Luke Plunkett

Brexit Is Going To Make A Sports Game Awesome

Brexit, a waking political nightmare for the United Kingdom, isn’t all bad news. After all, it’s managed to spice up this year’s version of Football Manager, low-key one of the biggest game series on the planet. As The Telegraph reports, while the actual details of Britain’s exit from the European Union are being worked out,…

Mini Metro, a beautiful little game about building a subway system, is now out on iOS and Android. They’re the perfect platforms for its chill little brand of strategy.

Rough Landing

Markus Luotero is a concept artist and illustrator from Finland. You can see more of Markus’ work at his 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 game artists, showcasing the best of both…

The Studio Behind Sleeping Dogs Has Shut Down

United Front Games, the studio best known for developing Sleeping Dogs, has today closed its doors. And it seems the move was sudden The team were currently working on Smash+Grab, an online “gang warfare” title that only just hit Early Access. It also just had a free weekend on Steam. In 2014, United Front signed…

Empire Strikes Back Costume Melts Hearts Before It Reaches The First Marker

Custom motorcycle artist Clint Case made this Halloween costume for his son. It’s wonderful. Potentially grisly, depending on how many Wampas are left in the wild in the mainland United States, but wonderful nonetheless. Clint, if you can scrounge together the materials for an adult version, that’d be great, thanks. Via Laughing Squid

Why, It’s The Lusty Argonian Maid Herself

Be still, the hearts of Elder Scrolls fans. This is Jenna Lynn Meowrias Elder Scrolls literary starlet The Lusty Argonian Maid. She had some help with the helmet/mask from Del Nero Designs.

Endless Legend’s New Expansion Is Pretty Good

Endless Legend, a very good 4X strategy game for the PC, got a new expansion last week. It’s a good time. The expansion is called Tempest, and like the best expansions for strategy games it doesn’t just add, it changes. OK, yes, it adds—the game has a new faction and a ton of new quests—but…

The Battle Of Hoth As A Work Of Art

Aaron McBride is a senior art director at Industrial Light & Magic, where he’s got to work on movies like Jurassic World, Pirates of the Caribbean, Minority Report and The Avengers He’s also toiling away in his spare time on Tóraidhe, a graphic novel smashing together all kinds of themes and visual styles, and which…

Track: Shaping The Southern Sky | Artist: Kylesa | Album: Exhausting Fire Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Captain America Says: Get Off Your Ass And Vote

Because there are fewer things more American than a man dressed as Captain America urging a disillusioned populace to go place a vote for the candidate they hate the least. This is Sikhtoons’ Vishavjit Singh—who we’ve featured before on the site—using both his political drive and cosplay skills to remind/convince folks attending the New York…

First Look At The Cancelled Metallica Video Game In Action

Reminder: over a decade ago there was a proper Metallica video game in development. It never got very far—all we ever saw was a short trailer and some excellent concept art—but recently some footage of the game in action has been uncovered. PtoPOnline managed to get hold of a very early build of the game…

Look At This Fantastic StarCraft Cosplay

Welcome to the point where video games meet reality. Red Rock Cosplay have set the bar pretty high here, because holy shit this Jim Raynor getup is some of the most incredible cosplay I have ever seen. What you can’t see here without a full-length documentary covering every small detail is how much, well, detail…

Odell Beckham Jr. Rocks Kirby Cleats In NFL Game

Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. was wearing these Nintendo-themed cleats for today’s game against the Ravens. Beckham—who had himself a game—worked with Kickasso, a custom sneaker artist, to come up with the special one-of-a-kind footwear. Sole Collector sayhe chose Kirby because of his colour, so as to coincide with the NFL’s annual breast cancer awareness…

Studio Ghibli’s TV Series Is Coming To Amazon

Famed Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli (Totoro, Spirited Away) has signed a deal with Amazon to stream its kid’s TV series, Ronja the Robber’s Daughter, online in the West (or at least places that can get Amazon Prime). Directed by Hayao Miyazaki’s son Goro, Ronja is an adaptation of a book by Swedish author Astrid…

Get Some New Furniture, Deus Ex

Herve Groussin is a concept artist at Ubisoft who, during a brief stint at Eidos, worked on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided You’ll find two sets of images below: one featuring the Deus Ex art, another some Star Wars reimagined work. We featured some of Herve’s work a few years back, if you want to see…

Political Ads Show Donald Trump As A Bad Overwatch Player

If you’re still having trouble imagining Donald Trump as a bad candidate for President of the United States, maybe a website framing it in terms of him being a bad Overwatch player might help. UPDATE: There’s also an actual giant billboard, in the real world, with the gravest insult of the 2016 election campaign thus…

Tip: You Can Use PlayStation VR As A Monitor For Other Consoles

If you’ve got a shiny new PlayStation VR headset, or are thinking of getting one, here’s a cool little feature Sony didn’t really make a big deal of prior to release: it works as a basic head-mounted monitor on pretty much anything, including rival consoles. It looks like the PSVR will accept pretty much any…

How To Fight Like Jon Snow

Look, let’s just say, hypothetically, that during the long dark winter you get jumped by some magic zombies. And you don’t have a gun. How do you defend yourself? Alan Padziński, a professional instructor and sword performer from Poland, is here to help. Following on from his series of videos where he taught us all…

Damn, This Overwatch Cosplay

The crew at Spiral Cats are some of the best cosplayers on the planet. Especially when it comes to Overwatch Tasha, one of the members of the group, has already cosplayed as Tracerand Mercy. It’s now time for some Genji crossplay That armour is incredible. As is the detail on the accessories like the sword.…

A Blood Red Sunset Over Osaka

Zudarts Lee is an artist from Taiwan. You can see more of Lee’s art hereand here 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 both their professional and personal portfolios.…