and most interesting stories of 2020 has been the slow emergence of a ton of confidential, historic data contained within some big Nintendo leaks. Another round of stuff originating from this data spill landed over the weekend, and it covers everything from Super Mario 64 to Star Fox 2 to Super…

Mario Modder Creates All-New Zelda Game In Ocarina Of Time’s Engine

Kaze Emanuar, who we normally post about thanks to his astounding work modding Mario games, has with the help of some friends only gone and made an all-new Legend of Zelda game. It’s called The Missing Link, and has been made in the Ocarina of Time Engine. Set in between Ocarina and Majora’s Mask, it…

Riding Out For A Couple Of Cold Ones With The Boys

Ilker Serdar Yildiz is an illustrator from Turkey who has worked on games like Gwent and Mount & Blade 2 You can see more of Ilker’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Now This Is Some Nintendo LEGO

Anyone left as disappointed by Nintendo’s first LEGO offerings as I was—I wanted huge Mushroom Kingdom/Hyrule playsets!—can find solace in the fact that, since this is LEGO we’re talking about, you can just make and remake whatever the hell you want. So @crownavy took the weird blocky Mario figure that’s shipping with the first official…

EA Reveals FIFA 21, Sequel To FIFA 20

Following the success of its football title FIFA 20, Electronic Arts has decided to release a sequel due later this year, called FIFA 21 Once again based around the sport of football, and featuring licensed players, teams, leagues and stadiums, it will allow users to recreate the sport in both solo and, more commonly, in…

Uh Maybe That Was TOO Effective

Astero is an artist from Japan. You can see more of their stuff at their ArtStation page

PlayStation’s New Kids Sneakers Are Gross

Sony has a long and storied record when it comes to sneaker collabs, from the classic PlayStation Air Force 1 to the more recent Paul George releases. This latest pair, though, is not going to reach those heights. Rather than releasing with long-term partners Nike (despite looking like bootleg Air Max 270 Reacts), these shoes…

If Sega Won’t Make A New Jet Set Radio, These Guys Will

If a new game looks a lot like another game, that can sometimes be scandalous. If it looks a lot like another game that everyone wants a new one of and never get, though, it is welcome Here’s Team Reptile’s Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, coming to the PC next year, which is as close as we’re…

The Next Yakuza Is Coming In November, But The PS5 Has To Wait

Yakuza: Like a Dragon, the next game in the long-running crime/bike-throwing series, and the first of the post-Kiryu era, has been out in Japan since January. We finally got a Western release date today though, with the game due on most systems in November. That’s Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and, best of all, PC (previous…

Ubisoft’s Next-Gen Games Will Remain $60 (For Now)

While 2K has come out and said its next-gen games will cost $10 more than the current standard (at $70 vs $60), Ubisoft announced today that, for the time being at least, its PS5 and Xbox Series X games will remain at $60. During an earnings call earlier today, Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot said for…

The Peaky Fookin’ Blinders

Gabriel Soares is an artist from Brazil. You can see more of Gabriel’s stuff at his ArtStation page.