Luke Plunkett

Two Of The Oldest Video Game Torrents In The World Are Ubisoft Classics

The Pirate Bay is about to turn 13, and in honour of the site becoming a teenager, folks like Torrentfreakare checking out the oldest content that has been continuously available since its launch back in 2003. While the oldest torrent in the world is a bizarre copy of The Matrix, among the ten oldest on…

Elementalist Lux cosplay by Yukeshiro. Photo by Studio Zahora

Those In Glass Houses Something Something

Chris Kesler is an artist who has worked in both film and video games. You can see more of Kesler’s work at his personal site and 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…

Track: Thorns | Artist: Pallbearer | Album: Heartless Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Fake News Video Game Is A Little Too Real

Fake It To Make Itis a game that puts you in charge of a website devoted to creating and spreading fictional and/or sensationalised online “news” articles. It has been put together by someone who clearly knows how online media works, and that makes it more than a little frightening. Amanda Warner, the game’s designer, says…

Animal Crossing’s World Is A Trip

The way later Animal Crossing titles have scrolled make it appear to the player that the game world is round. Zoom the camera out past the confines of a DS/3DS/TV screen, though, and the world is not so much round as it is a giant, habitable roll of toilet paper. The gif above is taken…

Fan Creates Patch To Fix Nier: Automata’s Graphics

Nier: Automata is a fine video game, but it also has some technical problems on PC which are a bit of a bummer. Where Platinum and Square have come up short, though, a fan-made mod is making things right. Kaldaien’s FAR mod (Fix Automata Resolution) does like its name suggests and fixes the game’s fullscreen…

D.Va’s Busy Night’s Work

Federico Pelat is a motion artist and art director from France. You can see more of Pelat’s work at his personal site 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…

The Sandy Side Of The Moon

Marco Gorlei is a concept artist at Atomhawk, a studio whose work we’ve featured a few times here before You can see more of Marco’s work at his personal site and 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…

Nier Cosplay With A Difference

All of the Nier: Automota cosplay we’ve featured so far has been about 2B. So let’s mix it up a bit today and have some Eve shots instead. This is Italian cosplay superstar Leon Chiro as Adam’s lil’ bro, while the photos were taken by FTPH

Australia Bans, Then Un-Bans Outlast 2

Australia’s infamous Classification Board last week essentially banned the upcoming Outlast 2 from going on sale in the country. And only a few days later has backed down and said, oh, ok, the game is actually fine. The initial reason given for the Board’s decision was that, despite Australia now having an 18+ age classification…

Overwatch Characters As Fantasy Heroes

Overwatch Fantasia is a project by some Korean artists to take Blizzard’s roster of Heroes and make them look like they walked out of something like a Final Fantasy artbook. Because it’s the work of a whole team, there are multiple takes on many of the characters, some bright and bubbly, others looking more like…

The next time you want to skip those animations, World of Final Fantasy players, think of the poor artists.

Switch Controller Cosplays As GameCube Pad

Boss Fight Props, normally in the business of making cosplay gear, decided to take his Switch controller and dress it up like a GameCube pad. I would buy this, if only for the colour-coded buttons. I would buy multiples if it was the GameCube’s old “spice” colour scheme While the images look like renders, it’s…

Here’s Breath Of The Wild Running On A PC

CEMU, an emulator that lets people play Wii U games on their PC, has come a long way since it struggled with Mario Kart 8: next month, it’ll be running the latest Zelda game in an entirely playable state. The emulator’s 1.7.4 update, due in the first week of April, fixes nearly all the glitches…

Super Mario Run Is Now Available On Android

Better late than…never? Despite coming out on iOS in December, it’s taken until today for Android owners to get their hands on Mario’s side-scrolling mobile adventure. But hey, despite the long wait, it’s here now. The game’s pretty good, even if it does have some very weird ideas about how mobile users should pay for…

Track: Gravel Pit | Artist: Wu-Tang Clan | Album: The W Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The next new faction for Civ VI will be *drum roll* the Persians.

The Best Civilization VI Mods

Civilization VI is a very good video game, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. Since the game’s launch in October 2016, fans have been working on mods that do everything from make the game look better to improving the creaky AI to speeding up your trips through the user interface. Below you’ll…

Sailor Moon Cosplay Is The Height Of 90s Fashion

Inspired by, of all things, this 2015 post about a Korean fashion store, a team of cosplayers, photographers and videographers got together last month and produced this absolutely incredible Sailor Moon fashion shoot. The project was assembled by CineCosu Studios’ Dominique Zamora. “I wanted to shoot a cosplay editorial that highlighted not only the scouts…