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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.

ah the POP-IN, i forgot to even mention it. it’s BAD. Like, on the in-game benchmarking thing it’s comically bad, entire sections of buildings popping in late, then their shadows even later after that. Read more

wait you can watch just macross, in japanese, on amazon? Read more

If we hadn’t heard from Apple you could speculate this, but this is a case where Microsoft were obviously and actively going down this path, and it’s Apple who stopped them, not Microsoft bailing on it. Read more

I should have added, they differentiate between interactive content and films/TV Read more

its not even that demanding as a platformer, its def a lot closer to a mario party minigame experience than anything more taxing Read more

I’ve only ever written one book, and it had a mistake in it, and I was mortified. Couldn’t sleep for days, because there was no way to change it, and it was THERE on the paper FOREVER. Read more

always bugs me when I put the number of years since the game was kickstarted into the headline and forget that development actually started in 2010-11. Read more

this lands like a normal news post, a load of stuff in a single article, but every single tweet and mention in this post would have been its own news story if leaked individually. Read more

I ride my bike pretty much every day, and from aug-nov i have to thread like 50 cable ties through my helmet like a CROWN OF THORNS to keep these motherfuckers away. Read more

yo fuck magpies. so much of the “australian animals are out to kill you” stuff is internet myth, but these birds, they are the devil. Read more

That was exactly the comparison and idea we had while playing! Read more

Just named them off the top of my head, Melbourne is actually having this mandated this week and they’re already doing a super good job with it! Read more

i have heard our readers described as 1000 things over the last 14 years, but never “extremely worried about butt safe toys” before. Read more