Luke Plunkett

Anyone For Some Gwent?

Lorenzo Mastroianni is an illustrator at CD Projekt Red, developers of The Witcher series. You can see more of Lorenzo’s work at his ArtStation page

Figma’s latest Overwatch figure might also be its best effort yet. Pharah will be out in October 2019 (!)

Hand-Drawn Strategy Guides Are Works Of Art

To celebrate the original Ninja Gaiden’s 30th birthday, Philip Summers has created his own 20-page strategy guide for the game, full of maps, tips and gorgeous illustrations. I’m in love. It’s available for a name-your-price download here He also did one for Contra earlier in the year if that’s more your style. Via Super Punch

Dumb Kids Will Try Anything To Get Out Of An Xbox Live Ban

Back in the earlier days of Xbox Live, while the Xbox 360 was still in its prime, the platform’s support forums used to allow users to complain about bans they’d received, and Microsoft staff would actually reply. Even if the users were being racist little shits. It seems a universe away from how platforms are…

World War Two Is Now A Collectible Card Game

Because video game versions of card games are now a license to print money, 1939 games have decided to take the Second World War and turn it into Gwent That game is called Kards and is a digital CCG (collectible card game), so the aim is to get you playing for free then buying packs…

Marvel Stuntmen Recreate Super Smash Bros.

Filmmaker Legend of Micah has teamed up with a range of professional stunt performers, who have worked on stuff like Avengers: Endgame, Avengers Infinity War and The Walking Dead, to pay tribute to Super Smash Bros I’m getting tired just watching these guys.

Might As Well Jump

Michael Shinde is an artist at Turtle Rock who has also worked on games like Mass Effect Andromeda and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. You can see more of Michael’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Our Favorite Cosplay Photos From Anime NYC 2018

Even though it’s only in its second year, Anime NYC is already the #1 show in the area outside NYCC, with almost 40,000 people coming through the gates of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center between November 16-18. Below you’ll find some cosplay photos and images taken by Mineralblu from the weekend, while each cosplayer’s…

“HD” Doom Is Looking Very Nice

Digitally-upscaled remakes of classic pixel art games are usually a crime against eyeballs, but these incredible Doom sprites—generated with the help of neural networks—are proof that maybe that won’t be the case forever. Hidfan over at the Doomworld forumshas run original Doom textures through two different neural networks specifically designed for image upscaling: letsenhance.io and…

Video Game Propaganda Posters Are Winning The War 

Artist Fernando Reza has just finished a huge range of illustrations turning classic video game series into Second World War propaganda posters. They are fantastic We’ve featured Reza’s work before—like his line of Zelda recruitment posters—but this new collection covers all kinds of bases, from Metal Gear to Mario to Space Invaders They’re all available…

Lookin’ Sharp, Aloy

Luc de Haan is a character and concept artist at Guerrilla, the studio behind Horizon: Zero Dawn and Killzone We’ve featured some of his stuff before, but that was a long time ago, so I figured we were due for a refresher. You can see more of Luc’s work at his ArtStation page

Eight Years Later, Ni No Kuni’s DS Version Is Now Playable In English

While Ni No Kuni was first released in the PS3 in 2011, it’s easy to forget that there was also an entirely different DS version of the game that was released in 2010. Mostly because that game was only ever available in Japan. Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn featured mostly the same…

Katy Perry Is In A Final Fantasy Game

Ah, it wasn’t that long ago it was a strange thing to type the words “Ariana Grande Is In A Final Fantasy Game”. And yet here we are once more, typing “Katy Perry Is In A Final Fantasy Game”. It’s the same game—mobile title Brave Exvius—and she’ll be appearing as “multiple playable characters” from December…

Some Of The Best Video Game Screenshots Of 2018

Screenshot artist Andy Cull, who we’ve featured a few times on Kotaku before, has decided to collect his best screenshots of 2018 and put them all in a single showcase. It’s a beautiful thing to behold. From new games (God of War) to slightly older ones (AC: Origins, Titanfall 2), you can see some of…

Bioware Teases Dragon Age 4

BioWare’s Dragon Age series, which has been quiet since 2014, is back with a brand new game and a very short trailer to go with it. Though as we’ve already reported, we shouldn’t expect it any time soon. Having recently been rebooted, Dragon Age 4 is still very early in development, but the trailer shown…

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 3 Is Coming, Made By Team Ninja And Is A Switch Exclusive

There’s a new Avengers (and X-Men, and Guardians of the Galaxy) game coming to the Switch, in the form of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: Black Order. It’ll be out in 2019, and amazingly, is being developed by Team Ninja. Coming ten years after the last game in the series, it introduces a new over-the-shoulder camera…

The most ambitious crossover event in history.

No Thank You Disney, No, Please Stop This

Disney is researching ways to better capture and portray human teeth in video games and movies. And you can’t research human teeth without unsettling imagery As Motherboard reports, a team of researchers at Disney have published a paper called Appearance Capture and Modeling of Human Teeth, which is fine and interesting and scientific, but it’s…

Some NBA Stars Made An Overwatch Hype Video

A media guy for the Dallas Mavericks has been bugging the team for two years to let him do an Overwatch-style hype video, and they finally relented. It was worth the wait. Especially for Luka Doncic’s half-ass Junkrat. Before you give him too much shit, though, his complete lack of enthusiasm might be explained by…

Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Gets His Own (Unofficial) Amiibo

Official Amiibo are restricted to video game characters, but fan-made ones can be whatever the hell they want. Hence this incredible tribute to Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai Based on a his buddy Sean Hicks’ 2D artwork, 3D artist George Crudo built a caricature model of the Nintendo legend, then had it 3D-printed and painted…