Luke Plunkett

Star Wars Armada: The Corellian Conflict: The Kotaku Review

Star Wars Armada is a great gameto play every once in a while. But committing to play a lot of it in the name of an organised campaign is another story. The Corellian Conflict, released last year, is an attempt by Fantasy Flight to add a bit more weight to your fleet engagements by linking…

From Human To Titan, No Violence Required

Here’s the always-incredible Alyson Tabbitha with an Attack on Titan outfit that was as simple to put together as it is impressive. “I made a bodysuit with a dance leotard and leggings and sewed them together, padded it to add more muscle mass & shape, then painted it with cheap 1$ acrylic paint from Walmart!”…

Widowmaker Cosplay Has You In Its Sights

This Widowmaker shoot is a collaboration between cosplayer Lady Nikoru, Henchmen Studios and photographer Paul Hillier. It’s one of the best pieces of Overwatch cosplay I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something. The shoot took 12 hours to complete, taking place in four different locations across the day, and involved taking not just a bunch…

Track: Flow | Artist: Crooked Colours | Album: Vera Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Oh Bother

Piotr Forkasiewicz is an artist from Poland who specialises in the kind of aircraft illustrations you see on stuff like model kits and history magazines. It’s absolutely incredible stuff. Fighters, tanks, bombers, battleships, there’s a lot of WW2 going on here. You can see more of it on Piotr’s ArtStation page To see the images…

Japan And Europe’s SNES Classic Is Better

Just like how the actual PAL/JP Super Nintendo looked better than the North American model, so too it is with the Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System, which like the NES Mini will release in two versions. Americans will be getting the one we showed you earlier today, while those in Japan, Europe and Australia…

There’s A Persona 5 Messaging App For Android

There’s an IM app available on the Play Store that will let you message just like the protagonist from Persona 5. It’s great, including everything from the swish animations to the colour-coded days of the week. Made by Nick Greenan, it’s free, though once you download it there’s the option of donating. And if you…

Lucasarts Adventure Games, Ranked

Kicking off in 1986, Lucasarts presided over an era (running until around the year 2000) in which they were the adventure game Kings, releasing a string of titles that remain all-time classics even decades later. This post originally appeared 1/26/16. Their games were made famous for their innovative use of a graphic interface based on…

Mod Turns Stellaris Into Star Trek

If you thought Paradox’s grand strategy game Stellaris sounded very Star Trekky with its big alien alliances and deep space exploration, you are not alone. Star Trek: Infinities is an ambitious mod project that is overhauling the base game’s factions and ships with those from Star Trek. It’s a good fit! I guess Mass Effect…

Skull & Bones’ Pirate Art Is Excellent

Ubisoft’s Skull & Boneslooked good at E3, but boy, this concept art for the game is looking real good. These pieces are all by Kobe Sek, a Ubisoft artist whose pirate work (on Black Flag) we’ve featured previously on the site You can see more of Kobe’s work at his ArtStation page To see the…

Cat Cosplay

Solid Overwatch cat cosplay here byEvaSilverFire’s lil friend.

This terrific Alice cosplay is by Rayi. Photo by So Say We All

Bohemia have taken their hardcore military sim ArmA III and stripped it to the bone, coming up with a new free-to-play shooter called Argo

The Black & The White

Riana Møller is an artist from Denmark who in addition to working in games has also written and illustrated her own comic book You can see more of Riana’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…

Here Is A Very Sweet Kirby Action Figure

Figma will be releasing a couple of Kirby Nendoroid figures later this year, one a re-release of their original Kirby, the other a brand new Ice Kirby. They’ve got umbrellas, Link’s hat and one is either sucking in or throwing up a star, and it looks kinda gross. Both come with alternate facial expressions and…

Normally you’d expect a video game event to be ceremonially opened by, say, a video game executive, but Europe’s big 2017 show—GamesCom, in Köln—will be kicked off on August 22 by none other than the Leader Of The Free World herself, German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Surprise, A Long-Lost Homeworld Game Is Now For Sale Again

Homeworld, a space strategy game that is almost perfect, was just the first of three releases in the series around the turn of the millennium. The first two games have been remastered and re-released for a while now, but the third and I think best—Homeworld: Cataclysm—has long been assumed lost. Until now. Gearbox and GOG…

I will always get excited when I see a trailer called Construction Simulator 2015: Liebherr A 918 DLC. Because sometimes you just wanna dig a big-ass hole.

I Don’t Think Fire Is Going To Work, My Man

Hakob Minasian is a concept artist at Treyarch where he’s worked on games like Black Ops 3 You can see more of Hakob’s 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…

E3’s Iconic Game Ads Are Painted By Hand

Every June, the giant video game images adorning the walls of the Hotel Figueroa in LA are one of the stars of E3. I’d always thought they were just enormous posters, but nope, turns out they’re actually painted by hand. Many of the more recent ads have been done by a company/group of artists called…