Luke Plunkett

World Heroes Was A Damn Good Fighting Game

When Street Fighter II hit the big time in the early 1990s, it spawned a lot of competition. Some of these rivals emerged as beloved fighting game series in their own right, and would live on for years. Others, like World Heroes, couldn’t quite escape the crush of the bandwagon. Developed by Japanese studio Alpha…

The Art Of Alien: Covenant

Now that the movie is out, the artists who worked on Alien: Covenant are free to share their stuff. And regardless of your thoughts on the movie itself, it’s all very pretty. Note that this isn’t everything from the vault, nor is it encompassing the work of every single artist who contributed to the movie.…

Nier: Automata Cosplay Is Not Fucking Around Here

Here are two Chinese cosplayers—Omiya(2B) and Ichinosehikaru(9S)—going absolutely nuts with their Nier: Automata cosplay partnership. Before you say it, yes, these are heavily edited images. But hey, if you’re going to photoshop your cosplay images, you may as well go hard. And even if you’re the type to recoil at the thought of effects and…

A Cinematic Trailer For A Fan-Made Halo Game

This is the world we live in now. Where even fan-made, multiplayer-only Halo games get four-minute cinematic trailers. This clip is for Installation 01, a back-to-basics Halo fan game for the PC that we first took a look at last year Looks like things are coming along nicely. Installation 01 is an attempt to get…

Kong: Skull Island Is Full Of Cute Video Game Easter Eggs

Jordan Vogt-Roberts, director of Kong: Skull Island, hid a bunch of video game tributes and influences throughout the movie so well that nobody noticed. So he’s now pointing them out. Some of the homages made it into the finished film: And some stuff didn’t: If you were going to ask “well why isn’t this guy…

Killers & Thieves Is A Game About Medieval Burglary

This is one of the nicest video game surprises I’ve had in a long time. Stoic, creators of the excellent Banner Saga, dropped a game on Steam this week out of almost nowhere. And it’s pretty good! Killers & Thieves is a game made by Stoic co-founder Alex Thomas, and is all about the daily…

First Trailer For Netflix’s Castlevania Animated Series

Announced earlier this year, here’s the first trailer for Netflix’s animated Castlevania series. There are whips and skulls, so it’s got that going for it. The series is due on July 7.

Take A Closer Look At The Backgrounds In Star Wars

Nick Hiatt is a concept artist and matte painter who has got to work on some of the biggest and best stuff of the last few years, from Force Awakens to Destiny (and Destiny 2) to Game of Thrones to Doom That’s why there are a lot of screencaps of Star Wars: Episode VII here,…

Track: Our Only Master | Artist: Dunsmuir | Album: Dunsmuir Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

PlayStation Store Now Has Curation From Big Developers

As we’ve discussed, Steam’s implementation of third-party curation has been a bit of a mess. So it’ll be interesting to see how Sony fares now that they’re trying something similar. Launching today, The Creators is an attempt by Sony to get curation on the PlayStation store, only instead of turning to “influencers”, they’ve asked people…

Hi Ramona

Here’s Russian cosplayer Anastasia, aka Komori, with a 1:1 depiction of Scott Pilgrim’s Ramona Flowers.

Blasphemous Is Basically A 2D Dark Souls

'Blasphemous is an action-platformer that combines the fast-paced, skilled combat of a hack-n-slash game'

There’s Never Enough Fire Emblem Cosplay

Here’s a very good Tharja (from Fire Emblem) by Aussie cosplayer Beke. Photos by Beethy

Cyberpunk Cityscape In Need Of Urgent Cleaning

Gary Sanchez is an artist who has worked at studios like Quantic Dream, Cloud Imperium and Ubisoft. You can see more of Gary’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…

3855 Artists Imagine What Lost Civilizations Could Have Looked Like

Some of the best artists working in video games, TV and film have taken part in a massive competition, judged by folks responsible for the look of series like Halo and Assassin’s Creed Called Ancient Civilizations: Lost & Found, the competition was held over at industry site ArtStation, and featured almost 4000 entries from professionals…

If Overwatch Was A Turn-Based Tactics Game

A modder has brought a little Overwatch to the excellent Invisible Inc., adding two new agents—Sombra and Widowmaker—to the stealth title’s roster of thieves, hackers and spies. The mod, made by Saltrain, may as well be an official and blessed addition. Both agents look great, having had their designs modified to fit Invisible Inc’s art…

Endless Space 2: The Kotaku Review

There have been a lot of 4X games set in space lately, from Stellaris to the Master of Orion reboot. Some of them have been good! None, however, have been as good as Endless Space 2 A lot of 4X games, and I’m especially talking about ones set in space, often struggle on two fronts:…

The City Never Sleeps

Rob Watkins is an artist who has worked on games likeHalo Wars 2 (where he was Lead Concept Artist), Fable 3 and Fable Legends You can see more of Watkins’ 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…

Track: Primordial Wound | Artist: Inter Arma | Album: Paradise Gallows Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Every single assassin you see here is either Rick Boer or his wife Dominique