Luke Plunkett

The Nintendo Labo Can Make Some Serious Music

Oh, you thought you were cute playing a little piano on the Nintendo Labo? Here’sJapanese musician Geniway showing just how good the software’s suite of music tools can be. Here’s a Final Fantasy XIII tribute he stitched together: And here’s some Splatoon for good measure: If you’re wondering why he keeps shaking the thing: it’s…

Post-Apocalyptic Cosplay Looks Like It Survived The End Of The World

Dimitri Zaitsev, from Nuclear Snail, built this piece of post-apocalyptic cosplay that’s so detailed it looks like it travelled back in time to warn us to save the bees while we still could. We’ve featured Nuclear Snail’s work before; rather than directly replicate costumes from stuff like Fallout, Mad Max and STALKER, he comes up…

Stole Your Heart

Justin Chan is an artist who has worked for companies like Hasbro, Vlambeer and Nick Jr. You can see more of Justin’s art at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game…

X-Wing Miniatures Game Gets A Reboot

Fantasy Flight’s money-printing X-Wing, which has been killing it for a few years now, is getting a reboot with a new Second Edition of the game. Announced today by Fantasy Flight, it makes a number of changes to the way the game’s played, some of them all-new ideas, others tweaks made in reaction to the…

Battletech Is Pretty Good

Released on PC last week, Battletech is a new strategy/tactics game by Harebrained Schemes (Shadowrun). In the absolute simplest terms, it’s kinda like XCOM, only you’re in control of some giant lumbering mechs. Battletech is a game of two halves. You’ll spend most of your time doing turn-based battle on 3D landscapes, but there’s also…

Donkey Kong Game Disappears From eShop Ahead Of Switch Re-Release

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was first released on the Wii U in 2014, and has previously available as a digital download on Nintendo’s eShop. Now that the game has been re-released on the Switch, though, it’s been noticed that the cheaper digital version of the game is no longer available. There are reports of…

EA’s FIFA 18 World Cup Patch Is A Surprise

Electronic Arts takes a lot of shit from a lot of people for many of its business practices. So its decision to just give away a big FIFA 18 World Cup update—something they used to charge for—is a pleasant surprise. Announced earlier today, the World Cup update will add a ton of new stuff to…

BOY…And Girl

Ilya Golitsyn is a senior concept artist at Guerilla, where he’s most recently worked on Horizon Zero Dawn You can see more of Ilya’s art at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of…

Hopefully The Witcher’s TV Show Looks As Good As This Cosplay

Here’s Dutch cosplayer Rick Boer with one heck of a Geralt of Rivia. Rick made all costumes and props himself, and as with so much of Rick’s cosplay, the real star is his make-up work. You can see more of Rick’s cosplay at his Instagram page

Track: The Dawn | Artist: DJ Krush feat. Shawn J. Period | Album: Kakusei Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

A Reminder That Destiny 2’s Art Is Incredible

Patrick Bloom is a senior concept artist at Bungie, where he’s most recently worked on Destiny 2 You can see more of Patrick’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video…

The CIA Made A Board Game, And It’s Now Playable

CIA Senior Collection Analyst David Clopper has, since 2008, created three complex board games designed to test employees. They used to be a secret, but a recent public showing, along with a Freedom of Information request, has resulted in the necessary rules and paperwork being released so anyone can play. Sam Machkovech wrote a great…

Big Bird Cosplay Is An Enormous 7’8″ Tall

If you’re going to cosplay as Big Bird, you gotta go big George Hughes has just finishedthis gigantic piece of Sesame Street cosplay, crafting a Big Bird costume from scratch that stands 7’8″ when he’s wearing it. There are around 3000 feathers covering the suit, which George had to glue on individually. It’s so close…

Reader Arkadiusz Matyszewski made this Path of Exile statue and wanted to share. Apple for scale. Amazing work my man.

The Best Flight Sims

We’ve had some good times, aeroplanes and video games. Though not as popular as they once were—we can thank the demise of the joystick for that—flight simulators are still a popular genre, one that’s home to some of the most realistic physics and hardcore fans around. Flight sims have also given us some of the…

Nice View

René Aigner is a concept artist and illustrator who has worked in video games and books. You can see more of Aigner’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work…

Hellboy Board Game Kickstarter Raises $1 Million In About Five Seconds

A miniatures board game based on Hellboy—the comic, mercifully, not the movies—has launched on Kickstarter, and is already 6x over its funding target. Designed for 1-4 players, you take control of a BPRD agent and “explore gothic locations, hunt down clues, discover artefacts, fight horrific creatures and face off against terrifying bosses”. The terrain is…

Nintendo Releasing All-New RPG For Phones

Nintendo just announced that it’s working with Cygames on an all-new RPG for mobile devices. The game is called Dragalia Lost It’ll be released this Summer, first in Asia then in North America and Europe. It’s described as an “all-new original action RPG application”, which Cygames desgined and which Nintendo “has been co-developing and will…

Alien Board Game Accused Of Plagiarism, Publisher Threatens To Sue Critics

Games publisher Wonder Dice has been accused of stealing a designer’s ideas for its upcoming board game Alien: USCSS Nostromo A statement by the SAJ (Société des Auteurs de Jeux, a group of French board game designers) first sounded the alarm, raising concerns that Wonder Dice’s game was built on both the setting and rules…

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Meet the cutest little Kratos you ever did see. Made by Good Smile, this Nendoroid is out in October, and should cost around $40 He comes with a shield, an axe and a very shouty tiny mouth.