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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…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 2, 2018 - CultureCosplay
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 2, 2018 -
UncategorizedSeattle 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…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 1, 2018 -
CultureCosplayCosplayer, 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…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2018 - Uncategorized
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.…
By Ethan Gach Published October 1, 2018 - Culture
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,…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 1, 2018 -
UncategorizedWeedcraft, 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…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2018 - Uncategorized
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 1, 2018 -
UncategorizedSpider-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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 1, 2018 - Uncategorized
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…
By Kate Gray Published October 1, 2018 -
UncategorizedAssassin’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…
Paul Tamayo & Heather Alexandra Published October 1, 2018 - Uncategorized
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.…
By Mike Fahey Published October 1, 2018 - Uncategorized
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…
By Gita Jackson Published October 1, 2018 - Uncategorized
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…
By Ethan Gach Published October 1, 2018 -
UncategorizedGoogle 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…
By Jason Schreier Published October 1, 2018 - Uncategorized
The Closest Thing To A New Zelda Dungeon Is… Nintendo Labo?
The Nintendo Labo Vehicle kit is far from a new Zelda game, but while building it recently, I had flashbacks to some of my favorite parts of some of the best Zelda adventures. I can’t stop telling people this. I hope not everyone thinks I’ve lost my mind. Like the first two Labo kits released…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 1, 2018 -
UncategorizedOverwatch‘s Group-Finder Is Now Mean Girls For Competitive Play
In July, Overwatch got a group-finder, and now meeting teammates for the game’s competitive mode often feels less like teaming up with a bunch of random gamers on the internet and more like trying to sit at the popular kids’ high school lunch table. The group finder is meant to help players compose teams. In…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 1, 2018
