Luke Plunkett

Real Human Should Probably Have Taken Damage From This Jump

I’ve seen parkour videos where the perspective makes it look like a video game. I haven’t seen many where I actually hold my breath and think, boy, even in a video game that might have been fatal. But nope, not here, because Ethan Swanson – a stuntman – doesn’t just make the jump, he also…

The Inventory Of A Soldier, Over 1000 Years Of War

Photographer Thom Atkinson is to thank for this captivating series of shots that show everything an English soldier has carried into battle (or at least near a battle) over the last 1000 years. As you can probably guess, there are more magazines and snacky treats now than there were at the Battle of Hastings. While…

Japan Wants To Create A Space Force

The Mainichi Shimbun is reporting that Japan plans to create a “space force” within its existing Self Defence Force, hoping to have it operational by 2019. Took them long enough. Its role will be to monitor “dangerous debris floating in Earth’s orbit”, as well as “protecting satellites from collisions with such debris”. The force will…

Wu-Tang and Crash Bandicoot, together at…last? This mashup of Gravel Pit v Crash Bandicoot: Warped is just fantastic.

One Dude Sings Halo Theme In A Church, Sounds Like The Real Deal

I can’t remember the last time there was a greater disconnect between what I was looking at and what I was hearing. This is…just some dude! Looks like he’s on holiday! Only, he can sing. And he’s singing in a church in Switzerland where the acoustics are just right. I’m pretty much head-to-toe with goosebumps…

Awesome School Teaches Through LARPing

There is a school in Denmark that teaches through Live-Action Role-Play. Or, LARPing. Amazing. This isn’t actually a documentary; it’s part of a larger film called Trapped Treasure, which is all about LARPing. We featured another excerpt from it last year. Can’t wait to see the finished product.

Cosplayers Asked On National TV If They’ve Had Sex In Their Costumes

Well, this is kinda weird. Jimmy Kimmel’s team went to Comic-Con last week, and asked a bunch of cosplayers if they’d ever had sex in their costumes. A funny enough question, I guess, but Kimmel’s tone and the “game show” element seems a bit off. Like, this could have been a cool feature on cosplay,…

So, You Can Now Buy Badass Motherboards?

Here’s a motherboard for people who buy internal PC components based on their looks. It’s the *deep breath* ASUS Republic of Gamers Maximus VII Formula Z97. Proving yet again that these companies could do with paying someone to think of better product names. In terms of specs, it can take 32GB of DDR3 RAM, has…

New World Record For Data Transfer Laughs At Your Gigabytes

A team at the Technical University of Denmark has managed to blast 43 terabits of data down a fiber cable in a single second, setting a new world record for the fastest ever data transfer speed. For reference, that’s 1GB of data in just 0.2 milliseconds. These records tend to be broken every few years…

Cinema Plays Wrong Movie To Guardians Of The Galaxy Crowd

You know how it goes. You settle in to catch the Summer’s big blockbuster (which by all accounts is excellent), the curtains part, the sound kicks in, a movie with the word “Guardians” in the title starts playing and…wait a minute… Obviously, the theatre being full of people, poor maddie wasn’t alone Better luck next…

Track: Sunsethighway | Album: Dusket | Artist: Kiln Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Nice Neo-Tokyo You Got Here. Be A Shame If Something Happened To It…

Gia Nguyen Hoang is a concept artist and matte painter from Vietnam who has worked as a freelancer across most forms of entertainment, including video games. The two Akira pics you see are part of the sameproject we showed you the other day. You can see more of Hoang’s art at his personal site To…

No, this isn’t turning into an Attack on Titan subsite. But would it be so terrible if it did? So long as people keep doing awesome AoT cosplay, I’ll keep posting it. Group cosplay by WTF People, photo byPugoffka-sama

Mod Turns Lord Of The Rings Into Petty Political Bloodbath

Oh. Great. Just as I wean myself off the wonderful Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings II, now I find out there’s a Lord of the Rings mod for Crusader Kings II. OK, so it’s not quite as perfect a fit for CKII’s “strategy vs backstabbing politics” as Game of Thrones is, but it’s…

The headline of this Wired piece reads“NASA validates ‘impossible’ space drive”. It’s the kind of news that won’t make the front page today, but will hopefully make the “How Humanity Conquered Deep Space” history books of tomorrow.

Refugee Makes A Living Using An Old PS2

Mohammed Osman Ali, a refugee in Uganda, is doing his best to make the best of a bad situation, setting up a business in…video games. Scavenging old parts, hardware and games, and busting his ass to find out how they all worked so he could maintain them, he’s managed to establish an “arcade” in his…

Fake Miyamoto Tweets Are Better Than Real Miyamoto Tweets

Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto is not on Twitter. That’s why he has to askquestions the old-fashioned way. If he was, though, boy, wouldn’t it be awesome if he just let loose like this. Parody accounts of game developers are nothing new, but what I like about this one is that it actually cuts pretty close…

FIFA’s Luis Suarez Develops Taste For Digital Flesh

I’m a little unsure as to where this actually originated – every retweeter is repeating the same “OMG SO REAL” joke – but hey, enjoy it regardless.

There’s A Concert On Twitch, And The Comments Are Bonkers

Taking a little break from letting people play video games in front of other people, streaming site Twitch is tonight hosting a concert by Steve Aoki. The comments, as anyone who’s ever used Twitch can probably guess, are hilarious. So…people are basically typing that they’re throwing their hands up/dancing. Even though they’re not, since they’re…