Luke Plunkett

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.
  • It Is 2023, Please Stop Blowing Into Nintendo Consoles

    It Is 2023, Please Stop Blowing Into Nintendo Consoles

    Yeah, it’s cute, it’s folklore, people used to blow into the cartridge slots of their Nintendo games in the olden days if they were having hardware issues. The thing is, it was all bullshit. It didn’t fix them, if anything it made things worse. Yet so strong has the urban legend become that, in The…


  • How To Play Wii Games In High Definition, On Your PC

    Even when it was released in 2006, Nintendo’s Wii games were already looking a little past it, stuck as they were in the muddy depths of standard-definition resolution and on relatively old hardware. In 2017, they’re way past it. Not to worry. If you’d rather play your Wii games in stunning HD – and trust…