Luke Plunkett

Please, More Games Where We Eat Humans Like Snacks

I am absolutely terrified of sharks, among many other things, and that’s always been a hassle when trying to play games with underwater sections. I’m down for Maneater, though, because in this game I am the shark. I know that there have been other games where you can be a shark, but they haven’t looked…

We’ve seen plenty of Horizon Zero Dawn cosplay, but never a full-blown music video where the cosplayer—in this case Fenix Fatalist—is singing her own song she wrote about the game.

Greedfall, A New RPG Where The 17th Century White Man Runs Into Some Problems

French studio Spiders, creators of bad-but-also-good RPGs like The Technomancer, have a new game coming called Greedfall. It’s an alternate universe take on what a 17th century European invasion of the New World would look like if the colonizers ran into magic and giant monsters. It’s aiming for a release on PC, Xbox One and…

Grim Fandango Was Performed Live On Stage, With Jack Black, And It Was Magical

One of the absolute highlights of this year’s E3 has been the idea Double Fine had to perform classic adventure game Grim Fandango live on stage, complete with original voice actors and band. While of course they weren’t acting it out—this is E3, not Broadway—it’s still a beautiful thing to watch, with art shown behind…

Track: Man Don’t Dance | Artist: Big Shaq | Album: N/A Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Best Cosplay From ColossalCon, One Of The Biggest Shows Of The Year

ColossalCon was held earlier this month in Sandusky, Ohio, and it’s easily one of the best cosplay shows of the year. Not only is it a regular con, but outside are some idyllic grasslands, and inside the resort is a pool. That means cosplayers are free to tackle massive projects like the Shadow of the…

Bury Me In Yakuza Games

Two Yakuza games came out in 2017,we’ve already had one in 2018, and now another is coming. Here’s the E3 trailer for Yakuza Kiwami 2, the remake of the second game in the series, which was originally released in 2006. It’s the only Yakuza game I haven’t played, so I am very down for this.…

PS4 Fortnite Accounts Are Blocked On The Nintendo Switch

Fortnite players who had an Epic account on PS4 and have tried to play the new Nintendo Switch version of the game are reporting that they’ve run into a problem: they’re not allowed to use the same account. That’s right, if you have played the game on PlayStation 4—even just once—that’s enough to have got…

Remember, The Witcher’s Ciri Has Probably Been To Cyberpunk 2077

Anyone who has played the Witcher 3 will know that there’s a passage in the game where… …characters visit other worlds. While Geralt had to tread around an alien desert, Ciri got to go somewhere much cooler. Itwas basically accepted as fact by fans (including Kotaku.com’s Kirk Hamilton) back in 2015 (remember, Cyberpunk was first…

To help get cosplayers started on their Assassin’s Creed Odyssey outfits—of which there will be many, because those two star characters are just to die for—Ubisoft have released a guide, showing the finer details on their costumes and the correct colours for each component

Soundtracks Are Very Important For E3 Trailers

What an age we live in, where the humble Farming Simulator series gets a lavish E3 cinematic trailer. Big approval for the soundtrack choice, everyone involved.

Nike’s PlayStation Sneakers Are Back [Update]

Nike’s original and super-limited 2006 release of some PlayStation-branded AF1s became something of a cult classic, so this week they’re bringing them back. Update June 12 – Added official images from Nike. I always thought they looked like clown shoes myself, and they’re not a patch on Nike’s other PlayStation effort for 2018, the light-up…

Cyberpunk 2077 Cosplay Is Here

CD Projekt Red has a long history of working directly with cosplayers on The Witcher, so it’s little surprise that the big showing for Cyberpunk 2077 at E3 this weekhas some A+ cosplay to go with it. Both cosplayers are dressed as V, the player character in the game. The woman lead is Maja Felicitas,…

Some More Characters We’d Like To See In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

So,Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is going to feature every fighter to ever appear in Nintendo’s fighting game series. That’s fine, but it’s not enough. There could be, and should be, even more fighters. After all, why go back in time to rehash old favourites when there’s a whole world out there of characters who have…

It’s Hideo Kojima Dressed As Norman Reedus In Death Stranding

To help promote Death Stranding at E3, Kojima Productions had a life-size figure of star Norman Reedus made up, then dressed as he appears in the game’s trailer. If you’re wondering about the scale of that figure, it’s 1:1 Hideo Kojima-sized. Here’s the figure itself, with a detail shot of its Madame Tussauds-ass face: Kojima…

A Kiss Has Been One Of The Stars Of 2018

One of the nicest things to come out of this year’s E3 so far has been the kiss that begins (and ends) the new Last of Us 2 trailer. In fact I’m going to go so far as to say it’s the best video game kiss I’ve ever seen. If you’ll join me in looking…

Nioh Gets A Sequel

2017 action-RPG and Geralt of Rivia lookalike platform Nioh (which was rather good) has a sequel, just announced during Sony’s E3 press conference.

The Last Of Us 2 Is Looking Ruthless (And Gay)

Sony kicked off its E3 2018 press conference with a showing of The Last Of Us 2, showing a lengthy gameplay sequence that sure was something. The presentation began with a long cinematic sequence, in which we see Ellie and some friends at a party hanging out, talking social politics, dancing and then getting some…

Satisfactory Has The Best Name At E3

Satisfactory is an upcoming game for the PC that’s about foraging for supplies, working as a team and then taking all that stuff and actually building something huge and complicated and functional with it. There are loads of games that have you scavenging and constructing, from Minecraft on upwards, but those have usually been aimless…

Yakuza Is Coming To The PC

Sega just announced that two Yakuza games are on the way for the PC. They’ll be joined by the upcoming Valkyria Chronicles 4 The two games mentioned during Sega’s trailer at the PC Gaming Show at E3 were Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami Yakuza 0 is out in August, and is already up for preorder…