Luke Plunkett

Nintendo’s “Boob Shaped Controller” Was, Sadly, A Failure

One of Nintendo’s most important innovations in video games has been the invention of the d-pad, which is still used prominently on controllers today. To get there, though, they had to go through some less successful prototypes. Some with stupid names. While working on Game & Watch designs in the early 80s, Nintendo legend Gunpei…

Skyrim Mod Gives NPCs Their Own Lives (And Loves)

Social NPCs is a mod for Skyrim that takes the clockwork non-playable characters from two of the game’s smaller locations and turns them into believable people with lives to lead completely independent of what you’re up to. And I don’t mean “get up in the morning, walk somewhere then walk back”. This is far more…

Metal Gear Shirt Is Made Of 200 People Arguing Over Which Characters Are Gay

This is art. Lukas, an artist/student in the Bay Area, decided to make a custom t-shirt whose design consists entirely of screengrabs of “two hundred tender souls arguing over which metal gear character is gay”. “its a russian tuant” is the star here, appearing both front and centre and on the collar. “It’s a Russian…

New GTA V Graphics Mod Looks Like The Future

Visual overhauls to the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V are nothing new, of course, but this complete overhaul of the Naturalvision mod is something else. Now called NaturalVision Remastered, its creator promises that despite how good everything looks the actual performance is “similar to vanilla GTA V”. Here’s a trailer: As PC Gamer…

Mario Kart 8, Running At 4K

In October 2015, the CEMU emulator could barely run Mario Kart 8 on a PC at all. Now it can play the game in 8K. You probably won’t see that here, of course, because only a brave few PCs will play YouTube PCs at 8K, so instead we’ve got a supersampled 4K clip of a game…

Vancouver Put On A Cosplay Show

Anime Revolution, aka Anirevo, was held over the weekend in Vancouver, and photographer The Will Box was kind enough to share some of the shots he took of the cosplayers in action.

The Art Of Valerian

Like Ghost in the Shell, I’m willing to take temporary breaks on Fine Art to celebrate the work that went into good-looking movies, instead of just good-looking games. And so here we are, with the art of Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets First up is Ben Mauro, an artist we’ve…

A Very Good Final Fantasy Trailer

Square Enix’s long-running Itadaki Street series (basically a take on Monopoly) has a new game coming out to celebrate the 30th anniversaries of both Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest (though the latter’s 30th was actually last year). Its trailer sure is something. It’s like Kingdom Hearts, only about money Itadaki Street: Dragon Quest and Final…

Stick A Jet Engine In A Train, What Could Go Wrong

Miloš Belanec is a 3D artist from Slovakia. You can see more of Miloš’ 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, showcasing the best of both their professional…

You don’t see much Darksiders cosplay these days, so here’s Uriel by Eylerwain. Photo by aKami777.

There Is A Comedy Show About Esports

Here’s the first trailer for Game Grumps’ new series Good Game, which is all about the esports scene surrounding the made-up game Killcore The show stars Game Grumps’ Dan Avidan and Arin Hanson, and if you think their weird little team of gamers don’t look like your average esports team, that’s the point (the “average…

EA’s Basketball Game Now Has Women’s Teams

Let’s be clear, NBA Live is not as good as NBA 2K. But EA’s series now has one clear advantage over its rival, in that it’s going to have WNBA players and teams available in its lineup. Following on from FIFA’s introduction of women’s football a few years back, it’s a great move by EA,…

Rash’s Smash Hits Will Leave ‘Em Cold

Sam Chester is a character artist at Rare, where he’s currently working on Sea of Thieves You can see more of Sam’s work at his 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…

Playing Video Games On 16 Monitors At Once

Here’s Linus Tech Tips with a chiropractor’s dream: playing a single PC game across 16 monitors at the same time. First they try Minecraft: Then Tomb Raider, which didn’t really work. So it was off to Half-Life 2: Then PUBG, which didn’t work either, but Civ V sure did. Please note the hilarious placement of…

Dhalsim Cosplay Is Suitably Serene

You don’t see much Dhalsim cosplay. Let’s fix that, with this killer effort from Nein & Hex as the character’s Street Fighter V incarnation. Vid by Eighty Sixed

Track: Seizure & Desist | Artist: Dead Cross | Album: Dead Cross Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Look At This Nintendo Switch Cup Holder

Internet Guy Does What Nintendon’t. Thingiverse user sanzliot, aka Tripwire Interactive’s David Hensely, is to thank for this custom Nintendo Switch drink holder, which is available here to make if you at all have access to a 3D printer Those 1-2 Switch drinking games are about to get messy

If Game Of Thrones Was A Cartoon

Game artist Ramón Nuñez actually had his work featured on Fine Art earlier this year, but this new round of Game of Thrones caricatures was too good to pass up sharing. You can see more of Ramón’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page. To see the images in their native resolution, click on…

Purrblind as P5’s protagonist, photo by Con Mom

Neymar Saga Hits Konami With A Cover Curse

The cover curse is normally a Madden thing, but this year it’s struck the Pro Evolution Soccer series before its 2017 game is even out, with Brazilian superstar Neymar’s impending blockbuster transfer to PSG causing some problems for Konami. In an attempt to match some of FIFA’s licensing swagger, Konami went out this year and…