Luke Plunkett

Exotic Destiny Weapon Still Exotic As LEGO

Sleeper Simulant is one of Destiny’s coolest—and most elusive—weapons. If you missed out on getting one last time they were available, building your own (out of LEGO, not in the game) might be an easier way to get hold of it. LEGO gunsmith ZaziNombies—who we’ve featured here before—has done a great job, not just copying…

Metroid Fan Movie Is Pretty Great, Even Without Nintendo’s Help

Metroid: The Sky Calls is an 11-minute, fan-made short film that shows Samus having a very bad day at the office. It is—relative to the scope and budget—very, very good. It’s made by Rainfall Productions, the same team behind that cool Wonder Woman fan short from a few years back, and stars Nerdist’s Jessica Chobot…

Welcome To Cosplay, Kotaku’s Website About…Cosplay

Over the past decade, cosplay has exploded in popularity. Once a niche pursuit of folks at the fringes of fandom, it’s now a worldwide industry, attracting countless new devotees and fans every single day. In that time, our coverage—and my coverage in particular—of cosplay has evolved as well, to the point where I’ve gone from…

Move Along. Move Along.

Veikka Somerma is a concept artist from Finland who has worked for games companies like Applibot. You can see more of Veikka’s art 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”…

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

The Story Of Solitaire, One Of The World’s Biggest Video Games

For over twenty years, a video game has tormented mums, dads and office workers the world over. And it has nothing to do with orcs, racecars or terrorists. This story was originally published in October 2010. It has been updated. It’s about cards. That game is Windows Solitaire, which from Windows 3.0 through to the…

Fallout Cosplay Is Chilling Until Fallout 4

New Vegas’ Beatrix Russell and an Enclave goon have one week left until Fallout 4. They will be spending it like a lot of other folks: waiting at the bar. Beatrix is elenasamko, Enclave soldier is Ilya Solopov, photo by fillakteriart

What The Hell Is Going On In This Nintendo Trailer

Level-5’s Yo-Kai Watch owns Japan, in a way we haven’t seen since Peak Pokemon. The series is heading West for the first time real soon, and if you were wondering how Nintendo would market such a franchise over here, well, here’s your answer. With farts. And ball. GTFO, kid. Yo-Kai Watch is out on 3DS…

Cosplay Has Won Halloween

Fuelled by advertising and the expansion of nerd culture, cosplay has quietly but comprehensively taken over Halloween. Once was a time that people would only dress up as spooky shit. Ghosts, monsters, that kind of stuff. Which made sense, since Halloween has its roots in remembering the dead! These days, that adherence has given way…

Inside Out heads outside. Disgust is Ladylili, Anger is Djaden Fury, Sadness is Pandora Clemy and Joy is Clef

Some Pretty Gross Witcher 3 Cosplay

That’s a compliment, mind you, since the Lady of the Woods is intentionally a super gross character. Cosplay by Elena Nerium Oleander, photos by Fillakteria

The Art Of Building Menus, Icons & Maps

User Interface stuff fascinates me, because it has to dance such a fine line between looking pretty and being useful. Fall too far on either side and you’re in danger of ruining a game; get it just right and, like Deus Ex and Mass Effect, you can become as memorable as any piece of character…

Giant Street Fighter Graffiti Covers Tokyo Building

Graffiti artist CASE (from German crew Maclaim) is famous for covering buildings in enormous, life-like images. This E. Honda he did last week in Japan is no exception. Done near the Tennōzu Isle Station in Shinagawa, Tokyo it’s around twelve stories high, and because of its size/prominence there’s a ton of cool progress shots of…

Oh, It’s N64 Games, Running On A Watch

Is this practical? No. But screw practical. Like we saw with Half-Life, trying to play a video game on a watch is futile. The touchscreen controls used by the emulator are just too damn small. But it’s the drive that we appreciate. If an “old” LG G Watch can run N64 games, then who knows,…

The Batmobile Is Just Wrecking Los Santos

brb, re-installing Grand Theft Auto V We’ve seen Batmobile impersonations in GTA V on the PC before, but this mod is the real deal. Recreating the “tank” design from Arkham City, taltigolt’s clip is the combination of three mods: esrohraw’s Tumbler, LUISDACOS’ texturesand xmod’s nitro boost Nice to see at least one Batmobile working properly…

Killer Joker Cosplay, Courtesy Of A Hollywood Legend

When Hollywood effects master Rick Baker wants to help make his family some Halloween costumes, everybody comes out having a better day. Baker—famous for his work on Thriller, An American Werewolf in London and Men in Black—and his family decided to go with a Joker theme this year, the exception being his wife Silvia, who…

Link, from Twilight Princess. Cosplay by LuxCosplay, photo by Melenea

San, from Princess Mononoke. Cosplay by MIUX-R

Mass Effect’s EDI. Photo by Supercharger. Cosplayer unknown.

Like A Zerg, But With Better Manners

Milan Nikolic is a concept artist and illustrator from Serbia. You can see more of Milan’s workat 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 corner. Fine Art is a celebration…