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London Put On A Very Good Cosplay Show

MCM London Comic Con was held in the UK over the weekend, and photographer Carlos Adama was kind enough to send us in some shots he took of the cosplayers attending the show.

Here’s pixel artist Paul Conway with an excellent Lucasarts x The Thing mashup. Because SCUMM always needed the option to tie someone to that fucking couch Bonus: here’s a WIP.

Lightning Strikes Once

Gabriel Beauvais is a character sculptor who has worked on movies like Edge of Tomorrow, Alien: Covenant, Fantastic Beasts and Jupiter Ascending You can see more of Gabriel’s work at his personal site. To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration…

Maybe it’s a calling card?

Look At These Space Channel 5 Figures

Good Smile Company are going back to the Dreamcast days for a couple of upcoming figmas, with two figures based on Space Channel 5’s Ulala. Out in December, there’s a “Cheery White” and “Exciting Orange” version, with both shipping with different Morolians.

The next time you’re playing board/tabletop games, or even just working or playing a grindy kind of video game, consider firing up Tabletop Audio, a website that loops ambient background noise for situations ranging from “Lunar Outpost” to “Medieval Library”.

There’s A Starbucks At Blizzard’s HQ, And The Menu Is Great

Blizzard’s company headquarters in Irvine is a big, fancy place. So big that it has its own Starbucks, selling coffee with a Blizzard twist. While the main menu is of course the same as any other Starbucks, the specials at the moment are based on WoW: And Overwatch: And StarCraft: As you can probably tell…

Blame!: The Kotaku Review

Tsutomu Nihei’s Blame!, first published in 1998, is a masterpiece in comic story-telling. Its 2017 animated adaptation, recently released on Netflix, is nothing like it. Blame! the manga is a sprawling, desolate exercise in environmental story-telling, about a gunman wandering the ruins of an endless cyberpunk cityscape. It doesn’t have much to say, and makes…

Street Masters Turns Beat-Em-Ups Into A Board Game

Street Masters: Rise of the Kingdom is an attempt to take the underlying design of games like Double Dragon and Final Fight and turn them into a board game (with a lot of miniatures). Designed by Adam and Brady Sadler, it’s for 1-4 players, and features both an “arcade mode” (for quick and random action)…

Incredible Lucio Cosplay Sounds As Good As It Looks

Here’s Neverending Dreamz with the best damn Lucio cosplay you’ve ever seen (or heard). That music you hear in the video below isn’t coming from the con; it’s coming from the gun, which is an 8-inch subwoofer with two 4-inch speakers on either side. It plays music from his phone, and both the gun and…

A Rare Video Tour Of Peak Sega

The Innoventions pavilion at Epcot is still around, but it’s a bit blergh in 2017. In 1994, though, it was the future, and a big part of that was getting to enjoy Sega in its prime. Which we can all do now, thanks to this video. It was shot by iretrogamer’s dad during a vacation…

Neill Blomkamp Is Making Short Movies For Steam

Director Neill Blomkamp, the guy behind movies like District 9 and Elysium (not to mention a very good attempt at Halo), is now heading up a studio that is going to be releasing “experimental short films” on Steam. Here’s the first trailer for the films, coming out of a company called Oats Studios: Steam has…

How To Cosplay When Your Guns Are Banned

There was a potentially serious event at the Phoenix Comicon over the weekend that saw prop weapons banned from the showroom floor. Which would wreck your cosplay plans if, like these guys, you couldn’t improvise. Up top is Amorongand her husband thedocdorlooking great as D.Va and Soldier 76 from Overwatch. That cardboard might not look…

The Art Of Blizzard’s Heroes Of The Storm

Blizzard’s MOBA throws all the company’s famous properties into the one game, which means the artists tasked with imagining Heroes of the Storm’s look got to have some fun smashing everything together. Below you’ll find a selection of art that went into the game’s production, from characters to skins to environments, along with links to…

Australian Pokémon Are A National Treasure

Pixel God Paul Robertson has drawn up an exhaustive catalogue of Australian Pokémon based on national foods, sayings, places, plants and animals, some of which could kill you, some of them which (probably) wouldn’t For those outside the antipodes who don’t understand many/all of these, niboswald has started annotating them so that you can read…

It Cosplay. Sweet Dreams.

Here’s Stooshwith something you don’t see every day: clown cosplay. Specifically, Pennywise from Stephen King’s It It’s the new Pennywise, not Tim Curry’s immortal version, which I’m kinda glad for, because the 1990 clown with this photography might have been a bit too much. We’ve featured Stoosh here before for his awesome, reimagined Mega Man…

Creepy Mod Transforms Fallout 4 Into A Horror Movie

Pilgrim is a mod for Fallout 4 that takes Bethesda’s Commonwealth and turns it into something you’d see in a game like Silent Hill It doesn’t add new much new content, so there won’t suddenly be quests to chase down chainsaw-wielding hick families or bog witches. But what it does do is overhaul the game’s…

Here’s an interesting little series of interviews with a crew of Westerners who live in Tokyo and play Street Fighter III, an 18 year-old arcade game they don’t really have regular access to back home.

Monster Hunter XX Is Coming To The Nintendo Switch

Capcomjust announcedthat Monster Hunter XX, originally released on the 3DS as an expanded version of Monster Hunter Generations, will also be coming to the Nintendo Switch. That’s all there is to know for now; there’ll be more details at a Monster Hunter event in Japan over the weekend, and you’d assume at E3 as well…

Armed Man Arrested At Phoenix Comicon After Threatening Police

A man who is alleged to have been threatening local police has been arrested at Phoenix Comicon after reports say he was found to be walking the con floor with four firearms and “several knives.” As USA Today report, the 30 year-old man had been taking photos of police and posting them alongside threats on…