Luke Plunkett

Star Wars Reimagined By The World’s Best Concept Artists 

A little while ago, ArtStation ran a competition with Industrial Light & Magic asking some of the world’s best artists to “imagine key moments, new vehicle designs, character and droid designs, and epic battles within the Star Wars universe”. The winners have now been announced, and they are fantastic As you’d expect! The best entries…

The One Star Trek Game Every Star Trek Fan Should Play

On September 8, Star Trek turned 45 years old. Happy Birthday, Star Trek! Even though I hate you and your cheap-ass sets and lame vision of the future and hammy plots and silly aliens and… Originally published 9/9/2011. Ahem. Anyway. THAT SAID, even I can find room to love a Star Trek game. Not like…

The Final Station Never Quite Reaches Its Destination

Perhaps fittingly for a game littered with half-eaten human corpses, The Final Station is a game full of half-finished ideas. A 2D shooter/survival horror experience, The Final Station has you play a train driver on a journey from “regular working day” to “zombie ghost monster apocalypse”. Set in a sci-fi world whose history is hinted…

In Space, No One Can Hear You Relax

Wangjie Li is an artist based in California who has worked in the video game business. You can see more of Li’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 a celebration of the work…

Alan Becker’s Minecraft recreation of Totoro is just fantastic.

Track: Stackt | Artist: Brant Bjork | Album: Tao of The Devil Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Video Game Screenshots As Art (Or Wallpaper)

Andy Cull, a screenshot artist we’ve featured before on Kotaku, has recently put together a gallery containing some of the best shots he’s taken in games over the past couple of years. If you want/need new desktop wallpaper, this is for you. If you’re wondering how he gets some of these shots and effects, like…

League Of Legends’ Free “Art Book” Is Incredible

It’s usually the case that if you’re a fan of a video game and want to check out its concept art, you either look at some images online or you pay a lot of money for a big fancy book. League of Legends is trying to combine the two, releasing what amounts to a big…

50 Cent Cosplays Teen Titans For His Son’s Birthday Party

50 Cent’s son had his fourth birthday party on the weekend, with the theme being Teen Titans. And the kid asked his parents to dress up. So 50, aka Curtis Jackson III, was Cyborg, while his mother, Jackson’s ex Daphne Joy, went as Starfire. Robin and Raven were also in attendance.

Oh Man This Warhammer 40K Cosplay

Nearly every piece of Warhammer 40K cosplay you see is some kind of human character, being all grim and gruff and shouting something about heresy. So it’s nice to see Russia’s Nargashow the Eldar’s Howling Banshees some love instead. She made the whole outfit herself, while the photos are by KIRA. And if you want…

Battlefield 1 vs Team Fortress 2

Hey Tommy Charge, was the intention here with this Battlefield 1 trailer remake to actually make us want a new, bigger Team Fortress game? The same cast, only with tanks and zeppelins? Because that’s all I’m taking away from this. If anyone at Valve is still making new video games, please be making this Here’s…

The trailer for Husqvarna’s advergame Limberjack will almost convince you that the key to a successful house party is cumbersome virtual reality equipment and a Scandinavian chainsaw.

Look At The Size Of This Overwatch Cosplay

Egg Sisters have been absolutely dominating Dragon Con with this Reinhardt, which despite looking like an enormous statue is actually a cosplay outfit that can turn, wave its arms and even walk. To get an idea of the scale of the costume, look at this! Incredible. You can see more of Egg Sisters’ work at…

A Little More Than Meets The Eye

In THE REAL DEAL, Patrick Boivin brings a five year-old boy’s Transformers showdown to life.

What A Piece Of Junk

Von Caberte is an artist from The Philippines who has worked with companies like Wizards of the Coast and Fantasy Flight. You can see more of Von’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…

Blizzard, Why Didn’t You Make Roverwatch?

I mean, I like Overwatch. But this seems like an improvement. Because it’s the same game, just…with cute dogs. Actually, if we’re gonna do this, make it the same game, with everyone except Mercy and Soldier 76 as cute dogs. These are the work of former Naughty Dog artist Lily Nishita. I cannot stop laughing…

Track: Bodies of Christ | Artist: Mariachi El Bronx | Album: Mariachi El Bronx (II) Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Third Edition are running a Kickstarter to help get their very fancy video game books translated from French into English.

The Star Wars Board Games Just Keep Getting Better

Star Wars: Imperial Assault and Star Wars: Armada are two of the biggest and best board games around at the moment. Both have had recent expansions that shake things up, and both of those expansions have been terrific If you’re just joining us, both are games from Fantasy Flight. Imperial Assault is a turn-based tactical…

With its servers, Steam page and website down (and having had trouble paying staff before firing most of them), it looks like this is the end for ambitious online shooter Firefall