Luke Plunkett

Zapp Brannigan’s Voice Actor Reading Stupid Donald Trump Quotes [Updated]

There is nothing funny about the real Donald Trump, a raisin company mascot channelling the spirit of an internet commenter. What is funny is the voice actor behind Futurama’s Zapp Brannigan reading some of Trump’s dumbest quotes in character. UPDATE, SEP 28: Now featuring snippets from the first Presidential debate. ORIGINAL POST, AUGUST 11: Billy…

Tribes Is Dead Again

Tribes Ascend, a 2012 game which in 2015 made a surprising comeback from the dead, is now dead once more, with developers Hi-Rez today issuing the game’s final patch to a community that’s understandably upset, if also accepting of the game’s fate. There’s a sad poetry to the fact I wrote about the game’s update…

Harambe Lives On, In NBA 2K16

Cincinnati doesn’t have a team, so Cleveland it is. Bleacher Report likes to simulate basketball hypotheticals using the NBA 2K series, and while most of them are real and actual things/rumours, others are more fanciful. Like this, in which a dead gorilla/dead meme is used to try and match Golden State’s new superteam.

The first volume of the comic Steve Lichman is very good. There’s now a second volume up on Kickstarter

Enjoy The Worst Overwatch Cosplay

This proud team of budget cosplayers aren’t going to let time and money get in the way of awesome Overwatch cosplay. With the help of ThatGuyYouKnowwwand The Will Box, these guys—wearing recycled cardboard boxes, pieces of paper, tanktops and pieces of old Destiny cosplay—bring Overwatch’s Play of the Game animations to life in a way…

I Love You, Resetti, Nintendo’s Most Helpful Asshole

Of all the weird and wonderful characters in Nintendo’s pantheon of talking animals/plumbers/fungi, I think I like Animal Crossing’s Resetti the best. Even if he is a big ol’ meanie. If you haven’t played the series, Resetti is a mole that you sometimes encounter. Not in your regular daily activities of walking around, fishing and…

A Postcard From Destiny’s Felwinter Peak

Sung Choi is an artist at Bungie working on Destiny He’s also done stuff for companies like Wizards of the Coast. You can see more of Choi’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is…

When Lovecraft Meets Anime

This is a trailer for Force of Will, an anime adaptation of a card game (of the same name) that’ll be out in 2018. An anthology of six short films (think The Animatrix), Shuhei Morita (Possessions) is directing this Cthulu one that the trailer below focuses on, which is pretty neat. Other shorts (also based…

Battle Mistress Cosplay From League Of Legends

This is Miyuki as Sivir from League of Legends Miyuki tells me the costume and props, which are made out of Worbla and foamulator, took 250 hours to put together over the space of two months. You can see more of Miyuki’s cosplay at her Facebook page

Track: Tuyo | Artist: Rodrigo Amarante | Album: Narcos Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

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Waqas Malik is a concept artist from Pakistan who has worked on games like Satellite Reign, as well as on stuff like board games. You can see more of Waqas’ 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…

You Should Read Head Lopper

On October 5, the first volume of a comic called Head Lopper will be released. If you missed its 2015-16 run, and have any interest whatsoever in cool and interesting things, I suggest you check it out. Set in a fantasy world, the comic is about a big ol’ swordsman nicknamed Head Lopper, who carries…

2K and EA have got it all wrong. The future isn’t in simulations of actual basketball games. It’s in games based on basketball players. Like RPGs. Or, as we see here, platformers.

Metal Gear Solid V cosplay by tniwe. Photo by Aku

Undertale Cosplay Is Kind Of Like An HD Remake

Well played NobleCielPhantomhive (Ink) and NobleButlerSebastian (Error). Photo by FilmShooter

FIFA 17 vs PES 2017: Which Is Better?

Welcome to the next generation, FIFA. What took you so long? Most video games, even blockbuster sequels, exist in a kind of isolation. You treat each one like a self-contained entertainment experience. Football/soccer games, though, live in a very different reality than most video games. For one, they’re sports games, which means a new one…

The Last NBA Player From The 16-Bit Era Has Retired

Kevin Garnett’s retirement from the NBA on the weekend was a sad day for Timberwolves fans, but it’s also a big deal for sports video game trivia nerds, because with KG out of the game there is no longer a link between the 16-bit era and the modern NBA. Having jumped straight out of high…

Star Wars Space Battle Has No Chill

Darren Tan is a freelance artist from Singapore who has done a lot of work for board game giants Fantasy Flight, and in particular their Star Wars titles. Below you’ll see some of Tan’s work for the company, from Armada (which is great) to X-Wing (also great) to the new card game Destiny You can…

Bastion Wins Cosplay Of The Game

Rather than cosplay as one of Overwatch’s human characters, Mathozwent for something a bit harder: the big blocky robot thing that also transforms into a gun. I’ve seen Bastion cosplay before, but it often suffers from being weirdly out of proportion, since the original design doesn’t exactly suit itself to the human body. Not here:…

Looks Like Steam’s Store Is Getting An Overhaul

Steam developers were given a heads-up over the weekend that Valve’s online marketplace is about to be getting some much-needed changes to the way it displays games and new content. While the post on Steam itself is private and restricted only to developers, NeoGAF user Nzyme32 has shared its contents on the messageboard, and they…