Luke Plunkett

Damn, Look At These Super Nintendo Sneakers

Just as there must be balance in life, so too must there be balance in sneaker concept posts on Kotaku.com, a website that is occasionally about video games. We have had Adidas designs recently, so now we must share these very nice Jordans. They’re the work of custom sneaker specialists Freaker Sneaks (via Nicekicks), and…

Some Of 2016’s Best Cosplay In Motion

WhileI’ve already rounded up the absolute best cosplay of 2016, that was mostly a collection of static images. And I’m just one guy in Australia. Mineralbluwent to most of the big cons in the US (and some beyond), and took his video camera with him. The video below covers 14 conventions from America and Japan,…

Tiny Heist Breaks Down Stealth Games

Tiny Heist, by Terry Cavanagh (VVVVVV, Super Hexagon) is a simple but addictive little stealth game which takes some of the genre’s most established ideas and whittles them down into what feels like Metal Gear vs Pac-Man There are guards with search patterns, cameras tracking movement and locked doors, but overcoming most of these is…

It’s Wednesday Addams

Here’s Sladkoslava with some very unexpected (if also perfect) cosplay: Christina Ricci’s Wednesday from the 1991 Addams Family movie.

Civ VI’s Neo Tokyo Is About To Explode

One of the more pleasant surprises with how good Civ VI has been out of the gates has been the game’s urban planning system. Something Haphaz77 has shown off here to terrific effect. This is a game he won as Japan (over 300 turns) using a modified version of the “one city rule”, something that…

Power Grid, A Game About Big Coal (And Big Garbage)

I got around to playing the classic German board game Power Grid (aka Funkenschlag) on the weekend, and absolutely loved it. It’s a game about building and then supplying juice to a power network that stretches across the land. Every turn players first compete in auctions to buy power stations, then buy the resources (oil,…

Surprise, 2017 Is Also The Year Of Witcher 3 Cosplay

I know, 2016 was The Year Of Witcher 3 cosplay. But so was 2015. And so too will 2018. And every year after that, until we sit under the fading trees, all the world changed and the long years of our lives utterly spent. This is T-T-F as Yennefer. Photos by ayashige

How To Win At Game Of Thrones (The Board Game)

Game of Thronesis not like other board games. While there are plenty of strategy games out there, and plenty of games where people have to be dicks to each other, none walk the line between them as well as Fantasy Flight’s classic. Which can make it tough to get your head around. So I’m here…

Nice Digs, Bruce Wayne

5518 is a new studio in LA, which is doing concept and partnership work in video games. You can see more of 5518’s work at their studio 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…

By Heri Shinato

Sex Programs Have Come A Long Way Since 1986

Did anyone get you a computer program for Christmas? I bet it wasn’t as saucy as Interlude II, the hottest computer program of 1986 Note how the poster above says program instead of game. Despite appearing to be some kind of romantic Mills & Boon-ish adventure, and being sold an advertised alongside other games, this…

Assassin’s Creed: The Movie: The Cosplay

The Assassin’s Creed movie might not have been great, but the outfits were nice, which means we’re at least getting some good cosplay out of it. This is Shiva Cosplay as Maria and Leon Chiro (who was Ubisoft’s official cosplayer for movie promo work in Europe) as Aguilar.

The Best Video Game Concept Art Of 2016

Here, after much deliberation, is a collection of the best concept art from video games released in 2016. This piece was originally published on December 22, 2016. Pretty much every day I run a post for our Fine Art feature, which is about highlighting pieces from artists working in the video game business. That means…

The Assassin’s Creed Movie Has Some Beautiful Visuals

Surprise, the Assassin’s Creed movie is trash. But it’s not all bad; some of the movie’s effects are quite nice, in particular the Animus’ interface and other shots of computers doing their thing. Work on these visuals was led by Ash Thorpe, who has shared videos and screens of all the stuff he put together…

Couple Meets Online Playing Diablo, Gets Married

Alvin Lau (a Crusader) and Alexis Loo (a Demon Hunter) met online while they were playing Diablo III. Their online friendship blossomed into a romance, and the pair got married last year, celebrating the whole thing with an elaborate Diablo-themed cosplay photo shoot. This wasn’t the big day itself, just a pre-wedding shoot—it’s tough dancing…

We wrote about the Earthbound-ish Omori a bit in 2014. Some technical mishaps have caused delays in the game’s development since then, but work continues, and here’s a fresh 2017 trailer showing how it’s all coming along.

Ariana Grande Is In A Final Fantasy Game

Welcome to 2017. The pop star will be a character in free-to-play mobile title Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, which was released on iOS and Android around six months ago. Here’s some footage of the character: And here is a very strange photo: And here’s Grande cosplaying as…herself, I guess. Note that this kind of cultural…

Nothing says the holiday season like cosplay, Christmas trees and swimsuits. Just ask Holiday Matsuri, held every December in sunny 90-degree Orlando. Videos by GerWalk cosplay and Mineralblu

2016 Has Been A Golden Year For Strategy Games

As you may have noticed from being on the internet or talking to other human beings, 2016 has been a bit of a shitshow. But if there’s one piece of solace to be found in the flaming wreckage of this orbital rotation, it’s been the quality of its video games. Strategy ones in particular. This…

Luke Plunkett’s Top Ten Games Of 2016

I played a lot of games in 2016, and as someone who loves strategy titles, it was a very good year. So drawing a line in the sand like this is always tough. Ah, who am I kidding, half the fun of these end of year lists is pitting your favourite (and often entirely unrelated)…