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Our Favorite Cosplay From DragonCon 2019, One Of America’s Oldest Nerd Shows

DragonCon has been running for over 30 years now, drawing tens of thousands of attendees to one of the oldest and best cons on the planet, the highlight of which is often the giant cosplay parade that weaves its way through downtown Atlanta. This year’s show drew over 85,000 attendees, and ran from August 29-September…

Metroid Cosplay Is Blowing Socks Off

Here’s Japanese cosplayer 11Vadu with one of, if not the best Samus outfit I have ever seen. The accuracy, the movement, it’s incredible. I think what I like best, though, is the material used for the bulk of the chestpiece. It’s…modular foam floor mats, cut and shaped, which you can see in this vid that…

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‘Shop Contest: That Weird Switch Teaser

Hey, remember a few days ago when Nintendo quietly dropped a teaser for some weird peripheral or game for the Switch? It looks like it might be a Wii Fit or Wii Sports successor. It also looks really silly. Your challenge this week: Take these silly looking people from the trailer and have some fun!…

Mountain Dew VooDew Is A Tasty Way To Kick Off The Halloween Season

We are only a few days into September, but it seems the Halloween season is starting. Stores are already starting to sell Halloween decorations. So to celebrate the spooky season, a new flavor of Mountain Dew, VooDew, has recently hit shelves. Mountain Dew’s latest flavor, VooDew, is actually a mystery flavor. The bottle is filled…

Sunday Comics: Finished A Book Today…

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. (No new comic this week.) Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Originally published July 30. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Sept. 7. Read more…

‘Shop Contest: Why So Serious, Winners!

We live in a society that loves photo manipulation contests. So, after the first reviews of the upcoming Joker film went live last week, I asked you fine folks to create some images featuring the new and dark Joker. Our winning image this week comes from Neuroplastique who has pulled a George Lucas and made…

World Of Warcraft Classic Is Currently Facing DDoS Attacks And Is Down For Many Players [Update]

World Of Warcraft Classic is currently down for some players. The issues have been happening since around 11 AM EST in the United States. Blizzard has confirmed that the game is currently facing DDoS attacks and is working to fix the issues and get the game back up and running. Some WOW fans believe they…

EA Received A Guinness World Record For Most Downvoted Comment In Reddit History

Back in 2017, EA was dealing with the mess that was Star Wars Battlefront II and its hated loot boxes. During that time an unknown community manager used the official EA Community Team Reddit account to respond to a complaint about unlocking characters. Over 600k downvotes and two years later, EA’s infamous comment has officially…

There Are Now 100 Hidden Action Figures To Find And Collect In GTA Online

The world of Grand Theft Auto Online is filled with crime, action, and destruction. Often players are given jobs that involve robbing banks, assassinating enemies, stealing cars or blowing up drug dens. But in the latest GTA Online update, players have a decidedly more mundane task: Collect 100 action figures for a toy collector. To…

Exploud Screams So Loud It Causes Earthquakes

Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Exploud! Exploud Details Type: Normal Average Height: 4‘ 11″ Average Weight: 185.2 lbs. First Added In Generation III You’ve…

Is It The X Button Or The Cross Button?

Hello! This week we run around the dark woods, talk about K.K. Slider, destroy a perfectly good pool, run a TV network, fix a six-year-old typo and argue over what to call a button on a controller. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Like most weeks, Kotaku was filled with some great stories. Here…

Kerbal Space Program 2 Will Have Real Science Underlying Its Wacky Spaceships

One generally accepted idea about outer space is that it’s really, really hard to get there. It took pretty much the whole of human existence for any of us hairless apes to sail among the stars, and we basically had to break the concept of physics to make it happen. That in mind, the developers…

The Ghost Recon: Breakpoint Beta Is A Debate On What A Ghost Recon Needs To Be

Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, the follow-up to 2017’s popular and controversial Ghost Recon: Wildlands, kicked off its closed beta weekend yesterday, letting players who pre-ordered the game take on two early story missions and a host of side missions that ostensibly will give players a clearer picture of what to expect when the game launches October…

Destiny‘s Warlock Outfits Are Still Way Too Corny

Let me tell you about some pants. They’re a soft sort of charcoal, not really grey, not really black, straight cut, good with sneakers or dress shoes, relaxed but not too relaxed. They’re good pants; I know this because two people complimented them on the same day. This makes me a style king, or at…

Two Old Men Rank The SNES Games On Switch

After years of wishing and hoping, Nintendo finally added a selection of Super Nintendo gamesto its Switch online service. Which of the 20 classics should you play first? We had Kotaku’s resident old men, Chris Kohler and Mike Fahey, Statler and Waldorf together a ranked list. 20. Super Soccer Chris Kohler: I played this for…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for baking a peach cobbler, telling myself I’ll share it because that’s too much dessert for one person, and then eating the whole thing myself. You know what goes well with too much dessert: video games. I’m still working my way through the early stages of Control, which I am finding needlessly…

Returning To Final Fantasy VIII After 20 Years Is Letting Me Resolve Childhood Shame

I vividly remember when Final Fantasy VIII came out in February 1999. I coveted it for months but didn’t get it until October for my 11th birthday. It was my first Japanese role-playing game ever. I struggled desperately just to get through its opening moments of tutorials and text walls and Y2K CD-Rom-ass menus. I…

The Switch’s online service, Nintendo Switch Online, will no longer add several NES games to the service each month, nor will it give SNES games that treatment. “More NES games will be added in the future, but those releases will not adhere to a regular schedule,” a representative from Nintendo told Business Insider.