Luke Plunkett

Pokémon Fans Are Losing Their Minds At The End Of The New Movie

There is a weird thing about the new Pokémon movie that is kind of a spoiler, so if you’re sensitive to that stuff, look away. If you’re not, here is a room full of adults losing their shit over what happens at the end of the newest movie in the series, I Choose You! WARNING:…

The Challenge Of Designing Two Of Persona 5’s Best Characters

Persona 5’s art book, now available in English, has some…interesting things to say about the design of a couple of the game’s best characters, Takemi and Kawakami. The book—which is incredible, by the way—is full of developer commentary, explaining the design process behind everything from the Phantom Thieves to the game’s boss battles. A lot…

Overwatch Cosplay Actually Glows In The Dark

Hime Shinra, a cosplayer from Indonesia, has done something real different for this Sombra shoot: to nail the character’s purple neon effects, she used both UV lights and special powders so that she’d actually glow in the dark. The images were taken at BlueMoon Studios, who also helped put everything together. Here are some of…

There’s A Hot Ryu Action Figure

Shirtless, bearded Ryu, one of the best Street Fighter skins of all time, is now also one of the best Street Fighter figures of all time. Made by Storm Collectibles, he features…no shirt and a beard. And some fireball effects for his hands, if you want to clip them on to detract in some small…

A mountain or two can be a nice bonus for a Civilization V spawn point, but XtraFalcon’s start here is something else.

The Best Cosplay From BlizzCon 2017

Last year’s BlizzCon was one of the higlights of the cosplay calendar. BlizzCon 2017 was no different. While official cosplay was there and stealing the show, there were plenty of fans around as well, including some of the world’s best cosplayers, there to pay their respects to series like Overwatch, WarCraft and StarCraft Below you’ll…

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The Stare

Christophe Young is based in Canada and works as a freelance illustrator and concept artist. You can see more of Young’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 game artists,…

Superflight Is A Fast Game About Dying A Lot

Superflight is a PC game I’ve been having a lot of fun with this week. To get an idea of what it’s like, imagine if Tony Hawk could fly. Inspired by wingsuits (think Far Cry, or maniacs sponsored by Red Bull), the game is about controlling a blocky little figure as it descends—real fast—down a…

Look At These Nier Action Figures

It’s taken a little longer than I was expecting, but Nier: Automata’s first proper action figures are finally on the way, and they look great. There are two double packs coming for Square Enix’s Play Arts line in April 2018: one has 2B and a robot (which costs around $80), and the other has two…

Good Overwatch Skins Never Die

There have been a lot of Overwatch skins released over the last couple of years, but few have endured in people’s hearts quite like Witch Mercy, which explains why one Halloween on from its release people are still cosplaying it This is DMZ Cosplay, with photos by Sohno

Oh, Hey Joi

Naztazzia Gagalac is an artist based in The Philippines who works for Pixel Mafia, a visual development studio that does work for the video game industry. You can see more of Naztazzia’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…

A Children’s Book Full Of 90s Video Game References

Kotaku reader Ian Wenstrand has written and illustrated a children’s book called Plugged In, where a kid obsessed with video games wakes up in a land that “blurs the line between the real and virtual worlds”. To set things right and get back home, our hero Sam has to “team up with heroes from his…

Total War: Rome 2 Dug Up From Its Grave For A New Expansion

Rome 2 was a dull, sprawling mess of a game, easily the weakest release in the Total War series in the past decade. The Warhammer games that followed have improved on it in almost every way imaginable, so Creative Assembly are going back in time (with some lessons learned) to try and get Rome 2…

Nintendo Shut Down The Miiverse Tonight As Fans Said Final Goodbyes

Launching in late 2012, Nintendo’s Miiverse allowed Wii U and later 3DS owners to hang out and share stuff like hand-drawn pictures and screenshots. The service closed down at 1am today, and users have said their goodbyes in the most Miiverse ways imaginable: with stick figures, tears and hairy dicks. Instead of just flipping the…

A Real Mario Kart Shell To Smash Real Cars

The King of Random made this remote-controlled red shell for a YouTube video, and I am now wondering why this isn’t something I can put in a gift guide somewhere. Here’s the original video by devinsupertramp, in case you haven’t seen it: And here’s the vid showing how the red shell was made:

The Video Game Voice-Actor’s Strike Is Over

A dispute between the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and some of the world’s biggest video game publishers is officially over, just over a year after it began. The union first went on strike on October 20, 2016, with its members refusing to work with 11 major companies including Electronic…

The Art Behind Overwatch’s Latest Hero Reveal

Hong Kim-Seang, aka Nesskain Hks, is a comic artist based in France who provided the art forOverwatch’s Moira reveal trailer You can see more of Hong’s art—including some incredible Overwatch work for other projects—at his ArtStation page. To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine…

World Of Warcraft LEGO Castle Used Over 55,000 Pieces

Here’s World of Warcraft’s Theramore, built in LEGO by Mark Erickson As The Brothers Brick report, it’s an immense structure, with around 55,600 pieces used to stick it atop 80 x 80 inches worth of mats. And as you can see below, he’s done a real good job getting it to scale with the actual…

Wolfenstein Knows How To Throw A Party

I wish more video games would let their hair down like Wolfenstein: The New Colossus does. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD Like the first Wolfenstein reboot, New Colossus’ greatest strength isn’t its gunplay but its characters, who we grow to know and love over the course of the game. They make jokes, they act like assholes, they…