Luke Plunkett

142 Beautiful Photos Of Blade Runner’s Model Cars, Buildings

I’m not kidding with that “beautiful” up there. These aren’t even photos, they’re scans of slides, and you just would not think they were taken over 30 years ago, during the making of one of the greatest science fiction films of all time. They look like they were shot yesterday, on a very expensive modern…

Twilight Princess’ Midna. Cosplay by Jinglebooboo, photo by Torremitsu

Jupiter Ascending, What Are You Doing

I haven’t seen Jupiter Ascending. I’ve only seen its concept art. I’m guessing it’s a movie about “holy shit what is happening there are space things and what”. We’ve seen some art from the movie before, but today we’re looking at the contributions of Adam Kuczek, an artist who has also worked on stuff like…

Sid Meier’s Starships Is Not Great

For all I know, Sid Meier’s Starships is a fantastic iPad game (and yes, it’s also available on iPad). But I don’t know, because I’ve been playing it on PC, where it kinda sucks. It’s funny how playing the same game on two systems can completely change your experience. On iPad, a game like this…

Cities: Skyline’s Mods Are Already Going Crazy With Road Porn

Cities: Skylines hasn’t even been out for a week and already the game’s selection of mods is becoming overwhelming. Some of these mods are great, and genuinely add worthwhile new content to the base experience! Most, however, seem to cater towards one thing: road porn. By ⊁ĴōｿﾞŚťĪ⊄Ӄ⊀ Oh, don’t roll your eyes. We’re not talking…

A Cosplayer Might Be One Of The First People On Mars

American cosplayer Maggie Duckworth has a chance at being one of the first human beings to set foot on Mars. And, when that’s done, be the first human being to cosplay on Mars. As one of the finalists in the Mars 100 competition, Duckworth was picked from over two hundred thousand applicants. You might think…

Zelda Was A Badass In This Classic Nintendo Comic

There was a Zelda animated series, and it was terrible. Let’s not dwell on it. But if you ever wondered what would happen if the same art style ditched the excuuuuuuuuuuuse me’s and played things a little straighter, you should know that such a thing actually exists. It’s The Legend of Zelda comic, released in…

SimCity Artist Now Making Sweet Cities: Skylines Buildings

Bryan Shannon used to be part of Maxis, where he worked as an artist helping make buildings for the last SimCity. Now, in his spare time, he’s crafting stuff for the game that followed in SimCity’s wake. One of the best things about Cities: Skylines, as I mentioned in my review, is the way that…

A Smarter Approach To PC Gaming Piracy

There are two ways you can tackle piracy: the way that doesn’t work (threats, control and lockdowns) and the way that does (offering a superior service to piracy). Paradox, publishers of games like Crusader Kings II, Magicka and Cities: Skylines, are fans of the latter, and it’s refreshing to see that their approach appears to…

Dude Builds Civ Wonder In Front Of Actual Wonder

When Peripatet was in Jordan visiting the ancient wonder of Petra, he had only one thing on his mind

The Secret Behind Terrific Cosplay: Big Arms

This is Yasemin Arslan—who does not have big arms—doing a hell of a job cosplaying as Overwatch’s Tracer. You may notice, though, that she’s kinda floating in the air. Like magic. How’d she pull this off? “PhotoShop, duh” is only half the answer. The other half is the way Arslan and photographer Beethystaged the shot.…

Custom “SNES” New 3DS Is Pretty Much The Perfect Nintendo Handheld

Some versions of the New 3DS share a (button) colour scheme with the original JP/PAL Super Nintendo, but you know, for some people—like me—that’s not enough. We want a complete SNES tribute. This decal pack (via Tiny Cartridge) does just that. Logos, graphics, colour schemes, it basically turns your New 3DS into a tiny Super…

Maybe This Thing Will Make PC Gaming On The Couch A Little Easier

The way we play PC games is changing. Between Steam’s Big Picture mode and the trend of living room computers, some people are soon going to run into a problem: how the hell do I play PC games on the couch? There are options. Depending on what kind of game you’re playing, for example, you…

Not All Great Cosplay Comes From Characters You Know

One of the most talentedartists I’ve ever featured in my Fine Art series on Kotaku is Dan LuVisi. What does that have to do with cosplay? Let me explain. LuVisi has a graphic novel series called Last Man Standing. There’s a ton of potential in its sci-fi world, and some fantastic art (not to mention…

Vomit: First-Person Video Of One Of The World’s Biggest Rollercoasters

The Fury 325 is a rollercoaster, but it sounds like a virus, which might not be too far from the truth of it. It still seems engineered specifically to make you sick. Built at the Carowinds amusement part in North Carolina, it’s got an 81-degree drop that’s over 300 feet long. Just the thing to…

Pro DOTA Player Controls Three Heroes At Once, Helps Win Match

On March 11, a pro DOTA 2 game in the Star Ladder Europe tournament (between Team Secret and DUZA Gaming) suffered from connectivity issues, so much so that two of Team Secret’s five players were disconnected. Rather than pause the game and wait it out, though, one of Secret’s players put da team on his…

EVE Online Is A Video Game With Its Own News Show

I don’t play the game, so I had no idea this even existed, but hey, turns out that space MMO EVE Online has its own official TV news show! And it’s pretty good! It’s called The Scope, and as this interview on Motherboard explains, it was inspired by the more mainstream coverage of 2014’s enormous…

The Struggle To Release “Indie” Games Inside Ubisoft

Yoan Fanise spent 14 years working at Ubisoft, and during that time—some of which was spent working on the blockbuster series the company is famous for—he was also somehow able to release one of the smallest, bravest games we’ve ever seen from a major publisher. That game, Valiant Hearts, is both a war game and…

Cities: Skylines Town Has One House, One Family

My Cities: Skylines metropolis ended up pretty big! The game, like its peers in the genre, encourages you to go big in order to unlock new/better stuff. But you don’t have to. In fact, you make your city as small as it could possibly be. This PC Gamer piece shows what happens when you build…

It’s That Kanye x Zelda Crossover You Always Wanted

Unless you didn’t want the lastone. Or didn’t want either, but must now suffer through both. gabscermade these last year, “as a present for a digital secret santa last christmas”. All I got from mine was spice rack. And not even a good spice rack. Very jealous.