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When Disney Meets Historical Fashion

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…

Final Fantasy VII Cosplay Is The Hero, Not The Villain Here

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…

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.

Seattle Police Launch An Anti-Swatting Program

Swatting is pretty much the shittiest prank a person can pull, if you can even call an action that might lead to someone’s death a “prank.” Somebody calls the police and accuses somebody else—often someone who’s livestreaming—of an in-progress crime so heinous that a SWAT team shows up at their door, with unpredictable consequences. Late…

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…

Gearbox CEO Says His Former Assistant Stole $3 Million

In 2014, Randy and Kristy Pitchford found that they needed a personal assistant to help manage their busy lives. He was the CEO of Borderlands maker Gearbox Software, she the owner of the Dallas-area gaming-themed cafe Nerdvana. They hired John Wright Martin, who worked for the couple for two years. In 2016, they parted ways.…

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,…

Weedcraft, A Game About Growing And Selling Weed

Weedcraft, out on PC next year, is a management game where you’re put in charge of a company that’s involved in all aspects of growing and selling marijuana. You can design your own blends, expand your business, hire staff and run the facilities the business needs to keep growing. Whether the actual game is as…

Behind The Scenes Filming A Mortal Kombat Game In 1995

Series co-creator Ed Boon shared a very cool video earlier today, showing some behind the scenes action from Mortal Kombat 3’s motion capture filming. Bit and pieces of this kind of stuff tend to pop up every now and again (like the MK1 photos we posted in 2014), but this is particularly great, because it…

Spider-Man’s Text Message Scene Is Perfect

There are a lot of good cutscenes in the PS4’s new Spider-Man game. My favorite one was all about a text message conversation. Around halfway through the main story, there’s an act break. Spider-Man has caught Mister Negative, a.k.a. Martin Li, and in the process reconnected with his sort-of-ex-girlfriend Mary Jane Watson. In this Spider-Man…

This Life Sim Fascinated (And Terrified) Me When I Was 13

I was probably about 7 when I first realized there was some weird, fleshy mystery going on between my legs. At that age, you’re discovering a lot about yourself: how far you can run, how many Spice Girls lyrics you can learn in one evening, whether or not you can fit an entire roll of…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Offers A Hell Of A View

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey takes the series to its earliest setting ever, way back to ancient Greece during the Peloponnesian War. Heather and I have dug into the game for the past two weeks, and the first thing that stood out to both of us was how colorful the world looks and how varied the scenery…

The New Transformers Trading Card Game Is Kind Of Magical

Giant transforming robots deserve giant trading cards, and they get them in the new Transformers Trading Card Game. Hasbro tapped Wizards of the Coast to give the Autobots and Decepticons a new way to battle, and it’s slightly more than meets the eye. It’s kind of a slow rollout for the Transformers Trading Card Game.…

Video Game About Dating Supreme Court Justices Has A Different Ring To It These Days

The developers making Supreme Courtship always had a tricky needle to thread. To educate players about American government they would let them date Supreme Court Justices. It was meant to be upbeat and a little silly. It’s become a thornier project over the last several weeks thanks to Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination, and the investigation of…

Some Of The Fall’s Biggest Switch Games Are Shortchanging Handheld Mode 

Super Mario Party comes out on Friday. It’s the series’ debut on Switch and the first main entry since 2015’s ill-fated Mario Party 10 on Wii U. It has 80 new mini games, one of which even utilizes multiple Switches to create a shared, continuous screen. What it doesn’t have is handheld mode support, the…

Google Announces Project Stream, Which Lets You Stream Games In Chrome

Google’s long-rumored Yeti streaming service is now official, as the company today announced Project Stream, a service that will allow users to stream games to the Google Chrome internet browser. The first game supported will be Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, which launches on Friday. “We’ve been working on Project Stream, a technical test to solve some…