Luke Plunkett

The Amazing Video Game Art Of Patrick Brown

We’ve featured the art of Australian artist Patrick Brown a few times before here on Kotaku. But you know what? When someone has such a dense gallery of amazing video game art, a few times isn’t enough. So here’s a good look at some of Brown’s more recent works. While displaying an unhealthy obsession with…

There Are Too Many Damn Video Games

Ever get the feeling there are more games being released than you can even keep track of, let alone get your hands on? Don’t worry. It’s not your mind playing tricks on you. A story on Bitmob about “The Death of the Video Game Expert” carries with it an interesting chart, showing how many games…

Gears Of War 3, Coming April 2011

Somebody at Microsoft appears to have flicked a switch a little early, with an advertisement appearing on the Xbox 360 dashboard tonight for Gears of War 3. There’s the trademark Gears of War logo, and a tagline that reads “The epic story concludes April 2011”. The ad appears to have jumped the proverbial gun, with…

Plants vs…Aliens? No, That’s Not Right

Man, I love me some Plants vs Zombies. Not sure how much I would have loved the game’s original premise, Plants vs Aliens, though. A post over on Ars Technica points out that, when it first began development, the hit tower defence game wasn’t about the eternal struggle between plants and the living dead. It…

The Table Of Elements Now Features Tiberium, Imulsion

Unless you make your living from science, a table of elements is a pretty boring thing. But not when it includes gaming concoctions like Imulsion (Gears of War), Tiberium (Command & Conquer) and Element Zero (Mass Effect). They and many more can be found on Russell Walker’s Periodic Table of Imaginary Elements, which also includes…

Heavy Rain Sells A Million

Outdoing early guesstimates on its retail performance, Sony’s PS3 thriller Heavy Rain has managed to sell over a million copies worldwide since launching in February. The game’s creator, David Cage, says pre-release estimates had the game selling only 200-300,000 copies. Which for a major first-party release with a big marketing campaign would have been a…

What, Exactly, Is DRM?

We’ve been mentioning DRM, or Digital Rights Management, a lot lately here on Kotaku. It’s an important topic! Thing is, we’ve been made aware a lot of you don’t entirely know what it is. If that’s you, here’s a guide. What is it? – Digital Rights Management is, as the name suggests, a means for…

Zombies Overrun Team Fortress 2

One of the advantages of both Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 sharing an engine is that it’s relatively easy to share content between the two. Like, say putting zombies in a Team Fortress 2 map. This crossover takes TF2 classic Badwater Basin and drops it into Left 4 Dead 2, meaning you…

Star Wars: Battlefront Online Binned As Developers Laid Off

Bad news, Battlefront fans: sources tell us a new entry in the series, in development at SOCOM: Confrontation developers Slant Six, has been canned, and a number of staff at the studio laid off as a result. Slant Six managing director Brian Thalken told GameSpot “Our current project needs do not align with our current…

New Pokémon Games Revealed: Pokémon Black & Pokémon White

Get ready for new Pokémon games, Pokéfans, as the latest entries in the popular monster-collecting series – Pokemon Black & Pokemon White – have just turned up on the internet’s doorstop. We’ve got a logo, two names, and…that’s just about it! We’ll apparently be learning – and hopefully seeing – more come April 15. What…

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Gears Of War Meets…Political Satire

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, he don’t like video games. But the editors of Peruvian newspaper Peru21 didn’t let that stop them using a recent arms deal to engage Chavez in a little involuntary Gears of War cosplay. Chavez recently signed a $5 billion arms deal with Russia to buy a whole ton of tanks, submarines…

For All The Farmville Haters Out There

Farmville is a craze that is sweeping the internet, but its simplistic premise and Facebook residence won’t please everyone. For you who are displeased, then, there is this t-shirt. You can get them for around USD$25 from shirt retailer MySoti. A steep price for a surly statement, maybe, but sometimes surly statements are the ones…

They Grow Up So Fast: EA’s Website, Circa 1997

Some of you would have been very young in 1995. Some of you may not even have been born. Point is, it was a while ago, but even back then, in the mists of time, Electronic Arts had a website. And this is what it looked like. Well, it’s what it looked like in 1997,…

Even Lara Croft Deserves A Snow Day

Toy company Sideshow will be releasing this Lara Croft statue later this year, which is unique for the fact that the emphasis is on her face and equipment, not her…equipment. The design of the statue is inspired by Lara’s look in Tomb Raider: Underworld, which is probably my favourite of the lot. I just think…

Why Would Sony Want To Know What You Eat?

Reader zachstr just took part in a survey for Sony, about the company’s PlayStation Network. For some reason, amidst all the gaming stuff, were these questions about fast food. Now, Sony could just be asking for marketing purposes. Arrange something in terms of advertising, or sponsorship, with the outlets that prove most popular. But it…

Games Can Help Prevent Military Massacres, Too

The parallels between video games and the 2007 death of over a dozen Iraqis are clear. Not so clear, but just as important, is the potential games have to prevent such tragedies. A nice counter-piece to the accusatory tone you may have seen surrounding the story earlier in the week can be found on Slate,…

Video Games Destroy New York City

Watch, as classic video games come to life and wreak havoc on New York City. It’s a little bit Ghostbusters, a little bit Godzilla, and all kinds of great. You’ve got Patrick Jean to thank for the clip, with music provided by Naïve New Beaters. PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN [DailyMotion]

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What Happened To David’s Junk?

Since Mass Effect 2’s newest piece of downloadable content, Kasumi – Stolen Memory, deals with crime in the art world, we’re left wondering who was behind this, surely the galaxy’s most well-endowed art heist? After the Mona Lisa’s dour face, art’s most memorable piece of human anatomy is probably the junk found on Michelangelo’s David.…