Luke Plunkett

Yes, Even NFL Players Can Be Pokémon Nerds

Looks like Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin Jr. got himself a steal. Teammate and All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman knows the score. [thanks Kevin!]

Good morning America! You missed some pretty cool stuff while you were asleep. League Of Legends Player Says He Makes Almost $1 Million A Year Some Of The World’s Best Cartoons Are Hidden Inside Video Games Even Sony Thinks An $1850 PS4 Is “Bad For Gamers” Xbox Fight Leads Man To Bite Penis “Like A…

Team Fortress Characters Get Jobs At The Supermarket, Things Go Badly

Two years ago, we featured a video called Mac ‘n’ Cheese, an animated short heavily inspired by two characters from Team Fortress 2. Today, we’ve got a sequel. And it’s terrific. The “Scout” and “Heavy” (not actually them, but…come on) are down on their luck, so get jobs at a local supermarket. Things do not…

Let’s Pretend Nintendo Actually Made A Phone

Then let’s pretend it looked this cool. OK, so the buttons down the bottom look awkward, but just the thought of being able to carry around a Nintendo phone, packed with as many NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy, DS and (maybe) GameCube games as I could fit on there, puts a smile on my face.…

The Perks Of Being Sony Boss, #1832

Don’t let the graphic fool you. We’re not here for the back of Placido Domingo’s head. We’re here for the gentleman on the right. That’s Sony boss Kaz Hirai, just chillin’ on the starting grid at the Japanese Formula 1 Grand Prix. Lookin’ sharp, Kaz. Also lookin’ like a kid in a candy store. @paulmccarthy…

It’s A Family Portrait For…Fantasy Character Classes

Like every other artist on planet Earth, Tyler Jacobson has worked on the gorgeous mobile card game Legend of the Cryptids. He’s also done stuff for Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons and advertising clients like Toyota. You can see more of Tyler’s work at his personal site and blog To see the larger pics…

What A $240 Attack On Titan Action Figure Looks Like

This isn’t the first Attack on Titan figure I’ve seen, but it is the coolest. A 1/6 scale version of Mikasa, she won’t be out until July 2014. Pity. When she does hit, though, she’ll cost around….USD$240. Which is a lot for a figure, yeah, but hey, at least it’s an incredibly detailed one, with…

Gearbox Boss Buys…Penn’s Ponytail. For Real.

Penn Jillette, from Penn & Teller, wants to make a “smart” horror movie with buddy Adam Rifkin. So he set up a crowdfunding campaign. A campaign that just got quite the boost from Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford. Pitchford, himself a bit of a magician, kicked in $25,000 to the campaign (which is asking for just…

Sony’s PS4 Controller Prototypes Sounded Completely Crazy

The DualShock 4 marks the first time in over a decade that substantial changes have been made to the design of a PlayStation controller. But what we ended up getting is nowhere near as drastic a change as we could have got. In a great piece on VentureBeat examining the development process behind the DualShock…

Xbox Fight Leads Man To Bite Penis “Like A Sandwich”

Sometimes, you look at British newspaper stories about video games and shake your head. And then there are days like this The Metro reports that Jason Martin, 41, from Dover, has been jailed for seven years after chomping on a man’s penis following a video game dispute earlier this year. A former (no shit) friend…

League Of Legends Player Says He Makes Almost $1 Million A Year

And you thought guys only got into esports for the chicks Carlos “Ocelote” Rodriguez is 23 years old, and plays League of Legends for SK, a professional team from Europe. He’s good, very good, but he’s not one of the world’s best Not that it matters. According to a report on Spanish news site ABC,…

Some Of The World’s Best Cartoons Are Hidden Inside Video Games

Quantic Dream, the studio behind Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls, are about as polarising as a developer gets. Some people hate their games. Some people love them! I’d like to think there’s one aspect of their output we can all get behind, though: the way they include some of the world’s best animation shorts…

Even Sony Thinks An $1850 PS4 Is “Bad For Gamers”

Video game pricing in South America has been outrageous for years, but it’s taken a recent backlash against the Brazilian PS4 to convince Sony to weigh into the matter publicly. And their statement is a surprising one. Instead of providing some vague justification for the exorbitant price and hoping we all just get on with…

Developer Apologises To TotalBiscuit, Everyone After YouTube Stunt

Following a public backlash over their attempts to remove a video critical of their game, the developers of Day One: Garry’s Incident have issued a public apology to, well, pretty much everyone. In a statement sent to Kotaku, Wild Games CEO Stephane Woods says: We sent TotalBiscuit a Steam key on September 26th, giving him…

Here’s what went down during the overnight shift: Studio Accused Of Blocking YouTube Vid Over Criticism The Best Cutscene This Generation Shot A Noodle Shop In The Guts First-Person Firefighting Looks Intense It’s A Dark Day For Cosplay

Track: Dawn Rising | Album: Whales And Leeches | Artist: Red Fang Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to—and gaming to—at the moment.

Where Halo, Star Wars & Warhammer Meet

Kai Lim is part of Imaginary Friends, a concept studio in Singapore which has worked with DC Comics, Sony, Nike, EA, Valve, Square Enix, Ubisoft, Capcom…OK, look, everyone One of the studio’s three founders is Kai Lim, who is the man to thank for the eyeball candy you’re about to see. You can see more…

LEGO Optimus Prime Lights Our Darkest Hour

One of the great crimes of the modern era is that Kre-o has the license for Transformers “building block” toys, and not LEGO. Never mind. We’ve always got fans stepping in where companies fail, and in this case, it’s Alex Jones, who’s made an Optimus Prime so good that it doesn’t even really look like…

It’s Windows XP. For The…Nintendo Famicom.

If you’re the type to fear Windows 8 and seek solace in the arms of something older, you can always go left field and not only step back to Windows XP, but do it on a Nintendo console from the 1980s. This wonderful bootleg does nothing more than emulate the Windows XP. The splash screen,…

The Best Cutscene This Generation Was A Shootout For The Ages

Let me tell you what I think makes a good cutscene: it’s got to be something you want to watch over and over and over. Something that stands out from the routine of general gameplay, sticks in the mind and elevates a piece of story-telling from text in a bubble to something genuinely cinematic. These…