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Trend for Female Geeks: “Painful” Anime Bags
In Japanese, they’re called “ita-bag” (痛バッグ) or, rather, “painful bag.” And for the country’s female geeks, they’re one surefire way to express their fandom. For years now, geeky car owners have shown their love for anime, manga, and video games with “ itasha” (painmobiles). It’s been said that “ita” refers to the pain inflicted on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 27, 2018 - Uncategorized
Bowsette Fan Event Being Held In Japan
Things have moved real fast for Bowsette. There is a Charge.org “Bowsette is Real” page hoping to make the character cannon. That’s not all. Next month in Japan, there will be a Bowsette gathering with fan art and cosplay. The name of the event is Oukan Keikaku: Kuppa Hime Onrii Ibento or “Crown Plan: Bowsette…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 27, 2018 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Love City
Nine Muses is one of the most mature-concept, refined girl groups active right now, so it wasn’t surprising to see them fit like a glove into Love City’s cosmopolitan pop-inspired music. 2017’s Love City is Nine Muses’ latest release at the time of this writing, after an exodus one year earlier that saw Hyuna, Minha…
By Seung Park Published September 27, 2018 - Uncategorized
“Video Games” Was On Jeopardy Tonight, And It Did Not Go Well
There’s a reason the three contestants left the category until last. Here’s some video: To be fair, “Halo” wasn’t that far off, and I always thought Joust had you flying on fictional ostrich-like animals, not actual ostriches
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2018 - Culture
The Art Of Telltale Games
The closure of Telltale this week brings an end to over a decade of adventure game development that touched on everything from Back to the Future to Bone to Monkey Island to Batman to Game of Thrones I thought tonight, then, we could look back at a bunch of the art that went into some…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2018 - CultureCosplayGallery
Our Favorite Cosplay Photos From Oz Comic-Con
Photographer Prasanna Welangoda, who we last saw covering the Sri Lanka Comic Con, has been in Australia recently, and was able to get some shots from Oz Comic-Con’s Brisbane show last weekend. I’d love to add as many credits here as possible, so if you know (or are!) any of the cosplayers below, get in…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2018 - Uncategorized
World Of Warcraft Community, Blizzard Rally To Support Modder In Need
Modding a game like World of Warcraft can earn you widespread acclaim, but it doesn’t exactly pay the bills. For all the accolades developer Adam Williams received for Deadly Boss Mods, a raid tool considered indispensable by WoW’s community, he still found himself burnt-out on raiding and too poor to pay for badly-needed dental surgery…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 26, 2018 -
UncategorizedNew Darth Vader Game Is Coming To Oculus VR [Update]
Vader Immortal is a new series of virtual reality games coming to the just-announced Oculus Quest headset. Here’s the trailer: Not much to go on there, other than the fact it looks like you’re playing as some scmuck who gets kidnapped by Darth Vader then forced into some kind of Indentured Sith Apprenticeship Scheme. The…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2018 -
UncategorizedPokémon Stars At Milan Fashion Week
Fashion/streetwear label GCDS had a show at Milan Fashion Week a couple of days ago, and Pokémon was all over it. Both the mens and womens spring/summer line for 2018/19 featured Pokémon designs, from knitted sweaters for the guys: To boots: To full-blown Pikachu cosplay: And they weren’t the only ones! Jeremy Scott’s show had…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 26, 2018 -
CultureWhat We Liked (And What Bewildered Us) About Nic Cage’s New Movie, Mandy
Some movies just make sense. Mandy, starring a near-feral Nicolas Cage, is not one of them. It begins as a glacially-paced exercise in psych-horror scene-setting before abruptly transforming into a drugged-out, neon-drenched revenge flick. Gita Jackson and I sat down to try to make sense of it all. Nathan Grayson: Hey, Gita! So, we have…
Nathan Grayson & Gita Jackson Published September 26, 2018 -
UncategorizedA Game About Going To Art School In A World Made Out Of 90s Screen Savers
Once upon a time I painted a lot. I won some minor awards in high school, and I almost studied art in college. But the closest I ever got was watching Terry Zwigoff’s 2006 satire Art School Confidential. It’s a about a wide-eyed college freshman whose idealism is beaten out of him by the pettiness,…
By Ethan Gach Published September 26, 2018 - Culture
Curry I Ate In Japan, Ranked
If you know anything about me, it’s that I love Japanese curry. At a party at last week’s Tokyo Game Show, a friend introduced me to someone by way of pointing out that if you Google, in Japanese, “the foreigner who loves curry,” an article I wrote in 2008 was the top hit. He then…
By Chris Kohler Published September 26, 2018 -
UncategorizedComparing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Two Main Characters
In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, you can choose to play as either a male or female protagonist named Alexios or Kassandra. As an experiment, we decided to see what each of the characters looked like in their reactions to the same two scenarios. Watch the video above to see both characters play out each scene.
Paul Tamayo & Heather Alexandra Published September 26, 2018 -
UncategorizedA Ton Of Cool New Stuff Has Unlocked in Destiny 2: Forsaken
Shit has finally gotten real in the Dreaming City, as Bungie has made good on its promises to regularly introduce cool new stuff to the latest Destiny 2 expansion, Forsaken Yesterday, the new Dreaming City location changed significantly, with Taken blights opening up all over the place and a couple of challenging missions becoming available.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published September 26, 2018 - Uncategorized
Players Will Soon Be Able To Merge Fortnite Accounts Across Consoles
In a post on the Fortnite subreddit and Twitter today, Epic announced that it’s working to let players unlink their accounts from a particular console and, in the near future, ultimately be able to merge them so their progress carries over no matter where they play the game. Earlier today, Sony announced a beta for…
By Ethan Gach Published September 26, 2018 -
UncategorizedWe’re playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey live on Twitch. Come watch!
By Riley MacLeod Published September 26, 2018 - Uncategorized
The First Episode Of Life Is Strange 2 Doesn’t Hide Its Politics
In certain ways, Life Is Strange 2 is a huge departure from the first game. It’s set in a different city, with wildly different characters. It ditches the Gossip Girl-meets-Twin Peaks murder mystery for a harsher story about two teenagers on the run. But it’s still an over the top teenage angst fest. Life Is…
By Gita Jackson Published September 26, 2018 -
UncategorizedHere’s October 2018’s PlayStation Plus Lineup
October’s PlayStation Plus lineup is a bit of a range. Friday the 13th is good for some co-op scares, and there’s also some indie gems in The Bridge and Read Only Memories. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription. October’s PS Plus games are: PlayStation 4 Friday…
By Riley MacLeod Published September 26, 2018
