Luke Plunkett

Cosplay Photos Are So 2015, Now We Can Trap Them As 3D Models

3D company Sketchfab were at the New York Comic Con. Instead of taking photos, they were taking full-body scans of cosplayers, which is very cool if any of them ever want to be video game characters or action figures. Here are some more examples (press the play icon to load, then drag your mouse around…

If GTA V (And Trevor Phillips) Were Real

This live-action comedy short by Corridor Digital has a very special co-star: Steven Ogg, the guy who voiced Trevor in Grand Theft Auto V, plays a live-action version of the same character. Warning: NSFW language ahead.

Battlestar Galactica’s Board Game Is For Hating Your Friends

Most of the board games I play with my crew are fairly recent, but on the weekend we dove into our pile of shame and played our first round of Battlestar Galactica. It either went very badly or very well, depending on how much hate and mistrust you like in your board games. First released…

The Best Photos From Kotaku’s Cosplay Party

Last week we held the first ever Kotaku + io9 Cosplay Ball in New York. It was great. Loads of cool people, loads of amazing outfits. Here are some photos to make you wish you were there (unless you were there, in which case, thanks for coming!). If you recognise anyone (or were anyone) in…

Hello There

Chun Lo is an artist based in Florida who has worked for companies like Games Workshop and Fantasy Flight. You can see more of Chun’s art here and 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…

9000 Fans Mourn Pro Gamer In Live Twitch Funeral

Around 9000 fans of Phillip “Phizzurp” Klemenov, a professional Call of Duty player and streamer killed in a car accident last week, have gathered on Twitch to watch his funeral live and pay their respects. Set up on Phizzurp’s own Twitch channel, a camera streamed almost the entire funeral so that friends and fans unable…

I don’t like the direction this series is taking…

Star Citizen’s Singleplayer Campaign Delayed

Star Citizen’s singleplayer campaign module, an experience called Squadron 42, has been officially delayed into…well, the future. The move was announced (via Kotaku UK) on the Citizencon livestream, an event for fans and backers of the ambitious space shooter. No revised release date was given, and given the reasons stated—that many levels for the game…

You can’t stick a Game Boy Color cartridge in a Game Boy. Most of ‘em won’t work. Here are almost 1000 examples of games telling you that

Some Very Cool Art

Klaus Wittman is a concept artist from Poland. This is some of the best stuff we’ve featured on Fine Art in a long time. Space pioneers, Nazi mechs, some very cool Blade Runner, Fallout and Witcher 3 fan pieces, it’s all just the best. You can see more of Wittman’s work at his ArtStation page…

New York Comic-Con’s Cosplay Was Incredible

Whether it was at our party or at the show itself, this year’s Comic-Con had some absolutely fantastic cosplay on show. Here are some of the highlights. I’ve got as many credits as I can for these, but if you see someone (or are someone!) who’s missing let me know and I can add it…

More Beautiful Sci-Fi Art From Simon Stålenhag

Things from the Flood is the second book from Simon Stålenhag, following on from his first, Tales from the Loop. They’re collections of his beautiful artwork, which combines idyllic imagery from a Scandinavian childhood in the 80s and 90s with…aliens and mechs. We’ve featured Simon’s art here before, but the images below are from Things…

Classic Kojima Game Policenauts Now In English (Again)

In 2009, a team of fans released an English translation for cult Hideo Kojima joint Policenauts, which was never officially released in the West. Now, in 2016, fans have released an English language translation for the superior Sega Saturn version of the game. See, the original translation was for the PS1 version, which is fine,…

Fantasy Games Become Cosplay Reality

Eylerwainis a cosplayer from Belarus who has put together fantastic outfits for Dragon Age,  StarCraft and Skyrim

Track: Days Gone | Artist: Tor | Album: Blue Book Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

There’s a lot of Disney cosplay going around, as you’d expect, but Hercules doesn’t get much love. Oh, except from CosplaySymphonyhere, with this amazing Megara. Photo by EosAndy

This may be the first—and last—time you ever see someone cosplaying as a character from PS1 platformer Tomba! Cosplay by Leon Chiro, photo by Alzak

Metro 2033’s Studio Is Releasing A VR Shooter

4A Games, the team behind the Metro series, are working on something similar for VR. It’s called Arktika.1, and it’s “exclusively for Oculus Touch”.

Destiny, A Game About Cosplay…

Fenix Fatalist, by day a cosplayer herself, is also a cosplay photographer, and took (and edited) these shots of an incredible Destiny outfit by Colossus. Costume by FD Cosplay Shop

The Long, Strange History Of Video Games Sponsoring Football Teams

Video games and football have long gone hand-in-hand