Luke Plunkett

March Of The Killer Babies

Rock D is a concept artist from China who works in the video game business. You can see more of Rock D’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 game…

This is Acdramon with a custom-coloured Genji from Overwatch.

CG Artist has Made An Image Every Day For 10 years

That’s over 3600 days in a row. I can’t even write shitty blog posts for five days without needing two days off. As Vice reports, Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann, a professional CG artist who has released a ton of animated shorts and worked with musicians like Flying Lotus and deadmau5, started a project a decade ago…

A Card Game That’ll Help You Freestyle Rap

Vers is a card game designed to feed you words and context so that you—yes you, likely a person who in reality can not write rhymes—can create your own raps that do not suck. It’s kind of like Cards Against Humanity, only in reverse: instead of giving you sentences with words missing, it’s giving you…

Bethesda Asks For Indie Game’s Name To Be Changed Because It Has ‘Prey’ In it

Prey for the Gods, an indie PC game paying homage to Shadow of the Colossus, now has a new name courtesy of some pressure from Bethesda, publishers of the upcoming Prey In a post mostly about updates made to the game following its successful Kickstarter, No Matter Studios also announce that the project will now…

When You Order A Sword Off The Internet And It’s The Wrong Size

Tatyana Latypova is an artist from Russia. You can see more of Tatyana’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 their professional and…

Stay Classy, Anchorman Cosplay

ronburgundy3 nailed pretty much everything for this shot, which was taken at Kansas City’s Planet Comicon last month. Photo by Eugene Photography

Haha Here’s The Witcher 3 Running In 8K Haha

This is footage of The Witcher 3 running 60fps at 8k resolution. That’s 7680 x 4320. On max settings. Gulp. If you need to know what kind of monster could run the game like this, here’s how Thirty IR got the footage across two PCs, the first for playing, the second for capture: GPUs: 4x…

Tell ‘Em, Sailor Moon

Iris Muddy is a freelance concept artist and illustrator based in France who has worked for companies like Hasbro and Massive Black. You can see more of Iris’ 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…

Guy Turns His Zelda: Breath of the Wild Photos Into A Book

You can take a lot of nice photos in Breath of the Wild, but really, what can you do with them? Share them with friends, I guess, but they don’t really care, they’ve seen your horse 100 times before. NV/Haru had a better idea: turn them into a book. It’s not big, it’s not glossy…

The Best Xbox Games

It’s hard to believe given its place in history, but the original Xbox was only really around for four years. That’s not long in console terms, but as we all found, when it came to Microsoft’s first console the focus was on quality, not quantity. Leveraging the console’s horsepower, hard drive and online capabilities, the…

You Can Now Play Zelda: Breath Of The Wild With Japanese Vocals

In addition to the big DLC news, Nintendo also released a patch for Zelda: Breath of the Wild today that added something fans have been asking for since the last big trailer: the option for owners of the Western version of the game to play with a Japanese vocal track. That’s now possible with a…

UNIQLO Got Some Real Nice Nintendo Shirts

In May, UNIQLO are going to be selling a whole ton of new Nintendo-themed t-shirts, some of which are hot as hell. Each one was designed by a fan, and the overall winners—judged by Shigeru Miyamoto—were awarded prizes like cash and signed Switch consoles. The overall winner was a red shirt with a giant Mario…

Zelda: Breath Of The Wild’s First DLC Adds Some Very Cool Stuff

First announced back in February, Nintendo has just detailed what exactly we’ll be getting with the first batch of DLC that’s being offered for Breath of the Wild in the Summer. From new armour to a fancy “smart map”, it all sounds pretty great. First, and coolest of all, is the addition of a mode…

Project Wingman, An Indie Jet Combat Game For The PC

Project Wingman is a PC game that’s looking to scratch an Ace Combat-sized itch for arcade jet combat. The game is still in development, but you can grab progress builds over on its site and check it out now. There’s not much available at the moment, just a single skirmish mission using one fighter, but…

There Sure Are A Lotta Soda Machines In Video Games

Reader Jess should know, he’s been cataloguing them and putting them all on a website This story was originally published in August 2016. The Video Game Soda Machine Project is his attempt to archive the appearance of the trusty beverage vending machine in our digital entertainment. From Monkey Island to Batman, he’s now catalogued 1000…

Metroid Fans, You Should Read This Comic

I was in a “catch up on a bunch of comics I’ve missed” mood over the weekend, so I set aside time for some reading. One of the books I picked up, Corey Lewis’ Sun Bakery, had a very nice surprise inside. I’d grabbed it because it promised a Shonen Jump-style run of highlighting a…

Helping Move Blizzard’s Awesome Cinematics

Casey McDermott is a Senior Animator at Blizzard Animation, where he gets to work on all those incredible shorts and cinematics that the company releases for games like Overwatch. Below you’ll see his latest showreel, highlighting the work he’s done on stuff like Bastion’s short film, Sombra’s reveal and StarCraft II You can see more…

Overwatch’s Captain Amari, Reporting For Duty

Here’s Lunar Crow as Ana’s Captain Amari skin from Overwatch. Photos by D.I.S/C Photography In keeping with the Overwatch theme, she also does one hell of a Symmetra:

Track: Amateur Sketch | Artist: Municipal Waste | Album: Slime and Punishment Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.