Luke Plunkett

Monopoly Is Coming To The Nintendo Switch

Ubisoft just announced that it’s bringing a digital version of Monopoly to the Nintendo Switch. It’ll be out in the Fall, and supports “up to six players online or offline”. You can get Monopoly on pretty much every gaming system known to man, but this version looks especially cool because of the Switch’s portability, which…

Fantastic Concept Art From Guardians Of The Galaxy, Dr Strange & Jupiter Ascending

Olivier Pron is an artist who has worked on some of the biggest movies of the past decade, from Mad Max to Guardians of the Galaxy to Harry Potter Pron works for Method Studios, mostly in pre-production, and specialises in matte painting, environment and conceptual work, for both movies and other “commercial projects”. You can…

From Sketch To Batgirl

Here’s New Locksley Projects showing that you don’t have to let your dreams be dreams.

Star Wars: Battlefront II’s First Trailer Leaks

The debut trailer for EA’s Battlefront II has leaked out a little early, showing that not only will the next game feature units and heroes from the prequel trilogy, but from Force Awakens as well. Here’s a recap in case the clip disappears: As expected, looks like there’s a singleplayer campaign in here (centred around…

When There’s Historical Killing at 3 But A Cosplay Party At 9 [Update]

Rebecca On is a concept artist and illustrator based in San Francisco, who has worked for companies like inXile Entertainment, Gameloft and Monte Cook Games. You can see more of Rebecca’s art at her personal site UPDATE: In response to readers noticing that one of Rebecca’s images was very similar to another artist’s work, she…

Star Wars Cosplay Isn’t Just For Adults

This FN-2187 outfit was made by Rick Boer, a cosplayer we’ve featured a ton of times here for his incredible work. The thing is, that’s not Rick inside the suit. Instead, it’s his six year-old daughter, a Star Wars freak in her own right, and now proud owner of the best Halloween costume on her…

Two Charged Over Swatting That Led To Cops Shooting The Victim With Rubber Bullets

Two young men, one from the UK and another from the US, have been charged with “Swatting” Tyran Dobbs, who was shot in the head and chest with rubber bullets by police after his home was raided. As The Independent reports, in early 2015 20-year-old Tyran Dobbs was woken by police, who had entered his…

Steel Division Takes The RTS Back To Normandy

Last week, Paradox released two big expansions, both for games that I love, but I ended up playing neither. Instead, I was messing around with a third title of theirs that was released a bit more quietly: a beta for Steel Division: Normandy 44, an upcoming real-time strategy game. Developed by Eugen, the guys behind…

The Art Of Mass Effect: Andromeda

Here is a massive collection—one of the biggest we’ve run in a long time—of concept, character and level art from the latest Mass Effect game. Some of those whose art is being shown, like Senior Concept Artist Ben Lo, have had their work featured on Kotaku before. And while this isn’t every piece ever done…

Anyone still doubting Planet Coaster’s almost limitless sandbox possibilities, look at this Tron ride and remember it was 100% made by a fan

GameCube Games, Running On A Samsung Phone

Take a look at this video by GuruAidTechSupport, showing a new Samsung Galaxy S8 running the Dolphin emulator (for GameCube and Wii games) almost flawlessly. Dolphin has been available on Android for a while now, but mostly as an experimental/developmental tool, not as a practical way to play games (mostly because performance was completely garbage).…

Look At This Little Mei Action Figure

Good Smile Company’s Tracer Nendoroid now has some company: this Mei figure, who is cute as a forzen lil’ button. She’s $50, and will be out in November. Just like the Tracer one, this figure’s official name is “Nendoroid Mei: Classic Skin Edition”, so we’re surely not far off from a skin-variant bonanza on some…

Here’s The Sweet Book Nintendo Gives Job Applicants

As we’ve covered before, every year Nintendo holds a big recruitment drive in Japan, and as part of that they give prospective employees a beautiful handbook. Here’s what this year’s looks like. There’s nothing important in it. It’s a company handbook, and contains the same thing any other recruitment guide would: some basic company information,…

This great vid by Sneaky Zebra gives you a good look at some of the cosplay on show at this year’s WonderCon.

Dragon Age Cosplay Is All About The Romance

This is Yume, a cosplayer from Germany, getting into the Dragon Age spirit (ie, romancing) with her boyfriend. Both costumes were made by Yume, who has been cosplaying for over a decade now. Photos by the always-excellent eosAndy

Canada has a new $10 note, and to celebrate, someone slipped the Konami code into the Bank of Canada’s website. Give it a shot via Kotaku AU

A Custom Gundam Nintendo Switch

LOVENIN, a Nintendo fan from Thailand, messed up and bought a black & grey Switch instead of a Neon one. To add some colour to his drab new console, then, he decided to take it apart and add some Gundam flavour to the thing. Looks great! A big reason why it looks so good is…

Time To Party Like The Bad Guys

These are grim times we are living through, but that doesn’t mean Landon Meier’s Hyperflesh—creators of terrifying rubber masks—can’t have some fun with them. You might have caught some of Hyperflesh’s ultra-realistic masks last year during the election. Here are a couple of news ones, shown off at Monsterpalooza. Amazing how an over-sized head, some…

This Isn’t The World War Two I Read About…

Charles Lemor is an artist and illustrator based in France. You can see more of Charles’ work at his personal site. And if you like any of it so much you’d want to own some, he’s got a print store here To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in…

Two of Paradox’s big grand strategy games, Stellaris and Europa Universalis IV, both got new expansions today. Stellaris attempts to cut down on the slog in Utopia, while EUIV focuses on China in Mandate of Heaven