Cosplay Isn’t Only About Clothes, But Also About Facial Expressions

Cosplayer Mosuke has recently uploaded a comparison in which she’s attempted to recreate the facial expressions of Golden Kamuy’s Asirpa. This proves an important point, I think. Cosplay isn’t about clothes. It’s also about facial expressions. Attitude, even. You need more than accurate threads to bring a character to life, and bravo to Mosuke for…

Japan’s School Bags Are Expensive and Fashionable

Grade schoolers across Japan carry leather backpacks called “randoseru” (ランドセル). Traditionally, kids have carried one of two colors: black for boys, and red for girls. In recent years, however, that’s changed. This article was originally published on September 3, 2014. Randoseru, which comes from the Dutch word “ransel,” or “backpack,” vary in price. It’s possible…

Latest Steam Update Is Bad News For Steam Spy

Today, Valve added new privacy options that let Steam users decide how they’re viewed by the community. One big side effect: people’s game libraries are now hidden by default, spelling the likely end of data-tracking monolith Steam Spy. Steam Spy is a service that sweeps publicly viewable Steam profiles to estimate game sales and a…

Ye Olde Video Gaemes

Braydan Barrett is a concept artist at Splash Damage, developers of games like Brink and Dirty Bomb You can see more of Braydan’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video…

The Stillness of the Wind is a farming game about life, loss, and solitude. You’ll play as an elderly woman on the edge of civilization, creating a routine out of everything from milking goats to reminiscing about the past. You’ll also receive “increasingly disturbing” letters from your family in the city. Fun! It’ll be out…

It’s 2018, Here’s A New Video Games Magazine

A Profound Waste of Time is a new games magazine that “plays host to a rich variety of voices from inside and outside the videogame industry”. Which means the first issue features pieces by folks like Undertale’s Toby Fox and Life is Strange’s Ashly Burch alongside some very nice illustrations. The mag was actually Kickstarted…

My Quest To Make The Ugliest Possible Call Of Duty Gun

Five months after the launch of Call of Duty: WWII, the game’s long-awaited Paint Job feature is finally available for crafting the tacky camo of your dreams. For my part, I have created the gun of your nightmares, assuming your nightmares largely revolve around fashion disasters. Paint Jobs arrived with the April 10 update, and…

Morrowind, Bioware & Star Wars Classics Coming To Xbox One Backwards Compatibility

Microsoft has just announced a new batch of original Xbox games coming to the Xbox One’s backwards compatibility feature, and there are some damn good ones on offer, including KOTOR, Morrowind, Jade Empire and the original Star Wars: Battlefront games. Here’s the full list of original Xbox games on the way: Hey, if you’ve never…

Rockstar Must Cut Some Music From GTA IV, But Plans To Replace It

Our colleagues at Kotaku UK broke the news yesterday that music licensing issues will force Rockstar Games to remove some songs from Grand Theft Auto IV, a game that celebrates its 10-year anniversary this month. A Rockstar representative confirmed to us today that songs will indeed be removed but added that the company will add…

Twitch Is Collecting Moons In Super Mario Odyssey Now

As of this writing, a couple hundred people are collectively controlling Mario via a Twitch broadcast. And despite the inherent chaos of Twitch chat, these players are actually making progress in Super Mario Odyssey. Community Controller is a channel that has recently dedicated itself to showcasing interactive livestreams of Switch games. The channel started out…

The Newest Battle Royale Contender Is In Very Early Access

Lawbreakers developer Boss Key Productions released Radical Heights today as a free-to-play early access game on Steam. The “x-treme early access” battle royale game comes too late to cash in on the genre’s popularity. While it might have a few good ideas, it is one messy game. Battle royale games drop players onto a map,…

Overwatch Could Kill Off A Hero One Day, But They’d Still Be Playable

“Heroes never die,” says Mercy on a regular basis. The Overwatch team begs to differ. But don’t worry, says the game’s director Jeff Kaplan—even if an Overwatch hero were to bite the dust, they’d still have a life after death. Last week, I attended an event at Blizzard HQ to preview the new Overwatch event,…

Someone Turned An 80s Boombox Into An SNES Classic You Can Play On The Go

Behold: A 1982 Montgomery Ward boombox that reels cassette tape and translates invisible signals broadcast over the air into rad tunes. Okay, that’s not exactly bleeding-edge tech. But, it has one thing other boomboxes haven’t got: a working SNES Classic inside. This DIY mashup was put together by a modder named Colin, who runs a…

Far Cry 5 Could Use Some Harder Difficulty Options

The more I play Far Cry 5, the less interesting and challenging it becomes. That’s a common problem for a Far Cry game, but I hope it doesn’t remain the status quo. When I started Far Cry 5, Hope County was a war zone. Armed members of the Eden’s Gate cult patrolled every roadway and…

Five Cool Indie Games To Keep On Your Radar

Last weekend at PAX East, I scoured the show floor for indie game demos great and small. I previously played Omensight, Spearhead Games’ time travel murder mystery, and chatted with the developer last Friday. Here are five more games I can’t wait to play in their entirety. Monster Prom Beautiful Glitch’s Monster Prom is a…

Quiz: Which Video Game Siblings Are You?

It’s National Sibling Day! Go give them a hug. If you don’t have one—or even if you do—you should also take this quiz to see which video game siblings you’re most like.

Sources: The PlayStation 5 Is Still A Ways Off

A recent online rumor got people buzzing about a possible 2018 release of PlayStation 5, but that’s probably not going to happen. In fact, from what we’ve heard, the next PlayStation is a ways away—it may not arrive until 2020. It’s been nearly five years since the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One launched, which has…