Luke Plunkett

Some Overwatch Cuties

Desiree Cassidy is an illustrator and animator working at Electronic Arts. Here’s some of her work, including these Overwatch ladies. You can see more of Desiree’s stuff at her ArtStationand Instagrampages. 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…

Oh Hey, Cowboy Bebop Cosplay

Hey cosplayers, more Cowboy Bebop cosplay, please. This Faye Valentine is by ReaverSkill

Here’s Sladkoslava with a damn good Ellie from The Last Of Us

3D Models Of Famous TV Show Sets

I had never wanted video game versions of The Office or The IT Crowd. Now that I’ve seen these 3D recreations of those (and other famous) show’s sets, though, I’m coming around. Maybe something like The Sims, or Game Dev Story, or Theme Hospital… These models were made by Drawbotics, and in addition to the…

Playing Portal In The Real World

Why play Portal on a 2D screen when you can play it all around you in the real world? This Portal demo for Microsoft’s Hololens—an “augmented reality” headset that displays digital content on glasses overlaid on your outside vision—looks incredible. It was made by developer Kenny Wang, who did something similar last year with Pokemon…

You Can’t Kill A Good Star Wars Game

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, known by regular humans just as Jedi Academy, is a shooter that was released back in 2003. Part of a series that originated with the best Star Wars game of all time, it’s being kept alive by mods like Movie Battles, which “lets players play and fight in the…

Report: Denuvo Website Leaks Private, Company Emails

Theft protection company Denuvo is not having a good week. First Resident Evil 7, which employs Denuvo’s once-unassailable anti-tamper tech, was cracked in just five days. Now folks have discovered a bunch of unprotected content on the company’s website, including what are reportedly emails from companies like Capcom and Google. TorrentFreak reports that the company…

Star Wars: Battlefront III Lives On In Battlefront II Mod 

While we wait forthe full fan-made remake of the cancelled Star Wars: Battlefront III, another team is already releasing betas for a similar project. Only theirs is about modding Battlefront II and adding in a bunch of Battlefront III stuff in over the top of it. Star Wars Battlefront III Legacy is a mod for…

Making Minecraft Maps Beautiful

Minecraft may be practical, but its simple visuals can also be, for some folks, a bit gross. Which is why things like Chunkyexist, to help make blocky maps beautiful. Here’s what a “realistic” map looks like in vanilla Minecraft: It looks like Civilization II with the UI turned off. Here, though, Darastlix has shared an…

Another Game Based On An Old WarCraft III Mod

DOTA might be the most high profile WarCraft III mod to be turned into an actual video game, but it’s not the only one. There’s also Ruin, a “top-down arcade style arena brawler” based on apopular old WCIII mod called Warlock Brawl It’s kind of like DOTA (as you’d expect, given their shared lineage), only…

Someone’s Gotta Design All Those Game Logos

Omer Younas is a veteran games artist who specializes in 2D stuff like logo design and menus. He’s worked on games like Battlefield 1, Metal Gear Solid V and the Crysis series. You can more of Omer’s work at his personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button…

When Pin-Ups Meet Harry Potter Cosplay

Kotaku cosplay regular Ginny Di returns here with a super cool tribute to Gil Elvgren’s iconic pin-up art, giving the 20th century illustrations a Harry Potter twist. Photos by Josh Randall. You can see more of Ginny’s cosplay at her Facebook page

Spider-Man Knows How To Protest In 2017

Spider-Man, being a good guy, knows that there are more dangers to the innocent than supervillains and Sony’s film division. So like many others in 2017, he’s taken to the streets to protest. MoonSpider was at the LA Women’s March on January 21, which was one of the biggest protests on a day of action…

Haha Look At This Dungeons & Dragons Thing

This is a massive and elaborate GM screen for your Dungeons & Dragons (or any other role-playing game) adventures. For those who want to flex on their tabletop crew. I like Wyrmwood’s stuff, but this screen is on a whole other level, both in terms of how much it does (it does a lot) and…

Let’s Meet Swery

toco toco tv is a YouTube channel “where Japanese artists and creators introduce places in Japan that inspire them”. There are some cool video game people interviewed, like Suda51, Swery65 and pro gamer Fuudo.  

Track: Europe Is Lost | Artist: Kate Tempest | Album: Let Them Eat Chaos Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

I Cannot Play Horror Games, But I Wish I Could

Are you enjoying Resident Evil 7? Are you thrilling at the scares, reveling in the fear, shivering at the spooks? If yes, then know that I envy you. I tried playing Resident Evil 7 last week. I didn’t really play Res 5 or 6, but remember loving Resident Evil 4, so was looking forward to…

Some Of The Best Art From Fallout 4

I know, we’ve looked at Fallout 4 on Fine Art previously, but that was before art dealer Cook & Becker started selling prints of some of the finest pieces drawn up for the game. They’re not cheap, since they’re printed on museum-grade paper, so maybe think of them as something designed for the office than…

Witcher 3 Short Film Has A Very Good Geralt

Oh hey, it’s Maul, Witcherest of Witcher cosplayers, starring in this short film all about Geralt getting his sword on. Triss is Erika Rodgers (who also produced), while it was directed by ActionLeo Via Glixel