Luke Plunkett

Fortnite’s NFL Skins Are Killing NFL Players

Fortnite’s new NFL skins haven’t justinspired people to pile shit on the NFL and former players, they’re also giving pause to current stars running into digital versions of themselves, like Chiefs rookie phenom Patrick Mahomes. You should feel scared, Patrick. That player has your soul now. Mahomes’ teammate, receiver Ty Hill, is claiming the kill:…

Matt Leone’s excellent oral history of Final Fantasy VII has been turned into a book by Read Only Memories, with some extra content and gorgeous art added to the original interviews. I just got a copy and it’s great.

League Of Legends’ K-Pop Video Already Has Amazing Cosplay

It’s only been a matter of days since League of Legends released that incredible K-Pop music video, but we’ve already got some A+ cosplay to go with it. This is Danu (Akali), Peyton Riley (Kai’Sa), Glory Lamothe (Evelynn) and Valentina Kryp (Ahri). All photos are by Photographes Sans Frontieres

The Art Of Castlevania’s Netflix Series

With two seasons now under its belt, Castlevania’s animated series is looking cool as hell. Here’s a bit of a celebration of that, with a collection of art that went into the series’ production. There’s not only character and background/environment art, but some 3D stuff, logos, posters and even animation as well. You’ll find links…

Architects Of The West Kingdom: The Kotaku Review

Architects of the West Kingdom is what you get when a designer takes a very good board game they’ve already made and figures, you know what, I’ll now do something similar, only better I reviewed Shem Phillips’ Raiders of the North Sea earlier this year after absolutely loving it. A simple worker placement title, it…

The new Assassin’s Creed board game we posted about a little while ago is now live on Kickstarter, and has already blown way past its asking price. I’ve messed around with a prototype of the game and it’s pretty good!

I wonder if the NFL really thought this whole Fortnite deal through… 

“Realistic Pokémon” Artist Got A Job On The Detective Pikachu Movie

Six years ago, artist RJ Palmer started drawing Pokémon as though they were realistic dinosaurs. Those sketches, done for fun, led to him getting the job of a lifetime: working on the Detective Pikachu movie, which we got our first real look at today I mean that in the most literal sense; Palmer says that…

Battlefield V’s Singleplayer Is A Nice Surprise

Given the game’s bizarre debut trailer, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I sat down with Battlefield V’s singleplayer game mode. Even without taking that clip’s haphazard tone into account, that’s a familiar feeling when it comes to DICE’s games, which can never seem to keep the same singleplayer formula running for more than…

Track: Ana Ghayeb | Artist: Zuli feat. Mado $am, Abanob & Abyusif | Album: Terminal Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Good Idea

Alexandre Mahboubi is an artist based in France who works at Fortiche, the studio that just made that League of Legends K-Pop video You can see more of Alexandre’s work at his ArtStation page

Scum Bug Gave Players Ever-Growing Dicks

Online survival game Scum issued a patch yesterday that fixed a number of bugs in the game. Among them one where a player’s penis size “would get bigger with each login.” That’s not where the dick-related patching ends, either. Of the 16 bugs addressed in the update, three were directly related to player junk, including…

BlizzCon 2018’s Cosplay Was Out Of Control

Other shows might be bigger, but every year Blizzcon brings out the absolute best in cosplay. It was held earlier this month at the Anaheim Convention Centre, and many of the top cosplayers not just from North America, but from the rest of the world made the trip to show off their love for Overwatch,…

All Hail The King Of Space

Ivan Shavrin is an artist and illustrator from Russia. You can see more of Ivan’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Cloudpunk, A Cyberpunk Game Where You’re A Courier

This is Cloudpunk, a PC game where you play as a courier for a “semi-legal delivery company”. Seems like it’s set during the events of a single night, and has you meeting “a diverse range of characters including androids, AI and unscrupulous humans at every level of society” as you move around both on foot…

75% Of Final Fantasy XV’s Remaining DLC Just Got Cancelled

Square Enix just announced in a livestream that three of the four upcoming pieces of downloadable content for Final Fantasy XV have been cancelled. The one remaining will be out next year. Back in April, we were told there’d be four more pieces of DLC coming for the 2016 game, with episodes called Ardyn, Aranea,…

Welcome To Overwatch, Ashe

Kim-Seang “Nesskain” Hong, formerly a Blizzard fan artist, is now a Blizzard artist, and has worked on the last few character reveal trailers, including the latest one, Ashe. Here you’ll see loads of the illustrations he did for the trailer, which were storyboarded by Blizzard’s Mio del Rosario. You can see more of Nesskain’s stuff…

Dragon Ball Z Composer Elected To Texas State Senate

Anime fans might know Nathan Johnson for his work composing the score to a bunch of Dragon Ball Z episodes and movie dubs, but yesterday he put a very different feather in his cap: he was elected a state Senator in Texas. Johnson, a Democrat, won 54% of the vote to beat out the incumbent,…

Welcome To The Age Of Indie Game Cosplay

Soundfall, a “rhythm-driven dungeon crawler that’s procedurally generated to music”, looks cool as hell. It’s also doing some interesting stuff as far as cosplay is concerned. Rather than rely on just trailers and demos, developers Drastic Games decided to get two of the most well-known cosplayers in the US, Stella Chuu and Bindi Smalls, to…

My Bloody Hero Academia

When a cosplayer is also a photographer, things can get a little creative, as we see here in this pic by Deegan Marie This cosplay image of Toga Himiko, from My Hero Academia, is a composite, meaning multiple photos have been stitched together to obtain the effect. And while we don’t normally post edited pieces,…