Luke Plunkett

Remember Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and how it just didn’t work? Microsoft is starting all over in 2018, giving the game “enhancements for Xbox One X” with stuff like “fixes, improvements and upgrades”.

Setting The Mood For Assassins Creed: Origins

Raphael Lacoste, senior art director at Ubisoft, needed to set the scene for the series’ shift to Egypt for Origins when development began a few years back. So he came up with these. These are from around 2014, and aren’t necessarily indicative of specific locations or scenes from the game. They’re just reference for the…

Elder Scrolls Xbox Controller Is Real Nice

Here’s a custom Xbox One controller inspired by the Breton Knights from Elder Scrolls Online It’s by—who else—controller modder Devin Smith, and features stuff like real leather straps, removable arm guards and a the fact all those faceplates are made out of metal to give them that real armoured feel. You can see more of…

Here’s A Good Picard Figure

Quantum Mechanix is releasing a line of big fancy action figures based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the first one is Picard. QMX have a collection of images showing off the figure and his outfit and accessories here, but I much prefer Toyark’s gallery, which puts him in the correct poses. And here’s…

Track: El Camino | Artist: Nocando | Album: Severed Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Sailor Moon Cosplay Is All Grown Up

An all-star lineup of cosplayers, photographers and videographers have teamed up to imagine what it would look like if the stars of Sailor Moon had a more adult photoshoot. It was a reunion of sorts for CineCosu Studios’ Dominique Zamora, who assembled much of the same team we featured earlier in the year for a…

10 Years Later, Team Fortress 2 Heads For The Jungle

As discussed previously on Kotaku.com, Valve’s Orange Box is 10 years old this month. Half-Life is celebrating by no longer existing, while Team Fortress 2 is leaving “a decade of dustbowls and gravel pits” behind to head for the jungle with new maps, weapons and banjos. It’s all part of the Jungle Inferno update, which…

LEGO PlayStations Are About As Small As They Can Get

While some LEGO builders like to go big, others like to challenge themselves by building as small as possible. Like SUU2100 has here, with some PlayStation models that would be unrecognisable if they used any less bricks. He has shown great restraint to not put googly eyes on them then tuck them into tiny little…

Civilization VI’s Next Faction Is An Old Favourite

After skipping Civ V, the Khmer are returning to the series in an update for Civilization VI They’re led by King Jayavarman VII, and their perks include a religion bomb (their temples will claim adjacent land) and war elephants The Khmer are coming soon as paid DLC (unless you got the digital deluxe version of…

Sometimes It’s Nice To Just Walk Around An Open World Game

In most open world video games, from Grand Theft Auto to Skyrim, we tend to spend our time racing from point to point, rarely slowing down to appreciate the finer details in everything around us. A big part of that is down to game design, because open world games are built upon the idea of…

The Best Cosplay From New York Comic Con

The New York Comic Con has gotten so big over the years that it’s now one of the biggest nerd shows on the planet. And where there’s big nerd shows, there’s A+ cosplay. If you weren’t at this year’s event (or at our party), where attendance was pushing 200,000 people, below you’ll find a gallery…

The Art Of Total War: Warhammer II

Total War: Warhammer II is a great strategy game. In no small part because it looks amazing I don’t just mean technically, I mean in terms of taking Games Workshop’s property and bringing it into video games in as bold and colourful a way as possible, as you’ll see in the gallery below. This isn’t…

Light-Up StarCraft Cosplay Is On A Whole Other Level

This Nova outfit (technically Heroes of the Storm cosplay, since this is a skin from that game for the StarCraft character), by Kamui, doesn’t just look good as is. It also lights up like a Blizzard-themed Christmas tree, with some of the most impressive cosplay engineering work I’ve ever seen. Here’s a shot of the…

Here is a good video game trailer.

I Drank Pikachu Soda, And It Was Good

Taiwanese soda company Ocean Bomb has a huge range of Pokemon-themed drinks out at the moment. This one, with Pikachu’s face and the word “cider” on it, convinced me it was the one to try. Now, where I’m from in Australia, “cider” is an alcoholic beverage you drink in the summertime. I get that for…

Rough Day At The Range

Elijah McNeal is an artist who has worked for companies like Gearbox, Epic and 20th Century Fox. You can see more of Elijah’s art at his ArtStation page (and the last time we featured him, in 2014). To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine…

Finland Turns 100, Gets NES Game To Celebrate

100 years ago, Finland gained its independence from Russia. To celebrate, a small team of developers have made a brand new game…for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Perkele! Suomi 100 Vuotta is a collection of three minigames, each based around an important part of Finnish culture/life. So one is of course a seal going beserk and…

Another Good Overwatch Figure!

The excellent Tracer Figma (some of the world’s finest action figures) is now being joined by a Genji. The figure includes his katana, wakizashi and shuriken, which like Tracer’s motion blur have fancy effects. It’ll be out in May 2018. If you would like to join me in asking that Mercy is next, please hold…

Track: Two Thousand And Seventeen | Artist: Four Tet | Album: New Energy Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Art Of Blade Runner Black Out 2022

The live-action movie isn’t the only Blade Runner out at the moment. Don’t forget Shinichiro Watanabe’s animated prequel, and how damn good it looks Part of that is down to Fine Art veteran and artist Paul Chadeisson, who worked on environments for the short. And who has absolutely nailed the look of the universe here…