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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’ve seen that expressed elsewhere, but in this case it clearly just reads as a legal disclaimer. The language used elsewhere in the statement is doing all the heavy lifting here.  Read more

middle 1/3 of the game is an absolute disaster, and I would have contemplated walking too (or cheating) just to blow past it. If the team learned one thing from LaD’s development, I hope it’s to improve the pacing relative to our consumption of the story (which really is why we’re all here).  Read more

Can we just acknowledge for a second that the developers made a 140-hour long joke about a haircut? incredible.  Read more

It has been! It’s so weird to release it in a state like this, it’s not like there was a new Blade Runner movie or anything they had to peg the release to. Read more

The lack of just wandering around is absolutely insane to me. Read more

At first I was like “wait no new missions, that sucks?”, then I remembered how this game actually works and realised no, this is fine, thank you Read more

here is the least threatening pic i could find

It was very funny to me that going back and looking at old posts from 10+ years ago the comments were all just “man these players are the worst” Read more

truly doing gods work, and it’s obvious now (if nintendo can’t get them shut down nobody can) that they’re legally in the clear too Read more

I didn’t have the heart to tell AAAA’s marketing team that a 32/40 from famitsu was dogshit Read more

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