Cosplayer Transforms Into Mai Shiranui, Thanks To Plenty Of Padding

Australian cosplayer A.K. Wirru pulled off a terrific cosplay of iconic fighting game character Mai Shiranui. Here’s how he did it. For his Mai cosplay, he decided to recreate the character’s physical proportions. Making sure everything matched his skin tone. He also constructed a lower body suit. But that’s not all that was needed for…

Woman with an Umbrella. Hamarikyu Gardens, Tokyo, Japan. By Chris Hatcher | Instagram  JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Sony Just Announced The $100 PlayStation Classic Console

If Nintendo can do it, Sony can too: the company just announced the PlayStation Classic, a small retro console that comes bundled with a range of the original console’s best/most popular games (including Final Fantasy VII). It’ll be out on December 3 in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia, and includes games like Final…

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Mustafa Lamrani is an artist at Starbreeze (Riddick, Syndicate) who has also worked for companies like Ubisoft. You can see more of Mustafa’s work at his ArtStation page

Emilie Gauvin is a cosplayer from Montreal who specialises in costume and fashion design. Here she is as Haru from Persona 5. Panther by luxlocosplay, photo by Erik Paredes

Adidas’ Dragon Ball Sneakers Are Trying The Ol’ Collect-Em-All Trick

Adidas is coming out with a whole line of Dragon Ball sneakers, and while the shoes themselves aren’t great, the sportswear giant is hoping that the boxes they come in are reason enough for fans to drop hundreds of dollars on the set. Each pair of sneakers will come in a box that represents only…

LEGO And The Nintendo Switch Go Very Well Together

Nintendo’s Labo system was designed for use with cardboard, but LEGO designer Vimal Patel (like, he actually works at LEGO designing) has other ideas. He’s taken (via Gamasutra) some of Labo’s existing cardboard tools, like the piano and handlebars, and built them out of LEGO Technic instead. Which is more complicated and less accessible than…

Undertale Is Finally On A Nintendo Console Where It Belongs

Undertale is out on Switch today. It took three years for the excellent JRPG-inspired adventure to finally arrive on a Nintendo console. Now it has and, despite the sometimes clumsy Joy-Con controls, the game feels like it’s come home. In Undertale you play as a kid who’s somehow ended up in the underground, a world…

Fallout 4 Modders Can’t Use New Vegas‘ Voice Acting, So They’re Making Their Own

A group of modders decided to try and remake Fallout: New Vegas inside Fallout 4, but soon, they found themselves in a pickle. Well, more like a jar of pickles. First, there was the gargantuan game they had to spruce up—a years-long undertaking that has yet to make it to the finish line. Then, the…

Xenoblade Chronicles 2’s New Expansion Improves On The Original, But Not Too Much

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 — Torna: The Golden Country is a new standalone expansion pack that does away with some of the more inelegant and tediousbits of the original game. Taking place 500 years before the events of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Torna: The Golden Country follows new characters as well as some of the original game’s more…

Here’s What New Gwent Will Be And Why It’s Exciting

Big things are just over the horizon for Gwent, the collectible card game based on the Witcher series that has been playable for two years but is only officially coming out in the coming months. Anyone who has been confused about the long beta, the shifting release dates or the whereabouts of any single player…

Tom Nook Needs To Get With The Times

Animal Crossing’s landlord Tom Nook is a thorn in many players’ sides. When you first arrive in your new small town inhabited by animal folks, he forces you into an exorbitant loan, which you can then pay down by doing odd jobs. He’s not evil, though. He’s just the product of an evil system—capitalism—whose time…

Cowboy Bebop Wasn’t Afraid To Let Its Heroes Fail

1998’s classic anime Cowboy Bebop is well known for its fusion of jazz confidence and Eastern melodrama. While it’s easy to remember the characters’ stylistic flair, what really allowed the series to endure was how often it showed its core cast to making mistakes and failing spectacularly. Cowboy Bebop follows two bounty hunters, Spike Spiegel…

Blackout Beta Brought Death By Basketballs And Zombies

Black Ops 4’s Blackout mode’s week-long beta just ended, and players were able to score some pretty impressive or unique battle royale wins. Available from September 10-17, Call of Duty’s first leap into the battle royale genre was a success with the community. Blackout delivered Call of Duty’s over-the-top action style, and the beta ran…

YouTube Is Closing YouTube Gaming 

YouTube is getting rid of its dedicated gaming app after it failed to find a big enough audience, the company announced today in a blog post. Instead, gaming-specific content and features will have a new, dedicated home within the main YouTube site. YouTube Gaming originally launched in 2015 after the video game streaming platform Twitch…