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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.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that Inklings with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. Read more

It was my primary console for almost 4 years. Read more

thats really the problem isnt it? It was for nobody. No one had this console as their primary console, it was always just a sumplement to the other big ones. Read more

This is their current logo. They don’t care about your symmetry. At all.

I hope the reception involves them opening one gift, followed by the opening of a vastly better version of the same gift immediately afterwards. Read more

Ariana is HUGE in Japan. I don’t know if it’s the way she sings, or that she looks so much like an anime character brought to life, but during my last trip to Tokyo, the HMV was blasting a commercial for her album NON-STOP. Her face was plastered all over Shibuya (near the 109 building) and people looked like tehy Read more

I love these Kotaku art posts. I’ve gotten so many new desktop backgrounds from them! Read more

Or Overwatch if everyone was Immortan Joe. Read more

This being a bankruptcy auction throws a wrench in it legally too, since it was a third party selling the United Front assets. I could see Sony simply denying the request for the dev key, since it’s really to prevent things like this and in which case the files will be locked away. There are so few dev kits that I’m Read more

I’m glad the official cosplay didn’t give her these shoes.

You’re making me feel a lot more positive about the designs and environments in Infinite Warfare. One of my major complaints are the weapon designs. Lots of ribbon cables and wires on the outside held with adhesive and zip ties. Looks visually interesting, but would be a major hazard in real life, what with Read more

Right. And, well, the Aliens inspiration is the first one a lot of people will go for (once they realise saying “it looks like Halo” is really saying “it looks like Aliens”), but when you look closer it’s more the fact that, like Aliens based a lot of its tech on 70s and 80s military hardware, this is simply doing the Read more

These are some pretty great designs. It’s nice to see actually in the context of some other modern science fiction properties. Where everything is overly clean, aesthetically appealing, and well fantastical. This however all looks very functional, logical, and believable. It reminds me of the stuff we saw in movies Read more