Luke Plunkett

The Best Handheld Zelda Game

Ask people to name their favourite Zelda games and they’ll invariably start with console titles. Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, Wind Waker, Breath of the Wild. The handheld Zelda games, most of which are excellent, are often left off the list. From the old Oracle games through to Link Between Worlds,…

System Shock 2 Now Has An (Unofficial) Sequel

Classic PC RPG System Shock 2, without which there would be no BioShock series, was released in 1999. It never got an official sequel, but that hasn’t stopped fans from putting one together. It’s called System Shock Infinite (cute), and while sharing the same location gives you an all-new story, which kicks off right after…

Track: The Laughter Faded | Artist: Apollo Brown | Album: Thirty Eight Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

This Wednesday, January 14, there’ll be a Nintendo Direct at 6am PT/9am ET. It’ll be “focused on spring 2015 Wii U and Nintendo 3DS titles”.

Well, This Kid Will Never Sleep Again

Eric Felten is an artist based in The Netherlands. He’s previously worked for companies like Guerilla, the developers of the Killzone series. This image above is enough to give a kid nightmares. The images below are of a less spooky-as-shit nature. You can see more of Eric’s art at his ArtStation page To see the…

Smuggler Caught With 94 iPhones Strapped To His Body

There’s money to be made smuggling iPhone 6s into China. Enough that people who are not as bright as professional smugglers are getting in on the action. Accordig to a Sinareport, via Daily Dot, this genius was caught trying to get from Hong Kong into mainland China. Customs officials got suspicious when they noticed him…

The Best Skyrim Mods

Skyrim was released over three years ago! In video game terms it’s a senior citizen, and by all rights should be long gone. But it’s still insanely popular, in large part down to the variety of game-changing mods available for it. From UI tweaks to texture overhauls, thanks to mods users are able to customise…

Forza 6 Announced

Microsoft just showed the first trailer for Forza 6. And by trailer, I mean commercialfor new carthat also happens to be in the game. I’m not kidding; half the video is actual footage of the car itself being shown off at the Detroit Auto Show. The other half is a slow pan around the game’s…

R2-D2 Subtitles Reveal An Angry, Frustrated Little Droid

Jabba got subtitles. Greedo got subtitles. But poor R2-D2, he never got subtitles, so the astromech droid spends six movies bleeping around with the audience left to guess at what’s on his mind. Until now. Eclectic Method (via Laughing Squid) have gone through the six flicks and subtitled R2’s scenes, revealing a deeply frustrated droid…

Make-Up Turns Woman Into Seal, Reindeer, Elvis

Maria Malone-Guerbaa is a human, who through the power of make-up (and some fancy coats) is able to transform herself into a bunch of animals (and celebrities). It’s impressive stuff, especially since her subjects are so diverse. Animals, humans, even cartoon characters, if it’s got a face that’s not Maria’s, she can copy it with…

The Queen Of The Damned

Kilart is a South Korean artist working in the video game business. If you’ve played one of Applibot’s mobile card games — you know, the terrible gameswith incredibleart — you’ve maybe seen his stuff. You can see more Kilart’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their…

First-Person Zombie Movie Is A Man Running (And Jumping) For His Life

Dying Light, named for the video game it’s promoting, is a short, first-person zombie movie that is shot entirely from the perspective of a man sprinting over rooftops, frantically trying to avoid becoming fresh meat. The perspective can get a little sickening at times (the FOV, with his looooong arms, is off), but on the…

Kim Jong Un Video Game Hacked, Creators Claim

First announcedin May 2014, Glorious Leader is a platformer where you control North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. And just like the man it’s based on, the game has been caught up in a hacking fiasco. Having been pretty quiet since its reveal, the game moved to Kickstarterlast month hoping to pull together the funds…

Genius Stargate Cosplay Is, Well, A Human Stargate

Cosplayer Nyima-chan loses Stargate cosplay points for not dressing as James Spader. And…look, that’s about the only negative I could find about this entire thing, which from the concept to the execution is just terrific Pic below by Szani (via Daily Dot)

Let The Internet Create The Ultimate D&D Character

If you find that creating your role-playing character’s backstory a little rough (thanks to your sense of imagination being dulled to a smooth sheen), the internet — as always — is here to help. Who The Fuck Is My D&D Character is a generator (via Super Punch) made by Ryan J Grantthat will do as…

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The Best Civilization V Leader

There are dozens of leaders to choose from every time you sit down to play a new game of Civilization V, each with their own sets of perks and bonuses. Some are good, some are OK, some are terrible, but only one is the overall best, and that leader is Elizabeth. The thing with most…

A Collection Of Dark, Beautiful Sci-Fi Art

Alexander Mandradjiev is an artist based in LA who works in both games and film. A lot of artists these days, regardless of what they’re working on, make the most of their digital tools to make everything look clean, and smooth. What I love about Mandradjiev’s stuff, aside from the dark and heavy tone, is…

Coding Conference Postponed Because One Direction Ruined Everything

DjangoCon is an annual convention for people who code in Django, which powers websites like Instagram and Pinterest (and can also be used in games development). Its European version was supposed to go down in June, but then a boy band happened, and everything went to shit. Soppy British teens One Direction, one of the…

Wild Theory: Luke Skywalker Wasn’t Meant To Be A Jedi, He Was Bait

This is one of those things where you have to imagine events from the perspective of the character, and not the guy writing the movies. And when you do that, it’s not the dumbest twist on established Star Wars canon you’ve ever read. Yesterday, wondering the kind of things you’re prone to wonder about in…