Luke Plunkett

The Best Persona 5 Cosplay

I know, Persona 5 is barely out in the West. But it’s been out in Japan for months, giving loads of locals—and some enterprising importers from overseas—more than enough time to come up with some outstanding cosplay. I’ve shared some of the best of it below. A note if you’re playing and have only just…

Persona 5’s Coffee Fixation Is Very Cute

Persona 5 is a game about Japanese teens, but the game never explains the nuances of Tokyo youth culture. It’s a game about the Japanese government, but never briefs you on the finer points of local politics. But if you ever want to talk about coffee, then hoo boy, does Persona 5 want to break…

Zarya, You Look…Balder

Genderbent Overwatch cosplay is good. Doubly so when it is strong, like Zarya. Cosplay by Thousand-Faces (with an assist on the armour and gun by Wulfgar Weapons), photos by Insomniac

The Art Of Persona 5

Persona 5 isn’t just a fantastic video game, it’s an absolute feast for the senses, with a strong, confident art style that runs from its character design all the way through to its menus. Much of this is down to the genius of the series’ longtime art director Shigenori Soejima, whose leadership here has resulted…

A Dire Warning About Final Fantasy’s Black Magic

Let’s go back. To a time before Jack Thompson, before age ratings. Back to 1980s Canada, when the most pressing concern with video game content—and how it was destroying the youth—was the black magic found in Final Fantasy. “And once again, it’s about how you can get in touch with your wizard”. If you’re short on…

Computer Creates Fake Video Games That Sound Better Than Real Video Games

Remember how someone taught a nueral network to name Pokemon? Someone else has taught one to name video games, and I would buy almost all of them. Starting with a port of Sega’s hit 2008 arcade game Christ disexplications took this ambitious attempt to name every video game ever made and fed it to a…

Track: Life Will Change | Artist: Shoji Meguro & Lyn| Album: Persona 5 OST Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

One Cosplayer Brings Bioware, Souls & Witcher Games To Life

As we’ve established, some of the best cosplay on the planet comes out of Russia, a point I’m only going to further emphasise today by sharing some of niamash’s work. A cosplayer we’ve featured a few times before, mostly for her Witcher stuff, niamash has also done some incredible recreations of Bioware games, along with…

The Weird Words I Learned From Video Games

We learn a lot of words growing up. We learn a lot of words at school. We might even learn some at college. But as expansive as our vocabularies can become through traditional means of education, let’s not forget that video games can teach us new terms as well. And they’re often some weird ones.…

Here’s Persona 5 “Running” On A PC

Persona 5 may be fresh out this week on PS4, but don’t forget the game is also available on PS3. And has been out in Japan since last year, which explains why there’s now footage of the game trying to run on a PC via an emulator. This is RPCS3, a PS3 emulator for the…

A Simpler Major Kusanagi

Rachel Ho is an artist and illustrator based in Malaysia. You can see more of Rachel’s work at her Behanceand ArtStationpages. 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…

Track: So Real | Artist: Phaeleh | Album: A World Without Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Bat & The Cat

Here’s Ironmarkprops and Winter Blossom recreating two famous Batman images, one for a video game (Arkham City) and the other from a comic (Hush).

This is @shift_cosplay (Black Cat), @becky_taka (Spider Gwen) and @disquietcosplay (MJ) recreating an Amazing Spider-Man cover. No Spider-Men required. Photo by @herohotties

The 2017 remake of 1999 classic Outcast is coming along nicely.

Custom Women’s Armor Is Practical, But Also Cool

Melissa Ng is the creator of this outfit, which is called “Sovereign Armor”, the result of a quest to “create a practical and versatile Medieval-inspired fantasy armor for a woman.” Ng says it took over 500 hours to build the suit, most of which is 3D-printed and which weighs around eight pounds, with that time…

Some Aliens From Mass Effect: Andromeda 

Today’s Fine Art is showcasing the work of an artist who was involved with the design of Mass Effect Andromeda Furio Tedeschi, worked on the game’s new aliens. He has since left BioWare and is working as a freelancer in the film business, most recently on the new Transformers movie. You can see more of…

Computer Learns To Create Its Own Pokémon, And They’re Great

You can train a Neural Network—basically a machine that learns—to do all kinds of things. The best thing, though, is to create a list of its own fake Pokémon. Please welcome Stangute, Tortabool and Ronch to the Pokédex. “I decided to train [a] neural network to randomly generate Pokemon names and abilities based on this…

V-Commandos: The Kotaku Review

V-Commandos is, in everything but name, a board game adaptation of 1998’s stealth strategy game Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines Kickstarted back in 2014, the game has recently been released to retail, and over the last few months I’ve been enjoying the hell out of it. It works like this: players choose from one of a…

Mod Brings Crysis’ Nanosuit To Grand Theft Auto V

Let’s see how those cops like it when you’re rollin’ down Rodeo in your MAXIMUM ARMOUR This isn’t just a cosmetic tweak: You’re actually given the full range of Nanosuit abilities from Crytek’s series, with strength, speed and invisibility all included. Note that you’ll need two seperate downloads to get this working, one for the…