Luke Plunkett

The Mandalorian Season 1, Retold With Action Figures

With the second season of The Mandalorian about to start, maybe you need a refresher on what went down in the first season. And maybe you need it in the form of…action figure dioramas? Sure, why not. These photos are the work of Matthew Cohen, who you might remember we featured earlier in the year.…

Civilization VI Gets A New Mode That Sounds A Lot Like Sid Meier’s Classic Pirates! Game

Back in the 1980s, Civilization co-creator Sid Meier released a game that in some ways is his best ever: Pirates!. Now, a new game mode for Civilization VI is paying homage to it in a very cool and unexpected way. If you’ve never played Pirates, or one of its many remakes, here’s how I’ve written…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be streaming Among Us live on Twitch tonight at 9pm, alongside HasanAbi and Pokimane, on her new channel

The Bomberman

Evgeny Kashin is an artist at Sperasoft, who have helped out on everything from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla to Halo Infinite You can see more of Evgeny’s stuff at his Behanceand ArtStationpages.

Western Empires: The Kotaku Review

Western Empires is a big board game. A very, very, very, very, very big board game. Designed for nine players (though you can go as low as five), and played over the course of around eight hours, it’s the setting for an entire day of expansion, science, trade and battle. You and eight friends/former friends…

Nintendo Goes After Zelda Fan Game For Violating Copyright

The Missing Link, a new Zelda fan game made by a team led by prominent Mario modder Kaze Emanuar, has had its website and trailers taken down by Nintendo. We wrote about the game back in July 2020, which was actually 37 months ago, and it looked great! Made using mostly recycled assets from both…

Japanese Farm Hides One Hell Of A Video Game Collection

I have seen some impressive game collections in my time, but few that can match either the scale or presentation of this one, which is basically sitting in the middle of some farm fields in Japan. In this episode of Collector’s Quest (via former Kotaku editor Chris Kohler), Nintendo super-fan and author of the incredible…

Miles Morales Has Lost His Air Jordan 1s, Which Sucks

So one of the best things about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and really about Miles Morales in general, is that he’s an extremely relatable kid. That was true of his personality and exploits, sure, but it even went as far as his shoes In Spider-Verse, one of the things that most grounds Miles is the…

Sega Releases Unfinished, Troubled Golden Axe Demo That Was Cancelled Years Ago

A long time ago, in a far away country, a team of Sega developers started work on a collection of 2.5D remakes of some of the company’s classic series. The project was cancelled and never released, but Sega this week just decided fuck it, and released the Golden Axe one on Steam anyway. Called Golden…

Well Well Well, If It Ain’t The Invisible…

Evgeny Yurichev is an artist based in Russia. You can see more of Evgeny’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Dark Souls Modders Are Building Their Own “Sequel”

A team of Dark Souls modders havegot together to announce Nightfall, a fan-made “sequel” that, while not creating any truly new models or environments, is still setting out to build an entirely fresh Souls game on the PC. Modders working on the project include Grimrukh (Daughters of Ash), AinTunez, Meowmaritus, Dane, Zullie and some others.…

Call Of Duty Finally Lets PC Players Uninstall Over 100GB Of Stuff

For the longest time, Call of Duty Modern Warfare on PC has made players set aside increasingly—and hilariously—enormous amounts of hard drive space, up to 232GB at last count. This week, finally, players will be able to free up some of that space While it doesn’t sound like the biggest deal, increasing numbers of PC…

Nap Time For Adam

Nicolas Lizotte is an artist at Eidos, the studio behind Tomb Raider and Deus Ex You can see more of Lizotte’s stuff at his personal site and ArtStation page

Airborne Kingdom Is A City-Builder, Only You’re FLYING

That’s it. That’s the pitch for this game. You’re building a city, only the city is also a giant airship thing that’s flying through the air. OK, maybe that’s not quite it. There’s also the fact that this is only partially a game about building cities. Set in a vast, open and sparsely-populated world, Airborne…

Gone Fishin’

Khan Kotjan is a freelance artist from Poland. You can see more of Kotjan’s stuff at their ArtStation page

Nintendo Goes After Adult TikTok Influencer Over Pokémon Branding

Pokeprincxss, a TikTok user with 1.9 million followers, has been forced to change her name and pay back some of her earnings after Nintendo issued a cease and desist. As first reported by Gamerant, Pokeprincxss—now known as Digitalprincxss—was recently contacted by Nintendo not long after her attempts to trademark her own username. She was told…

Football Player Changes His Name To “Goku”

Joan Román, a 27 year-old footballer formerly on the books at both Manchester City and Barcelona, has officially changed his name to Goku. Yes, like Dragon Ball Goku, who currently plays in Poland for Miedź Legnica, seems to have made the change a few weeks back, but given the relative obscurity of the league he’s…

Good Morning

Arno Hau is a freelance artist from China. You can see more of Arno’s stuff at their ArtStation page

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Is Being Turned Into A TV Series Or Movie

One of those two things, whatever, they don’t even know, aside from the fact that developers Warhorse and a former Netflix executive’s new company want to do something with the earnest if janky medieval RPG. I reviewed the game in 2018and found that while it was mostly a shambles, it did have some charms and…

UFC Fighter Knocks Out Opponent With Sweet Tekken Move

The best sports highlight from the weekend was easily from Joaquin Buckley in the UFC, who hit Impa Kasanganay in the face with a spinning kick and knocked him the fuck out. If you’ve already seen it and thought “that’s straight out of a fighting game”, you are correct! If you haven’t seen it, here…