Luke Plunkett

Oh Hell Yeah More Isometric Landscapes

Manuel Vormwald is a concept and background artist from Germany who has worked on games like The Pillars of the Earth and A Year of Rain You can see more of Manuel’s stuff at his ArtStation page

In addition to Homeworld 3, the classic RTS series is also coming to phones in the form of Homeworld Mobile. Considering how frantic the desktop version can get, it’ll be interesting to see how everything is handled on a much smaller screen. 

Fan Makes Their Own Nintendo Direct In Super Mario Maker 2

If you want something done, you gotta do it yourself. Tired of waiting for Nintendo’s next full-blown Direct presentation, BeardBeardecided to make their own. As a level for Super Mario Maker 2 What it lacks in white-screen executive announcements it more than makes up for with news, like an indie game showcase, a release date…

Artists Create Beautiful Tributes To Your Favorite Board Games

For a few years now, some very talented artists have been coming up with posters for some some of the most popular board games on the planet, all thanks to BoardGameGeek’s Artist Series. The site, which most will be familiar with as a repository of game facts and community chat, also sometimes becomes a marketplace…

After a tease last month, here’s the first full trailer for Pokemon the Movie: Coco, which is out in Japan in July. Looks like Zarude is going to play a pretty big role, explaining his reveal in Sword & Shield earlier today

Welcome To City 27

Josef Anton is a freelance concept artist who has worked on games like the Anno series and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 We actually featured one of his Anno 1800 pieces last year as the lead image in this Fine Art post, but tonight is just 100% Josef. You can see more at his ArtStation…

GOG’s New Refund Policy Is Extremely Generous

PC marketplace Good Old Games announced a new refund policy today, and uh, it’s very kind. Maybe even too kind. Here’s the new policy, straight from GOG: “Starting now, you can get a full refund up to 30 days after purchasing a product, even if you downloaded, launched, and played it. That’s it.” That’s honestly…

Cosplayers Across America Are Fundraising For Bernie

Bernie Sanders isn’t running for president on the back of billionaires. He’s getting there via donations from supporters, and today, that’s a bunch of cosplayers. Earlier today, hyenasandgin started the Twitter hashtag #cosplayersforbernie. “My friends on the Ballin’ Out Super Podcast (number one leftist anime podcast) had recently raised $420 for Bernie and I was inspired…

Our Favorite Photos From Katsucon 2020, One Of The Biggest Cosplay Shows On The Planet

Katsucon, held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, may not be as big as shows like Comic-Con, PAX or Anime Expo for the general attendee, but for cosplayers this is one of the absolute highlights of the year. Around 20,000 people went through the gates earlier this month, and…

Get Paid, Sonic

Labros Panousis is an artist from Greece. You can see more of Labros’ stuff at his ArtStation page.

GameStop’s Concept Stores Of The Future Are Very Sad

GameStop, once the center of the video game retail universe, is in serious trouble. As physical game sales decline (and with them, trade-ins, the company’s bread and butter), they’re desperate to find new ways to get people in the door and spend money. A little too desperate, maybe. While GameStop’s efforts over the last few…

YouTuber Etika’s Memorial Is Now A PokéStop

Last year, following the passing of YouTube star Desmond “Etika” Amofah, fans got together and painted a 40-foot mural in Brooklyn in his honour. And now, after lobbying Niantic, the mural is a bonafide PokéStop in Pokémon Go As upstart young Vice reporter Gita Jackson writes, the idea was first raised back in November by…

Portraits Of Three Houses

Yueko is an illustrator based in New Zealand. You can see more of Yueko’s stuff at her ArtStation page

Let’s Just Enjoy How Realistic Red Dead Redemption’s Animals Are For A Second

This video by Red Dead Online Guides pulls the camera away from the player and just watches Red Dead Redemption 2’s animals go about their daily business, revealing tricks and habits you’d probably never pick up on if you were just pushing Arthur Morgan around all the time. Like, I had no idea that the…

YouTuber Banned From Every EA Game And Online Service After Rants, Threats

Kurt “Kurt0411” Fenech, a FIFA Pro who is probably more notorious/famous for his YouTube presence, has been hit with one of the most severe online punishments I’ve ever seen, having been banned by EA from playing any of the company’s games online or even accessing any of their online services. The ban comes after Fenech’s…

Mod Turns Original Mario Party Into A Platformer

Mario Party 64 is a romhack created by MrComit that takes the eight boards from the original N64 release of the series and turns them into a complete, self-contained platform game, ala Super Mario 64 In addition to the boards themselves becoming stages, with 70 stars to collect throughout, there are still minigames to play…

Almost Nobody Played A Bad Guy In Mass Effect

One of the key appeals of playing the Mass Effect series at its time of release was the way, like BioWare’s older games, your in-game decisions and actions would propel you towards the ends of a binary good/evil scale, potentially changing the game’s story. Turns out BioWare almost needn’t have bothered, since so few players…

The Art Of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Tonight, let’s take a look behind the scenes at some of the concept art that went into the creation of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, one of the most Star Warsy-lookin’ games of all time. Below you’ll find examples of everything from character design to environmental work and even some Imperial posters, done by both…

Dune: The Kotaku Review

Dune is an experience so broken I don’t even know where to begin. Except to say it’s the best board game I’ve played in a long time. While coming out in time for a new movie later this year, this isn’t a new game. It’s actually a reprint of a classic, dating all the way…

Democratic Socialism Simulator Lets You Tax The Rich, Nationalize Amazon

In Democratic Socialism Simulator, the goal is simple: loads of cute American animals are going to either ask questions about, or give advice related to, government policy. And you, as “the first socialist president of the United States”, have to decide what to do. It’s not quite as simple as just saying “yay” or “nay”,…