Luke Plunkett

You’re Staring At A Demi-God

Here’s Sledgehammer Cosplay with about as perfect a Maui as we’re ever going to get, short of some guy actually tattooing his entire body with cute lil’ Disney images. Photo by Mark Rigsby Bonus: here’s some shots (gym work excluded) putting the outfit together:

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Mods Turn Zelda’s Dirt Bike Into Sonic, GTA

Remember: people playing Breath of the Wild on Wii U and PC (via emulation) can play the game with mods. Like ones that modify the game’s new dirtbike. Here’s one that will make you thankful Zelda doesn’t have a giant train: And here’s a slightly terrifying take on Road Runner: These are all courtesy of…

When A Classroom Learns About Pokémon

My daughter is seven, and a few weeks ago her class spent the week choosing a subject to “investigate” (basically write reports on). The teacher might have been hoping they chose something like “nature”, or “factories”, or “history”, but the room of seven-year-old kids did the seven-year-old thing and chose “Pokémon”. Each kid was tasked…

Designing A Fighting Game’s Roster

Brawlhalla is a cool lil’ fighting game, and today in Fine Art we’re taking a look behind the scenes at some of its character design. Vince Medellin was production designer early on in the game’s development, where he worked alongside Dave Montes on the game’s cast, as well as their skins. What’s interesting about Brawlhalla’s…

Star Wars, Meet Company Of Heroes

As we’ve established here on Kotaku.com, Company of Heroes was the perfect RTS. Making it even more perfect, then, is this upcoming Star Wars mod for the game. It’s a mod cliche—take a game, add Star Wars!—but you can’t argue it’s not a successful one, with everything from Call of Duty to Homeworld benefiting from…

Fallout: The Board Game: The Kotaku Review

Fallout: The Board Game is as faithful an adaptation of the source material as you could possibly hope for. There have been other good video-to-board games, sure—Doom most recently—but its similarities were merely thematic. Fantasy Flight’s Fallout game, on the other hand, has been built from the ground up to play the same on a…

Dazed And Confused Cosplay!

We expect to see cosplay based on video games and anime, but it would be so good if more folks took the time to branch a little further out and take inspiration from other types of stuff. Like 1993’s near-perfect Dazed and Confused Michael Kane is O’Bannon, whileCharme Ensinger—who I can hear screaming AIR RAID through…

Someone’s Gotta Make Those Video Game Trailers

Maxx Burman is a VFX artist who has worked on games (or promos for games) like Destiny, Titanfall 2, Dark Souls 2 and League of Legends We’ve featured Maxx’s art before, back in 2014, but he’s back with a new showreel from more recent projects, which are definitely worth a fresh showcase. To see the…

Assassin’s Creed IV’s Sea Shanties Are A Treasure

Once a means of passing the time while sailors engaged in back-breaking labour on a ship, 2013 saw sea shanties take centre stage in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed IV, where they promptly stole the show. They are, without a doubt,one of the best things about a very good video game Because of the way we’re taught…

On The Origins Of Sombra

Ben Zhang is a concept artist at Blizzard, where he’s worked on small, unheralded indie projects like Hearthstone and Overwatch You can see more of Ben’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…

The Dutch Are Coming To Civilization VI

Another of my favourite Civ V factions will be returning to Civ VI next year, with the Dutch accidentally revealed a little early on local TV. Correction – 6:20am, Dec. 12: The reveal wasn’t accidental, it was done “with permission and agreement from 2K”. The Dutch program RTL Boulevard had footage of the new Civ…

The Next Lord Of The Rings Game Is A Real Good Card Game

I’ve been playing the Lord of the Rings card game for years now, so it’s super exciting to see the experience being ported to the computer, where there will be music and special effects and an absence of incompetent human teammates. First released in 2011, Fantasy Flight’s Lord of the Rings Living Card Game (not…

Street Fighter Collection Bundles 12 Games In One Release

It’s Street Fighter’s 30th anniversary, and to mark the occasion Capcom is grabbing a large hairy armful of old games and releasing them all in the one package. The bundle contains almost everything coming before Street Fighter IV (with the exception of the 3D EX games), from the 1987 originalthrough to 3rd Strike Street Fighter…

Cat Cosplay

Hi everyone. This is Waffles the cat. Waffles maybe likes to cosplay, or is maybe just chill enough to sit still long enough to take a photo in costume, which as far as cats are concerned is practically the same thing. Waffles is something of a social media celebrity, but we’re not interested in his…

Fortnite just launched its 50v50 mode, which is going to make in-game construction a lot more interesting.

Here’s Witchfire, a just-announced fantasy shooter from the developers behind The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

Bayonetta 1 & 2 Are Coming To The Nintendo Switch

In addition to Bayonetta 3, the earlier Bayonetta games are also headed to the Nintendo Switch, with 1 & 2 out in February 2018. They’ll come in the same box; Bayonetta 2 will be on a cart, while there’ll be a download code for the first game included as well. The classic series, revered for…

Soulcalibur VI Announced

It’s been five years since the last main Soulcalibur release, so Namco Bandai knows it’s about time to roll out Soulcalibur VI It’s coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC in 2018. The first Soulcalibur game hit arcades in 1998, with its famous Dreamcast port following in 1999. Revered for its use of weapons and…

Batman PS4 Controller Knows Where The Trigger Is

Kotaku regular Devin Smith, aka End of Line Designs, is back with another custom video game controller redesign, this time turning a DualShock 4 into something Batman would throw at a bad guy’s face. This pad has a retractable “cowl” for the touchpad, a busted-up finish to match Batman’s battle damage and some trademark spiky…