Luke Plunkett

Metroid Cosplay For The Ages

By day, Brenden McCormack is a developer at Wargaming, working on World of Tanks. In his spare time, though, he’s built (along with his wife Laura) one of the most impressive pieces of Nintendo cosplay I have ever seen. In addition to the power-up gif up top, here are a bunch of other photos of the…

Path Of Exile Expansion Delayed To Get The Hell Out Of Cyberpunk’s Way

Path of Exile’s 3.13 expansion had been planned for release on December 11. But now, with Cyberpunk’s release date moved back to December 10, the team have decided to just clear out and give the year’s biggest game its space. Now, this happens all the time in video games. So often that I wrote about…

Titanfall 2 Has A Half-Life Easter Egg Just Sitting Around

Titanfall 2 turns four today! Happy birthday, Titanfall 2, you are a very good video game. To mark the occasion one of the game’s animators, Ranon Sarono, has shared a lil’ Half-Life surprise that none of us had ever seen before. In one of the game’s pieces of time-travel shenanigans, you’re briskly transported to a…

The House On Blue Lick Road’s 3D Tour Has Been Preserved In VR

For most of this week, one of the strangest delights on the internet has been a 3D tour of a house that’s for sale in Kentucky. The home, on Louisville’s Blue Lick Road, was for want of a better term, weird. From the boxes of energy drinks stacked in the kitchen to the Halo action figure…

The Art Of Fall Guys

Our big “Art Of” features on Fine Art aren’t always about lavish productions like Assassin’s Creed. Sometimes they cover smaller games, like Hades, and sometimes they cover games you may not even expect to see behind the scenes of, like…Fall Guys I’ve been super interested in the process and design work that went into the…

Disco Elysium Has A…Game Boy Port, Kinda

Disco Elysium, one of the games of 2019, is available on most modern platforms, like the PC, Switch, PS4 and Xbox One. It’s also now partly playable, and very stripped back, on the Game Boy, provided you play it in a browser. Using the excellent GB Studio, which lets basically anyone make their own Game…

Socially-Distant Cosplay In The Age Of Covid

There hasn’t been much cosplay to feature here in 2020 for obvious reasons, but have you ever wondered that when people do get together for a shoot, how it all works in an age of lockdowns and social distancing? This Watch Dogs Legion shoot by So Say We All got me thinking that exact question,…

Welcome to The Dungeon Experience, where a low-level RPG villain guides you on a tour of a fantasy game’s dungeons. It’ll be out on PC “Upon the four moons of Xogris align and the Messiah Khidrius returns”.

FIFA 21 vs PES 21: Which Is Better?

Welcome to the Year Of Bad Sports Video Games. I’ve been doing this head-to-head review for years now, the only one of its kind in Kotaku’s critical arsenal, because this is the only space in video games where it makes sense to do it. FIFA v PES is the last significant battleground in sports, and…

The Waiting Room

Cristian Alberto Vasquez is an artist at design studio Atomhawk Design, who have most recently worked on games like FIFA 20 and XCOM: Chimera Squad You can see more of Vasquez’s work at his ArtStation page

Aerith’s Voice Actor, Cosplaying As Aerith

We’ve seen this before with Overwatch, but never with Final Fantasy! This is Briana White, host of Strange Rebel Gaming and also the voice of Aerith in the Final Fantasy VII remake, cosplaying as…Aerith from Final Fantasy VII Briana isn’t normally a cosplayer, so here, the dress and ribbon were made by Final Fantasy cosplay…

Facebook Continues Its Bullshit With Oculus Accounts

In case you weren’t uneasy enough about having to create Facebook accounts just to use a virtual reality headset, you should know that in some circumstances deleting a linked Facebook account will then remove your access to any Oculus purchases you have made. As Upload VR report, for now, owners of older Oculus headsets—currently existing…

Techno Viking x Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

My favourite type of cosplay video isn’t the one where fans are recreating scenes from the show/movie/game they’re cosplaying as. It’s cosplayers doing dumb shit like skating as Geralt, or recreating the famous “Technoviking” video, only starring the cast of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Here’s Maul(also star of that Geralt vid) and friends turning medieval England…

Google Backs Slowly Away From Stadia Guy’s Very Bad Tweet

Earlier today Alex Hutchinson, creative director at Typhoon Studios (bought by Google last year to make Stadia games), made a tweet suggesting that Twitch and YouTube users should be “paying the developers and publishers” of the games they stream. It blew up, and the reaction went about as well as you’d expect. It’s a Very…

Surviving The Aftermath Is A City-Builder At The End Of The World

It’s not enough these days for a city-builder to just be about building a city. There’s always a catch, or a weird setting, and I like it, because it’s giving us all kinds of new and weird ways to enjoy the genre. The latest example: Surviving the Aftermath Now out in Early Access on Steam,…

The Art Of Hades

Ah, this is exciting. Welcome to The Art of Hades, a look at the work that went into what’s easily one of the best-looking video games of 2020. The team at Supergiant were kind enough to send in a ton of pieces from the development of the game, from early sketches through to the character…

On Your Marks

Denis Melnychenko is an artist from Ukraine. You can see more of Denis’ stuffat his ArtStation page

EA Accused Of Running “Unlicensed, Illegal Gaming System”

A pair of Canadians have filed a class action lawsuit against Electronic Arts, alleging that the company’s use of loot boxes violates the country’s Criminal Code. As The Patch Notes report, the civil action has been instigated by Mark Sutherland, who bought some stuff in Madden, and Shawn Moore, who did likewise in NHL. The…

NBA 2K Just Keeps Putting Unskippable Ads In A $60 Video Game

One of the many shitty things about the NBA 2K series is the fact that, for the last few years, there have been unskippable ads that sometimes load before a game. This year is no exception. The ads usually turn up as part of a pre-game video, and while in previous years they’ve been for…

An Afternoon Stroll

Robin Tran is an artist at Massive, the Ubisoft studio behind games like World in Conflict and The Division You can see more of Robin’s stuff at his ArtStation page