Luke Plunkett

When You Build A Civilization VI Wonder Inside The Actual Building

Here’s Seamang64 playing Civ VI on his laptop, able to claim that he “built Oxford University in Oxford in Oxford University in Oxford”. It’s not the first time this has been done—remember the guy who built Petra at Petra?—but this one sounds a lot cooler when you say it out loud like that. I think…

Fallout Controller Looks Like It Survived The Apocalypse

Devin Smith runs End of Line Design, a lil’ company that makes very custom, very fancy video game controllers. His latest work is this Fallout-inspired piece that goes way beyond just changing the paint scheme Despite the heavy modifications, including new surfaces and an elaborate flipping Pip-Boy cover the whole Dualshock 4 still works as…

Here’s a new trailerfor Neill Blomkamp’s series of short films that are coming to Steam (and YouTube). Guess that was Sigourney Weaver in the first teaser.

Chinese Overwatch Clone Has Some Giant Balls

The Chinese market is no stranger to brazen rip-offs of popular Western games, but even taking that into account this Overwatch clone is something else. Spotted by ponpo and called Hero Mission, this is a mobile shooter that is basically Overwatch, only for a phone, and with the slightest of design edits (most lifted from…

May The Ciri Cosplay Never End

The Witcher 3 is still the best. Ciri is still the best. As long as those two things hold true—and they may hold true forever—then good Ciri cosplay is always welcome here. And this is some real good Ciri cosplay. This is cosplayer Alena Shvidkaya from Belarus, getting not just the outfit 100%, but the…

Wonder Woman Figure Is So Lifelike It’s A Little Unsettling

Hot Toys have a 1/6 scale (11.5″/29cm) Wonder Woman figure out next year. As is pretty standard with their big movie releases, it looks fantastic. While I will call it her “Wonder Woman on the island” outfit, the official name for the figure is “Wonder Woman – Themyscira Training Armor Version”. It’s a fully articulated…

The Art Of Prey

2017’sPrey looks nothing like 2006’s Prey. Gone are the generic sci-fi designs and alien buttholes, replaced by a sleek retro-future aesthetic that helps give the game its own unique visual identity in a market flooded with games about space stations. Below you’ll find a ton of examples of the artwork that went into creating that…

Fake Boxes For Downloadable Nintendo Switch Games

Mahir Sümer has an idea for anyone flashy about their game collections but bummed there aren’t many Nintendo Switch games to actually put on a shelf at the moment: make fake cases for the digital games you’ve picked up. So he went and did just that, designing custom cases for a range of downloadable Switch…

What Happens In New Vegas Stays In New Vegas

Mike Bierek is an artist based in California who has worked on games like InFamous 2, Darksiders and Fallout: New Vegas He’s also done a lot of work on Magic: The Gathering cards You can see more of Mike’s work at his ArtStation page. To see the images in their native resolution, click on the…

Calibrate Yourself For Some Garrus Cosplay

Andromeda be damned, people still seem to prefer cosplaying as the original Mass Effect characters. Garrus especially. Cosplay by Kevin Martell, mask sculpt by Julianne Ramanujam, photos by Jonathan Ramanujam

$380 Millennium Falcon May As Well Be In The Movies

Bandai is releasing this 1/72 scale Millennium Falcon model kit that they “almost as precise and accurate” as the actual ones used in the filming of the classic trilogy. Seeing as the originals were themselves built using cannibalised model kit parts, and that the detail on this is astonishing, it doesn’t look like they’re kidding.…

Framed, a very cool mobile game about moving the panels of a comic to change a story, has a sequel on the way.

2006 Video Game Predicts Sports Stars Of 2017

The Football Manager series has a well-deserved reputation for knowing a lot about the sport it covers, to the point where its vast network of scouts are as respected as those working for actual professional clubs. But boy, even by those standards, Football Manager 2007 was on some crystal ball shit. Hessenuk and EisernerVorhang had…

The Witcher 3 Looks Great In First-Person

Having had over a year to improve it, skacikpl’s first-person mod for The Witcher 3 is now a viable and beautiful way to spend your time trotting around Temeria admiring the sunset. Head movement and FOV have been polished (with both being customisable), and the mod now supports combat as well. Though with crowd management…

Track: Doomed User | Artist: Deftones | Album: Gore Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

There’s A Nintendo Switch In There

The controls are just for show, but still, this is a very cool idea from bioecn Via Tiny Cartridge

Wonder Woman Cosplay Is Ready For The Big Screen

Wonder Woman is out this week, and all over the world cosplayers are going nuts for it. Here’s Kilorywith one of the best efforts we’ve seen. Photos by Phillysia.

The Art Of Injustice 2

Injustice is back to pit DC’s heroes (and villains) against each other in overblown 2D combat. It also put a ton of artists to work designing their own takes on the costumes, characters and environments of the comic empire’s properties. Below you’ll find a showcase of the art that went into making the game, featuring…

Destiny Action Figures Are Like Fancy Dress GI Joes

There’s a new line of Destiny figures coming from McFarlane, and these ones are both smaller and a lot less expensive than the current option. Out later this year, the figures will be 7″ tall (except for Lord Saladin, who is 10″), very articulated and come with a range of the original game’s most famous…

Watch (Part Of) A Mario Anime That’s Been Lost For Almost 20 Years

While most of Mario’s adventures through 1980s animation have been preserved on YouTube, not everything has managed to find its way online. Like 1989’s Super Mario Traffic Safety, which for the first time we’re now able to watch (well, at least some of it). Produced by Toei as an instructional safety video for Japanese schoolkids,…