Luke Plunkett

A Party Isn’t A Party Without The Witcher 3’s Shani

Just when you thought a major character of the Witcher 3 saga had gone uncosplayed, along comes Lyumos to bring the wonderful Shani to life

Persona 3’s Elizabeth, by Riddle

Gametrailers Staff Return With New Site

In February,the long-running video game site Gametrailers was shut down. A month later, the staff have regrouped and launched a new team called Easy Allies They’ve hit the ground running, with a Twitch site, YouTube page, Twitterand—most importantly for their continued operation—a Patreon account Things will start out slowly, with plans for a weekly podcast…

Modded Deer Is Running Buck Wild In GTA V

Welcome to San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam, where viewers can watch a very special deer wander the wilds (and streets) of Los Santos. Frolicking along the sidewalk, stopping traffic, getting shot up by the cops, he does it all. The deer is actually running on a slightly modified version of GTA V, which replaces the…

Picturing A New Tomb Raider Movie

We’ve got a new Tomb Raider game series, why not a new Tomb Raider movie series? That’s the question the team behind this fan-made, live-action trailer are basically asking. The video was made by a studio called Freakin Rad; we’ve featured them before, for their awesome Halo vs Destiny clip last year

(Maybe) Your First Look At Pokémon Go

John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon Go developers Niantic, gave a talk at SXSW Gaming over the weekend on the future of AR (Augmented Reality) games. Shortly afterwards, this video showed up. Of course, with no official video of the talk available (or a transcript), we can’t be 100% sure that this is something actually shown…

Read Diablo’s Original Pitch Document

This is how history was made. David Brevik was one of the co-founders of Blizzard North. He was there are the very beginning of the Diablo series, and as part of a GDC talk he made last week has uploaded a copy of the classic game’s original pitch document. It’s not long (at least by…

Track: Evil Twin | Artist: Anthrax | Album: For All Kings Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

XCOM 2’s DLC Goes Full Borderlands

Given the tone of the game, when I played through XCOM 2 I customised my soldiers with “grim realism” in mind. Those who prefer to get a little silly with their cannon fodder, though, might enjoy the game’s new Anarchy’s Children DLC, which introduces new customisation options for your troops. As you might have guessed…

British Game Developer Says He Was Denied US Entry Over Iraq Visit [Update]

Indie developer Malath Abbas should be settling in for this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Instead, he’s stuck at Vancouver airport, after U.S. Customs and Border Protection blocked his entry into the country [Update: he’s since been allowed in]. Abbas, who holds a British passport, tells Kotaku that prior to leaving the UK…

Nice New Controllers, Microsoft

Microsoft has been on a roll lately with its special edition Xbox One controllers. The Elite is almost perfect, the Lunar White is gorgeous…and now there are these guys. They’re called Dusk Shadow (the blue one) and Copper Shadow (the…copper one). They’re regular controllers at a regular price, just with that nice gradient effect down…

The Art Of Shin Megami Tensei IV

Even though I love Persona, I’d never played the core Shin Megami Tensei series before 2013’s IV. That gorgeous art pushed me over the edge, though, so it’s a pleasure to be able to showcase some of it here on Fine Art tonight. The pieces here are all from Udon’s Shin Megami Tensei IV art…

Fallout 4’s Impression Of The Captain America: Civil War Trailer

Iron Man? Check. Captain America? Check. Spider-Man? Yup, he’s there too. Made by UpIsNotJump, it’s not a perfect recreation; the environments and outfits are cobbled together from those already found in Fallout 4, not brand new assets that exactly match those in the movie, but then, that just adds to the post-apocalyptic scavenger charm of…

Destiny’s April update, whichincludes a bunch of new stuff, will drop on April 12, Bungie just announced

A Beautiful, Animated Tribute To Satoru Iwata

There are lots of awards and drinks and congratulations going on at the Game Developers Choice Awards tonight, but proceedings were stopped dead in their tracks for a few minutes during a most touching tribute tolate Nintendo President Satoru Iwata It was made by Raber Umphenour,Shawne Benson and Braid artist David Hellman, with some help…

Capy Games’ Below, which has been a long time coming, now has a release window: this summer. Here’s a new trailer.

Watch The 2016 IGF/GDC Awards Right Here

Tonight at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, both the IGF (Independent Games Festival) and Game Developers Choice Awards are being held. If you want to watch them live, you can do that right here.

Now That Is Some Sensible Armor

Yangtian Li, aka Tian, is an artist from China. In addition to games stuff, Li also has an IndieGoGo running at the moment that’s all about ladies wearing armour. Proper armour. You can see more of Li’s work at her personal site and DeviantArt page. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or,…

At Least Marco Rubio Is Good At Tecmo Bowl (And Talking Shit)

While Marco Rubio was a consistent loser on the 2016 campaign trail, he can hold his head high remembering that there are two things on this Earth that he’s apparently very good at: Tecmo Bowl and talking trash A profile on Salon, focusing on Rubio’s time as a football player at Tarkio College, reveals that…

Successful Kickstarter Ends In Payment Disaster [Update]

A Place for the Unwilling is an adventure game that passed its Kickstarter funding goal earlier today. The celebration was short-lived, however; what followed has been nothing short of a disaster. As soon as the clock ticked over ending the game’s Kickstarter, and the system began to process people’s credit card payments, something went horribly…