Luke Plunkett

Command & Conquer, Texas Style

Mike Colonnese is art director at the small studio Superweapon. He’s previously worked on games like Bastion and the Command & Conquer series. Superweapon’s latest game is Dawn of Steel. Oh, and Command & Conquer fans, the cel-shaded vehicles below (and the one up top) were concepts for Generals 2 You can see more of…

Wolfenstein 3D, You Look Different

Castle GAFA 3D is Wolfenstein. Just not as you know it. Built by Jankenpopp and Zombectro (via Free Game Planet & Alpha Beta Gamer), at first glance it looks like the classic Wolfenstein 3D. Only…the game’s food has been replaced with random computing and internet icons. And Hitler’s gone. And there’s…Facebook? And it boots from…

Track: Chlorine & Wine | Artist: Baroness | Album: Purple Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Duke Nukem’s Voice Turned Down Republican Campaign Job

Jon St. John, probably most well-known to you guys as the voice of Duke Nukem, was asked recently “to be the advertising voice of the Republican party’s leading candidate for president.” He said, and I’m paraphrasing, get the hell outta here. St. John wrote on Facebook yesterday: I don’t like to turn down jobs…especially when…

Terrific Fallout 4 Cosplay 

Nick Valentine, is that you? Arcanum Order’ssynth cosplay is unreal, from the eyes to the paint to the decay effects. That filthy wasteland business shirt is a nice touch, too.

Oh, Don’t Give Me That Look

Zezhou Chen is a freelance artist from China working in the video game business. You can see more of Chen’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 can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in…

Motörhead’s Lemmy Lives On In GTA V

Once was a time you’d pay tribute to a fallen idol by writing a song, or maybe placing some flowers. That was then. This is 2016, and some Motörhead fans have taken to frontman Lemmy’s passing a little differently. Thanks to a mod (by Christian Brandes, David Violante and jedijosh920), Lemmy Kilmister himself is now…

Snoop Is Not Happy About Xbox’s Servers: “Fix Your Shit”

And now, a message from disgruntled Xbox owner Snoop Dogg.

The Final Station Looks Like Snowpiercer vs Zombies

tinyBuild Games—of Punch Club and Lovely Planet fame—are also putting out The Final Station. Which looks both grim and cute-as-hell at the same time. Grim because the world is dying! Cute-as-hell because just look at that cute little hero and those cute little zombie ghost things. Here’s the official description: Travel by train through a…

One Punch Woman

Simple crossplay, excellent execution. Cosplay by Anna Lynn, photo by Kitten Cabada

League Of Legends Has A New Champion: Jhin

Riot today unveiled the newest addition to the League of Legends roster: Jhin. He’s “meticulous and calculating – League’s slowest marksman yet”. The gist being that he takes time to kick ass, but when given the time, kicks a lot of ass. You can read his full breakdown here Here’s a teaser Riot released last…

Courtesy of Tiny Cartridge, we now know that Japanese publisher Natsume, probably most famous here for Harvest Moon, has the cutest little eBay store where they sell their old games and merch.

The Concept Art Of XCOM 2

XCOM 2 isn’t out yet, but the game’s hardcover art book is, and the publishers were kind enough to pass some images along to Fine Art for a little showcase of the Firaxis artist’s work. There’s a nice mix here of character art, environment stuff and even some animation tests, which we don’t get to…

Element Is An RTS For People Who Don’t Have Time For RTS Games

Element describes itself as “a realtime strategy space game for people who don’t have time to play realtime strategy space games.” I like where this is going. With a low-fi feel and a reasonably simple setup, Element is a strategy game stripped back to the bare essentials. You only have a handful of buildings to…

Some Of The Best Star Wars Cosplay From The Past Five Years

Over the last five years, Beat Down Boogie has been all over the country filming cosplayers at sci-fi shows and nerd conventions. And wherever there were cosplayers, there were Star Wars cosplayers. This video catalogues the best of them. I love the mix! Yes, there is film-quality cosplay on show, but there are also a…

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

When A Final Fantasy Artist (And Neil Gaiman) Did Sci-Fi David Bowie

I know Mike already wrote a piece on the sad passing of David Bowie, but for tonight’s Fine Art I wanted to talk about/show something as well, one of the cooler times the great man’s work intersected with both video games and comics. In 2004, an unlikely pairing saw comics superstar Neil Gaiman and renowned…

Octonauts Cosplay!

It’s the best, because Octonauts is the best. Cosplay by pineappleundies

Valve Changed The Winter Steam Sale, Says Everybody Wins

As big and important as Steam is, we rarely get any kind of official word from Valve on how it’s doing or how it works. Today, that changed, if only a little. The company accidentally (?) posted a developer message to a public Steam page (grabbed by SteamDB), and it claims that Valve’s decision to…

Relive The Days Of 90s Game Magazines

The way we read about video games has changed a lot over the last couple of decades, a rigid previews-features-reviews magazine format giving way to…whatever the hell the internet decides to write about at any given second. For the most part this has been an improvement, but there will always be those misty-eyed for the…