Luke Plunkett

Plays Like Syndicate, Looks Like…The Sabotage Video

Bringing together 1993 classic Syndicate and the video clip to Sabotage might not seem like your average video game inspiration, but that’s exactly what’s making LA Cops look so damn cool. Indie studio Modern Dream’s (the Button Affair guys) game drops you in a super-stylish, isometric 70s world and gives you two characters to control,…

The Best Thing About Titanfall Is Not The Giant Robots

From the marketing to the name of the game itself, Titanfall pitches itself as a game defined by its use of giant combat mechs. And indeed, in your first few hours with the game, that’ll be all you really pay attention to. With good reason! They’re visually impressive. The effect when they “fall” is amazing.…

Start The Week With Some Sweet Sci-Fi Art

Nivanh Chanthara is a concept artist at Eidos Montreal, the developers of Deus Ex and Thief. Prior to that, Chanthara was at Gameloft and Beenox. We actually looked at some of Nivanh’s work last year, but he’s had such a massive influx of new (and amazing) work in his portfolio that he’s worth a second…

Aliens Power Loader Costume Is The Real Deal

Carsten Riewe built this Aliens costume for the “Karneval” party in his hometown in Germany. If you’re wondering where exactly that is, it’s bay 12, please. That’s Carsten inside the suit. The “driver” is his 13 month-old daughter, strapped to his chest. The sound effects aren’t dubbed over the clip; inside the rear of the…

IKEA Has Furniture For Everyone. Even Cosplayers.

You might think would be a joke commercial, but nope. It’s seriously trying to help! Well, as seriously as you can get helping a man find storage space for giant robot boots, anyway.

Twitch Plays Pokemon, The Inevitable Cosplay

Well, that didn’t take long Some awesome cosplay from Colleen Chee, while the pic is from photographer William Phan If you’re not sure what’s going on, or just want a recap of what happened when thousands of people tried to play Pokemon at the same time, here’s a good place to start

A Nintendo Minute video from last month featured cosplayer Li Kovacs, who took the hosts through the process of designing and building one of her amazing Zelda outfits.

Welcome To Kotaku’s New Cosplay Site!

For the last few years, nearly all of Kotaku’s cosplay coverage has been focused on a weekly roundup we called Fancy Pants. It was intended to serve as a collection of the best of the last week in cosplay (and cosplay photography). It was fun, but like all fun things, sooner or later it had…

Assassin’s Creed meets Jack Sparrow? Savvy. Cosplayer is Ace Pendragon, while Vivien Kwong took the photo.

Bree the V. is killing it as Poison, from Final Fight. Photo by DROO

My New Favorite Thief Review

Sorry Kirk. You did a good job with all those words and feelings, but you’re nae a Scottish man in a plush brown bathrobe and police hat. If you’ve never caught one of Tam McGleish’s reviews before, know that they’re worth watching on two fronts. One, yes, they’re funny, but like Mr. Plinkett’s film reviews,…

The Building Blocks Of BioShock Infinite

Calen Brait worked on BioShock Infinite for five years as lead modeler. Amongst his other roles, he got to engage in some digital architecture and exterior design. These pieces are thus a little different from what we normally see here on Fine Art, looking more like a toy catalogue than an art collection, but that’s…

LEGO Keyboard Actually Works As Real Keyboard

I’m not sure what’s most impressive here. The mere fact this looks like a working keyboard, the fact it works like a real keyboard, or that instead of a “Home” button it’s got a little house that you press. Builder Jason Allemann‘s keyboard is built entirely using existing LEGO pieces, which means that while most…

Kotaku’s Last Ever Cosplay Roundup (Change Is Coming)

Guys and gals, it’s been a fun three years, but Kotaku’s coverage of cosplay has outgrown a mere weekly roundup. So I’d like to welcome you all to Cosplay. It’s a sister site that’ll be focusing solely and exclusively on, well, costume play (though we’ll still be cross-posting the best of it to Kotaku’s front…

The Time True Detective’s Director Made A PlayStation Commercial

This PlayStation Vita commercial is nearly two years old. If you live in the United Kingdom you’ve probably seen it before (I don’t, and haven’t). I post it tonight, though, because of who made the clip: Cary Fukunaga. This wasn’t that big of a deal when the commercial was released. It is now. Continuing Sony’s…

The Week In Games: You Gonna Die

This is a new week. There are new video games coming out this week. These are those video games. TUESDAY, MARCH 11 Atelier Escha (PS3) Dark Souls 2 (Xbox 360, PS3) Titanfall (Xbox One, PC, Xbox 360) Towerfall (PS4) FRIDAY, MARCH 14 Yoshi’s New Island (3DS) Coming Soon: March 18: Final Fantasy X HD (Vita),…

Maintain Your Own Consoles (And PC) Like A Boss

iFixit, the website that loves to take things apart, has come up with their own electronics refurbishment kit. And I really want one, even though I’d have no idea what the hell I’d be doing. Priced at $120, it includes pretty much everything you’d need to not just perform some basic repairs on something, but…

No New Wing Commander Games? Let’s Remake The Music Instead.

Here’s a Kickstarter that’s speaking directly to both my 14 and 33 year-old self: composer George Oldziey is looking for the money to go back and re-record a bunch of Wing Commander music, and this time do it right Oldziey composed the score to games like Wing Commander III & IV, with III’s theme particularly…

Razer Headphones That Aren’t Even Meant For Video Games

Well, this has been a strange week. I was down to review a couple of new sets of headphones from Razer. I was expecting to be testing them on my PC and consoles, but ended up spending most of the week using them on my phone and 3DS. Which, it turns out, is what I…

Alexandre Diboine’s Art Is The Highlight Of My Week

Alexandre “Zedig” Diboine currently works at Activision. If you think that means he draws army men all day, though, you couldn’t be further from the truth. He works at Beenox, a studio that’s mostly done Skylanders stuff. And his art is some of the cheeriest, most vibrant we’ve shown here this year. In fact, it’s…