Luke Plunkett

Track: Krokodil Dental Plan | Artist: Sun & Sail Club | Album: The Great White Dope Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Dimension Drive, the game whose Kickstarter was so tragically cut short last week, is back for another shot.

RIP EZTV

One of the most popular and well-known torrent distribution sites in the world, EZTV, has closed down. Surprisingly, it had nothing to do with the cops, or lawyers. As TorrentFreak report, the site—which has served up TV show downloads for a decade—has been brought down by scammers, who took over EZTV’s domain name in what’s…

Doom 4’s Earlier, Scrapped Version Sure Looked Different

Doom 4, nowjust Doom, is a game a long time in the making. Mostly because at least one version of the game has been rebooted entirely. We got a brief look at the current game today, but here’s a rough look at one of the original takes, which isn’t exactly what you’d expect from a…

Portrait Of A Doge

Kan Liu is an artist and illustrator based in China. Aside from pooches, he also does some mean paintings of dragon hunters. You can see more of Liu’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 you can save them…

New Halo Toys Are Very, Very Cool

There have been hundreds of Halo figures released over the last ten years, but despite advances in technology (allowing for greater detail and “realism”), they haven’t changed that much. Not until these interesting new figures from Kotobukiya, anyway. They’re called Halo Spartan Techsuits, and the idea is that instead of coming as a finalised, completed…

Um, no thank you

This Is One Hell Of A Video Game Trailer

In this line of work, you see a lot of trailers. Almost all the trailers. So it takes a lot to make me sit up and go “wow, that’s a good video game trailer”. That’s pretty much what happened with Not A Hero’s launch clip, though. The narration is a masterpiece, a priceless work of…

League Of Legends vs Fire Emblem Is Joke, But Should Be Real

There’s one Fire Emblem crossover coming already, but this one—if it was actually real—would be way more interesting. Randy Nova’s excellent video reimagines LoL as a Fire Emblem game, complete with soundtrack, grid, turn-based combat and pithy combat chatter. I’m not the world’s biggest LoL fan, but joke video or not, I would play the…

Looks Like The Simpsons Just Lost The Voice Of Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders

Harry Shearer, who for decades has worked as one of the stars of The Simpsons—lending his voice to characters like Ned Flanders, Mr. Burns, Principal Skinner and Waylon Smithers—has seemingly announced he will no longer be working on the show. A story on TMZ over the weekend claimed that attempts to renew the long-running cartoon…

Time For Some Badass Art

Maciej Kuciara was last featured solo (there have been cameos) here on Fine Art over two years ago, which is too damn long. So here’s an update, with a ton of amazing art. In those two years he’s been busy, working on everything from Jupiter Ascending to The Last of Us. You can see more…

Well, someone’s pretty psyched about the return of the Nintendo World Champs

Sweet Counter-Strike Wallpaper

This series of wallpapers by drizzly shows some of Counter-Strikes most iconic map spots, and recreates them in a cute isometric style. The longer I look at this, the more I’d love to see a Counter-Strike game that takes most of the pages out of Hitman Go’s playbook. There are phone versions of the wallpapers…

Go Behind The Scenes On One Of The Best Star Wars Games Ever Made

Star Wars: Republic Commando is one of the greatest Star Wars games of all, and is easily the best game based on the prequel trilogy. I’ve got a whole new appreciation for it, though, after watching this developer playthrough, hosted by the game’s lead programmer Brett Douville. As people who don’t make games, it’s always…

Troll Ruins Kickstarter Campaign After Withdrawing €7000 Pledge

2Awesome Studio, the team behind a Kickstarter campaign for the shooter Dimension Drive, just had their hearts put through the ringer. With their time almost up, and with thousands remaining to hit their goal, a single backer appeared out of nowhere and pledged €7000. The devs were, unsurprisingly, thrilled. But then, heartbreak. The clock has…

Here’s the first trailer for Madden 16. Sadly, Gronk did not make the front cover

Please, Make A Cartoon About This Football Team

Soon Sang Hong is an artist who has worked for companies like Eyedentity, the Korean studio behind games such as, um, Dragon Nest I’m a fan of everything that gets posted here on Fine Art—it wouldn’t be posted otherwise—but Good Lord, this is something else. There’s so much character, and style, and colour going on…

Dragon Quest VIII—an excellent JRPG that was first released in 2004 on the PS2—is being re-released (with improvements, like an orchestral score) on the 3DS in 2015. It’ll be out in Japan on August 27.

Awesome Dragon Age Cosplay Is The Real Deal

I’ve seen some good Dragon Age cosplay in my time, but holy cow, this Cassandra Pentaghast is good Cosplay by HydraEvil, photo by D.Eugen (via Cosplay Blog) Here are some more shots by Angy Bell

Here Are 24 Songs That Will Be In The New Guitar Hero

Presented without comment (via Rolling Stone). The Black Keys – “Gold on the Ceiling” Blitz Kids – “Sometimes” Ed Sheeran – “Sing” Fall Out Boy – “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)” Gary Clark, Jr. – “Don’t Owe You a Thang” Green Day – “Nuclear Family” The Killers –…