Luke Plunkett

Pokémon Go Player Crashes Into Cop Car, Captured On Camera

Don’t Pokémon Go and drive. You’ll do something stupid. Like crash into a police car. The Baltimore Police Department posted this video earlier today, showing a guy—who instantly told the cops he had his eyes down playing Pokémon Go—driving straight into a parked police car. Everyone was OK, and the cops seemed awfully nice about…

ArmA 3 Apex Is DIY Jungle Warfare

I’ve always felt like the ArmA games have been one good overhaul from being true world-beaters. Let me explain. The ArmA games are, from a neutral perspective, hard as fuck. You need to memorise a ton of keyboard shortcuts, controls can be clunky, presentation is terrible and gameplay is utterly unforgiving. If you walk into…

Some More Practical Pokémon Go Warning Screens

OK, we get it, we won’t walk off a bridge into a Gyarados’ mouth. Given the repetitive nature of that single screen and its message maybe it’s time to freshen those Pokémon Go warnings up a little with some more specific advice. These ideas for replacement boot screens are by Polish artist Magdalena Proszowska, who…

A Different Kind Of Sexy Metal Gear Cosplay

Real talk: Metal Gear Solid V’s Quiet is a very sexy video game character, one (reportedly) designed specifically to encourage cosplay. Well, ask and ye shall receive, Mr. Kojima. Most of the Quiet cosplay we’ve seen over the past couple of years has been pretty straight-up. So well played, Patrick Kennedy, for switching things up…

Who Needs Michael Fassbender When You’ve Got Cosplay

The movie isn’t even out yet, but that’s not stopping master Assassin’s Creed cosplayer Rick Boer from taking a swing at Aguilar’s (aka Michael Fassbender) outfit. Interestingly, he says that while the overall design is very similar to Altair’s original robes from the games, the film’s costume is a lot more detailed (beads, little flourishes,…

Xavier Woods Is A Level 21 Pokémon Go Trainer

Wrestling may be scripted entertainment, but Xavier Woods’ Pokémon Go chat here is coming from a very real place. For anyone saying “well this is wrestling is this REALLY REAL?”, he then tweeted this:

Track: Hourglass | Artist: S U R V I V E | Album: S U R V I V E Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Earlier this morning, Atlus showed off 18 minutes of Persona 5 gameplay. 18 minutes! You can watch it here. Note that this was a Japanese livestream of the Japanese version, so…enjoy the visuals. (Thanks Giuseppe’s Gaming!)

Pokédex Battery Case Is The Most Authentic Way To Play Pokémon Go

Of all the ways I’ve seen to try and combat Pokémon Go’s battery drain, this is easily the best. It’s a custom, 3D-printed Pokédex case that has blinking lights, holds a phone (in this case, a Galaxy S4) and, most important of all, is also packing a 2,600 mAh battery, which depending on your other…

The Slow Disappearance Of The Video Game Manual

Collector F. M. da Costa has an amazing Flickr page where he opens up his games, showing everything that came in the box. It’s very pretty just to look at, but it’s also a timelapse, showing the slow and steady decline in the number of pieces of paper that shipped alongside a video game. This…

Kick Ass, Take Names, Lose An Arm

Richard Lyons is a concept artist at Naughty Dog, developers of The Last Of Us and the Uncharted series. We actually featured some of Lyons’ work on UC4 in our big round-up of the game’s concept art, but you can see more of his stuff below and at his ArtStation page To see the images…

Infiltration Takes Out EVO’s First Ever Street Fighter V Tournament

Well, that’s EVO 2016 in the books. Infiltrationjust took out the biggest (and final) event, the tournament’s first ever Street Fighter V showdown. He was the last fighter standing from a field of 5000 entrants. Here’s a cool video from DopeDojo, who was in the crowd, showing the moment he took the title over his…

All These Witcher 3 Monsters Are By The Same Cosplayer

Elena Samko, specialist in gross creature cosplay (who we’ve featured a few times before), has done a ton of Witcher 3 stuff recently, dressing up as all kinds of monsters and enemies from the game. Look at all this stuff! Spoon-collecting Wights, Noonwraiths, a Botchling, Skellige Succubi, the Dark Souls-y Caretaker from Heart of Stone,…

Hungrybox Wins EVO 2016’s Smash Tournament

Juan “Hungrybox” Debiedma has finally taken out top prize at EVO, winning 2016’s Smash tournament after beating Sweden’s Adam “Armada” Lindgren in the Grand Final. (Clip via The Score) Hungrybox, a killer Jigglypuff player, has often fallen short at EVO, coming 3rd, 2nd and 2nd in the past three years. In an interview with PVPLIVE…

Here Comes The Pokémon Go Cosplay

Pokémon Go’s roster of pocket monsters is old. Its trainer outfits, however, are brand new, and cosplayers have started bringing them (especially, their own trainer’s choices) to life. Here are two of the better efforts we’ve seen so far, from Ginny D and Lyz Brickley. The girls get such better outfits. Meanwhile, my trainer is…

The Great Fallout 4 Rube Goldberg Machine

Using Fallout 4’s Contraption Workshop DLC, UpIsNotJump has gone and made about the most Rube Goldbergy machine imaginable within the confines of the game’s engine. Sticking with the Boston theme and kicking off with a Family Guy gag, the machine uses cannonballs, slides, lights, teddy bears and nuclear weapons to…well, to come back around to…

Man Threatens Pokémon Go Players, Arrested For “Terroristic Threat”

Nathan Cerda, from Palmview, Texas, thought it’d be funny to threaten Pokémon Go players in his town with a “purge”. He is not laughing now. Cerda made the following post to his Facebook page last week, in which he says he’s going to take some “modified paintball guns” out with some friends: The post was…

Overwatch As Fine Art

Miguel Mercado is an artist from The Philippines whose Overwatch images aren’t made for memes. They’re made for framing and display. Most of these were made as a fan (indeed, we featured one of them a while back), but his latest Ana portrait was a request from Blizzard. You can see more of Miguel’s work…

Pokémon Go’s European rollout continues, with the game now available for users in Italy, Spain & Portugal.

Satellite Reign, a very good video game (especially if you like Syndicate) just got even better with the addition of co-op for the game’s campaign. It’s a free update, and it works both online and via LAN.