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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.

AGE OF ZOMBIES is the best mobile game I have ever played, and actually one of my favorite games in general. Cannot recommend it enough. I played it on PSP and Vita, and I recommend picking it up on one of those platforms rather than mobile as analog sticks and buttons beat the hell out of touch controls any day.

So yet another story of a company being sunk because of one dipshit guy who thinks he’s running MSoft as opposed to a small indie studio. Read more

This basically gets me crying. I can really see the CEO with a god complex now. The saddest part is that Halfbrick should just die now (sad for all those working there now) but the truth is that Halfbrick will probably survive for a while until they really are just a name in a sea of names. Read more

I’m an original founder of MechWarrior Online, and while I was beyond hyped during their closed beta, significant changes in open beta, and then beyond, ruined the experience from me. It was at first touted to stay true to the source material, but it quickly split with strange mechanics like “ghost heat” and Read more

The story of how it got discontinued is still shrouded in vague references but the official pitch is that in the spirit of ‘noncompetition’ and of ‘handing over the reigns’ the devs chose to move on as MWO was reaching to hit the market (in beta at the time)after being contacted by Pirahna. Read more

I can only cosplay as an old man:

Wild. Would love to visit one day. It looks like there was only minimal editing done to the photos, I’m not a fan of big overhauls. Comparing these to last year’s Iceland trip, I think the environment here was used better by the photographer’s, on average. Great marketing opportunity for the parks there. Read more

You do understand how objectification works, no? Because I read these kinds of posts a lot, and it’s rather silly how many of you don’t get it. First of all, breasts don’t equal objectification. The fact that you react in this way says more about your own personality, than the content creator, the cosplayer, or the Read more

She made the costume. She’s posing. She chose to distribute this media to the internet and for anyone to look at. This is much different from dudes constantly demanding women be sexy in everything from games to hamburger commercials. Read more

I’ve struggled with this, but as women have explained it to me...

1] Unless the woman in question has asked for my opinion or approval about what they’re wearing (or not wearing), my opinion does not matter. Feminist empowerment has everything to do with allowing each woman to decide what to do with their bodies, Read more

I hope Mercy cosplay never dies Read more

I’m super happy to be your jam! *____* thank you! Read more

With my backlog amd priorities outside of gaming, I’ll just not be ordering games when they come out, it’s that simple. And, mind you, that’s not even meaning preordering - I’ll start waiting at least a month if not more before buying most games. Read more

Look. Gamers don’t need reviewers! If a gamer wants to know if a game is worth buying, they can just buy it, play it all the way through to the end, and then know if the game is worth buying! Read more

Windows Defender is one of the best antivirus solutions available, I don’t know what you’re talking about. Read more

Game recently reported more huge losses - no doubt this is this years ‘money making’ scheme in the run up to Christmas. Read more