Luke Plunkett

Black Panther’s Director Is Very Into Stardew Valley Right Now

Black Panther director Ryan Coogler is busy travelling the world promoting the flick, which means an endless stream of red carpet interviews. Like this one, where Maude Garrett asks him what he’s into right now, and he gets talking about the Nintendo Switch he just bought. Stardew Valley keeping him from Zelda? Big call, but…

Some Art From Black Panther & Thor: Ragnarok

Anthony Francisco is an artist who has worked on some of Marvel’s recent movies like Black Panther and Thor: Ragnarok You can see more of Anthony’s art at his Facebook 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…

Foundation is a cute “organic city-building simulation” set in medieval Europe. It’s currently up on Kickstarter.

Descenders Scratches That Tony Hawk Itch

Descenders is a game about riding a bike. It’s also the closest I’ve come to playing a Tony Hawk game since, well, there were good Tony Hawk games to play. I mention a skateboarding game in this post about a bike game because, while these games have their differences—the number of wheels, the verticality of…

Jaime Jones Is One The Best Artists On The Planet

Jaime Jones, who has recently been involved on projects like The Last Jedi and Destiny 2, is one of the best—if not the best—artists in the entertainment business today. Look upon his works, and despair. You can see more of this incredible stuff at his freshly-updated personal site To see the images in their native…

A $229 Destiny Action Figure

Remember thoseincredible Destiny figures threeA released a few years back? There’s now one more, a Titan wearing the Hanged Man shader. He/she comes with loads of guns, is 1:6 scale and costs $229 from Thinkgeek. Yes, I said $229: it’s a lot, but threeA figures are some of the best around, so that’s how this…

Age Of Empires Is A Weird Game To Play In 2018

Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is almost everything an Age of Empires fan could think they want. Unless they want the castles from Age of Kings. An introduction: AoE:DE takes the original 1997 game, throws in its expansion Rise of Rome, cleans up the visuals, makes a few UI changes and sets it loose in…

Let’s Go

Farzad Varahramyan is a veteran artist who has worked on games like Oddworld and Darkwatch, and on movies like Jumanji, After Earth and Aliens vs Predator You can see more of Farzad’s work at his personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine…

Look At This Monster Hunter Statue

Kinetiquettes will soon be releasing a few Monster Hunter pieces, including this huge statue featuring Zinogre getting stabbed at by both a male and female hunter. Both the hunters will be available as their own individual statues, but if you buy the whole set you get a Palico thrown in as well. Preorder information will…

Studio Accused Of Installing Malware On Customers’ PCs

FlightSimLabs, a studio that specialises in custom add-ons for other company’s flight sims, has been found to be secretly installing a program onto user’s computers designed to check whether they’re playing a pirated copy of their software. The code—basically a Chrome password dumping tool— was discovered by Reddit user crankyrecursion on February 18, and as…

The Sunken City

Darius Kalinauskas is an artist based in the UK who has worked on games like Star Wars Battlefront II You can see more of Darius’ 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…

When Air Jordan Met Xbox

It’s been a poor generation for custom console designs, but I am very in for this official Xbox x Jordan collaboration. Only catch is that they’re for a competition, not a general release The three consoles are each based on an Air Jordan 3 colourway (“Black Cement“, “Free Throw Line“ and “Tinker Hatfield”), and each…

There Is Now A Tomb Raider Barbie

Barbie has had many jobs over the years. Raiding tombs and shanking dudes with axes are now being added to the list. IGN reportsthat Mattel is releasing a new doll in the line based on Alicia Vikander’s upcoming movie role, and while her clothes are bit cleaner and more stylised than we’ll see in the…

Welcome To Straw Island

Lee Griggs is a 3D artist from the UK who is currently based in Spain. You can see more of Lee’s art at his personal site and ArtStation page text 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…

Let’s Take A Nice Slow Walk Across Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s Entire Map

Kingdom Come: Deliverance has some problems, but its quaint countryside certainly isn’t one of them. In fact the map is maybe the nicest thing about the entire game, so let’s all see how long it takes to walk across it, taking in the sights and trying not to fall off a rock and break a…

Cosplay From A Con That’s Just For Final Fantasy Fans

Most cons are for all kinds of fans of all kinds of stuff, but not KupoCon: it’s a festival for fans of Final Fantasy, put on by fans of Final Fantasy The idea behind the show is that it travels around the world, both in the US and Canada but also in the UK. The…

Track: I’ve Been Hexed | Artist: Fu Manchu | Album: Clone of the Universe Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Here Is Mario’s Nipple Up Close

Over on The Models Resource, some folks have uploaded the raw files used to build Mario’s outfits in Odyssey. His “Boxers” costume is particularly interesting. Sweet dreams, everyone. Hope you had a lovely Valentine’s Day not thinking of enormous zoomed-in plumber nipples. Until now.

Welcome To 2049

Michael Morris is an artist who works at Double Negative, a VFX studio that’s helped out on movies like Blade Runner 2049 and Justice League You can see more of Michael’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…

A Golf Game For People Who Hate Golf

I like golf video games but detest the actual sport of golf. And so here I am, very excited to see a game catering specifically to this set of interests. The brief for WHAT THE GOLF? opens with “Golf is boring — Help us fix it!”, and I am 100% down for that. The game…