Luke Plunkett

Track: Leaving nothing but the absence of everything | Artist: Young And In The Way | Album: I Am Not What I Am

Bioshock Cosplay, Buried At Sea

BioShock Infinite’s Elizabeth is cool, but she’s a lot cooler in the game’s DLC, which explains why so many people are out there doing such a good job cosplaying the character. This is Lunaritie doing a full shoot as the more adult Elizabeth, with photography by Kristy Che I want to party wherever it is…

Oh Hey, These Were Made In Minecraft

Reminder: Minecraft isn’t just for digging and building stuff. It’s also a platform for people who just want to make art This is the work of Marceau Nakayama, aka Udvio, who has been using Minecraft (and various plugins, and some rendering help) as “a way to express my ideas”. Holy shit these are incredible. Some…

Japan’s new Super Mario Happy Meal toys look awesome. They went on sale last Friday. Please come to the West. UPDATE: Oh hey, looks like they go on sale in the UK this week!

The Nintendo Switch’s Logo Is Not Symmetrical, And Arrrrgghhh

Games artist David Hellman pointed this out on Twitter over the weekend. I will never unsee it, and I’m not sure how I’m going to reconcile this over the years to come. As someone who craves order in my product and logo design I was already uneasy about the two dots not being symmetrical, but…

Look At This Official KOTOR Action Figure

Last year, Star Wars/toy fans were asked which character they’d like to see turned into one of the series’ fancy Black Series action figures. The winner: Darth Revan from Knights of the Old Republic, who is now finished and for sale…if you can find him. If you’re thinking, well, he doesn’t look very detailed, that’s…

Eww, Bloodborne Cosplay

The cosplay itself isn’t “eww”. It’s fantastic, with a surprising amount of detail! But there’s just something gross and creepy about seeing Souls/Bloodborne stuff that isn’t heroic knights come to life like this. Which, counter, is entirely the point Chime Maiden cosplay by Shade Cramer. Photos by Vladimir Burykin

Landmark, the MMO formerly known as Everquest Next Landmark, is closing down next month

There Were Going To Be Rogue One Disney Infinity Figures [Update]

Seven months later, the sad stories just keep on coming out of Disney Infinity’s cancellation The title’s abrupt binning, brought about more through production mismanagement than any flaws with the game and its excellent figures, mean that many series and toys which were being worked on had to be scrapped and never released. One such…

Elite: Dangerous Players Have Finally Found Aliens

After years ofteases and winks and hints throughout the Elite: Dangerous universe, players are today reporting that they’ve finally made “first contact” with aliens in the game. And they are big DP Sayre, a player on Xbox One, was the first to share the discovery earlier today, when he was wrenched out of hyperspace then…

In Civilization VI, Nobody Expects The…

…well, you know Image by boomcatlady

Hey There Tank Girl

Igor-Alban Chevalier, aka The Black Frog, is an artist who has worked for companies like Blizzard, Xbox, Sony and Ubisoft. He also works in film (X-Men, Brotherhood Of The Wolf & Harry Potter) and comics as well. You can see more The Black Frog’s art at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the…

Mass Effect 2 Is Free Right Now

Mass Effect 2, one of the all-time greats, is currently free on Origin for PC users as part of Origin’s “On the House” program. That’s a good deal! It was free for a time back in December as well. We’ve updated this post with the currently-working link.

Vlambeer’s Giant Book Is Fantastic

Vlambeer are best known for their video games like Luftrausers, Nuclear Throne and Ridiculous Fishing. I’ve been enjoying something else they’ve done recently, though, and it’s something a bit more tangible: this big book all about the team and their history. At 152 over-sized pages, it’s really two books in one: there’s a massive collection…

Track: New Wares Are The New Heirs | Artist: R23X, feat. Devora Shavinksy | Album: VELTAHL Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Ciri by Lyz Brickley. Photo by beethy

New Nvidia Service Will Let You Stream PC Games For A Ridiculous Price

Nvidia, picking up on the reality that most PC users don’t have the absolute latest in tech, have announced at CES a revamp of their Geforce Now service, which will let anyone with a PC or Mac stream games from “a Pascal PC in the cloud” (Pascal is the name given to the technology found…

Super Mario Adventure: The Kotaku Review

This is a Mario game, but it’s not a Mario video game. It’s a ball puzzle/game/thing I got for my kid for Christmas, and we haven’t been able to stop playing it since. We spotted it on Amazon trawling for Mario merch (kid is nuts for Nintendo stuff), and figured that because the box was…

If Force Awakens’ BB-8 Was A Bad Guy

We’ve seen what a lumbering killing machine looks like when it works for the Empire, but this is what cute lil’ BB-8 would look like if he was in the service of space fascists. It’s by George Damiani, a 3D artist from Brazil, and combines a few elements from Rogue One (the colour scheme of…

Custom Titanfall LEGO Is Great

There’s a lot to love about Titanfall 2, but one of the best things is the design of the game’s mechs. And while we wait for expensive action figures to hit, we can pass the time with these awesome LEGO models built by Marius Herrmann Via makers, Herrmann has recreated many of the game’s signature…