Luke Plunkett

Ye Olde Video Gaemes

Braydan Barrett is a concept artist at Splash Damage, developers of games like Brink and Dirty Bomb You can see more of Braydan’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…

It’s 2018, Here’s A New Video Games Magazine

A Profound Waste of Time is a new games magazine that “plays host to a rich variety of voices from inside and outside the videogame industry”. Which means the first issue features pieces by folks like Undertale’s Toby Fox and Life is Strange’s Ashly Burch alongside some very nice illustrations. The mag was actually Kickstarted…

Morrowind, Bioware & Star Wars Classics Coming To Xbox One Backwards Compatibility

Microsoft has just announced a new batch of original Xbox games coming to the Xbox One’s backwards compatibility feature, and there are some damn good ones on offer, including KOTOR, Morrowind, Jade Empire and the original Star Wars: Battlefront games. Here’s the full list of original Xbox games on the way: Hey, if you’ve never…

Stay Beneath The Waves Please, Thank You

Irina Kuzmina is a concept artist and illustrator from Russia. You can see more of Irina’s work at her 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 artists, showcasing the best of both…

Due Process is an upcoming co-operative tactical shooter for the PC (think: SWAT) that lets players collaborate on a planning screen before the action kicks off, and which has procedurally-generated stages.

Korean Companies Fined $950,000 Over Loot Boxes

Three game companies—including online giants Nexon—have been fined almost one million dollars by Korea’s Fair Trade Commission over deceptive loot box practices. NextFloor ($4,600) and Netmarble ($55,000) were also ordered to pay small fines, but the bulk of that judgement ($875,000) was reserved for Nexon, particularly for its handling of the game Sudden Attack The…

The Nintendo Switch’s Parental Controls Are Amazing

Pretty much every games platform in the market today, from phones to tablets to consoles, has some form of system that lets parents lock kids out of bad stuff. But none of them do it as well, or as elegantly, as the Nintendo Switch. As adults, we tend to give Nintendo shit for their tentative…

Track: Body Bag | Artist: Dr. Dooom | Album: First Come First Served Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Queen Of The Forest

Remember last year, how we did a Fine Art post on a former Blizzard guy’s collection of fantasy sketches, having done one per day for 366 days? Only the first volume was released in 2017. The second one is coming out soon. Tegn: Book Two is the second of three collections, which include not just…

Overwatch Characters, Only They’re Cars

There’s a line of Rocket League car toys, but reader Kim has decided to branch them out a little and customise them into cars based on everything from Breath of the Wild to Overwatch to Spyro Most of them are Overwatch, and what’s cool about these is that despite them being based on existing models,…

Overwatch Brigitte Cosplay Is Pretty Much Perfect

Henchmen Studios have once again performed wonders with a new Overwatch character, building a suit for cosplayer Moosefixthat looks like it jumped straight out of the game and straight into PAX East. Here’s a group shot, and these guys aren’t too shabby either: Remember: in addition to Moira’s reveal, Henchmen also made a terrifyingly accurate…

Look At This $175 Mercy Statue

While I wait fora Mercy Figma, this fantastic Mercy statue will have to do. It stands 13.75 inches tall, and…it’s a statue, that’s about all there is to it. It’s available from Blizzard’s online store

The Best Cosplay From Anime Matsuri 2018

Anime Matsuri was held last weekend in Houston for the 12th year running, with over 30,000 people coming along for anime, games, art and, yeah, cosplay. Below is a gallery (and an incredible video) including some of the best of it, all shot by Mineralblu (whose work you can see more of at his Facebook…

The Art Of Star Wars: Battlefront II

Say what you will of its loot box struggles, Battlefront II was a good-looking game whose designs felt very Star Wars. So I thought today we’d take a look at a bunch of art that went into building those incredible worlds (and ships, and uniforms, and space stations…). The art you’re seeing below isn’t everything,…

Some PUBG Clones Are Actually Being Sued

App stores are currently overrun with battle royale games that I will generously say are heavily inspired by PUBG and Fortnite. It’s a wild west out there, but amidst all the copy-catting, two games plucked from the masses are being taken to court by PUBG Corp., the company running PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds As TorrentFreak report, PUBG…

Hey Britain, Nice Cosplay

CosXPo is a nerd con that was held in Reading, England at the end of March, and unlike most other shows, cosplay wasn’t just something on the menu: it was the entire point of the convention. “The convention scene has expanded significantly over the past few years, and established conventions are now seeing in hundreds…

Steam Spy has put together an interesting collection of stats and figures on Steam’s 2017, showing everything from the biggest games to the fate of indie sales

Nintendo Fan Account Flagged On Twitter For Image Of Man Putting On Princess Peach Mask [Update]

The excellent Supper Mario Broth—a blog dedicated to weird and fun tidbits of Nintendo history—has had its Twitter account flagged as “sensitive” after it posted an image of…an actor putting on a giant Princess Peach mask. Here’s the tweet in question: Note that the original image as it was first tweeted was in colour: The…

New Street Fighter Board Game Looks Really Cool

There’s a new, official Street Fighter board gameon the way, and it’s a lot more ambitious than I was expecting given the subject matter. Using big and detailed miniatures, Street Fighter takes place on large, expansive maps, where players can either fight 1v1 or—and this is where it gets interesting—as teams, including a boss fight…

Cammy Will See You Now

Olivier Couston is a character artist at EA, but he’s also worked in film and TV. You can see more of Olivier’s stuff 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…