Luke Plunkett

Sega’s Logo Is A Different Color In Japan

File this under “things I had not even noticed let alone thought to ask”. Over the weekend, Japanese developer Yuichiro Kitao (I am Setsuna, Crystar) pondered on Twitter why some Sega games had different coloured logos than others. While this could have just been some idle observation, turns out he was onto something: Sega of…

Track: Mars for the Rich | Artist: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Album: Infest the Rat’s Nest Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment. 

Knock Knock, It’s The God Of War

Jin Kim is a concept artist who has worked on games like the most recent God of War You can see more of Kim’s stuff at his ArtStation page

26 Years Later, Here’s A Deleted Scene From The Super Mario Bros. Movie

As terrible as it was, the 1993 Mario Bros. movie has a cult following online, led by the dedicated team at SMBmovie.com, who have spent years cataloguing and uploading everything you’d ever want to know—and a lot of stuff you wouldn’t—about the film. In May, they hit paydirt: They got hold of an old VHS…

Man Caught Playing Pokemon Go On Eight Phones In His Car

You know how there’s a warning on Pokemon Go not to play the game while driving? This guy never got the memo, and when he is eventually sent it, needs it sent another seven times, just to be sure. As The Seattle Times reports, Washington State troopers noticed a car stopped on the shoulder of…

Star Wars: A Studio Ghibli Story

Stephen Zavala is a concept artist at ILM, where he’s worked on movies like Solo, Last Jedi, Rogue One and Bumblebee You can see more of Stephen’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Apex Legends Gets Some Very Nice Toys

Weta, who in addition to being a special effects house are also a merch company, have a bunch of Apex Legends stuff coming out, ranging from little vinyl figures to more expensive statues. Statues first: they’ll be out in December, stand around 9 inches tall and cost $100. They’re called figures, but since they’re set…

Henry Cavill Is Now Geralt In The Witcher 3, Too

We have come full circle. No longer is Henry Cavill just playing Geralt in Netflix’s Witcher adaptation, but he is now replacing Geralt in The Witcher 3 itself thanks to a mod that I’m honestly surprised took this long to turn up. Adnan’s Henry Cavill mod swaps Geralt’s old-ass face and replaces it with a…

Rush Hour

Ricardo Tomé is an artist whose latest work was on Decay of Logos, a small indie game taking a lot of cues from both Zelda and Princess Mononoke You can see more of Ricardo’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Some Of Our Favorite Board Games Have Employee Cameos On The Cards

Fantasy Flight, the publishers of some of the biggest and best board games around (from Star Wars to Arkham to Game of Thrones), have a little tradition going among staff: Once you’ve worked there for five years, you get to appear as a character in one of their games. While this might sound like the…

Wolfenstein: Young Blood didn’t let you pause the game in offline mode. That’s being fixed in an upcoming patch, along with the addition of extra checkpoints.

The same guys behindthose cute little Dungeons & Dragons dogs are now running a Kickstarter for modular tabletop scenery, which lets you snap together fantasy and sci-fi environments for your adventures. I’ve messed around with a prototype set and its ridiculously easy/cool to use.

Shaved Mario Is Making Me Feel Strange

Here is a very simple, but very effective mod for Super Mario Odyssey that shaves Mario’s moustache for the entirety of the game. Cutscenes, gameplay, everything. It’s gross and I hate it. And yet…I also cannot stop looking at it. At how young it makes him look. Like this is the Young Super Mario Chronicles.…

Everyone’s DayZ Is Being Edited Because Of Australia

Last week, zombie shooter DayZ—which has been out in various forms for six years—had first its physical release banned in Australia, and then its digital version as well. In order to get the game cleared, Bohemia Interactive are changing every version across the planet just to comply with Australia’s classification guidelines. Since it’s impractical to…

Fortnite’s Teenage World Champ Swatted Live On Stream

Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf, the newly-crowned 16 year-old Fortnite World Cup solo champion, was playing the game in a stream last night when his home was “swatted” Because he streaming live on Twitch, we’ve got video recorded at the time the cops arrive, and in the middle of a game we can hear as he’s interrupted…

The Kids Are Alright

Darren Bartley is a concept artist based in the UK working in the video game business. Below you’ll see a ton of art from Tribal, an original IP Bartley has been dreaming up in his spare time. You can see more of Bartley’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Ninja Understandably Upset That His Old Twitch Channel Was Promoting A Porn Stream [Update]

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who recently left his 14 million-follower Twitch account behind to go and stream on rival platform Mixer, has issued a statement labelled “disgusted and so sorry” today after that now-dormant account—which he no longer operates—was promoting streams from other users, including one broadcasting pornography. Ninja obviously has no control over that Twitch…

Some Very Good Battle Angel Alita Cosplay

This is sixtutu, a cosplayer from China with a traditional take on Battle Angel Alita Photos by nigellizhe

Cooking Mama Has Gone Vegetarian

There’s a new Cooking Mama game coming to the Nintendo Switch via publishers Planet Digital Partners, pitched as a reboot for the series, and while the announcement was centred around some bizarre blockchain news, the most interesting part is that there’s now a new vegetarian mode to go alongside regular recipes that include meat. “New…