Luke Plunkett

At Least Mirror’s Edge 2 Has Got The Music Right

I’m one of those people who could forgive Mirror’s Edge’s sins. It remains one of my favourite games, one I still play regularly, and a big part of that is down to its soundtrack. EA made a big blog post todayabout the composer for the upcoming sequel, which is normally the kind of PR fluff…

PC Gamer’s Christopher Livingston wanted to know if you could build an entire Cities: Skyline metropolis underneath a highway off-ramp. Turns out that’s poor urban planning.

OK, NBA2K16, That Sure Is An Intro

NBA2K16 is a AAA sports game with a big budget, big licensing, superstars on the cover and an ambitious singleplayer campaign helmed by an Academy Award-nominated director. Believe it or not, then, this is the game’s intro. Um, what?

Destiny Player Wants To Watch The World Burn

The new Sunbreaker class in Taken King is pretty powerful. But it’s not normally this powerful. Either this guy got lucky with the modifier, or Destiny simply shit the bed and couldn’t handle all that murder. (via John Davison)

Hey, Battletech Is Back!

BattleTech, home of classic tabletop action and some excellent video games, is making a digital comeback. This time for the PC. Note before we go any further that we’re talking about BattleTech itself, not its spinoff series MechWarrior Sticking close to its roots, the new game—currently up on Kickstarter—has been designed as “a single-player, turn-based,…

Being An Immortal Dungeon Lord Ain’t Easy

Steve Lichman is a pretty funny comic about a skeletal dungeon lord. Who has problems. The first volume of the comic is pretty much done, but there’s a Kickstarter for a fancy hardcover version here. Looks cool! The comic is a joint effort by Dan Warren and Dave Rapoza, whose art we’ve featured previously on…

Track: Man And Machine | Artist: Moondragon |Album: Man And Machine Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

HD Remakes Of Old Pixel Games Look Like Hard Work

Whether you love or hate the idea of HD remakes of classic titles, it’s fascinating reading up on just how much work—and deliberation—there is involved in scrapping a game’s entire visual canvas and starting over. When a company remakes a 3D game, it’s not that dramatic! We usually see an increase in the number of…

Fantastic Dishonored Cosplay Does The Game Justice

One of the most enduring things about Dishonored is Viktor Antonov’s art direction, leaving us with a game that’s somewhere between a grim Victorian painting and a 21st-century cartoon. It’s tough getting that across in cosplay, but hoo boy, these guys have nailed it. Cosplayers Ryazik, Vikand Mikamiare in the suits here, while the photos…

Reminder: The Inside Of Your PS3 Is (Probably) Disgusting

You know how when you look at your consoles, you sometimes see some dust caked around the vents? That’s just the crap you can see on the outside With a PS3 that sounded “like a jet engine”, blowmeawayyouniverse opened their console for the first time since 2007 and found, well…a good reason it sounded like…

Captain America Cosplayer Proposes…In Front Of Captain America

Cosplayer Kelsey Jenkins and her boyfriend were at Salt Lake Comic Con on the weekend—dressed as Black Widow and Captain America respectively—when they got the chance to meet Marvel stars Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell (Peggy Carter). Which is about as good a time/place as any to pop the question. Just in case that photo…

The Best (And Worst) Advice Video Games Can Give

We’re so used to the idea of games prompting us and helping us out that the concept of some 1s and 0s giving us advice just seems…weirdly natural. The Twitter feed Video Game Advisor (via Super Punch) is here to remind us how absurd that is, cataloguing a constant stream of those times video games…

Art From The Avengers, Transformers, Spider-Man (And More)

Josh Nizzi is an artist who has worked on some of the biggest movie franchises of the past decade, from The Avengers to Transformers In between all those superheroes he also found time to work on Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (and also this random little game). You can see more of Josh’s work at his…

When The World Ends, Cosplay Remains

A couple of weeks ago, I asked if any cosplayers wanted to tell their stories. Here’s Dimitri Zaitsev talking about life, costumes, the apocalypse and…not washing.

One Of Japan’s Biggest Visual Novels Is Coming To The West

Muv-Luv is one of the most popular visual novels in the history of the genre. It’s appeared on everything from PC to Xbox 360 over its 13-year history, but the thing is, it’s never been released outside of its native Japan. A new Kickstarter is looking to change that, hoping to bring the first two…

City-Builder + Card Game Concrete Jungle Is Really Good

So that we’re all on the same page, I will crudely reduce the excellent card game Concrete Jungle down to this: it’s SimCity vs Tetris vs Scrabble. Which sounds weird, I know, but trust me, it works If I was going to explain everything about the game—especially the stuff I like—I’d be typing all week,…

Track: Lie, Cheat, Meow | Artist: Run The Jewels (feat. Prince Paul) | Album: Meow The Jewels Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Why So Sad, Call Of Duty?

Yan Ostretsov is a visual designer at Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward. Prior to that, he was at id working on games like RAGE. You can see more of Yan’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…

Look At This Dog That Loves Animal Crossing More Than You Do

From Tumblr You Booze You Lose, this Bull Terrier is way better equipped to express his love for Animal Crossing’s KK Slider than our ridiculous human bodies could ever be. The video’s caption reads: So my dog loves KK Slider from the Animal Crossing games and when he hears him he runs over and watches.…

When Cosplay Hits The Catwalk

We’re used to seeing cosplayers at stuff like conventions and gaming shows, but strutting the catwalk alongside models and designers? That’s exactly what happened last week, though, when Vicky Lau, aka Vivid Vision (and some friends) were invited to show their stuff as part of Western Canada Fashion Week Lau designed and made all the…