Luke Plunkett

The Sun Is Gone, So It’s Time To Make Friends

This is Ashen. It’s “an action RPG about a wanderer in search of a place to call home”. It looks awesome. Set in a world with no sun, which I first took to be Scotland (sorry Mark) but which is instead some kind of fictional wasteland, its developers say the main aim of the game…

A Badass Redesign of Gordon Freeman’s Suit

Artist Daryl Mandryk, who we’ve featured on Kotaku before, has given Gordon Freeman’s HEV suit an unofficial redesign. It’s very practical. I like it. A lot.

The Smoke Is A Cosplay Superstar

Eric “The Smoke” Moran is a wrestler, actor and producer (and comic book hero). He is also one hell of a cosplayer. You know what’s most impressive, other than the obviously fantastic outfits? It’s the range. From Spawn to Battle of the Planets to Batman to Appleseed to Judge Dredd to Assassin’s Creed, he’s covering…

Every day that we get to see Princess Mononoke cosplay is a good day. Cosplay by Meisha Mock, photo by Joits (via cosplayblog).

Hey Space Game Fans, Check This Out

Indie developer Stéphanie Rancourt emailed me the other day with a proposal. She wanted to see if I was interested in the space game she was working on. Little did she know it was about as much my thing as a video game can get. The game, Deep Space Settlement, is something she’s been working…

Heist Movie Comes To Life As Samsung Factory Raided

In what even Reuters admits sounds like the script of a “daring crime movie”, a group of around 20 armed criminals in Brazil have got away with $36 million worth of Samsung gear after robbing a factory. First, having waited for the sun to go down, seven of the thieves stole a company shuttle bus,…

When Video Games Are Illegal, The Cops Are…Idiots

Well, this is nice. Vid Agents is a video game series that, instead of doing the usual thing of blending cosplay with fanfic, is actually entirely original. It’s called VID AGENTS, and is about the cops tasked with policing a ban on video games. It is, in case you can’t tell from the gif, not…

Wow

Form Language is a Canadian art studio that, as you’re about to see, have “extensive training in classical drawing and painting”. Cartoon barbarian boobs this ain’t. That image up top might be the most beautiful thing this feature has ever run. You can see more of Form’s work at their company site To see the…

Link Retires From Adventuring, Takes Up…Wrestling

Oakland’s Hoodslam indie wrestling events, which we’ve actually covered before, outdid themselves over the weekend with theatrically combative tributes to not just Street Fighter, but Zelda as well. These clips were taken by @jjsignal (artist on the very cool Read Only Memories, check it out), who had a way better Saturday night than any of…

GameStop’s Preorder Plans Sound Like Bad News [Update]

Of all the things wrong with big, blockbuster video games, few are as shitty as the obsession with preordering. So you’ll be just thrilled to know that GameStop’s plans for the future of the practice are, should they ever come to fruition, pretty much a nightmare scenario. According to a report on GamesBeat, the retail…

Racing Car Gets Joke Half-Life 3 Sponsorship

The reader blog over at Jalopnik got a pretty sweet deal last month: for just a few bucks they could get their names on a car that was competing in the famous 24 Hours Nürburgring endurance race in Germany. Thing is, not everyone who contributed went with their real name. One contributor, Savant, saw his…

Why Street Fighter Is More Than Just A Game

More Than A Game is a documentary that was a long time in the making. It chronicles the lead-up to (and events of) EVo 2011, and features interviews with some of the scene’s biggest names. It’s a good watch for fighting game fans, yeah, but also for anyone else, because it gets under the skin…

Broforce is one of the best games of 2014. It’s now a little better, a little Broier, after a weekend update added two new Bros and some other stuff.

Wild Thornberries cosplay. Because why not. Cosplay by Josh & Tascha, photo by So Say We All

There’s No Such Thing As A Nintendo

Blake J. Harris, author of the excellent Console Wars, tweeted a pic of this 1990 poster over the weekend. Remember, adults (especially retailers, which is who this seems targeted at), Nintendo is an adjective, not a noun.

It’s Time To Get Serious About Fishing, PC Gamers

Fishing games have usually been more about abstract fun than fishing. A Dreamcast game with a plastic rod, for example, was never going to be an authentic simulation of the experience. But hey, now that the team behind Train Simulator are making one using Unreal Engine 4, maybe they’ll get a little more serious about…

Classic PC Shooter Finally Hits Steam, Five Years Later

Oh boy! Multiplayer shooter NeoTokyo, the classic Half-Life 2 mod that you’d be forgiven for thinking disappeared a long time ago, has just been released on Steam following a lengthy Greenlight campaign. Meaning, hopefully, a whole new crowd of people get to experience one of the slickest mods ever made Those who used to play…

The World’s Tallest Waterslide Is All Nope Nope Nope Too Fast

The Verrückt is the world’s tallest waterslide. We’re talking 168 feet of steel, plastic and sheer terror. It’s nearing completion, and as part of the process, some of the first humans have now put the slide through its paces (they initially tested with sandbags). This is video of them going down. Warning: don’t watch while…

A Rock Simulator Game You Can Play, But It’ll Hurt You

While the world (and financial backers) anxiously await the release of Rock Simulator, developers VAMflax have stolen a little thunder by releasing a rival game that’s already playable. It’s called VAMflax Rock And Field™, and is about as fun as it sounds once you work out it’s both about a rock and paying “homage” to…

Nothing Is True, Everything Is Patooties

Artist SHARK-E goes where Ubisoft could only dream.