Luke Plunkett

Rooster Teeth Launches Card Game Kickstarter, Hits Goal In Two Minutes

The comedy team at Rooster Teeth have decided to make a card game based on their Million Dollars, But… series of web videos. It’s current Kickstartersuggests it’s going to make a lot more than that. Million Dollars, But… was looking for $10,000 in funding. It hit that in just two minutes, and only a few…

Here’s The First Assassin’s Creed Movie Trailer

There have been good video game movies, but a great one? Michael Fassbender x Assassin’s Creed are going to take a swing at it. The Spain stuff looks very Assassin’s Creed. That Animus? Less so. The movie’s out in December.

Senpai Studios have released the secondof their cosplayer showcase documentaries, this time focusing on Maiden Mallory. It’s a great look into what a cosplayer does behind the scenes, everything from inspiration to preparation.

Big Games Can Take A LONG Time To Get Made

While we get little snippets here and there, for most outsiders, our knowledge of how a video game is actually made is fairly limited. Especially when it comes to how long it takes to make one. I was flicking through the Killzone art book over the weekend, and came across a timeline of the series’…

Giant Animals Fighting Is Always A Good Look For A Video Game

It’s coming up on two years since Gigantic—a very colourful arena battle game—was announced for PC and Xbox One. It’s got two things going for it: it looks amazing, and instead of just fighting in lanes towards a base, your base is a giant animal that fights alongside you. Earlier this year the game’s developers…

Bootleg Toy Company Makes Damn Good Celebrity Likenesses

Virtual Toys, aka VTS, does not have the license to be making toys based on Mad Max, but their “Wasteland Ranger” figure sure looks like Tom Hardy. They’ve also made bootleg toys based on everything from The Division (“Darkzone Agent”) to Dredd (“Epoch Cop”). See also: their “Agent Hunter” bears a damn fine likeness to…

There’s A Sim Game Just About YouTubers

Youtubers Lifeis just like The Sims. If The Sims could sit in front of a computer and record themselves playing video games for a living. Coming soon for the PC, it’s a full-blown life sim, in that you can leave the house, meet people, get married, etc. But the key appeal is right there in…

She Sits, Resplendent On Her Throne

Mark Van Haitsma is a veteran concept artist who has worked on games like Mass Effect 2 and Doom 4. He is currently at Bungie, where he’s worked on Destiny Which means, yes, I’ve added some of his stuff to the biggest art post we’ve ever run here on Fine Art You can see more…

Look At These Beautiful Nintendo Cartridges

It’s May, which means it’s time for the annual Famicase exhibition, a showcase put on by Japanese game store Meteor that asks artists from around the world to design beautiful cartridges for fake video games. Which end up looking good enough for us to want them to be real video games. Here’s last year’s highlights,…

Track: Oh Shit | Artist: Pharcyde | Album: Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Fro Design Company have released a second series of old-timey travel posters based on Street Fighter II stages. They’re great!

The King (Well…) Of WarCraft Cosplay

Quite literally, since this is King Llane as he appears in the WarCraft movie. Cosplay by LadyAngelus (which technically makes this the Queen of WarCraft cosplay), photo by vaxzone

My Ride Through Kingdom Come, The Medieval RPG With No Magic Bullshit

I’ve been following Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s development from the very beginning, what with it promising to be a bunch of things I dig (open world, RPG, weird FPS melee and history) all in the one package. I played through the rather barebones Alpha build of the game early last year, but in the time since…

Canada’s Official Twitter Account Has A Pokémon Question

The official Twitter account of the nation of Canada, like most of us this week, has Pokémon questions. Only its question is not about Sun and Moon’s starters, but about Canada itself. Weird question, since there are no moose or hockey-based Pocket Monsters. But there are still good answers. The best, and most obvious, being…

WW2 Submarine Game Is Basically An Underwater Fallout Shelter

UBOOT is a Second World War game set on a German submarine. Thing is, you’re not controlling the boat. You’re controlling the men who control the boat. Inspired by games like Fallout Shelter, UBOOT is a game where “You look after their physical and mental health, because if the sailors are hungry, tired and their…

The Lady In Red

Eugene Fokin is a character artist who used to work at Eidos (on Deus Ex), but who is now at Ubisoft. You can see more of Eugene’s work athis ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the…

Meet The Cosplay Repairman

Say you’re at a cosplay convention. You’re walking around the con floor, strutting your stuff, and suddenly…your armour breaks. Or your shoe splits. Or your gauntlet falls off. Who you gonna call? This guy. Jacob LaRocca from Rocket Props has been cosplaying (and building stuff for others) for a few years now. But lately, he’s…

HBO Accused Of Trying To Censor Game Of Thrones Spoilers

HBO has been going after Game of Thrones pirates for years now, but this week things took a turn for the weird when the creator of a popular series of YouTube videos—claiming to air spoilers for the show before it airs—was hit with copyright takedown notices. Frikidoctor, who (via TorrentFreak) claims to have inside sources…

Stellaris: The Kotaku Review

Stellaris is a space opera, played out in three acts. It’s the latest game from Paradox’s internal development studio, the guys who brought us grand/complicated/alienating strategy games like Crusader Kings II and Europa Universalis IV. I liked the latter and adore the former, so there was a lot for me to look forward to here!…

Uh, Nice Job, Rey

Krzysztof Maziarz is an artist from Poland currently working in the games business. I’m digging the variety of styles here…a lot of game artists can only play a few notes (albeit very well), but Krzysztof’s portfolio shows a real wide range of work. You can see more of Krzysztof’s work at his Instagramand ArtStation pages…