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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.

Oh man, that reminds me how great colossalcon was. Probably one of my favorite convention I went in cosplay ever. Unfortunately I’m a guy who’s not gonna bother paying for pictures, so all I got was cellphone pics that my cosplay group took. It will never look as good as what those people got and that always makes me Read more

Little weird they would so obviously use/take inspiration from his work, but then...not...include him? Or notify him? Read more

It would also be pretty fucking weird if Kotaku’s cosplay section ignored SEVENTEEN highly regarded cosplayers who got together to cosplay literally every fucking character in one of the greatest video games of all time. Read more

It’s okay to be wrong. It’s also okay to read more about the subject and realize it’s way more complex than the binary you’re so doggedly holding onto.

Women in videogames are characters in a videogame, and thus come with no expectation of agency whatsoever, unless you’re implying that the singularity has arrived. Read more

Hell yes. I actually missed that post, since I only regularly check out the main Kotaku page; so thanks for the link! Read more

Women in videogames have no choice, because they’re fictional characters that have as much agency as their writers/creators/the script gives them. Read more

Haha I saw Stella Chu tweet out some pics of this this weekend... and it’s everything I never knew that I needed in life!! It’s fucking amazing!!
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incredible ... it looks like a painting in motion really. Hope the gameplay is catchy ! Read more

Oh how soon you forget how women fighters in Battlefield 1 ruined the game’s realism.

One in eight women will develop breast cancer at some point in their life. In comparison, one in 250 men will develop testicular cancer. It needs the focus because it’s an enormous, ever-present threat to a shockingly large percentage of the population. Read more

At this point, I’d take it on the back of a napkin if it worked. Read more

That response is insane. They’ve been raked over the coals by the board game community for breaking this ethical norm. Some have called for an industry wide boycott of this company. This includes barring them for industry trade shows and community conventions. Read more

Heyyyy I know her. Super cool person, and her art is top notch! Read more

As someone who has put in thousands of hours on Henchmen projects: most of the people employed by Henchmen are cosplayers or former cosplayers, and that was how we got into this industry. Unfortunately, the cosplay moniker has stuck and has been very hard to shake off. But all these articles call it cosplay and as a Read more

No one ever expects Holdo cosplay because to stay in character you can never reveal your plans to anyone.
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Kickass! Good job! As a kid playing this game 15 years ago it would have been great to have more women playing and I hope we get some more people playing as a result! Congraaaaats! Read more

Very impressive! It would be remiss to not mention the great Melissa DeTora and her top 8 at a Pro Tour, and two top 8s at GPs as well. She also now works for Wizards helping balance the game as part of their Play Design team. Very smart woman! Read more