Luke Plunkett

The Spy Hunter Movie is Still Being Made, Gets New Director

According to a report on Vulture, Zombieland Director Ruben Fleischer is now at the helm of the Spy Hunter movie, a project which has been on and off more times than a freakin’ light switch He’ll be directing and executive producing. Or, at least, he will be for six months before he disappears and we…

Ferrets as Famous Video Game Characters. It’s Way Better Than You Think.

Russian artist Amales has been featured here on Kotaku before. For her ferrets. But boy, in the time since, she’s been busy Not only is she fleshing out the rest of the cast of the Mass Effect series, but she’s also featuring other animorphic transformations like Diablo III’s Monk and Dead Space’s Isaac. I know,…

The Battle of Hoth Recreated in Minecraft, as an Incredible Animated Short

In December, reader Grahame made one of the coolest Minecraft videos I’ve ever seen, recreating Star Wars’ famous “trench run”. He’s outdone himself now, though, with this animated rendition of Empire Strikes Back’s Battle of Hoth. It took him two months just to build the “set”, and six days to film it and get it…

Ambitious Homeworld Mod Might Just be The Most Perfect Space Game Ever

Ask anyone who likes strategy video games and spaceships what their favourite title of all time is and, if they don’t say Homeworld, they’re either lying or are seven years old. So! For the grown-ups and truth-tellers among you, take a look at this. It’s the latest update for Complex, an ambitious Homeworld 2 mod…

This is Quite a Trailer You’ve Got Here, Resident Evil 6

I’m not going to get excited about this game. The sad faces I make every time I think of Resident Evil 5 have made sure of that. But “surprisingly enthused”? I can do that.

Your PC Needs to be *This* Tall to Play Assassin’s Creed III

Ubisoft just released the specs for the PC version of Assassin’s Creed III. Note they’ve only released the minimum specs…anyone looking for recommended, you’ll just have to compare your system to these in your head and make an educated guess! Supported OS: Windows Vista (SP2) / Windows 7 (SP1) / Windows 8 Processor: 2.66 GHz…

Some of The Concept Art Behind Borderlands 2

Lorin Wood works at Gearbox. Last week, Gearbox released Borderlands 2. This is Kotaku’s concept art showcase feature. You can see where this is going. Aside from his Borderlands stuff, Wood has also worked on Colonial Marines, while outside of Gearbox, he’s worked for companies like Disney, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox. You can see…

League of Legends Attacked By Small Group of Jerk Players

League of Legends is one of the biggest games in the world. Which means it also attracts some of the biggest assholes in the world as well, who despite being active players of the game, have banded together to try and bring it down. Developers Riot Games have caught ” a handful of players…attacking our…

Read EA’s Aggressive Warning Letter to a Former Employee [UPDATE]

Like any other big company, there are probably good sides to working at EA, and there are probably bad sides. Here’s one of the bad sides: the publisher keeps track of former employees, and sends them threatening letters when it’s worried those former employees will start spilling company secrets. Below you’ll see correspondence sent by…

Turns Out Bayonetta on PS3 Was a Massive Failure

I quite enjoyed Bayonetta, but then, I played it on Xbox 360. The PS3 version on the other hand had more than a few problems. So many, in fact, that creators Platinum Games say the game was the studio’s “biggest failure”. “The biggest failure for Platinum so far, the one that really sticks in my…

Whoah, System Shock 2 and Thief 2 Just got Surprise Patches

Surprise! Out of almost thin air, a pair of unofficial patches have been released for PC classics System Shock 2 and Thief 2 that not only allow the games to be safely played on modern hardware (and operating systems), but look great while they’re doing it. Their origins are a bit of a mystery; they…

If Star Wars Had Been Made in the 1950’s, Alec Guinness Could Have Been a Dashing Han Solo

Canadian artist Dean Reeves has taken Star Wars back to a galaxy an even longer time ago, away from the 1970s and back a little further to film noir’s heyday of the 1950s. I would so buy these to frame and hang up and…oh, you can buy them. Awesome. GraphicLanguage [Etsy, via Super Punch]

Firefall’s Developers Accused (OK Not Really) of Giving New Recruits Something Very Nasty

There is nothing more mundane in the world of video game marketing than the bullet-point announcement. Unless the game’s developers go to the trouble of kinda realising this, and dressing the “news” up as an excuse to make a neat little video where everybody who works there gets to pretend they’re about to give the…

Google Has Been Watching What You Search For, Gamers

Google has published a report detailing everything it’s learned about gamers and their online search habits. As you’d expect; the company thrives off its advertising, so understanding how searches can be tied to ads is important for business! The results have been published in a paper called “Understanding the Modern Gamer”, which reveals things like…

Blowing on Cartridges Didn’t Help Them, It Hurt Them

Millions of people grew up worldwide convinced the way to get a busted Nintendo cartridge working was to blow on it. It may have worked sometimes, temporarily, but experts say you were actually doing a lot more harm than good. How? Well, as Mental_Floss writes, the common theory as to the cause (and success) of…

EA Hired a Man Just So You’d Stop Quitting

Valve is far from the only video game company hiring total outsiders to come in and help make them money. Electronic Arts has done something similar, with Forbes reporting they’ve hired Danish data analyst Jonas Lygaard, despite the fact he has absolutely zero experience in the games industry. What he did have experience in was…

This NES Zapper is Now a Real, Dangerous Laser Gun

It may have looked like something out of a more safety-conscious Star Trek episode, but Nintendo’s Zapper was about as harmless as fake plastic guns can get. Oh, except for this one. Which North Street Labs has turned into an actual laser gun that can set things on fire. It’s not an easy process –…

Good news, classic adventure game fans: Beneath a Steel Sky 2 is now in development

A Closer Look at Meet the Pyro’s Psychotic Fantasy Land

Laura Dubuk is an artist and designer employed at Valve, where her most recent public work was her contribution to the studio’s terrific Meet the Pyro trailer She’s also worked on games like Portal 2, and in this gallery you’ll see a collection of some of her best stuff, both from personal projects and from…

Looks Like Someone Has Already Hit Level 90 In World of Warcraft

Wow. That didn’t take long. World of Warcraft expansion Mists of Pandaria isn’t even out yet for most people (it unlocks in the US a few hours), but already it looks like we’ve got someone breaking through to hit the game’s new ceiling of Level 90. According to data-mining site Guildox, that someone is FS,…