Luke Plunkett

Cosplay, Meet Fashion

Cozdayis what happens when the DIY, bootstrap nature of cosplay meets the world of boutique fashion. It’s the work of designer Leetal Platt, and the idea is that she’s selling tailored clothing that, as you can see, combines the influences of both cosplay and clothes people actually wear outside cons. A warning: the stuff is…

Who Watches The Watch Dogs? Oh, She Does.

Fabien Troncal is an artist who has worked for a while now at Ubisoft, first at the company’s Paris studio and now in Montreal. A lot of the stuff he does is promotional and production art, meaning he works on the kind of images you see on posters, or website ads, or magazine covers, or…

If You Want To Play This Arcade Game, You’ve Gotta Find It

The MAME emulator has, for over a decade now, let people play arcade classics in the comfort of their own home. But it’s worth remembering that while the vast majority of games are out there and playable, at least in some form, not all of them are. Some, you simply have to play on the…

Ganon, Kratos, You Sure Look…Different

Zelda’s villain and the God of War put on a masterclass in genderbending cosplay at Otakon, held last week in Baltimore. Ganon is Ely Renae, Kratos is Emma Lu. Photo by Mike Kowalek.

Salmon Cannon Shoots Fish At 22mph

We can put a man on the moon, but we can’t fire fish over a dam in an enormous salmon cannon and…oh, wait, we can do that. This is quite literally a cannon for salmon. Just say that name a few times, test it out, see how it sounds like caramel dipping off the end…

Xbox One Will Soon Let You Play Pirated Movies & TV Shows

It’s not the kind of news that makes the headlines during a press conference, but it is the kind of news that can help sell systems: the Xbox One is getting native, official support for .mkv, one of the world’s most popular video formats (well, containers). Let’s get real: while they have many technical benefits,…

Track: Miss U | Artist: Shigeto | Album: No Better Time Than Now Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Angelina Jolie Cosplayer Is A Dead Ringer

It’s impressive how Natalya Blinkova, who from certain angles looks nothing like Angelina Jolie, can use a facial expression and a hairstlye change to suddenly look exactly like Angelina Jolie. Wanted, Maleficent, even Jolie’s weird CG turn in the Beowulf animated flick (which is probably the only shot below where she doesn’t nail the likeness),…

Father Takes Kids To Israel To Teach About Real War

When Carl-Magnus Helgegren’s young sons revealed how obsessed with Call of Duty they’d become, he decided it was time to teach them some things about war. And have them taught by people in the business. “They were talking to me like it was a cool game, and everybody else was playing it, and it had…

Nice Controller, Call Of Duty

We firstsaw the Call of Duty Xbox One console and controller this morning, but the pic was tiny and generally unhelpful. So here’s a better look. I…kinda like it! It’s like an expensive, militarised coffee machine.

World of Warcraft Has New Trolls, And They Look Great

Blizzard has today shown off another of its updated designs for World of Warcraft, this time for the Trolls. Thanks to some pretty stellar art design on the original, the differences between the old (shown on the left of each pic) and new male Trolls aren’t that significant (at least until the customisation kicks in,…

“We actually bought all the graphical assets off the internet. I think we bought the goat for $20 dollars on the internet. It was on sale, 75 percent off.” If you only read one more thing on the internet tonight, ensure it’s this, on how Goat Simulator was made.

Soldier Cops Aren’t So Fun Now, Video Games

“We rolled lighter than that in an actual warzone"

The Real Commander Shepard Reads Us All A Bedtime Story

*Yawn*. Been a long day, no? Lots of GamesCom news. Time to hit the hay. But before we do, let’s settle in and let the actual Commander Shepard, aka Jennifer Hale, read us all a story. A dramatic story. If you missed it, Sneaky Zebra has already done one featuringManShep voice actor Mark Meer.

Paradox? Grand Strategy? World War Two? A new Hearts of Iron game? Be still, my beating heart.

New RTS Game Parties Like It’s 1997

Because screw it, if EA won’t make new/better Command & Conquer games, then somebody else may as well give it a shot. Act of Aggression is actually a sequel to 2005’s Act of War. I’m cautiously optimistic about this, because it’s being developed by Eugen, the same guys behind the Wargame series.

Wow, They Actually Made Another Toy Soldiers Game

Part of me is furrowing my brow at the violent gender divide going on here. Why do “boy’s toys” and “girl’s toys” need to fight each other? Can’t kids just get along and play with all of them? Or just get some LEGO instead? But another part of me grew up with a little sister,…

When The Aliens Invade, Be Nice To Them

Ben Mauro is an artist who has got to work on, well, all kinds of cool stuff. Elysium, The Hobbit, Man of Steel, Spider-Man 2, even the new Call of Duty. We’ve featured his work before, but since he’s got a bunch of amazing new art that’s able to be shared with the public, we’re…

Because I Always Wanted To Be A Star Wars Admiral/Fish Man

I always thought the coolest job in the Star Wars universe was one of the guys/gals/fish aliens in charge of a fleet of enormous starships. So little exertion, so much fun The arrival of the velvet-smooth Grand Admiral Thrawn in the 1990s only cemented this view, yet for all the job’s luster, video games have…