Luke Plunkett

Nice Jacket, Robot Assassin

Alex Figini is a concept artist at Bioware. He made this robot, and I want his jacket very much. Figini, whose art we’ve featured before, has also worked at Sony. The robot you’re seeing below wasn’t made for a game, it was actually made for a ZBrush course over on Learn Squared, so if you’re…

Krunch From Diddy Kong Racing Is Real, Lives In Florida

A Florida woman has won a battle which will allow her to keep her pet alligator. An alligator which wears a jacket, rides an ATV and looks a lot like Diddy Kong Racing’s Krunch. The alligator, which is named Rambo, was the focus of a disagreement between its owner, Mary Thorn, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife…

A Close Look At A Prototype Nintendo DS

You may not know Evan Amos by name, but you’ve certainly seen his work: he’s responsible for many of the clean product shots of video game consoles that you see on Wikipedia (and by extension everywhere else). Today, he’s shared something very cool for fans of old Nintendo hardware These are nice, clear shots of…

Darth Vader vs Aliens

Guillem H. Pongiluppi is a Spanish artist who has worked on stuff like the Warcraft movie. What we’re looking at today though is his series of images depicting Vader and some Stormtroopers meeting, shooting and being eaten by Aliens. Which look like the covers to comic books I would have held very dear in 1994.…

Tracer’s Kiss, Now In Cosplay Form

Give Overwatch fans what they want and they will repay the internet in kind. OK, so it’s not the most complex Overwatch cosplay, hence the speed at which it could be put together, but still, cute gag. Tracer is ReaganKathryn, Emily is Ashlynne Dae. Photo by thedogeman

The Art Of Mafia III

For all its other problems, Mafia III was a very good-looking video game, so it’s a treat today to get to check out some of the art that went into its creation. The first pieces below are by artists Pavel Beskyd, Anthony Ermio, Jonathan Guzi and Carlos Sanchez. For anyone wanting to get more physical…

1992 Miyamoto Interview About Zelda Is Great

In 1992, Shigeru Miyamoto sat down for an interview with Famicom Tsuushin magazine, mostly to talk about Zelda, but also to shed some light on what it was like working at Nintendo at the time. It’s a very good read. We’ve actually written about this interview previously, though that was apparently an incomplete translation; this…

Australian Animals That Won’t Kill You, Ranked

I am Australian. I have noticed online that people who are not Australian seem to work under the assumption that this is an island of death, where every step you take you run the risk of being bitten, stung, impaled or eaten alive by a murderous wild creature. I am here today to tell you…

The Art Of Weta Workshop: Mad Max, The Hobbit & More

New Zealand’s Weta Workshop is probably most famous for their work on the Lord of the Rings series, but in the years since they’ve also been involved on stuff like Mad Max, District 9 and the upcoming Ghost in the Shell Weta’s design studio is the starting point for much of the company’s work, where…

RIP Gordon Hunt, Uncharted’s Motion Capture Director

Gordon Hunt, director and father of actress Helen Hunt, has died at the age of 87, THR reports. In recent years, he’d been doing a lot of very important video game work on series like Uncharted Hunt, who oversaw voice work on The Smurfs, The Jetsons and Scooby-Doo at Hanna-Barbera before going on to direct episodes…

Track: RAT | Artist: Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs | Album: ゼロコンマ、色とりどりの世界 歌詞 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Civilization VI Gets Big Updates, New Civ

Civilization VI dropped some new stuff today. The first is a “Winter Update” that makes a bunch of tweaks and fixes to the core game. The second are some paid pieces of DLC that introduce new scenarios and the game’s first post-release Civ, Poland, who are led by Jadwiga. You can read about all the…

A Horror Game About Working In An Office

As though the drudgery of ties, bad coffee and TV talk wasn’t horrific enough, here’s Yuppie Psycho, a game about actual horrors taking place in an office. Set in the 90s, the idea isn’t that you have to somehow escape this macabre workplace; you’re employed there and so you get to work, killer photocopiers and…

“All Those Years Of Video Game Reflexes Came In Handy”

Games legend Brian Fargo (Bard’s Tale, Wasteland) was minding his own business eating out today when, uh, someone drove their car straight through the front window. Glad everyone’s OK!

2016’s Good Video Games, In Two Minutes

There were a lot of good video games released in 2016. Here, in just under two minutes, we can see a whole lot of them in one place. Once again this is Malcolm Klock doing what he does best on roundup duties. If you’re worried that your favourite game won’t make the cut, remember, you…

Mummy Trailer Gets Uploaded With Most Of The Sound Missing

If you’ve ever wondered how the dozens of layers of SCORE and EXPLOSIONS and WOMP sounds come together to blast your ears during a movie trailer, try watching one without any of those things actually in the clip. Earlier tonight, IMAXaccidentally uploaded their own version of the December 4 Mummy trailer that was missing several…

Track: 2015 | Artist: Weekend Nachos| Album: Apology Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Best Cosplay Of 2016

There’s been a lot of incredible cosplay over on our dedicated cosplay site throughout 2016, but this is the time of year when we sit down and work out which of it was the best Considering there’s a new post there almost every day, that was a lot of cosplay to go through, but we’re…

Battlefield 1 Gets Around To Adding The French

The decision to leave the French out of Battlefield 1 at launch was always a weird one, considering the country’s enormous contributions to the war, but whatever: they’re now being added as part of the game’s first expansion, called They Shall Not Pass Due out in March, it’ll include new maps based around the Battles…

Merry Christmas, Overwatch Cosplay

As The Year Of Overwatch Cosplay winds down, it’s only fitting that Sombra and Tracer round things out with some festive cheer.