Luke Plunkett

Looks Like Harmonix’s Shooter Is Going Back To The Drawing Board

Harmonix, of Rock Band fame, turned some heads recently when they announced a musical…first-person shooter. That game, Chroma, has already been through some early alpha testing, and it doesn’t sound like things went that great. An email being sent out by Harmonix to testers thanks them for their input, and says that “Based on the…

Watch Dogs PR Stunt Ends With Bomb Squad Called To News Office

A PR stunt for Ubisoft’s new Watch Dogs game has backfired, with a Police bomb squad called to the offices of an Australian news station. A package arrived at the offices of Ninemsn yesterday, containing a letter and a small safe. Media industry site Mumbrella reports that the letter told the addressee to check their…

Alas Poor Yorrick! We Shipped Him Freight.

Yulin Li is a concept artist who, having worked in Shanghai for a few years, has recently moved to Canada. You can see more of Yulin’s work here and here To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand”…

It’s just another day at the office for the soldiers of the Dark Souls universe.

Nicole Jacobs writes over on Bleeding Cool about the issue of harassment (and inadequate policies) at conventions. It’s required reading, if only so you can see Hollaback Philly’s anti-harassment cards.

World’s Tallest Waterslide Delayed After Testers Go Airborne

The Schlitterbahn park in Kansas is home to the Verrückt, which when open will be the world’s tallest waterslide. It won’t be open for a little while, though, because it’s been reported that some testers – going at 60-70mph – have been going airborne. The slide is 168 feet tall, and the problem seems to…

Kairisia as Red from Transistor. Photo by BHMT. This is so good I don’t even know where to begin.

Wolfenstein Was Both Loved And Hated By Pirates

Wolfenstein’s digital version on PC is a monstrous 43GB download. If you thought that was an inconvenience for people using Steam’s servers, spare a thought (or a laugh) for those trying to illegally download the game TorrentFreak has taken a look at the comments sections of some piracy links and come up with a few…

Valve’s Steam Machines (Probably) Delayed Until 2015

Valve’s Eric Hope has announced a delay in the company’s Steam Machine hardware. Writing in a community post, Hope says in relation to the system’s controller that “Realistically, we’re now looking at a release window of 2015, not 2014”. “Obviously we’re just as eager as you are to get a Steam Machine in your hands”,…

Two Days With Watch Dogs

While Kirk plays his way through the entire game in order to get our formal review done, I thought I’d pass the time by writing up my own impressions of Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs, which I’ve been playing for a couple of days now. The short version is I don’t really like it that much. The…

Yup, The Next Battlefield Game Is About Cops

All-but-confirming earlier reports, EA has opened a website for Battlefield: Hardline, which from the previous stories and the official imagery appears to ditch global warfare in favour of some very heavy-handed police action. Counter-Strike with tanks, anyone? The site is saying there’ll be a more comprehensive unveiling on June 9 (ie, at E3) at 12:00PDT.…

A Rare Sighting Of A Wild Derpfish

Ivan Khomenko is one of the artists at One Pixel Brush, a studio we’ve featured here on Fine Art previously. You can see more of Ivan’s work at his Facebook and ArtStation pages. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click…

Track: Rapperfection | Album: Primitive Plus | Artist: Edan (feat. Mr. Lif) Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Magic: The Gathering Jumps Off Cards, Lands On Your Desk/Shelf

Magic: The Gathering has, over the years, lured some of the best fantasy artists on the planet to draw some of the coolest fantasy characters on the planet. So this line of action figures based on some of the best are a no-brainer. Amazingly, these will be the first official Magic figures in over a…

Photographer and “light artist” Michael Bosanko used, well, lights and photography to capture this Pac-Man homage. Light Graffiti [Michael Bosanko, via Gamefreaks]

As Close To Hoverboarding As We’re Probably Going To Get

What do this original Kinect and Wii Balance Board have in common? Aside from a general irrelevance to video games in 2014, they’ve also come together to bring us the hoverboarding future that the real world has sadly failed to deliver. The two peripherals link up with an Oculus Rift headset to form the cornerstone…

Pacific Rim Cosplay Is Suitably Massive

Given the fact it’s got giant robots and weird-lookin’ giant aliens, Pacific Rim isn’t the easiest movie to cosplay as. Which only makes this badass Pacific Rim cosplay even more impressive. Thai cosplay outfit C4 Team have made not only three Jaegers (complete with lighting), but a Kaiju as well. If you’re wondering why there’s…

Ryu, Enemy Of Waterfalls

Chad “Gammon” Walker is an artist who has done all kinds of video game work, from working on actual games to designing box art. He’s also had his work featured in Udon’s awesome Street Fighter books, worked on magazines, comics and even CD covers. You can see more of Chad’s work at his DeviantArt page…

Game Gets Two Name Changes Before It’s Even Out

How to confuse the hell out of potential fans of an upcoming video game: change its name twice during development. There once was a game called Dirty Bomb, made by the people behind Brink. It later had its name changed to the thoroughly unremarkable Extraction. It’s now had its name changed again. It’s not even…

See How Much Fun It Is To Make A Video Game, Fast

Remember GAME_JAM, that horror show that sounded like the worst possible way to feature indie gaming? Yeah, this is the complete opposite of that. Super Game Jam is a documentary series that has a neat/simple premise: pair up some of the best indie devs on the planet, give them 48 hours to make a video…