Luke Plunkett

Most Kickstarter Games Are, Surprise, Missing Their Release Date

While some high-profile success stories are giving people hope, let’s not pretend that everything is OK with every game funded on Kickstarter. Because it’s not. UnSub has for a few years now been tracking the progress of successful Kickstarter video game campaigns (only those that actually hit their funding target). This latest version of the…

Go Berserk For Some Terrific Cosplay

Persona 3 cosplay. Assassin’s Creed IV cosplay. Star Wars cosplay. Hobbit cosplay. All these, and more, on this week’s instalment of FANY PANTS *cue delightfully up-beat TV intro music*. 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” button…

You Can Sink Los Santos With GTA V’s Game-Changing Mod

Who says you need a PC version of a game to get fantastic mods? Because this is the PS3 version of Grand Theft Auto V, and it’s so different it may as well be an all-new game. Made by Bushigan, it requires a modded PS3 (because you need to move some files around), but once…

A Man Has Spent Three Years Trying To Walk To The End Of Minecraft

There’s a place in Minecraft called the Far Lands. It’s the point where the game’s code, which builds each world procedurally, starts to collapse under the weight of its own sums, breaks apart and glitches out. The New Yorker has a great interview with Kurt J. Mac, a man who is trying to walk to…

12 Beautiful Options For Your Next Desktop Wallpaper

Joanne Harper is a screenshot artist, risking life and (her graphics card’s) limb to bring you pictures of video games so pretty you’ll want to stick them straight onto your desktop. The images below weren’t conjured in a marketing office for a magazine cover. They’re screenshots, albeit ones taken with unplayable amounts of filtering and…

Perfect Recreations Of Star Wars Film Sets. For Your Action Figures.

These are not official playsets. They’re pieces of art, made by a fan, and are painstakingly-accurate recreations of some of Star Wars’ most iconic movie sets, giving his action figures a “realistic” place to stand. Most are from the original Star Wars, though there are a few from TESB and ROTJ as well. They’re as…

Adam West: Batman, Mayor, Star Of Terrible Video Games

The real joy of seeing Adam West do anything on the screen is that, even at his worst, he can make the most dreadful thing fun. Because he is Adam West. From the 60s Batman series to Family Guy, that’s been the rule, and it applies also to Golden Nugget, a game which might sound…

It’s The End Of The World, Why Not Have Some Fun With It

Miles Johnston is a freelance concept artist who has done work for clients like Applibot and Wizards of the Coast. You can see more of Miles’ work at his personal site 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…

Own A Vita? Go Play OlliOlli, Right Now

Looks like myexcitement for OlliOlli was justified. This game is the bees kneepads. Out now on PlayStation Vita, OlliOlli is a skateboarding game that takes after the Tony Hawk series in its love of combos and scores, but strips almost everything away except the tricks. So you play it in 2D. There’s a handful of…

A Guide To American Football For “Liberals, Ladies & Limeys”

The Super Bowl is coming up. It’s one of the biggest sporting events in the world. Weirdly, this is in spite of the majority of people on this planet not knowing how the hell American Football is actually played. This video is here to help. The name is a joke; it’s actually a damn fine…

Morrowind Still Coming To Skyrim, Still Looking Fantastic

The team behind Skywind, a fan project aimed at transferring Morrowind to the SKyrim engine, have released another trailer. Thanks, guys. Not like I needed the extra sense of longing. The mod is hopefully going to be out by the end of the year, but then, it’s a fan project, not a retail game bound…

The creators of the Banner Saga are fighting to keep the game’s name. In a statement sent to Kotaku, Stoic Studios say: Two years ago, the three of us at Stoic set out to make an epic viking game: The Banner Saga. We did, and people loved it, so we’re making another one. We won’t…

Track: Green Machine | Album: Blues for the Red Sun | Artist: Kyuss Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.

Capcom Trying To Make Amends For One Of The Worst PC Ports Ever

If you never had the misfortune to play it, know that the PC port of Resident Evil 4 was one of Capcom’s (and Ubisoft’s) darkest moments. So shoddy was the coding that it turned one of the greatest games of all time into a poorly-optimised, bug-riddled joke. Now, so as to squeeze a few more…

At Least Call Of Duty’s Commercials Are Still Fun

Say what you will about Call of Duty’s diminishing returns as games, but even those unmoved by perks and tangos can usually enjoy the ridiculously OTT trailers Activision puts together to sell the series. Take this new one today. It’s for some DLC. A few maps, that sort of stuff. But they went out and…

You Can Never, Ever Have Too Many Drawings Of Spaceships

Elijah McNeal is a freelance concept artist who most recently worked on the upcoming space shooter Star Citizen. He’s currently looking for work. You can see more of his work, and get in touch, at his CGHub page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can…

Flying A Jet Fighter Looks Like The Best Job On Earth

Sure beats sitting behind a desk. It’s a shame, then, that video games never seem to do it properly. I’ve got a very long-running issue with flight in video games. Very rarely – Far Cry 3’s wingsuit is a notable exception – do games ever nail the sensation of flight Modern flight is a fast,…

It Doesn’t Get More Dark Souls Than This

This little extract is from the Dark Souls art book, and has been doing the rounds on Twitter today. It is the most Dark Souls thing you will ever read.

Sad Keanu Becomes The Best Japanese Toy

We’ve long marvelled at the magical properties of 3D printers, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more magical application for them than this recreation of Sad Keanu. These photos were taken by Japanese toy builder idk, and is something I would kill loads of innocent people for. Not only is the basic pose-and-bench…

Candy Crush Saga Makers Go After The Banner Saga. For Real. [Update]

Sad giant viking is sad. Not content withtrying to corner the word “Candy”, King.com, the makers of Candy Crush Saga, also want to own the word “Saga”. So they’ve have taken legal action against strategy game The Banner Saga On December 27, 2013, King.com filed a “Notice of Opposition” with the US Patent and Trademark…