Luke Plunkett

Well, The Witcher 3 Sure Proved A Point

You may have seen the news today that The Witcher 3 has sold well over 6 million copies. Impressive! We don’t normally like to talk about raw sales figures here on Kotaku, but I think there’s a lesson to be learned from this particular success. The most obvious one is that good video games sell.…

Crazy Rocket League Goal Banks, Goes The Distance

Oh, you think you’ve scored some long-range Rocket League goals? This is as long range as range as it gets. I don’t know what’s more impressive. The fact this went in without bouncing, or the fact it went in at all. The gif up top is the “easy” part. Below is the full thing.

After a busted first attempt and then some “stress tests”, Capcom has finally nailed down some dates for a proper Street Fighter V beta. It’ll start at 4pm on August 28 (PST), and run until 7am on September 2 (PST).

Former Game Of War Developer Charged With “Stealing Trade Serets”

A former developer at Machine Zone—the studio most famous for its Kate Upton-fronted Game of War mobile game—has been arrested and is facing up to ten years prison after being accused of “stealing trade secrets”. AFP reports that after learning he was soon to be out of a job, 42 year-old Jing Zeng “used a…

Track: Nightingale Force Winds | Album: Ghost Notes | Artist: Hiatus Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

DualShock, Paint On Canvas, 2015

Randy Gallegos is an artist who has done work for companies like Blizzard, Wizards of the Coast, Fantasy Flight and DeNA. There are examples of that art below, but you’ll also see stuff from his new exhibition called Hearts for Hardware, a series of actual paintings depicting some of the more iconic controllers and hardware…

Some Of The Rarest Board Games On Earth

Like video games and comics, there’s a weirdness to what makes a board game rare and valuable. Sometimes it’s quality! Sometimes it’s scarcity. Sometimes it’s simply, well, weirdness. Geek & Sundry put together a list of ten of the absolute rarest that you’ll find on the open market, and as someone who didn’t know any…

New GTA V Graphics Mod Looks Nngh

Martin Bergman has done it. He’s released shots of a graphics mod for GTA V on PC that actually, and noticeably, improve the game’s visuals. That’s awesome! We get sent tweets and emails every week about mods like this, and when we check them out, most times it’s tough seeing any kind of changes or…

Yakuza 5 is coming to the West (praise be the Localisation Gods) for the PS3, and when it does,all of Japan’s DLC for the game is getting thrown in as well

Satellite Reign: The Kotaku Review

I’d been led to believe that Satellite Reign was a modern-day Syndicate. Turns out it isn’t. Phew. I mean, I love Syndicate as much as the next person who loves Syndicate, in that I grew up thinking it was one of the best games of all time. I still find its filthy, cyberpunk art style…

Clear Skies, Smooth Sailing

Nathan Dearsley is an artist from the UK who has worked on games like Crysis 2, Crysis 3, Star Citizen and Alien: Isolation. We actually featured some of Nathan’s art a few months back with his awesome McLaren F1, but I figured today was as good a day as any to look at some of…

It’s Not Forza 5, It’s GTA V

As beautiful as these sweeping shots of expensive sports cars are, they’re not from some slick Forza or Gran Turismo trailer. They’re from a Grand Theft Auto V Rockstar Editor video. Thanks, mods. RisingJake’s clip looks so good for two reasons: first, it uses a number of existing, user-created fancy car models that bring licensed…

Motherboard writer Jason Koebler, a grown man who hasn’t played Pokemon in years, went along to the Pokemon World Champs on the weekend and tried to play. It didn’t end well

(via SyFy City)

League Of Legends Cosplayers Were Killing It This Weekend

Whenever you get thousands of fans together to watch a video game live, you can bet there are going to be cosplayers out in force, and this weekend’s LCS Summer Playoff Finals were no exception. There were a ton of fans in costume at both events, in New York and Stockholm, and below are some…

My What A Big Mako You Have

Wayne Haag is a veteran sci-fi artist from Australia who has worked on movies like Lord of the Rings, The Fifth Element and Superman Returns, along with TV shows like Farscape. You can see more of Wayne’s work at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big…

Pics Of A Massive Weekend In eSports

One weekend. Two events. Three countries, three stadiums. While the LCS Summer Finals were going on in both New York and Stockholm, the biggest Counter-Strike event of the year, ESL One, was also being held in Cologne Millions watched the events from home, but what makes for a more impressive visual are the thousands who…

Sending Everyone In Fallout Shelter Outside To Die

Fallout Shelter is fun, but only for a while; you tend to hit a wall once everyone’s happy and you’ve built a lot of stuff. This would be the point most people uninstall the game, or at least ignore it, but HarrisonHutcheon had something more drastic in mind. “So I reached a plateau in my…

Street Fighter Player Knocked Out By Booger

Birdie, from Street Fighter V, has an idle animation where he picks his nose and flicks a booger at his opponent. Which is cute, but the thing is, it also does a teeny bit of damage when it hits. As EventHubs reports, this is rarely if ever a big deal, just a fun piece of…

This is a real, official thing. What a world we live in.