Luke Plunkett

Blame!, My Favorite Manga, Is Getting A Movie

Blame!, the story of a guy with a fancy gun wandering the wastes of a dystopian sci-fi future, is my favourite manga of all time. So it’s exciting to see Tsutomu Nihei’s tale finally get the movie treatment it’s long deserved. Having been teased as a TV commercial inside the world of the anime adaptationof…

Remember, Classic Box Art Was Marvellous

Fine Art is normally in the business of covering current video game artists, but today we’re going to wind back the clock and look at some stuff from one of the greats from the 80s and 90s. Tom Dubois did a lot of work for Konami in the earlier days of home console gaming. As…

Track: IT’S TIME TO GO!| Artist: Dj CUTMAN and CG5 | Album: N/A Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Chrono Trigger Cosplay!

What’s this? Chrono Trigger cosplay? Oh, what a lovely day. This Lucca Ashtear outfit is by Jelfish, and took more work than you might think. Being cosplay based on classic Square character art (with the in-game character being just a few pixels), Lucca’s design was all over the place; the helmet, for example, had to…

Madden’s Greatest Highlight Player Retired From The NFL Today

In 2010, a guy by the name of Demetry James uploaded a video he made while he and some buddies were playing Madden. It went on to become the most famous highlight clip that video game series has ever seen. The clip featured a heroic effort by Green Bay receiver Greg Jennings, who went 99…

VR painting in 3D—like this image of WoW’s Illidan Stormrage—is black magic, and no amount of demos or explanations will convince me otherwise.

A reminder that in the real world deodorant is not an effective means of combating sexual assault

FGC Raw is a new documentary series focusing on “the top players in the fighting game community”. First up is Long Island Joe, who made one hell of a run at this year’s EVO.

Get Pokémon Go Alerts On Your Phone So You Can Walk Around Like A Human Being

I own a smartwatch. It’s…somewhere around here, gathering dust, because it’s useless when I’ve already got my phone in my pocket. That said, if anything in July 2016 is going to convince me to try using it again, it’s Pokémon Go There’s an app on the Play Store called PokeDetector, which pairs an Android Wear…

The One True Airplane God

Chander Lieve is a concept artist who has most recently worked on Guerilla’s Horizon Zero Dawn You can see more of Chander’s 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 a celebration of the work of video game…

Please Do Not Catch Pokémon At Beyonce & Rihanna Concerts

Hey, you, the person paying a lotta money to go see Rihanna and Beyonce in person. Maybe put the phone away for a minute. Those Pokémon aren’t worth it. Vulture reports on two horrible/fantastic clips over the weekend from two concerts, one by Rihanna, one by Beyonce. First, Rihanna, who has some sound advice for…

Bringing The Legend Of Zelda To Life Through Cosplay

Layze Michelle is a Brazilian cosplayer and big Zelda fan who has made a habit of creating some incredible cosplay based on Nintendo’s series. Not only has she cosplayed as several iterations of Princess Zelda herself, but also—be still my heart—the real star of Wind Waker, Medli the Rito. You can see more of Layze’s…

The Witcher 3 As A First-Person Game

Forget workarounds using a horse, here’s a proper mod that lets you play The Witcher 3 (well, most of it, at least) in first-person. skacikpl’s mod (which is still a work in progress) is fairly easy to get running, and once enabled lets you walk and run your way around the countryside in full first-person…

Sick Of Pokémon Go Disturbances, Local Government Asks Game To Remove Pokestops

Remember the Sydney suburb of Rhodes, where a combination of high population density and sweet Pokestop placement has resulted in cops being called and eggs being thrown? Yeah, things have not improved. The City of Canada Bay Council have contacted Niantic, developers of Pokémon Go, and asked that two of the three Pokéstops causing all…

Do We Have To Do This Here?

Edward Delandre is a concept artist from Lyon, France. You can see more of Edward’s 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 a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their…

Track: Howl | Artist: Rival Consoles | Album: Howl Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Nvidia’s New $1200 GPU Is Just Silly

Didn’t Nvidia just release the GTX 1080? Not sure why they felt the need to go topping it already, but hey, they just did. This is the Nvidia Titan X. Here are the specs: · 12-billion transistors · 11 TFLOPs FP32 (32-bit floating point) · 44 TOPS INT8 (new deep learning inferencing instruction) · 3,584…

After one hell of a wait, Pokémon Go is finally out in Japan on Android and iOS. Let’s hope everyone remembers those safety warnings

Reporter Busted Playing Pokémon Go During State Department Briefing

US State Department spokesman John Kirby was trying to talk to the press earlier today about the efforts to combat ISIS, but one reporter had more important things to do. CNN reportsthat the unidentified culprit was busted by Kirby mid-talk, interrupting his terrorism briefing to say “You’re playing the Pokemon thing right there, aren’t you.”…

Oh, This Is Some Excellent Cosplay

Andreas Krupa, aka eosAndy, is a cosplay photographer from Germany. His work is fantastic Not that the cosplay here isn’t incredible by itself! Some of the world’s best, like Maul, are pictured here doing their thing in costumes that look like they walked right out of a video game. It’s just that on top of…