Luke Plunkett

A Movie Director, Manga Guy And Marvel Writer Try To Make A Movie

Specifically, one in which they can “collaborate on an empowering female protagonist”. It goes about as well as you’d expect.

Dude Spends 4.5 Years Building Fantasy Kingdom In Minecraft

Welcome to the Kingdom of Galekin, one of the most impressive Minecraft creations I’ve seen in a long time. The work of one guy, Linard, it’s a sprawling fantasy world of hiw own creation, complete with multiple cities/settlements. I like that rather than being a recreation of an existing place from a TV show or…

An Excellent 105-Minute Review Of Star Wars: The Force Awakens

So, so many years after his now-famous reviews of the Star Wars prequels, Mr. Plinkett returns with some (well, many) thoughts on The Force Awakens. Among other things.

Massive Overwatch Cosplay Steals Show At TwitchCon

There was a cosplay competition at TwitchCon last week, and it was won by this enormous Reinhardt getup that just gets better the closer you look. I mean, yes, it’s huge! Impressive scale. But there’s so much more to it. It moves, for one, as you can see when Chad from Hoku Props goes to…

Track: Rings | Artist: Tycho | Album: Epoch Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Pro Gamer Phillip “Phizzurp” Klemenov Killed In Car Crash

Phillip “Phizzurp” Klemenov, a professional Call of Duty player and streamer, has died in a car accident in Colorado. He was 23 years old. The crash occurred early Sunday morning as he was returning home from dinner with his girlfriend Adrianna Lemuss and another friend. He had only been streaming hours earlier A local CBS…

Margaery Tyrell, Is That You?

This is Russian cosplayer Xenia Shelkovskaya, doing one hell of an impersonation of English actress Natalie Dormer/Westeros Deal Wheeler Margaery Tyrell. Just goes to show that while a costume certainly helps, any cosplayer looking to get really authentic can get as much from a wry smile and a turn of the head as a 1:1…

Track: Bring Da Ruckus | Artist: Wu-Tang Clan | Album: Enter the 36 Chambers Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Art Of Total War: Warhammer

It’s always a pleasure when I get to showcase the work of an entire team on Fine Art, and doubly so whenit’s a game that I really, really like Total War: Warhammer may have been a game based on someone else’s property, but that didn’t mean the artists working on it had any less work…

Oh hey, it’s the Super Mario Kart development team in 1992. Lookin’ sharp, Mr. Very Young Tie Clip-Wearing Shigeru Miyamoto. Via Ninty Memories

Business Fish Is Here For Cosplay Pleasure

Here is a video of Business Fish, still the #1 sticker pack on Facebook, heading down to DragonCon and doing his thing. Which, being a social networking sticker, is mostly just REACTING to everything happening around him. We actually featured a photoshoot of Rundaria’s costume last year, but the vid below is way better.

Breakaway is a new game from Amazon that has been built from the ground-up to support Twitch (which, remember, Amazon owns) viewers and broadcasters. They call it a “4v4 mythological sport brawler”.

Track: Arise | Artist: GosT | Album: Non Paradisi Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Japan Gets Its Own Mini-NES, The Mini-Famicom

America is getting the Mini-NES. Japan, naturally, will be getting a Mini-Famicom to match. It’s the same basic deal, bundling 30 classic games into a small system (which you can’t swap out or add to, they’re pre-loaded) that you plug into the TV via HDMI, only here obviously it’s a slightly different roster of titles,…

Fan Creates Terrific Intro For Indiana Jones Cartoon Series

Indiana Jones superfan Patrick Schoenmaker has, for the last five years, been working on this animated sequence which imagines the intro to an Indy cartoon series that never actually existed. Similar to Paul “OtaKing” Johnson’s Tie Fighter clip, then, only with a more Western style. And more Nazis. Love the Fate of Atlantis stuff in…

Disneyland Has A Pokémon Go Problem

A reader’s girlfriend works at Disneyland, and sends word that it looks like management is having some trouble with staff playing Pokémon Go on the sly. She sent him this shot from behind the scenes at the park, where the bosses have had to put up a sign barring “cast members” from playing the game…

NBA 2K17 MyCareer: The Kotaku Review

NBA 2K16’s ambitious attempt last year to get Spike Lee to run its centrepiece MyCareer mode (basically a giant singleplayer sports RPG) was a bit of a disaster. This year, it’s back to the drawing board. Note: As we’ve done the last few years, this is only a review of 2K17’s MyCareer mode, not the…

Japan In The 1980s

Arseniy Chebynkin is a freelance artist from Russia. If you’re wondering what the street/bedroom art in this post is for,it’s for an upcoming game set in 80s Japan You can see more of Chebynkin’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left…

Gundam x Pokémon, The Sequel

Reader Khris, who earlier this year modified some Gundam models to look like mechanised Pokémon, is back with three more. These are based on the legendary birds Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres. You can see more of Khris’ model work at his Facebook page

One of the off-court activities you can take part in while playing NBA 2K17 is…attending a comic con. Complete with cosplayers. Unexpected, but awesome.