Luke Plunkett

Anime Can Save Fidget Spinners

Turns out fidget spinners aren’t just for kids and people with the worst thumbnails on their YouTube videos. They’re also perfect for anime. Not actual anime. Not yet, anyway. Just pretend anime. Which is still very good.

Track: All Around The World | Artist: Mura Masa ft. Desiigner | Album: Mura Masa Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Nice Place You Got Here

Daniel Romanovsky works at Form Language Studio, a company that specialises in art for games, TV and movies (like Kong: Skull Island). You can see more of Daniel’s work at his company site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art…

“The Target Area Is Only Two Metres Wide…”

Turns out the sign on top of Los Santos’ Liquor Hole in GTA V is just big enough to fit a skydiving man through. Nice one, l-Orion-l

The Origins Of Battlegrounds’ “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner” Line

When you win in Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, you see the message: “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner”. That’s…weird. So where’d it come from? It’s a line you may be familiar with if you’ve been to Vegas, or indeed if you’ve played any of PlayerUnknown’s previous mod work. “‘Winner Winner Chicken Dinner’ has been used in my Battle Royale…

Bleach Cosplay!

Here’s Bleach’s Yoruichi Shihōin by ChibiThot

Edgar Allen Poe Dameron

Love it. Cosplay by Beth Grimes, photo by mnbookgeek

Mario Kart VR Looks Nuts

I know we’ve already written about this, but boy, just look at this new footage of the official virtual reality version of Mario Kart that you can play in Tokyo this summer.

Doomfist’s New Skins Are Cool

Doomfist, the newest addition to the cast of Overwatch, has some new skins and sprays that are popping up on the game’s PTR As Dot Esports have catalogued there are ten skins in total, ranging from “just change the colour of his robot arm” to “holy shit get a look at this human paintjob”. Here…

Overwatch Characters Scrub Up Real Good

Remember how earlier this year a group of cosplayers did a thing called Underwatch, where they all—men and women alike—dressed like Overwatch characters in underwear? Many of the same cosplayers tried something similar for Anime Expo, only this time they went in the opposite direction. This is Formalwatch, a massive group cosplay project that took…

Track: Healing Through Death | Artist: Usnea | Album: Random Cosmic Violence Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Artist Brings Simon Stålenhag’s Robot Invasion To Life

Simon Stålenhag’s images of a robot-strewn Scandinavia have been big hits on the internet over the last few years. They’re very static, though, so 3D artist Wiktor Öhman has decided to make them a bit more animated. Öhman has worked on games like Far Cry 3. You can see more of his art at his…

The Longest Game Name On Steam, And Other Interesting Facts

We see stats about Steam all the time, but they’re usually pretty boring. Here, instead, are some weird and interesting ones about the most popular colours in screenshots, and how long game titles have gotten. Using data pulled from SteamSpy, developer Tim Garbos has crunched all kinds of data to come up with findings like…

Look At This Mercy Figure

Good Smile Company now has a third Overwatch Nendoroid to go along with those cute lil’ Meis and Tracers: this very smug Mercy. It’s out in January 2018, and will cost around $50. The little healing beam is a nice touch.

The Best Cosplay From America’s Biggest Anime Convention

Anime Expo, held earlier this month in LA, is the biggest anime convention in the US, attracting over 100,000 people. And while there were some problems at the door, once people got in they were treated to some of the best cosplay going around. We’ve seen some of the show’s cosplay before, but this is…

League of Legends player Nightwind42 has a hobby: cataloguing and ranking every single one of the bugs that afflict Mordekaiser, one of LoL’s champions. And there are a lot of them.

The Timberwolves signed veteran point guard Jeff Teague today. In days of old, this would mean Teague was about to embark on a journey of discovery, but in 2017, Minnesota is going to feel like home thanks to the magic of video games.

Hey, Inmate! Here’s Some Good Persona 5 Cosplay

Here’s PineapplePandah as Caroline and Bell-hime as Justine, Persona 5’s cranky-ass wardens.

We Miss You, Barney

Olya Bossak is an artist based in St. Petersburg, Russia. You can see more of Olya’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 Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both…

Half-Life Was Updated Today

You’d be forgiven for thinking Valve had forgotten all about Half-Life, but it turns out at least one person at the company’s HQ is still working on the series—or at least checking in from time to time—because the original game got patched today. It’s nothing big. There’s no “Fixed market anticipation for HL3 by announcing…