Luke Plunkett

Where To Find Animals In Red Dead Redemption (So You Can Shoot Them)

A key timewaster in Red Dead Redemption is hunting animals. Statistics prove that many of you have done quite a bit of it. But where to find those pesky beavers, bats and unicorns? There are no unicorns. Sorry. There should be, but there aren’t. The beavers and bats though, you’ll find them “west of the…

All Systems Are Go

The West Coast was the last region to have to wait to unlock Starcraft II’s retail release. That 100%, from Mike’s computer, means the wait is over, and the game is now officially out

Night Of The Living Mushroom Kingdom

He feasts on the flesh of the living (mushrooms). By mrksaari, via Game Informer

Starcraft II Singleplayer, The Idiot’s Guide (By Blizzard)

Maybe it was because of the beta, maybe it’s because of Korea, but with Starcraft II due out this week the game’s singleplayer campaign still isn’t getting much love. I’m not one for madly clicking or remembering build routines; my Starcraft experience is a singleplayer one, so it’s nice seeing a long, informative clip taking…

Teasing The Virtual Boy On Its 15th Birthday

It was 15 years ago this month that the ill-fated Virtual Boy, Nintendo’s only real failure in the video game hardware market, was released in Japan. To celebrate, here are mock-ups of some games that never appeared on the system! Pixel Joint are running a contest this week to drawp up what it would look…

Video Games Can Help Convict You Of Crimes (Or Prove You’re Innocent!)

Security expert Brandon Nesbit is about to give a talk on how video games and consoles can help catch a criminal. Or, if you’re under investigation and did nothing wrong, how they can clear your name! It’s all in the alibi. Nesbit, who will soon give a presentation to the DEFCON Security Conference, will be…

Is This Infamous 2’s Cole? Sure Looks Like It [Update]

Cole MacGrath, hero of Infamous and bike messenger, wasn’t the best-looking game character in the world. His redesign for the sequel was even worse, though, so it’s good to see developers Sucker Punch reverting to something a little more familiar. While we already knew this about-face had been made by the team, a developer diary…

Bringing A Modern Touch To Some Retro Sprite Art

HTML5 is, in simple terms, a new language for the web that among other things will allow for videos and animations to play without the need for Flash. It can also breathe new life into old video game art styles. Joe Huckaby over on the Effect Games blog has a great piece up showing a…

Yeah, Looks Like NBA Jam Is Coming To The Xbox 360 & PS3

What, you don’t trust the UnterhaltungssoftwareSelbstkontrolle? Then you’ll have to take the ESRB’s word instead that NBA Jam is headed to the Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3. The basketball title, which at the moment is only officially bound for the Nintendo Wii, was earlier this month rated by the USK – Germany’s ratings board –…

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Designing Beautiful Guns For Video Games

Pascal Eggert, gun nut and currently artist at Crysis developers Crytek, got his job doing what he loves: designing firearms for video games. Some of you may think he’s crazy, but I think having someone onboard who is so into his shit that he designs not only a weapon’s appearance but its inner mechanics as…

The Arguments For, And Against, Another Jaws Video Game

There have been two (well, technically three) games based on the world’s first Summer blockbuster, 1975’s Jaws. And they all sucked. Doesn’t the quintessential underwater villain deserve better? Ashcraft, our resident film expert, and myself, our resident shark hater, decided to find out. What follows is an informal email discussion on the subject, which begins…

Marvel vs Capcom 3 vs Comic-Con Screenshots

It may not be making an appearance at this year’s Gamescom, but Capcom’s Marvel vs Capcom 3 is in attendance at this year’s Comic-Con. We’ve seen some new characters and new trailers for the game already, but here are some new screenshots, showing off the game’s roster of both two-legged and four-legged characters.

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Images courtesy of Kotaku Australia