Luke Plunkett

100 Turns With Endless Space 2, A Game About Problems In Space

I reviewed the original Endless Space back in 2012, and found it a pretty snappy little 4X game, albeit one with a distinct lack of personality. From what I’ve played so far of Endless Space 2, we won’t be suffering through that again. Four years ago, developers Amplitude were virtual unknowns. Today, they’re a big-time…

Sounds Like Naughty Dog’s Uncharted Crunch Was Brutal

Crunch, or the process of video game developers working very long hours for a very long time, is a big problem. I mean, look at your job: can you imagine working 80 hours a week, every week, for over ten years? Because that’s what former Uncharted writer and director Amy Hennig did. In an interview…

Cloudy, With A Chance Of Doom

Jason Martin is an artist at id Software, where he most recently worked on the Doom reboot. We’ve actually featured Martin’s stuff before, but the last time was in 2012, so it’s well and truly time for a refresher, especially with all the Doom stuff to look at. You can see more of Martin’s work…

Gravity Rush 2 has been delayed to January 18. As a “sorry everyone”, some story DLC that was going to be paid is now going to be released for free. (UPDATE – 7:27am: The original date we reported is for Europe; the game is delayed for the U.S. and U.K. until January 20)

You Need To Get Out More, My Man

Luca Nemolato is a concept artist from Italy who hasn’t just worked in video games, but also on Hollywood movies like the new Independence Day, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Jupiter Ascending (see above) and The Hunger Games You can see more of Luca’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To…

Norway’s Prime Minister Busted Playing Pokémon Go In Parliament

Governing isn’t all big speeches and campaign trails. There’s a lot of boring humdrum as well, something Norway’s Prime Minister has an effective solution for. Erna Solberg, the leader of Norway’s conservative party and Prime Minister of the country, was snapped by The Guardian on Tuesday playing Pokémon Go while in parliament. As they point…

Overwatch’s Hanzo, As A Lady

Some very cool crossplay here by Rinrin from China. Note that the tattoo isn’t real, it’s just drawn/painted on to match the design of Hanzo’s from the game. You can see more of Rinrin’s cosplay at her Weibo page. Photos by Flow Vision

There’s A Narcos Game, But It Sucks

Imagine my delight when I saw that there was an official game based on Netflix’s excellent Narcos! Then imagine my despair when I played it and found out it wasn’t just terrible, but it had almost nothing to do with Narcos The television series is about the hunt for Pablo Escobar, told from both the…

Ain’t No Party Like A Smash Bros. Party

Since Smash Bros.’ roster is drawn from other games, you might have thought it was impossible to cosplay as something genuinely, 100% Smash Bros. But that would be overlooking the humble Party Ball toddallthetime made this for GaymerX, and it is just too perfect.

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Here’s AlyCat Cosplay showing Hotel Transylvania’s Mavis some love. Pics by Chiseled Light Photography

A Cosplay Wedding Proposal

Kona Cosplay was doing her thing at DragonCon the other week, filming this nice video with AKIOBOY, when she was suddenly interrupted. By her boyfriend. Cosplaying as himself, he dropped to one knee and proposed right there, to a woman dressed as Nidalee from League of Legends Kona said yes. Congratulations guys! If you want…

Look At This Cute Lil’ 2DS

As Nintendo prepares to relaunch the 2DS in Japan in five colours, it’s also getting ready to launch special limited editions of the handheld. Like this very kid-friendly Pokémon unit. It’ll be out on December 8

May God Have Mercy On Beyond Good & Evil 2

Beyond Good & Evil 2 was first announced in May 2008. That was over eight years ago. Now, today, in October 2016, series creator Michel Ancel says the game is “in pre-production”. OK. We posted last year about how things were looking grim for the sequel to the 2003 cult classic, with rumours of the…

How Can Love Be Wrong If It Feels So Right?

Some cosplayers just want to see the world burn. Leia is Galacticat, Riker is her boyfriend. Photo by Alexandra Lee Studios

Kerbal Space Program Is Done [Update]

Kerbal Space Program has been massively popular over the years because it’s a smart/funny game, of course, but it’s also remained on people’s radars thanks to the tireless development and update work of the team behind it. Work that’s now coming to a close. UPDATE: Seems not! While most of the original developers are moving…

Pew Pew Pew

André Mealha is an art director at Crush, a visual development studio that has worked on projects like Pacific Rim and Godzilla, and with games companies like EA, Bethesda, Square Enix and Microsoft. You can see more of André’s art at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the…

Track: Feather Beader | Artist: Långfinger | Album: Crossyears Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

They just don’t make complex naval warfare simulations like they used to. Which might be why Cold Waters, a spiritual successor to one of Sid Meier’s earlier games Red Storm Rising, is currently in development

When Disney Meets Pokémon

Krista Staggs is an artist who hasn’t just done a ton of video game work, but has also done childrens books and stuff for Disney theme parks as well. You can see more of Krista’s work at her personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the…

Pro skater and internet guy Steve Berra has had enough of EA not making any more games in the excellent Skate series. So he’s mobilising. This is a campaign I could get behind.