Luke Plunkett

The Obvious Choice For The Next Smash Bros. Character

The Super Smash Bros. Ballot has been closed for a while, and still, no announcement from Nintendo on who the fan’s choice for the next Smash DLC will be. In the absence of official word, then (though fans feel like that’s coming soon), it’s left to parody accounts and solid jokes to fill the void.

League Of Legends Is Psych Testing Players With Questions About Anger, Fighting

Riot Games is locked in an eternal struggle against what it calls “toxicity”. As League of Legends gets bigger, so too does the number of assholes playing the game. And while the company’s previous attempts to combat this have been interesting, this latest step is much more direct. As Motherboard reports, this new system is…

Witcher 3 Sends Taxman After Players Who Used Exploit

There were some exploits in The Witcher 3 that let people harvest hides and pearls for gold. If you used them to make a quick buck, well, the game’s developers know. And they’re sending someone after you. WhatsMyGame posted this video today from his playthrough of the new expansion, Hearts of Stone, and it shows…

Patient Man Walks Across Every Grand Theft Auto Game

Driving is for the weak. Reader Conor decided the other day to traverse Grand Theft Auto the hard way: by walking. Across not one of the games, but all of them He walked “the longest distance corner to corner” across each of the game’s maps, recording the entire journey along the way (which you can…

For Lovers Of Cockpits

Neil McKnight is an environment artist from the UK who has worked on games like Mass Effect 3, Forza Horizon and Star Citizen. You can see more of Neil’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),…

Smash Bros. Card Game Uses Amiibo, Looks Awesome

BattleCON is a card game based on the mechanics of 2D fighting video games. This is a fan-made mod for BattleCON that turns it into a Smash Bros. card game. Complete with Amiibo. Hell yeah. Designed by Zoql, it currently features four fighters: Mario, Bowser, Rosalina and Link. Players have cards in their hand that…

Street Fighter Cosplay Moves Fast

From announcement to cosplay in around a week. Looks like the newest Street Fighter character is going down OK with fans. Cosplayer is AnaLuSauceda, photos by Verde Limon.

Sid Meier’s name is on the box, but Civilization was actually the brainchild of two designers. Bruce Shelley is the other, and here are both men giving a good talk on the history of the series.

Wii U Emulation Is Coming Along

As teams continue work on emulators for the Xbox 360 and PS3, a big breakthrough has been made by those trying to play Wii U games on a PC. Version 1.00 of the Cemu emulator has just been released, and while it’s far from a finished article—sound isn’t working, and it can basically only boot…

Track: Wildfires | Artist: Mariachi El Bronx | Album: Mariachi El Bronx (III) Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Cosplay Unites Mortal Kombat, StarCraft &…Toy Story

Russian photographer Andrey Shinkarchuk (aka Sketch_Turner) is one of the best at what he does, which is not only taking great cosplay photos but applying just the right amount of Photoshop. Photoshop’s use in cosplay photography can be a little controversial! While almost every image you see on the internet has been manipulated somehow (even…

Some Excellent New York Comic-Con Cosplay

Evan was at NYCC andtook some great cosplay shots, but he couldn’t get around to everyone. Here, then, are some more photos by Mineralblu By Nadyasonika By Yaya Han By 7thlotus By Pro Voltage Cosplay By Joanna Mari Cosplay By Maweezy Cosplay By Its Raining Neon By Kadu=Out Cosplay By Becka Noel

PC Shooter Adds Killer “Manga Mode”

As if Tokyo Warfare wasn’t wearing enough Japanophilia on its sleeves already, along comes this “manga mode” for the game that looks funny as hell. This isn’t what the game always looks like; it’s just an optional filter, in case the music and Tokyo streets weren’t Japanese enough for you. The game isn’t out yet…

Pokemon x Destiny’s Child is something I did not know I needed, but hey, life is full of pleasant surprises. You can hear more of GRIMECRAFT’s remixes here

IKEA’s Latest Product: HUMÄNBRÄINS

Andy Walsh is an artist who has worked for companies like Atomhawkand Games Workshop. You can see more of Andy’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…

Here’s something cool: Jakub Rozalski’s badass series of “Mechs in 1920s Poland” paintings that we featured last year have been turned into a boardgame

New Expansion Can’t Save A Dour Civilization Game

Time has not been kind to Civilization: Beyond Earth. I found it a passable strategy game at review, but the longer I stuck with it afterwards—particularly after I went back and remembered how amazing Civilization V still is—the more I went sour on it. It has some neat ideas around the fringes, sure, but the…

$6800 PC Looks Like A Future Killing Machine

Custom PC builder Deblow’s amazing effort here has no need for desks. It’s so big it is a desk. That’s the PC itself lit up there, sitting under an enormous glass panel. It is also not cheap. In total it cost him around £4500 (USD$6800)to build, of which £350 was for the desk components and…

Orange Is The New Cosplay

Stellar team effort by Michaelaand friends.

A Surprise First Look At The New Homeworld Game

Shipbreakers, the first new game in the Homeworld series since the year 2000, has barely been seen since it was first unveiled back in 2011. So it’s both neat—and a little surprising—to finally see some footage of the project. Neat because Homeworld is great! Surprising because we’re not seeing it in a big trailer or…