Luke Plunkett

League Of Legends: Metal Bands And Pool Parties

Chengwei Pan is an artist who has done some work for Riot on League of Legends. You’ve probably seen it if you play the game, as he’s done art for stuff like the Pool Party and the banner image for LoL’s metal band Pentakill. You can see more of Pan’s work at his personal site…

Swordfighting, As You See It In The Movies, Is A Lie

The kind of swordfighting you see in movies and TV shows, where everything is graceful and balletic and entertaining, is fiction. Nobody ever fought like that. The real thing was messy Back to the Source is a documentary that’s going to look into the revival of traditional European martial arts, specifically the art of clanging…

Piracy Killed The Dreamcast, Piracy Saved The Dreamcast

Marketing, timing and the PS2 all played a big part, but one of the other reasons cited in the untimely demise of the Dreamcast was the ease with which games could be pirated. That may be, but as Michael Gapper reminds us, it was also one of the best things about the system. And I…

Goodbye, PS3, It Was A Fun Seven Years

Last year was a sad year. Sure, I got some new consoles and handhelds, which is always fun, but I also said goodbye to my Wii, my Xbox 360 and my Nintendo DS, all replaced by newer, more expensive machines. Lots of good memories there, lots of good times to say goodbye to. My PS3,…

World Of Warcraft Wedding Was A Cosplay Extravaganza

Inspired by reader Craig’s festivities last year, Taiwanese couple EK and KiKi tied the knot recently in one of the most over-the-top celebrations of World of Warcraft you’ll ever see. While vows were exchanged in traditional suits and dresses, once it came time to party the couple changed into WoW outfits, the groom turning into…

Tiny Madden Player Is The Game’s Cutest Little Glitch

Scouts said he was too small for the NFL. Well, Titans LB Christian Kirksey sure showed them.

Hollywood Reminds Us The Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthin’ Ta F**k Wit

Warning: this is NSFW Not at work? God, it is so good. Not just for the fact they got it all spliced up, but because of the sheer variety in the types of movie used. The clip was actually made earlier this year, with help from Subzin, but a RT from the RZA has helped…

“Don’t Forget Your Jacket!”, Mother Robot Shouted

Lukas Fußhöller is a freelance concept artist from Germany. He has some cool ideas on what robots could look like. These “kitbash” designs are one of the few truly fresh takes on bipedal killing machines I’ve seen for a while. What they’re lacking in practicality (cleaning them must be a nightmare), they more than make…

Cosplaying As The Witch Of The Wilds

Russian cosplayer Mono Abel is here doing a fantastic Flemeth from Dragon Age. It’s the amazing outfit that first grabs your attention, but it’s the hint of menace in that scowl that really sells it. Photos by Dzeta & Aiger (via Cosplay Blog)

Over 1000 Game Creators Call For An End To “Hateful, Harassing Speech”

Stating that everyone “has the right to play games, criticize games and make games without getting harassed or threatened”, some of the biggest names in gaming have put their names to an open letter addressing the community conflict that’s been so prominentonline over the past few weeks. That number includes developers from companies like EA,…

Gears Of War Controller Looks Like It Just Chainsawed Someone

End of Line Design’s custom Gears of War 360 controller is probably the only time (Silent Hill aside) it would be OK to put a bloody bandage on a controller. Made by reader Devin (whose work we’ve featured before), it nails the aesthetic and feel of Gears, from the rusted texture of the body to…

Homeworld’s Cutscenes Now In HD, Look…OK

Relic’s space strategy game Homeworld, one of the all-time greats, is getting a long-overdue remake so that it runs properly on modern PCs. Which means aside from prettier spaceships and asteroids, we’re also getting prettier cutscenes. Most of this clip below is marketing fluff designed as a PAX panel, but in the opening section you…

Cosplayer The Lady Nerd was in a car crash the other day. A pretty bad one. With some major surgery and rehab ahead of her, some friends have set up a GoFundMe page to help pay some of the costs

Here You Go, A Cockpit For Your Flying Video Games

This is a Kickstarter for a cardboard package that, when assembled, becomes a wrap-around cockpit for your flight sim and space shooter sessions. It sounds so dorky, but once you see it mocked-up and sitting there, it actually looks – if you’ve got the space for it – pretty badass. Getting the full thing isn’t…

Stupid Marvel Cover Turns Out To Be Secretly Horrifying

Earlier this month, Marvel approved a cover (above, drawn by Milo Manara) for an upcoming issue of Spider-Woman that was so stupid that the stupidity overran the offensiveness. Like, really? You’re just going to stick her ass up in the air like that? She climbs buildings like a porno shoot? The thing is, while the…

SimCity Megacity Has Over 100 Million People Living In It

Peter Richie’s SimCity 4 project, called (what else) Megacity One, is like something out of a science-fiction story. Using 81 large city tiles, 26,542km of roads, 8,626km of subway lines and 324 hydrogen power plants, he has managed to create a single sprawling metropolis of 107,658,254 people. For reference, the largest urban centre in the…

Nintendo’s Little Plastic Figures Look Fantastic

Nintendo’s Amiibo figures are, like Skylanders and Disney Infinity, designed first and foremost for video games. But where they differ from Activision and Disney’s efforts is that I would buy all of these just to sit on my desk, quality of the games be damned. Especially since, at $13 each, they’re comfortably in “I’m just…

Track: The Keeper (ft. Andreya Triana) – Banks Remix | Artist: Bonobo | Album: Black Sands Remixed Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Hodor is A DJ, And His First Game Of Thrones Rave Looked Awesome

So, in case you didn’t already know this piece of pub trivia, Kristian Nairn – the actor who plays Hodor on Game of Thrones – is also a DJ. Last night in Sydney, he played the first show of his new tour called…Rave of Thrones. There were costumes. Everywhere. Dance site inthemix has the full…

Dudes, There’s A Bear In Your Tent

Fabio Barretta Zungrone is a senior matte painter at Blizzard, where he works in the company’s cinematics team. Which means a lot of the stuff you’re going to see here, where the background (mountains, clouds, etc) looks like a photo, is actually a “painting”. Amazing stuff. You can see more of Fabio’s work at his…