Luke Plunkett

Skyrim Ported To Expensive Art Prints

Art dealer Cook & Becker (who put out that Sonic book we looked at on Monday) have something else to show this week: a series of quality art prints featuring concept art from Skyrim Most of the pieces chosen are by senior concept artist Ray Lederer, and come hand-signed and numbered, though there are also…

Dang, This Is Some Good Metal Gear Cosplay

Here’s Norwegian cosplayer CryoCanine with one heck of a Skull Sniper (from Metal Gear Solid V) cosplay. She’s actually been wearing the outfit for a few years now, but as with many other cosplay costumes that are good enough to keep around, CryoCanine has continually been improving it, to the point where she now may…

Look At This Official Minecraft-Themed Xbox One

Over the next two months Microsoft will be releasing some very Minecraft-themed pieces of hardware: an Xbox One S and two controllers. They have gone all in on the branding, to surprisingly excellent effect. The console itself (out on October 3) looks like some Minecraft terrain from the top, and is easily the best of…

PlayStation’s Twitter, Facebook Accounts Briefly Hacked [Update]

PlayStation had its Twitter and Facebook accounts compromised earlier today. The group OurMine appears to have been behind it, the same team that gained access to HBO and Game of Thrones’ social media accounts a few days ago. They had enough time to send out a few tweets and Facebook messages before being locked out.…

The King In The North Is A Sad, Beautiful Boy

Lius Lasahido is a concept artist and illustrator from Indonesia. You can see more of Lasahido’s 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 of the work of video game artists, showcasing the…

Blizzard Making Some Changes To StarCraft II

Once this year’s tournament season is done in November, Blizzard are looking to make some “major design changes” to StarCraft II’s units and economy. Those changes have been implemented in a “design patch” which is live now on the Testing server, and while they’re liable to change further following testing, they give you a good…

Nintendo Consoles Rendering Themselves

3D animator Elijah Robertson has done a neat thing where he “did models of Nintendo consoles as if they were rendered on themselves”. So the NES is just pixels, the GameCube decent polygons, etc. The results are very, very cool! As elegant a timeline of video game horsepower progression as you’re going to get.

Shit My Kid Says Playing Zelda

As previously discussed, my son is getting pretty good at video games. Because of this, despite being only four years old, I’ve started letting him play Zelda: Breath of the Wild by himself It has turned out to be a very good decision. If you’re wondering how he manages, he can play the game pretty…

World War 1’s Giant Mechs Are Coming

Here’s a new trailer for Iron Harvest, the upcoming RTS based in the same universe as 2016’s very good board game Scythe There’s a lot of gameplay footage here, showing that asides from the lumbering dieselpunk giants, there’s also some very Company of Heroes-ish infantry combat going on. Iron Harvest is coming for PC, PS4…

Stolen Diablo Art Turns Up In The Weirdest Places

A few years back, games artist Toby Lewin had an image he drew for a Blizzard contest (above) go viral. You see it all over the internet these days, from posters to mouse pads, but this week it turned up in the real world on…a war memorial in the Ukranian capital Kiev. Most times you…

Track: OmegaMangler | Artist: Iron Monkey | Album: 9-13 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Batman, Redesigned

Adrian Wilkins is a concept artist and illustrator who has worked on games like Lawbreakers, Black Ops 3, Injustice 2 and League of Legends The Batman image up top, and the bigger versions below, are from a personal shot at redesigning Gotham’s universe to give it a slightly more modern look. He also helped out…

A Love Letter To The F-14 Tomcat

From Top Gun to Macross to Sega to GI Joe , the F-14 was a 1980s superstar

We reviewed the Nintendo Switch already. Now, here’s Deadspin’s belated take

Lona, An Adventure Game About Being Trapped By Art

Lona: Realm of Colors is an adventure game in development from a small team based in Sweden. There’s a strong Miyazaki vibe running through the game’s art style, and it looks cool as hell. Here’s the pitch: What happens if you could escape from life difficulties that you can do nothing about? What if you…

Track: Nazi Punks Fuck Off | Artist: Dead Kennedys | Album: In God We Trust, Inc. Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Girl Among The Cherry Blossoms

Maike Plenzke is a freelance artist from Berlin. You can see more of Maike’s work at her personal site 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, showcasing the best of both their professional…

Civilization Has A New Board Game

There’s a long history of Civilization board games, from a 1980 title that kinda inspired the video game series to a number of versions (in 2002 and 2010) that have in turn been based on the video games. We can now add one more to the list, this time based loosely on Civilization VI Sid…

Nice Bow, Horizon: Zero Dawn

Harrison Krix from Volpin Props went out and made a replica bow from Horizon: Zero Dawn that looks (and more importantly moves) as close to the game’s actual model as you’re ever going to get. It doesn’t fire, but then, that thing was designed to look good in a video game, not shoot arrows in…

The Cosplay Of Otakon 2017

Otakon was held in DC over the weekend, with around 30,000 fans making the trip to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the first time Otakon has taken place outside Baltimore for over a decade. There were many cosplayers there. These shots are courtesy of Tyler Fortier, and you can see more of them at…