Luke Plunkett

Asking For No More BioShock Porn Means We Get More BioShock Porn

Last year, BioShock Infinite boss Ken Levine pleaded with the world to stop making Elizabeth porn. It didn’t work. Paste’s Maddy Myers has the storytoday of Zone, who if you’re not familiar with his stuff is an artist who, among other animation projects, makes porn games. Zone’s most recently released a BioShock Infinite one called…

Metal Gear Solid V Just Got Real

Yeah, we posted some images from this same Metal Gear cosplay shoot only recently. But screw it, because these news ones that just landed on my desk are way better. This is what happens when cosplayer Rick Boer and photographer Cynthia Veekens get together. It’s called magic.

Fake League Of Legends Characters Look As Good As The Real Ones

A little while ago, Riot Games asked the students at the FZD School of Design to submit some designs for League of Legends champions. They did good. Sure, not all of them strictly fit the design style of the actual game, but they all look awesome regardless. I think my favourite is Jens Bengtsson’s voodoo…

The Hong Kong Massacre Is An Awesome Name For A Game

Max Payne borrowed its most flamboyant trademark, and Stranglehold tried to do it in 3D, but no game has really captured the fell of a good old-fashioned Hong Kong action movie shootout. Maybe The Hong Kong Massacre can change that. At first glance it looks very Hotline Miami, but get past that – and into…

Nintendo Killing Online Services For Wii, DS

If you own either (or both!) of Nintendo’s last-gen machines, and you use any kind of online service with them, now’s the time to make the most of it. Because on May 20, Nintendo is pulling the plug. While both console’s online stores will remain, other stuff like online play, matchmaking and leaderboards will be…

You Should Pay Closer Attention To A Video Game’s Opening Credits

In case you ever wanted to know more about how a video game title sequence was put together, here’s a great interviewwith the three folks most responsible for The Last Of Us’ gross intro. You might think that all those swooshing cells and infection (see below) was done on a computer, but nope. Those are…

In Here, You Can Be A Monster, And Nobody Will Judge You

Gods Will Be Watching started outsmall, as a Ludum Dare project, a survival game taking place on a single screen. Its upcoming full release is a lot more ambitious. The full game will be a sci-fi point-and-click adventure that, rather than have you wandering around chatting to folks endlessly, drops you in a series of…

The Beards, Beaus & Bad Guys Of BioShock Infinite

We’re on a bit of a BioShock Infinite runat the moment. Sue me, the game had some fantastic concept art. Today we’re looking at Robb Waters’ stuff. Robb is an Irrational veteran who has worked on everything from System Shock (he designed SHODAN!) to Freedom Force (I’ve sprinkled some comic-style goodness below) to the BioShock…

NASA’s Insane Plan To Save A Doomed Space Shuttle

In 2003, the space shuttle Columbia was lost when an accident at launch – noticed but not acted upon – conspired to destroy it upon re-entry. It was a great tragedy, and one that spurred NASA to develop a contingency plan which could have saved the stricken crew. It reads like a movie script that…

Paedophile Hoax Convinces People A Cartoon Cat Is A Perv

Motherboard has the interesting, if also slightly hilarious, storyof how Facebook fear-mongers and viral hoax merchants are spreading the tale of an iOS app that pervs on young kids. The app is called Talking Angela, and right now it’s on top of the App Store charts. There’s not much to it; you get a talking…

Disappointed by Fable III? Even series creator Peter Molyneux now admitsin an interview with Develop that “Fable III was a trainwreck”. It’s a good read if you want to see where it all went wrong.

The Sport Of The Future Is MMA vs Batman

While this might look like a rehearsal for an upcoming superhero movie, it’s actually a working concept for a suit of armour built by Sydney company Chiron Global. Armour that’s been designed not for show, but for sport The company is floating an idea called Unified Weapons Master, which essentially wants to be a weapons-based…

Metal Gear Creator Hideo Kojima, Transformed Into LEGO Minifig

This…portrait (?) of the famous developer isn’t fan art, it’s an official LEGO image, done by Warner Bros. and LEGO as a courtesy for Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima. Shame it’s just an image, and not an actual minifig you could buy. Then have it tweet about its lunch and the DVDs it bought all…

Track: Main Title Theme | Album: House of Cards | Artist: Jeff Beal Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.

A Flappy Bird lament. The strange, sad story of Flappy Bird gets a game/music video combo courtesy of 7-bit Hero. You can play the game here

Inception Board Game Is A Board Game Inside A Board Game…

Inceptor is an upcoming board game that is, in everything except name (because that involves licensing), based on Chris Nolan’s movie Inception. Players move around a board collecting points, which go towards mission cards. Once a mission is complete, you then move deeper into a subject’s dreams. A nice touch is that it even includes…

In Samus We Trust

Jorge Lacera has spent the last six years at Irrational Games, working on the BioShock series (he was lead artist on Infinite). If that top image looks familiar, that’s because we actually featuredit a while back; today’s gallery however will have a lot of BioShock in it. You can see more of Jorge’s work at…

I Hope The Bonus Stage Is The End Of Raiders Of The Lost Ark

It’s getting tough to figure out where the real games end and Sim Generator begins. (This, for the record, is a real game).

Creep Stalks Hot Topic Employee On Facebook, Gets Served

This Facebook exchange between two strangers begins as many Facebook exchanges between random dudes and female retail clients go. We lead off with a fairly standard exercise in online stalking. Man walks into store, sees a girl he likes, uses mutual friend to get personal details on girl then private messages her on Facebook. “I’m…

T-Shirt Is Appropriate

I’m not sure if this is coincidence or performance art. Pilot Rob Weber was flying around the other day, minding his own business when a bird “slammed into his plane and shattered the windshield”. Interviewed by the media afterwards, if that was the shirt he just happened to be wearing, awesome. If not, then well…