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Luke Plunkett
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Luke Plunkett is a Senior Editor based in Canberra, Australia. He has written a book on cosplay, designed a game about airplanes, and also runs cosplay.kotaku.com.

so bizarre they got rid of 128-player breakthrough....just before this map hit. I don’t know how well it would have played in the mode, but I would have loved to at least try. Read more

You wouldn’t be alone, the playercount spiked massively over the weekend. If you do, there’s a temporary game mode where you ONLY play the new map over and over, it’s def the best place to start (well, restart). Read more

i should add that the guy in the unboxing video, john alvarado, also has a very interesting social media presence

Right, it won’t be perfect. But the way they keep stressing that in the announcements in the most lovely way possible I think will mean most folks won’t really mind.  Read more

I think in a situation like this, where story beats and character ideas have already been at least roughly sketched out, and the same rank and file people are doing so much of the work, it...can’t be as bad as some other attempts. Read more

I had to watch it for work, which means im claiming damages. Read more

They’re so clearly having to start the entire thing from scratch and its like...those other teams spent YEARS on this, only to see it binned. It’s a very sad and complicated story. Read more

they had “a dozen” taken down, so took the rest down—after getting the 500+ claims—to avoid any more drama or repercussions for the channel. Read more

im 42, having to check that then type it has ruined my day Read more

I actually had someone reach out to me saying “well he’s still an MP so he’s not unemployed”, so for anyone that pedantic: Read more

Just tried this out for the first time and....the update introduced this stuttering effect every few seconds that makes the game unplayable for me. Siiiiiiiigh. Read more

If they’re able to verify the disc once and tie it to an account...surely they could also use this to let us install games on a console and never have to insert the disc again? Read more

I remember them being better, but it wasn’t until I saw them in this video that I realised just how much better they were. For Rockstar to skimp on those two shows just how cheap this port job was. Read more

2K as well, but it feels like the higher-quality the head models got, the worse this tech got at meshing the texture to the model properly Read more