Luke Plunkett

Track: Cone of Shame | Artist: Faith No More | Album: Sol Invictus Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Deus Ex Meets Street Fighter

It’s not the likeliest of crossovers, but it’s definitely one of the most interesting. Street Fighters with augments, hands that turn into guns, kitchens full of cereal… These (and the other images below) were done by Anthony Jones, an artist we featured here (and who has worked at Blizzard, Sony and Hasbro) back in 2012…

YouTube vs Twitch Gets Real

Today, Twitch is the default service when it comes to streaming video games on the internet. Tomorrow? It might be Google. Maybe. YouTubejust announced a number of improvements to its streaming capabilities that are going to be of interest to anyone who plays games in front of other people. Google’s video service now supports 60fps…

Um…Thanks, Sony?

Reader Mike wanted to know when Life is Strange Episode 3 was out on PS4. Sony’s answer was…helpful? Not really? If you’re wondering, yes, the link does indeed go to Life is Strange’s Steam page.

WipeOut Is Back! Kinda…

In 2012, Sony closedits Liverpool studio, home of the WipeOut series and one of the oldest (and coolest) game developers on the planet. In 2015, WipeOut is back, in all but name. Formula Fusion is a new game, already backed on Kickstarter, that is being made by devs who have worked on WipeOut, Grand Theft…

New League Of Legends System Wants To Reform Bad-Mouthers

Riot Games’ latest attempt to help stop jerk League of Legends players from being such jerks isn’t a different type of ban, it’s a potentially helpful piece of feedback. The new system, which started in North America yesterday, is based on report cards. When a player is flagged as having displayed “negative behavior”, the game…

Getting Real Close To Dragon Age’s Dragons

Patrik Karlsson is a veteran character artist who has worked on games like Syndicate, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Darkness and Riddick. Here, though, we’re looking at his work on Dragon Age: Inquisition. I love blank 3D models for the same reason I love black & white sketches; colour is nice, but with a…

Not A Hero Is A Smart Shooter, Drenched In Blood (And Jokes)

Its launch trailer was soaked in blood and British humour, but all that bluster is hiding a very clever, very precise video game. We’ve taken to calling the game “British Broforce” here at Kotaku, which is mostly fair; both games involve a roster of very different characters that can be employed to tackle side-scrolling action…

More Bloodborne? More Bloodborne.

Cosplay Superstars Team Up, Eyeballs Are In Danger

Darshelle Stevens is one of the best cosplay photographers around. Lyz Brickley is one of the best cosplayers around. Good things happen when the two work together. This gallery showcases some of their best work from over the past few years, where they’ve covered everything from Neon Genesis to Final Fantasy to League of Legends…

A Very Bloodborne Sneak Attack

What is this, a stealth game? Nope. (via uncle-scrooge @ Reddit)

No foam or cardboard here. JaroKrieg’s Jaster Mereel suit is made from aluminium plates! Photo by DarthInvidia

Bastion’s Hammer, Made Real

Supergiant Games, the developers of Bastion, needed someone to build them an actual replica of the Cael Hammer from the game. So they turned to Harrison Krix. Krix, who we’ve featured on Kotaku before, certainly delivered. With a bigger, more detailed 3D model of the hammer to work from than that used for the actual…

Giant Witcher 3 Sculpture Is As Handsome As Geralt

Tomek Radziewicz is a concept artist, but he’s also a sculptor, and he’s recently done some work on The Witcher III that’s a little more tangible than a lot of the stuff we normally post here on Fine Art. This amazing sculpture was designed and built by Radziewicz (with help from Arthur Wochniak), and now…

Kid Arrested For DDOSing Entire School District

An unnamed 17 year-old kid has been arrested, and may face felony charges, after being caught organising a DDOS attack against the West Ada School District in Idaho, which has 52 schools and 32,000 students. The attacks took place earlier this month, reports KTVB (via Daily Dot), and resulted in the schools being unable to…

Retro Console Promises To Play ALL The Games

This is the Retro Freak. It’s promising to play games from the Famicom. SNES. Genesis. PC Engine. TurboGrafx-16. Game Boy. Game Boy Advance. Game Boy Color. And even the Supergrafx. Holy shit. It comes in two parts; there’s the actual console, which is a small box that takes care of all the actual work, then…

The Best Maps Help You Get Lost

Loads of video games (and movies, and TV shows, and comics, and books) have maps in them. You might think they’re there to stop you getting lost, but no. They’ve got a much more important role than that. There’s a scene in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers where Faramir and his ranger buddies…

Underrated RTS Classic Gets Surprise Sequel

Did you ever play the Cossacks series? It’s a pity if you said “no”, because they were some of the finest old-school military RTS games around. Think Age of Empires, only a bit smarter, and a bit fancier, with muskets and feathered caps instead of triremes and wololos. The first Cossacks was released in 2001,…

Surprise, Motherf**ker!

Remember: in Counter-Strike, as in most games, the use of sniper scopes limits your peripheral vision.