Luke Plunkett

Company Of Heroes, The Best RTS Ever Made, Is Coming To iPad

Relic’s 2006 classic Company of Heroes, which I will remind you all is the perfect RTS, is coming out tomorrow (February 13) on the iPad, and that is just the most wonderful news. It’s basically the entire base game (so no British expansion, sadly, at least not for now), complete with both campaign and skirmish…

Pokémon Home App Includes Bonus, Uh, Gif

The Pokémon Home app that’s now outhas a little surprise tucked away inside its files (at least on Android): this very good gif. If you open up the app’s APK, there’s a folder for gifs, which includes five Pikachu animations related to the program, and one that’s not. The gif was originally made by nippori way…

When You Were Partying She Studied The Blade

Fengli Lee is an artist from China. You can see more of Lee’s work at their ArtStation page

Pokémon Home, Nintendo’s new online pocket monster storage service for both Switch and mobile, is now live on the eShop in the USA.

Every Marvel vs. Capcom Character, Together At Last

Artist Chris Cayco, who we’ve featured a few times before on Kotaku, grew up playing Marvel vs. Capcom (and Marvel vs. Street Fighter) games. His tribute to this, which took him over 175 hours, was to combine every single character to ever appear in Capcom’s crossover series in the one enormous image You can see…

Red Dead Timelapse Is Just The Cutest Lil’ Thing

The world of Red Dead Redemption 2 is vast and realistic, but with a few camera tricks it can be made to look like a tiny little model railway set. This timelapse, tilt-shifted video was made by Red Dead Online Guides, and like so many other videos about Red Dead is great to watch just…

Fire Emblem: Three Houses Is Being Demade To Look More Like Older Games

Know what I loved about Three Houses? Almost everything! Know what I didn’t love? A lot of the game’s 3D visuals, from the monastery to the battle mode, looked like ass—something this ambitious mod project is looking to fix. FE: Three Houses GBA Demake is an attempt to entirely remake the game with retro pixel…

Hey, Yeah, Telephone. It’s For You.

Qi Wu is a concept artist and 3D modeller from China. You can see more of Wu’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Sims 4 Modder Passes Away, But Fans Are Making Sure His Legacy Lives On

If you’ve messed around with The Sims 4 at any point, you’ve probably come across the name Scumbumbo. A gifted modder, he was also a major figure in the game’s community, always lending a hand to help others improve their own creations. Scumbumbo died last year, but his work was so important to players that…

Shameless Animal Crossing Clone Coming To PC

Hey, if Nintendo won’t bring these games to PC, someone else will. Just as we’ve seen already this year with Temtem—which brought Pokémon in everything but name to the PC—now along comes Hokko Life, which is so Animal Crossing I’m surprised they didn’t just call it Animal Crossing for Personal Computers and cross their fingers…

Android Class Is In Session

Yujin Kim is an artist from Korea. You can see more of Kim’s stuff at her ArtStation page

Yoshi’s Island Glitch Causes 25-Minute Pause

There’s nothing funnier to me than enormous bugs being discovered in very old games, and so we come today to this Yoshi’s Island misadventure shared by the ever-wonderful Supper Mario Broth, which when triggered will simply stop your game for, oh, 25 minutes. The bug was first documented online (I’m sure someone out there ran…

Mother Reunited With Deceased Daughter In VR Show

Last week, a Korean TV special called Meeting You aired which focused on a family’s loss of their 7-year-old daughter. And in an unsettling finale, the program attempted to reunite the girl with her mother using a virtual reality recreation, complete with audio. You can see it below. Not only was the girl fully replicated…

Warhammer 40K: Bone Marine

Akim Kaliberda is a 2D artist and illustrator based in Russia who has done for work for companies like Games Workshop. You can see more of Akim’s stuff at his ArtStation page

PS4 Emulation Is Taking Its First Baby Steps

As PS3 emulation continues to make strides, and with the PS5 on the horizon, it’s time for PS4 emulation to step into the limelight, as developers try and take the first steps on the road to running God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn on a PC. We’re still a very long way from that…

DDOS Attack Locks Out EVE Online Players For NINE Days

You know, normally when we report on a DDOS attack impacting an online game, it impacts players for a few hours, maybe a day tops. Yet right now there are some EVE Online players who have been unable to play the game for nine days As PC Gamer report, the attack has been ongoing for…

EA Hikes Up PC Game Prices, But Only On Steam

Yesterday, EA raised the prices on a whole bunch of games across a whole bunch of regions on Steam, making some of them cost almost twice as much on Valve’s store as they do on EA’s own Origin marketplace. While the price of EA games on Steam remains unchanged in the US, everywhere from the…

Jaime, Why’d You Have To Go Out Like That

Dawnpu is a concept artist from China. You can see more of Dawnpu’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Grand Theft Cthulu, Sure, Let’s Do It

This is Dead Static Drive, an upcoming game whose official pitch is just three words: Grand Theft Cthulu Coming “soon” to Xbox One, Game Pass and Steam, it’s an isometric action game where you play as a post-apocalyptic survivor on the run from all kinds of supernatural horrors.

Report: Banjo-Kazooie Was Named After Former Nintendo President’s Family

Veteran games writer Andy Robinson, who before resuming a career in journalism spent a few years at Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic, has a very cool storyabout how Banjo-Kazooie got its name. While touring Japan recently, Robinson learned that former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi, who died in 2013, has a son called Katsuhito Yamauchi, whose name is…