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Luke Plunkett
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Luke Plunkett is a Senior Editor based in Canberra, Australia. He has written a book on cosplay, designed a game about airplanes, and also runs cosplay.kotaku.com.

Man, I fucking miss Mass Effect and how good it was.
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Glad I had the chance to see Motörhead in concert a few years ago - before Lemmy’s health went south. Rest in peace your glorious bastard. Read more

Holy crap, that’s an eerily spot on Joker. o_o Great job!!

Dayum, impressive.

Can we just crown Anna Ormeli Supreme Queen of cosplay and be done with it already?

Also that moving Raiden costume was badass Read more

They’re stage/pen names, and it’s not just the women who have them. They seem to mostly be derived from usernames they’ve used in whatever community they originally established themselves in, like DeviantArt, and they’re no different than most other Internet-famous personalities: PewDiePie, Maddox, D-Piddy, etc. Read more

Finally some Yakuza 5 love. This series is sadly so underrated, Many compare it with GTA but Yakuza is more a modern JRPG with a lot of side stories, mini games a fantastic story and very likeable Characters. Also there is stuff like this^^

So basically “We showed personal discretion and for many reasons made our own changes to the game to make it more like we want it to be, as hundreds of game devs have done for decades.” Read more

I think it was Lawrence Sontag of Rooster Teeth who initially said this, but I think the best way to look at censorship in games is how and when a change was made. Having a buttslap in the game’s advertisement (and the game) makes it harder for the game to be taken seriously, the developers noticed that, and removed Read more

This makes me miss Mass Effect 2. It’s probably the only game I’ve replayed a half dozen times. Mass Effect 2 is the gold standard for space based games if you ask me. The plot of Mass Effect 2, the mystery, working with your crew, strong female characters, things to do, etc just incredible. Read more

My Jack died at the end of ME2. She was my lone misstep. I got halfway through a second play through with the goal of keeping everyone alive but I never finished it. Still got the “good” ME3 ending. Read more