Luke Plunkett

Overwatch Replaces Butt Pose With Strut Pose

Having decided to alter a victory pose in Overwatch following fan feedback, Blizzard have seemingly gone ahead and implemented the change. Users are reporting there’s a new pose in the game replacing it, and here’s what it looks like. For reference, here’s the old one: Via SteveO409 @ NeoGAF, here’s the new pose: Now that…

Cosplaying Finn & Rey Are A Perfect Star Wars Family

The Real Finn and Rey are a cosplay duo from Utah, who…well, the name kinda says it all. They’re an actual couple (currently engaged, getting married in May), and that kid in the BB-8 suit isn’t a random baby stolen for cutness purposes, it’s theirs. All photos here—and yes, they were taken in a real…

Poe Dameron Intensifies

Leo Camacho, that’s one hell of a pilot. Photos by York in a Box. They were taken at WonderCon last month.

Sinmara Saga is an animated short directed and animated by Jason Hendrich. It’s basically all the bullshit experiences you had with a JRPG as a kid, only blown up with 2016’s visuals.

The Kick-Ass Space Art Of Dead Star

PS4 and PC game Dead Staris a neat little shooter. It also has some of the sexiest concept art for an indie game I’ve seen in a long, long time. Guys, posters, please Below you’ll find a ton of art from the game, from promo shots to ship designs. They’re the work of a whole…

Congressman’s Card Spends $1300 Of Campaign Money On Steam Games

Congressman Duncan Hunter is being questioned by the Federal Election Commission after it was discovered his credit card used “campaign funds to pay for video games on 68 separate occasions.” As the San Diego Union-Tribune report, Hunter’s campaign credit card spent $1302 on “Steam Games” last year, noting that they were a “personal expense” that…

Ashes Of The Singularity Is A Very Old-Timey RTS

Ashes of the Singularity, a new sci-fi RTS, was released last week. Long famous for being a benchmark for DX12, I’ve been playing the actual game for a few days now, and have thoughts. Pitched as a return to a type of slow, expansive experience we haven’t seen much of since the Supreme Commander days…

Your Best (And Worst) Video Game Stories

Some of our most memorable times with video games have little to do with the game itself, and everything to do with who we were, who we were with and what we were doing at the time. Here are some Kotaku reader’s tales of triumph, despair, friendships lost, puking, battles with cancer, broken saves… For…

$5000 Console Is Covered In 24k Gold

The very fancy Analogue NT, a replica NES for wealthy adults, is expensive enough at the best of times. Never mind when it literally ships covered in gold The makers of the console have decided to build ten of the already-expensive consoles plated in 24k gold. Each of these are be priced at $4999. As…

You don’t need to know much about the game to be completely hypnotised by this motion chart tracking the world’s top chess players.

Captain America: Civil War? More Like Battle Royale.

Stuart Ng is an artist who has worked on games like Sleeping Dogs and Disney Infinity’s new Marvel Battlegrounds expansion. You can see more of Stuart’s work at his personal site 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…

Years Later, Fans Are Still Trying To Fix Aliens: Colonial Marines

To recap: Colonial Marines was shit. But where Gearbox and friends failed, a very dedicated fan is still plugging away trying to make things right. TemplarGFX is working on something called ACM Overhaul, which seeks to, well, overhaul much of the game’s content and either replace it or make it work better. That means new…

Cosplay Photographers Are Tired Of People Stealing Their Work

Judging by how often you see them in the course of a day, cosplay photos must be some of the most valuable items on the internet. It’s a shame, then, that the people actually responsible for them get so little credit (or reward) for taking and starring in them. Whether it’s Twitter accounts posting “Sexy…

ADR1FT: The Kotaku Review

We’re left with a game that’s much like its setting: beautiful, but short on oxygen

FilmCraft made this video of some of the cosplayers at OZ Comic Con, which went down in Perth on April 2-3.

Snatcher Cosplay! 

Hideo Kojima’s Snatcher is great. As is this homage to it from Japanese cosplay superstar Omi Gibson. You can see more pics like this on Omi’s website

Track: Clarity | Artist: Hammock | Album: Everything and Nothing Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

When You’re A Regular Guy, But You Can Also Fight Like A Witcher

This is Alan Padziński. Actual human being, but also master of the various sword styles of The Witcher universe. We’ve seen Alan’s work before, but I thought this new clip was also worth sharing, if only for the comparison montage there at the end.

Jon Snow, Lord Commander Of The Night’s Watch Mechanized Scout Division

Jean-Sébastien Rolhion is a veteran concept artist working in the video game business, who has helped out on games like Ryse and the Crysis series. You can see more of Rolhion’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you…

Perfect One Punch Cosplay

Saitamo is Isho, Genos is Zephyrphoenix. Photos by The Will Box