Luke Plunkett

The latest in Ubisoft’s long-running building/trading series, Anno, is off into deep space. It’s called Anno 2205. Here’s a couple of trailers.

Trials Fusion: Awesome Max is an an expansion to Ubisoft’s bike trick/puzzle quest game that’ll be out on July 14. Trials Fusion gets even more awesome on July 14! For existing owners of Trials Fusion, get ready for our biggest DLC pack yet. Immerse yourself in a unique Trials experience through the 2 separately themed…

Remembering Fallout 3’s Fantastic Concept Art

There are lots of people to thank for the distinctive look of the Fallout series, across multiple studios and decades, but in more recent times Craig Mullins should be top of your list. Mullins, who has worked as an artist on everything from Assassin’s Creed to the Matrix movies to Halo to Jurassic Park, was…

Dishonored 2 Announced, Lets You Play As Emily

We knew it was coming, but still, it was nice to see a trailer: there’s a second Dishonored, and this one has you playing as two characters, both of whom appeared in the first game. One is Corvo, who we’re all familiar with. The other is Emily Kaldwin, the Princess orphaned in the intro to…

Fallout Shelter Announced, Out Tonight

Oh hey, so aside from Fallout 4, Bethesda has another Fallout game coming. It’s a strategy game where you have to build a Vault and keep a ton of cute little people alive. It looks cool! You have to build it, manage it, expand it, care for the Vault Dwellers…it’s called Fallout Shelter, and it’s…

Samus vs Harley Quinn

Oh, hi there. Beat Down Boogie was at Momocon in Atlanta earlier this month, and they shot this great video of the con. It’s basically just six minutes of cosplayers impressing the hell out of you.

Reggie Plays Smash, Gets Owned, Talks Mad Shit

Last year, Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime made a shocking confession: he sucked at Smash Bros. But he swore he’d be back a year later to kick some ass, and true to his word, return today he did. He just forgot the part about kicking ass. Before it went down, he was talking the…

Dario—who has been cosplaying for twenty years now!—nails Diablo III’s Demon Hunter, even going so far as to do some make-up work that’s not quite cel-shaded, but certainly makes him look “flatter”, more like a video game character. You can see more of Dario’s cosplay at his Facebook page

Hurry Up Already, Cyberpunk Future

Sergey Zabelin is an artist based in the Ukraine who works for a mobile gaming company. Not that you’d know this from this portfolio. You can see more of Sergey’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…

RIP Sir Christopher Lee

Veteran actor Sir Christopher Lee, star of The Lord of the Rings films, The Wicker Man, The Man with the Golden Gun and the Star Wars prequels, has passed away at the age of 93. The Telegraph reportshe died in London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Sunday morning as a result of “respiratory problems”, having…

Track: Two Bodies | Artist: Flight Facilities | Album: Down To Earth Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

David Cap does a very good Dragonborn. Photos by York in a Box

New York, You Look…Different

Michel Kooper is a veteran environment artist who has worked on games like Crysis 3, Homefront 2 and Ryse. He’s also helped out on that amazing Warhammer 40K fan movie, The Lord Inquisitor You can see more of Michel’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their…

Driving Game Turns You Into A Bloodthirsty Car Murderer

BeamNG.drive is a driving game with racetracks and rally courses and real-looking cars and the veneer of respectability. But it’s really just about murdering cars. Sure, you might race around a track or two—the game includes actual racecourses—and find that in its Early Access state these events are a little empty, a little boring. But…

Hi Riku

Riku—one of the best pieces of character/costume design to come out of the Nomura era— cosplay needs to make a more serious comeback. Hopefully AlyCatcan lead the charge. Photos by Douglas Chapin

The Real Mirror’s Edge

How to bring Mirror’s Edge to life: lift some visual cues and sound bytes from the game, stick a GoPro on your head and run around some rooftops like a maniac. Done. OK, so maybe that’s under-selling it a bit. Even with the effects work done around the edges, this is still some impressive parkour,…

Xbox 360 Emulation Is Coming Along

This is a video of 2006’s Sonic the Hedgehog for Xbox 360. Running on a PC. Well, “running”. As you can see, it’s a mess. But that’s not the point. The point here is that the team working on the Xeniaemulator are making good progress, and it’s progress that, however slight it seems in 2015,…

He Is Born Of Blood, And Born Of Death

Brandon Gobey is an artist whose work you may have seen quite recently; he was kind enough to lend me some for my piece on DeathBlood, the most AAA game that never was You can see more of Brandon’s work at his ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if…

Kid Gets Super Nintendo On Launch Day, Is Pleased

And you thought you were cool because you lined up at midnight and bought a PS4 with your own money. Tyler Esposito, meanwhile, gets to say that he got a SNES on August 23, 1991. The day the console was first released in the United States, when it retailed for $199. Well, he gets to…

Call Of Duty Can’t Cut The Last-Gen Cord

Unlike other big series like Assassin’s Creed and Fallout, Call of Duty can’t bring itself to go 100% next-gen just yet, Activision announcingtoday that this year’s Black Ops 3 will be available not just on PS4, XB1 and PC, but PS3 and Xbox 360 as well. The last-gen version will be worked on by two…