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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.

I just want everyone to know this post required extensive internal research (as I had to find out how many Aldis there are in America so I could make that joke, and then we all got side-tracked talking about Aldi) Read more

i agree, breakthrough is better, and i feel like the maps “tell a better story” as you progress through them as well. Read more

They were Belarussian, but are now based elsewhere, primarily in Hungary Read more

It was disabled without cause in a patch, yes, but this is the first time they’ve confirmed why. Read more

it’s “NBA Jam” fire, not “I haven’t left the office in 4 days” fire! Read more

It is, I think, the best board--at least in an official, comes-in-the-box capacity--I have ever played a game on. Read more

it was said that only one would ever be sold at auction, not that they’d keep them forever. releasing them for free wasn’t a violation of that promise, so I’d guess this case would hinge on the “fraudulent inducement” stuff Read more

Gotta wonder if adding all the proper d-pad controls and bigger UI stuff is because they’re about to maybe go and do just that.... Read more

If you can’t see a systemic culture problem with a bunch of guys from a professional workplace going to a strip club together for LUNCH then...I don’t know what else I can tell you. Read more

The more I play it and unpack it, after months of play instead of the days/weeks for review, the more I’m convinced the game’s failure is at a senior leadership level. It’s a game where all these individual PARTS work well, which is why you can play it an experience pure magic, then like you say you just keep running Read more

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yeah but at the oscars the winners themselves get to take them to the engraver, so they never actually relinquish it!