Luke Plunkett

Last year, I wrote about Fall of Gods, a badass Norse picture book. Following a successful Kickstarter, it’s now available for everyone to purchase.

Here Is Some Excellent Box Art

It’s Hotline Miami and its sequel, bundled together and sold on the Vita in Japan. (via@britishgaming)

Pushing Cosplay To Its Absolute Limits

Earlier this year, five people went to Iceland with a mission: take some of the best, most unique cosplay photos on the planet. What they came home with does not disappoint. That headline is not kidding around. We’re talking some of cosplay’s finest here, going out of their way (and spending thousands of dollars) to…

Man, This Point Break Trailer Looks Great!

I don’t know what everyone is complaining about. This movie looks amazing.

The World Is Over. Have A Cute Robot.

Oh look, another bleak indie survivial game for the PC. Only this one has…isometric visuals? And a helper robot? And a soundtrack by the wonderful Mitch Murder? OK, Impact Winter, I’m very interested. There’s a lot to like about this clip, which introduces us to some of the game’s basics. The way damage to a…

The Horrors Of The NBA, Unleashed

It’s funny the first three times you see it, but then you start to wonder, what sound is he making, if he’s making any sound at all? Is it a shrill, bird-like shriek? Or is he singing a song to summon the great spirits of the void, who will emerge from the depths and consume…

DOTA 2 Cosplayer Set On Fire

I…just…holy shit. Look. This dude is literally on fire. Táy Máy Tò Mò’s Lina cosplay is magnificent. For starters, it’s a great piece of boot-strapping cosplay; the outfit looks great in these shots, but it’s only when you squint that you see it’s made out of things like floor mats and Coke wrappers. But whatever,…

The Best Video Game Movies

It’s a well-worn cliche that movies based on (or around) video games are just the worst, but that’s not always the case. Usually, yes, but not always. I mean, yeah, there’s Chun-Li, and Hitman, and Super Mario Bros., and Bloodrayne, and Doom, and Need For Speed, and Alone in the Dark, and Max Payne, and…

Dawg, He Put Da City On His Back

The best emails I get from video game artists are the ones that start with “I’m the artist who made the bikini model for the main character of Fatal Frame 5”. In addition to his Fatal Frame contributions, Desmond Wong has also worked on Dead or Alive, and will later this year release his own…

Track: Lit | Artist: Kiasmos | Album: Kiasmos Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment

The Dream Nintendo Game That Was Never Released

Shigesato Itoi (Mother), Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario, Zelda) and Tsunekazu Ishihara (Pokemon), all working on the same game? We should have known it would be too good to be true. In 1997, Nintendo announced a game called Cabbage. It sounded weird (by 1997 standards, anyway), was headed for a weird console and had a (presumably working)…

Tracking Where A Mouse Moves While Gaming

Over the weekend, Gking19 posted the results of an interesting experiment: tracking the movement of the mouse through their favourite video games. Most were played for around 30 minutes (TF2 being the exception), and it’s fascinating looking at just where the mouse travels most often, and where it comes to rest. Take Company of Heroes,…

Halo vs Call Of Duty Battle Escalates Quickly

This is great. This video—which introduces just about every explosion, tribute and gag you could think of between the two blockbuster series—was made by the same team behindthat impressive NERF gunfight from last year. In case you were wondering where you’d seen this particular brand of hyper-excited Australian screen violence before.

Huge Star Citizen Leak Gives Players A Tour Of A Whole Carrier

A big part of Star Citizen is the fact that you can earn, unlock (and buy with real cash) certain starships. So it’s a big deal when players get a good look at one of the game’s prize starships. This is a tour of aBengal, a massive carrier from the upcoming space shooter. See that…

Game Boy XXL Is A Handheld For Giants

Earlier this year, reader Ilhan Ünal got started building his own Game Boy, which he only recently completed. It’s…a little bigger than Nintendo’s original version. Named the Game Boy XXL, Ünal’s handheld is more of a deskheld. It’s running off a Raspberry Pi, with an old 19” computer monitor acting as the screen, and was…

On Post-Apocalyptic Meme Usage

Josh Corpuz is an artist who has worked in the video game business for a few years now, for studios in the US, Japan and Europe. You can see more of Josh’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…

A Fridge Full Of Jurassic Park Games Is Good eBay

“Refrigerator full of Super Nintendo Jurassic Park games”. That eBay listing title says everything your heart needs to know. Well, almost. The fridge isn’t actually included in the sale. But over 300 video games—mostly copies of Jurassic Park for the Super Nintendo—are. Jurassic Park on the SNES was a masterpiece, combining Zelda-like overworld gameplay with…

Amazing BioShock Cosplay Doesn’t Need Booker Or Elizabeth

We get it, Booker and Elizabeth are cool characters with neat outfits. But not every cosplay from BioShock Infinite needs to be of the two main characters Take this Motorized Patriot, for example. It’s one of the best examples of BioShock cosplay I’ve ever seen. The outfit’s great, the flags are perfect and the make-up…

There are already a ton of fantastic Zelda manga adaptations out there (the Ocarina and Majora’s ones especially good), but reader King Zombie figures there’s also space to tell a more original story. So he’s started drawing his own. Looks cool!

Amateur Spider-Man Fails Backflip, Destroys Face

This footage, from a kid’s birthday party in Argentina, shows some guy dressed as Spider-Man attempting a sick backflip to impress the children. Emphasis on attempting Hope he’s OK. On one hand it’s funny, yes, because haha Spider-Man, but on the other, those are tiles he landed on. With his face. Ouch. You can see…