Luke Plunkett

Hanzo Cosplay Is Very Beautiful

Cherry blossoms fall / Look at his beautiful face / Do not main Hanzo. This is Stylouz Cosplay. Photos by FlaavTV. For more Overwatch haiku, please consult this collection

There’s A Game About Making Paperclips, And It’s Good

“Clickers”, a type of game where you literally do nothing but click a button, tend to be very simple things. Universal Paperclips is a clicker, but it’s also a lot more. Made by game designer Frank Lantz, it puts you in charge of a young paperclip startup, with an enterprising online vision for the creation…

John Carpenter Is Dedicating His Life To Destiny 2

You may be into Destiny 2, but you are not as into it as horror master John Carpenter, who is very into Destiny 2 The legendary director and composer was featured this week by The Guardian, and the interview begins not with talk of movies or his latest album, but with Bungie’s new shooter. Hi…

Valve’s Orange Box Is 10 Years Old

On October 10 2007, Valve didn’t just release a video game, they released three. All came in the one package, and it was called The Orange Box Included was a copy of Half-Life 2: Episode Two, a copy of Team Fortress 2 and a copy of Portal. Oh, and copies of Half-Life 2 and HL2:…

Civilization VI Is Getting Around To Fixing Some Of Its Bigger Problems

It’s been almost a year since Civ VI was released, and in that time Firaxis has been trying to address some of the issues fans have had with the enormous and otherwise excellent game. The upcoming Fall Updatecontinues this process. Coming later in…the Fall, it’s going to flesh out religion by adding some new beliefs…

1994 Nintendo Documentary Gives Us A Look At Miyamoto’s Desk

In 1994, Jean-Jacques Beineix made a documentary called Otaku. It features a nine-minute tour of Nintendo’s offices, and it is wonderful to watch. The original recording is in French (and has circulated online for a while), but ComputerTales recently uploaded a version featuring machine translation into English, which while jarring still at least lets you…

Video Game Error Tricks Bolivia Into Claiming French Football Player

Ruben Aguilar is a young French footballer who plays for Montpellier in Ligue 1. He is French, but an error in the Football Manager series of video games has given cruel, false hope to a South American nation starved of international talent. As discussed in this inteview with Goal (in French), there’s a mistake in…

Cosplayer Transforms Into Wonder Woman

Alyson Tabbitha, a regular around here for her astounding make-up and costume work, returns with this temporary diversion where she ceases to be a human cosplayer and becomes an Amazonian ass-kicker. Note that as amazing as this outfit is, it’s not yet done: the shot began as a simple test, because she still hadn’t done…

The Best Baseball Game Had Explosions And Robots

Being Australian, I don’t have much time for baseball. That doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy baseball video games, though. Especially when they’re from the future Super Baseball 2020 is a game developed by SNK and was first released in 1991 for its Neo Geo platform. It is, as the name suggests, an idea of what…

Here’s A Close Look At The Other SNES Classic

While we’ve reviewed the North American SNES Classic already, let’s not forget that those of us living in Japan, Europe and Australasia have gotten a slightly different console So let’s take a look at it! The hardware is the same, of course, and most of the games are as well, but here we can see…

NFL Players Buy Xbox For Kid Wearing A Kaepernick Jersey

Washington running backs Keith Marshall and Rob Kelley were in the Gamestop store at the Dulles 28 Centre in Virginia on Tuesday. When they saw a kid wearing a Colin Kaepernick jersey then asking how much Xbox One consoles were, the pair got together and bought one for him. The duo were in the store…

Here Are Some Isometric Ocarina Of Time Maps

I have a thing for isometric video games, so big thanks to Mark Mayers for linking this gallery of Ocarina of Time areas cut open and laid out. They’re from the site VGMaps, “the largest source of screenshot maps on the Internet”, which incidentally is now where I’ll be spending the rest of my week.

Total War: Warhammer 2: The Kotaku Review

Let’s keep this simple: Total War: Warhammer was a very good strategy game. Total War: Warhammer 2 is better. The game continues Creative Assembly’s tradition of building on the release of a new Total War with a sort of semi-sequel. In the past we’ve seen a bunch of these, from Napoleon (following Empire) to Attila…

Beach McCree Cosplay Is Here To Save Lives

If you still can’t decide whether McCree’s Summer Games beach skin is hot or not, cosplayer Leon Chiro is here to help. Chiro, who does everything from stunt work to acrobatics, was recently in the Caribbean dressed in the Overwatch cowboy’s weirdest outfit. If you’re wondering why the trees are all blowing backwards while the…

Track: Cutthroat (Lena Willikens Remix) | Artist: S U R V I V E | Album: RR7387 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Now Waluigi Is In Breath Of The Wild

We’ve seen GTA, Mario and Minecraft modded into Breath of the Wild on Wii U and PC, but now we are getting into the good stuff This Waluigi skin is by Hefty and DonkXProXAli, and I think we’re about done here. I mean… Yeah we’re done here. Those new to this and wondering how it’s…

Great, Your Name Is Getting A Live-Action Remake

Your Name, which is not only a very good movie but also the highest-grossing anime feature of all time, is being given the live-action treatment by J.J. Abrams’ Hollywood studio. As Screen Daily report, Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot are behind the project, with Abrams, Lindsey Weber and Genki Kawamura (producer of the anime) producing.…

Resident Evil Has A New Board Game

Board games. They’re fun! And loads of people who play them also play video games. And the companies who make board games are really starting to figure this out. Steamforged games, who made a few million with their Dark Souls adaptation last year, have now turned their eye to Resident Evil. Resident Evil 2, specifically,…

Brutal Survival Mode Coming To Skyrim

Because Skyrim’s dragons and dead guys were never quite tough enough, the game is now adding something more dangerous: weather and hunger. They’re part of an update called Survival Mode, which is coming to Skyrim Special Edition on PC, Xbox One and PS4. Whole parts of the map (below) have now been zoned to reflect…

Be Nice If A Star Wars Game Looked Like This

BIGO is an artist from Brazil working in both video games and books. I love this Star Wars stuff. It looks like the best iOS game Disney never bothered to make. An XCOM-y adventure game that looked like this would change the world. You can see more of BIGO’s art at their ArtStationand Behancepages. To…