Luke Plunkett

Video Game Taxi Surprises, Confuses Real Passengers

The guys behind Guild Wars II took some taxi cabs, decked their interiors out in fantasy livery, dressed the drivers up as game characters then set them loose to pick up actual passengers. Things seem to go surprisingly well! Though most footage was captured during the daylight hours. I’m sure trying to clean puke and…

How To Kick A Baby’s Ass

Hey, new dads and mums out there. I know, babies can be rough with you. But you’re a grown man or woman. Get a grip. You don’t need to be taking no crap from no baby. This handy instructional video will show you how to seize back the imitative. Both me and Fahey can vouch…

A Battlefield 4 Item Worth $2500, And You Can’t Even Use It

A gold battlepack in Battlefield 4 – full of the game’s best gear – is a rare and wonderful thing. But not as rare and wonderful as a gold-covered version of it worth $2500. Art dealers Cook & Becker are selling some expensive prints of some of the game’s concept art, but alongside those images…

Got A Broken Xbox One? Punch It.

This fix isn’t exactly elegant. And it’s far from guaranteed to work, since only a handful of people have had success with it. But if your Xbox One has a busted disc drive, and you want to try fixing it in the most awesome way possible, flip it over and punch it. Hard. There have…

Lil’ Guardian Pyro has been named the overall winner in this year’s Saxxy awards. You can check out the other winners here, and the complete list of nominees here

There Are No Women In This Game, Because They Are All Dead

Lisa The Painful RPG takes place in a world where there are no women. Only men. Given the extreme subject matter its creator, Austin Jorgensen, could have gone the “funny” route or the “bleak as hell” route. He’s gone the latter. Described as a “game about survival, sacrifice, and perverts”, it’s set in a world…

What Do You Do After Helping Create Portal? Write A Book.

Realm Lovejoy used to work as an artist at Valve, where she helped define the look of everything from Portal to Left 4 Dead to DOTA 2. We’ve even featured her work previouslyhere on Kotaku. But we’re not here to talk about her art today. Nope, because between leaving Valve and taking up a job…

Space Turtles Don’t Snap, They Shoot

Konstantin Maystrenko is a games artist who currently works at Gameloft Montreal. He’d previously been at strategy developers Nival You can see more of his work at his personal site and CGHub page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click…

Killer Robot Trips On Stick, Falls Over

And to think, we were starting to get worriedabout Atlas. The humanoid robot, which in some situations has looked terrifying, in others looks…less so. In this test, designed to see if Atlas can overcome a few sticks lying on the ground, Atlas proves that it can not overcome a few lying on the ground. Sleep…

The Sad Truth Behind Classic Video Games

Peel back the story and art and most games are incredibly simple. A test of reflexes, some rudimentary mechanics. We live most of our lives oblivous to this man behind the curtain, but sometimes it pays to peel it back and remember that Sonic really is little but holding right except sometimes. While some of…

The Internet’s Best Video Game Cartoons, The 2013 Edition

The annual Saxxy awards aren’t just an excuse for Valve to show off the company’s Source Filmmaker suite; it’s a chance for us all to enjoy some of the best damn cartoons on the internet, whether you like video games or not. The 2013 Saxxys are split into four categories: short, action, comedy and drama.…

Sony Resetting Some PSN Passwords Following “Irregular Activity”

Earlier this week, Sony Europe resetsome user’s PSN passwords as a “precautionary” measure. Today, Sony America is doing the same thing. A noticeon the official PlayStation forums says that some users “may need to reset” their passwords after Sony detected “irregular activity” on their network. A Sony rep says: Note that if you have access…

Steam Machine Prototype Looks Like A Whiter PS4

Engadgethas the first look at iBuyPower’s prototype for a Steam Machine PC, which is due to be released in 2014. It looks nothing like a PC, instead taking a page out of the Guide To Designing Home Video Game Consoles There are two variants, with a “light bar” that seems to be able to change…

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Skyrim Bow Is Real, Because This Guy Made It

Hey, it’s Harrison Krix. He’s built a Nightingale bow from Skyrim. It’s the real deal, yo. Well…OK, maybe it’s not magical, but the wood and string parts are real enough. It’s made mostly from whitewood, and while it won’t freeze enemies like it does in the game, it’s still got a “cool” effect of it’s…

Yes, You Can Design Video Game Weapons For A Living

rmory Nearly two years ago, I wrote a story about rmory Studios, a small team that was setting out to specialise in the design of fake guns for video game characters. Well, in the time since, they’ve managed to do just that. Not only did they work on XCOM throwback Xenonauts, but they even landed…

Track: Goddess | Artist: S:T Erik | Album: From Under The Tarn Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

An Xbox One Kinect Dictionary, For When It Just Doesn’t Understand You

The Xbox One’s voice commands, while generally excellent, have a problem. OK, two problems. The smaller one is they don’t always work. The bigger one is that you need to memorise a chart like this just to be able to use them properly. I will never understand why you say “Xbox on”, but not “Xbox…

Kinect “Inventors” Get Bought By Apple

Israeli company PrimeSense, who did a lot of the heavy liftingin the design of the original Kinect, have been bought out. Not by Microsoft, but by Apple. “Sources” tell website All Things D that the deal went through for around $360 million. While Apple isn’t commenting on why the company was bought, if iOS device…

When Video Game Bugs Are The End Of The World

Most video game glitches and bugs make it pretty clear they’re a bug. You’ll get flashing colours, or breaking objects, that sort of stuff. This Assassin’s Creed IV hiccup, on the other hand, could be a bug. Or…it could also be the end of days. Also, don’t let that gif fool you into thinking the…