Luke Plunkett

Gear Upis an indie multiplayer shooter in which you could never, ever complain about the design of your character. Because you get to build it from the ground up.

About As Real As Knights Of Sidonia Is Going To Get

I finally got around to watching Knights of Sidonia the other day, and I loved it. From the genderless pilots to the amazing world design to the fact there’s a giant bear walking around and nobody gives a shit. I also loved the mechs, which were unique enough to stand out while still being (relatively)…

Sorry Ubisoft, Nintendo Beat You To The Top (Of The Mountain)

Ubisoft is spending a lot of money on a competitionwhich promises to let one person become the first to ever play a video game on Mt Everest, using custom hardware built to withstand the “harsh conditions”. It sounds amazing! Pity it’s already been done. As this epic thread bump on NeoGAF shows (the original Kotaku…

21 Custom Xbox One Consoles Go From “Yes Please” To “God Whyyyy”

While Sony has been about as lazyas it gets when it comes to custom PS4 consoles, Microsoft is getting a little more adventurous at Comic-Con, showing off a range of what it’s calling “collectible consoles”. They’re about as custom as you could hope for, many with their own colour scheme and graphics emblazoned all over…

League of Legends’ Jinx, by MangaFreak150. Photo by Al Lin

If you somehow hadn’t already got into the Destiny beta already, know that the thing is now open to everyone. Even if you don’t have a beta key.

Stars. Stars Everywhere.

Noah Bradley is an artist who has worked for clients like Wizards of the Coast, Fantasy Flight Games and Deep Silver. When he’s not making your video, board and card games look nice, he’s working on a solo project called The Sin Of Man You can check out more of Noah’s work at his personal…

In This, The Year Of Awesome Luigi Action Figures

Following on from the release earlier this year of a killer Marioset, this SH Figuarts Luigi is looking just as good. He is not ridin’ dirty. What he is doing, though, is jumping, posing and kickin’ bad guys, since the figure’s design allows for a massive range of movement. It’s also great that it includes…

This is the logo for the upcoming Warcraft movie. It’s been a long, long time since I thought about that word without “World of” in front of it.

When Science Looks Seriously At A…Star Wars Planet

Actual science writers don’t always have to write about real planets. Sometimes, when the fancy takes them, they can write about fake ones. Like, say, Tatooine, from the Star Wars universe. SciLogs got a bunch together and asked them to pick something from Tatooine and write about it, as though they were approaching it like…

Hey, Hohokum, Get In My PS4 Already

Still not quite sure how this is going to actually play. But whatever. It looks fantastic and sounds, courtesy of Ghostly’s ensemble soundtrack, even better.

Sony Agrees To Give Away Games, Money After 2011 PSN Hack [UPDATE]

UPDATE (7/24): Sony’s sent over a statement: A proposed settlement has been reached in the class action lawsuits arising from the April 2011 criminal cyber-attacks on the PlayStation Network, Qriocity, and Sony Online Entertainment services. Information regarding the proposed settlement, which is subject to final approval by the Court, is available in the settlement agreement…

This Cosplay’s Nicer Than My Apartment

We showed you the clipthis was in the other day, but this Axel Foley cosplay is so damn good I thought it deserved its own post. If anyone was there and knows who this guy is, let us know!

Devil May Cry? More Like Devil May Swoon

Phew. Leon, put your shirt back on. My monitor is fogging up. Photo by Shudan

Back To The Future Action Figure Is A Perfect, Tiny Michael J. Fox

I’ve been trying for an hour now to stuff money inside my monitor, but the damn thing won’t take it. The impending San Diego Comic-Con will see a lot of new and exclusive toys shown off, but they’re going to have to work very hard to top this effort by Hot Toys, which is a…

An 80’s X-Men Music Video. Just In Case That’s Something You’re Into.

Hey, it’s Dazzler, who is about as 80’s as an X-Men character gets, starring in her own 80’s music video. Yeah, it’s as weird as it sounds. The number of comic in-jokes going on here is bananas. Gentry Roth stars as Dazzler, while costumes were done by Cozday Clothing. Arvin Bautista directed

War Is Hell (Except With Tiny Pigs)

Redsteam is a creative studio based in Shanghai that “maintains an essential role in the production of Gameloft games”. We’ve featured the work of some of their individual artists previously on Kotaku, but today we’re going to look at the studio’s recent output as a whole. You can check out more of their stuff at…

LeBron James Sounds Like The World’s Best/Worst Gamer

This ESPN storyon the “mighty mind” of the basketball superstar leads with an unexpected anecdote: LeBron was really, really good at playing….Shaq Fu on the Genesis. “LeBron was the only one who had memorized all the moves and so he’d win every time”, remembers James’ friend Brandon Weems. “We all thought he definitely was cheating.”…

League Of Legends Testing New System For Banning Assholes

As popular as it is, League of Legends has always had an issue with its community, which to be polite can often be seen as “rude“. And while developers Riot are trying some novelapproaches to mending this the nice way, that carrot is being joined by a new, heavy stick. Riot is currently testing a…