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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.

Saw them live a few times at the Pohoda Festival in Slovakia, Europe. Amazing energy every single time. Read more

I love them, they are such a good blend of math rock with pop elements... “Pool” is one hell of a song.
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PG DeMarcus Covington, aka Maverick. 2nd season, 26ppg (but 6min quarters). Got the Knicks top of the east, despite Melo being out hurt half the year.

Awesome; I didn’t know you were a hardcore basketball-fan. I used to do something similar with NBA 2K8 (360). I played 48-minute games with my Nets and even had Jason Kidd average a triple-double.
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This is the most elegant strategy game I’ve ever played and I love it. That being said Luke is right, after you get the hang of it, the game becomes exercise. But like any game that becomes practice, you enjoy it most when you’re playing against a human opponent. Just as Luke described, once you start playing online a Read more

I was thinking the same thing. It’s like they outsourced my job to Mars. Read more

“It’s something you spend 90% of your time looking at, obsessing over inventory levels, market prices and your income flow.” Read more

Okay, is there a Dead Space/Bioshock mash-up in there or is that just me?

Also, the girl repairing the robot hand, is that from some show or game I can’t place, or is it original to the artist. Very good work all around although I have to say I don’t understand what is going on with battle axe/rocker/pirate chick. Read more

Kinda nice to see some art that still keeps the lines. A lot of artists seem to be moving away from that style.
The world also needs more cyber dinosaur art! Love the use of contrast is some of them.

On a side note, what the fuck, people? A picture of Samus just happens to be among EVERYTHING ELSE and so many of you are Read more

Honestly, I would expect most everything to go over Valbuena’s head. Read more

You want a great “forgotten” strategic classic? Look no further than Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander.

And by armies I mean armies; not rag-tag collections of tanks and individual soldiers, but representations of historical battles involving tens of thousands of men. Read more

7-11 and 9-11 are two very different issues involving Saudis overstaying their visas. Read more