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The Ghostbusters Can Do It!

Here’s AlyCat with some Ghostbusters x Rosie the Riveter cosplay. Photos by Chiseled Light Photography, proton pack by GHOSTBUSTERS: OPEN FOR BUSINESS

The Great Cosplay Parade

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.

Cosplayer, Leeloo Dallas, Multipass

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…

Valve Removes 179 Steam Games Including Big Dick and MILF

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,…

The Week In Games: Cool Car Assassin

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.

Mai Shiranui Cosplay Made Better With Fight Moves And Poses

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…

Track: The Boy Who Destroyed The World | Artist: AFI | Album: All Hallows EP Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

‘Shop Contest: Pet Distribution

Fortnite broke all the rules by giving everyone cute and fun pets this week, so we need to even the score: I need you to put pets in every game. Listen, I don’t care how you do it, but no one is going to buy any game without pets in it in the foreseeable future.…

Podcast: Telltale, PS4 Cross-Play, And The Nintendo Fandom

We covered a lot of ground on this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, from studio closures to cross-console play to laughably large mousepads. Jason Schreier is off for one more week, so my Kotaku colleague Maddy Myers once again filled in for him. We spent the first part of the show talking about what the Telltale games…

Sunday Comics: Competitive Classics

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 24. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published September 27. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

The preliminary list of games for Awesome Games Done Quick 2019 has been released. The list is not final and will certainly change before a final schedule is made, but there are a lot of games to get excited about. The charity speedrunning event will happen in January 2019.

‘Shop Contest: Make Sense Of Death Stranding, Winners!

Last week we got to see some new stuff from the upcoming Death Stranding, but it was confusing. So I asked you to ‘shop up some explanations for me, and you did a great job. Hideo Kojima, one of the key talents behind Death Stranding, has always leaned pretty hard on questions of “who the…

This Week In The Business: The Walking Dead

QUOTE | “We’re currently still working to find a way to hand off production of episodes 3 and 4 so that the season can be completed.” – Telltale Games reassures fans that it is still trying to finish the final season of The Walking Dead QUOTE | “By keeping the Company open in some capacity,…

Track: Made An America | Artist: The Fever 333 | Album: Made An America EP Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for finally getting some alone time after weeks of travel and house guests, which means drinking whiskey in the bath while watching Anthony Bourdain episodes. Also, video games. I bought the Fortnite battle pass for the first time yesterdayso I could write about the dog (it’s a good dog). I’m stressed out…

Nintendo’s New Mobile RPG Is A Slick Version Of The Same Old Thing

Nintendo and Cygames’ Dragalia Lost is a very pretty mobile game. The characters are lovely, the music is gorgeous, and its overall presentation is quite charming. One could almost forget it’s just another generic character collecting mobile action RPG under all of that polish. Almost. Nintendo’s done some pretty innovative things since moving into the…

Track: Here Comes The Sun | Artist: Nina Simone | Album: Here Comes The Sun Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Thanks Bunches

Timofey Stepanov is an artist from Russia who has worked on games like Zera You can see more of Timofey’s work at his ArtStation page

TowerFall May Be A Party Game, But It’s Also Fun Solo

TowerFall is out on the Switch today, just over five years after it originally released on the ill-fated Ouya. It was one of the best party games then and has continued to be one of the all-time best since. It’s still great on Switch, but more than anything I can’t get over is how much…