Luke Plunkett

Fans Remake Classic RTS Games Like Command & Conquer, Red Alert

OpenRA is an open source project that “recreates and modernizes” Westwood’s classic RTS games on the PC by building a new engine for them and making them free to download. Why? A new engine means they can run natively on modern systems, and also means they can run natively at modern resolutions, so you can…

Track: Lowlands Away | Artist: Nils Brown | Album: Assassin’s Creed IV OST Sea Shanty Edition, Vol. 2 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Graffiti Simulator Is Art, Not Crime

Kingspray Graffiti Simulator is a virtual reality experience that lets you paint all over a public space without having to worry about rollerblades or the Japanese police It looks cool! You pick a “stage”, you pick where you’re going to stand, you can choose weather and lighting conditions, then you just…paint. The “flashlight at night…

Cosplayer’s Captain America Shield Loaded With Magnets, Actually Works

The Hacksmith, not content with packing a mere visual replica of Captain America’s shield, went 117 extra miles and made his electromagnetic, which means that it can attach/detach from his arm just like it does in the movies. (Note: he didn’t build the shield itself, that came from Machinaprops). Using a set of lithium-polymer batteries,…

Couple Gets High Score, Wins Real Cow

A couple in Tunisia, who currently hold the highest score in a mobile game about cows, were sent a real cow as a prize last week. The cow’s name is Pamela. In a world where video game publicity stunts usuallyinvolve something dumb/dangerous, it’s nice to see something so…quaint? Practical? I dunno, I’m basing that on…

Do Future Fighter Jets Really Need Camo?

Mark Li is a freelance artist from China. Loving the silhouette on this fighter design. You can see more of Mark’s work at his 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 “expand” button in the top-left…

World Record Carcassone Game Used 10,000 Tiles

Well, this is just ridiculous. A group playing at GothCon in Sweden earlier this year set a world record for the biggest ever game of Carcassone, assembling a board made out of 10,007 tiles. 10,007. The game was put together by Paul from Carcassone Central, and was inspired by a digital mock-up he made showing…

3030 Deathwar Redux looks cool! There’s space combat, adventure gaming, open exploration stuff, a nice soundtrack and some solid pixel art. It’s available now on Early Access

Giant 1920s Mechs: The Video Game

Normally, a concept artist’s job is to work on a game that already exists. In this case, a concept artist’s personal work has proven so popular that it’s inspired its own video game. That artist is Jakub Rozalski. We featured his badass “1920s Polish mechs” works a few years back on Kotaku, and while in…

Rogue One’s LEGO Trailer Is As Good As The Real One

The Star Wars: Rogue One trailer was released on April 7. That’s less than a month ago, and already, a team of fans have gone and made something that actual LEGO game developers Traveller’s Tales would be proud of. The clip was a collaboration between nine of the internet’s best LEGO animators (full list here),…

More Realistic Starfighter Propulsion Designs, Please

Z PZ is an artist based in Shenzen, China. And this is one of the coolest starfighter designs I’ve seen in ages, somehow both “Battlestar Galactica” and “80s anime” at the same time. You can see more of Z PZ’s work at his ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or,…

The Witcher 3’s Big Battle Sounded Like A Nightmare To Make

The Witcher 3 is an incredible video game, one I’m still playing a year after release. One of the main reasons it’s so good is that, for a big open-world game, everything actually comes together and works You take that for granted while playing, but considering the scale of the map, the way combat is…

VR Lets You Wait For A Catbus With Totoro

For the past couple of years, British studio Fire Panda have been working on something that might just sell a few VR headsets to those not currently interested in games: small virtual tours through some of Studio Ghibli’s most famous movies. Via The Daily Dot, they’ve got one for Totoro (the famous bus stop scene),…

Cosplay Photos: There’s More Than Meets The Eye

That’s SKOWALZwith a pretty good Lara Croft, sitting nice and authentic in the jungle and…oh. Photographer Rob Logan shows that it doesn’t matter where the location for a shoot is, so long as it’s framed and cropped properly.

Lock Xbox Controller In Attack Position

To ring in this most special of marketing holidays, End Of Line Designs built this incredible X-Wing pilot-themed Xbox One controller. You can’t buy it—it’s a one-off custom—but don’t let that stop you wondering what it’d be like for Microsoft to put the same effort into custom Elite controllers (oh for that to be a…

State of Anarchy is basically the original GTA games if they’d never made it off a sketch book. It’s $1 on Steam

To Assassin’s Creed…And Beyond!

Assassin’s Creed Art Director Raphael Lacoste, who we’ve featured many times here on Fine Art, has a new book called Worlds, featuring not just personal work and his contributions to Hollywood movies but a lot of the best stuff he’s done on the AC series over the years. Lacoste isn’t an art director, he’s AC’s…

Bloodrayne Cosplay Is Coming For Your Claret

Old games never die. They just fade away…until someone comes back and cosplays as their half-vampire star. That someone in this case isIlona Shvets, from Ukraine, who gives zero fucks that Bloodrayne never made it out of the 00s, paying homage with this killer cosplay shoot (via Cosplay Blog). Photos by Eva

Track: Setsuyakuka | Artist: Tricot | Album: Kabuku Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

That’s No Moon…It’s A Video Game Space Station

Space combat/trading MMO EVE Online has a new expansion called Citadel. Even as someone who doesn’t play the game, I am very impressed by the scale of what’s going on here. I mean…look at the size of those stations. These are things that groups of players in the game can actually build, own and use,…