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Chris McCabe is a concept artist and designer based in the UK. You can see more of Chris’ work at his personal site
Track: A Lesson In Lust | Artist: Hail The Sun | Album: Mental Knife Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Before GTA Online, Rockstar Games took a few stabs at online multiplayer within their open world games. Red Dead Redemption for Xbox 360 and PS3 was a big step beyond what was accomplished in GTA IV’s multiplayer. In many ways RDR multiplayer feels like a prototype for GTA Online. With Red Dead Redemption 2 coming…
Track: The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (Live) | Artist: The Smiths | Album: The Queen Is Dead (Deluxe) Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Of course they do! This month, Pringles Sour Cream and Onion flavored fried noodles and Pringles Jalapeño and Onion ramen will go on sale in Japan. Pringles is teaming up with instant noodle maker Acecook to make this happen. If that wasn’t enough (it’s not, I guess!), chicken-bone soy sauce flavored ramen Pringles and squid…
Lukasz Salata is a concept artist from Poland, who most recently worked on the adventure/puzzle game My Brother Rabbit You can see more of Lukasz’s work at his ArtStation page
No doubt helped by the fact Ubisoft released a very cool guide back at E3, we’re already seeing quality cosplay from Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. This is French cosplayer Phobos, who built Kassandra’s outfit from EVA foam, worbla, sculpting clay, linen and some fake leather. Her boyfriend Thibaut Claudel is responsible for the photos, which were…
More than two years since its release, XCOM 2 is still a behemoth of a strategy game, but things have been quiet out of developer Firaxis’ camp since the release of excellent expansion War of the Chosen last year. Today, the developer surprise-announced that it’s not done with XCOM 2 just yet. New additions to…
We’re playing Mega Man 11 live on Twitch. Come watch!
Of all the many valid reasons I’m still playing The Witcher 3, there’s one that’s not related to the game’s quality. If I put it down for too long, I’ll completely forget how to play. It’s a problem that extends to every game I own. I recently discovered a game in my Steam library that…
Track: Oedo Controller | Artist: Yunomi feat.TORIENA | Album: Oedo Controller Album Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Belle’s dresses in Beauty and the Beast are fancy, but they’re not exactly authentic to the place and time of the original 18th century French fairy tale that Disney adapted. Cosplayer Athena’s Adventures decided to address this with an adaptation of her own, taking Belle’s basic colour palette and turning her ball gown into something…
Natane Eklund works by day as an artist in the video game industry, but over the past year she’s also been toiling away on a gaming project of a different kind: a full 1:1 replica of Sephiroth’s Final Fantasy VII costume, complete with Jenova prop. It really is something else; you tend to see a…
Here’s AlyCat with some Ghostbusters x Rosie the Riveter cosplay. Photos by Chiseled Light Photography, proton pack by GHOSTBUSTERS: OPEN FOR BUSINESS
I know, we’ve already run a DragonCon gallery, but this video from Legend of Micah covers the parties and giant parade that take place over the weekend, as cosplayers head down Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta.
The instupituous Alyson Tabbitha becomes Mila Jovovich with this Fifth Element cosplay. We’ve covered Alyson’sincredible work loads of times here on Kotaku, but you can see a lot more at her Instagram page As a bonus, here’s some behind the scenes footage from this shoot (which actually took place last year) taken by photographer David…
It’s a new era for Steam—or so Valve says. So long as it’s not “illegal, or straight-up trolling,” Valve will allow any game on the service. It’s implemented new filtering tools to drive the point home and also ensure that there’s not heaping piles of porn lying around everywhere. However, in the past few weeks,…
I hope you like the vroom vroom sounds of very cool cars, because Forza Horizon 4 is coming this week. We’re also getting a new Assassin’s Creed and Super Mario Party. We’re now taking the plunge into the Autumn of Many Games, and that means that there are things for literally everyone coming out constantly.…
Track: Sunday Morning (Cover) | Artist: Beck | Album: NA Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Last month, Kotaku introduced Australian cosplayer A.K. Wirru’s terrific Mai Shiranui. Not content to only bring Mai to life with padding, Wirru also does a very good rendition of Mai’s moves. Have a look in the clip below: Check out Wirru’s practice clip: Becoming Mai isn’t easy! Just look how much padding goes into this…
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