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Dragon Age Cosplay Is All About The Romance
This is Yume, a cosplayer from Germany, getting into the Dragon Age spirit (ie, romancing) with her boyfriend. Both costumes were made by Yume, who has been cosplaying for over a decade now. Photos by the always-excellent eosAndy
By Luke Plunkett Published April 9, 2017 - Uncategorized
A Custom Gundam Nintendo Switch
LOVENIN, a Nintendo fan from Thailand, messed up and bought a black & grey Switch instead of a Neon one. To add some colour to his drab new console, then, he decided to take it apart and add some Gundam flavour to the thing. Looks great! A big reason why it looks so good is…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 9, 2017 - CultureCosplay
Time To Party Like The Bad Guys
These are grim times we are living through, but that doesn’t mean Landon Meier’s Hyperflesh—creators of terrifying rubber masks—can’t have some fun with them. You might have caught some of Hyperflesh’s ultra-realistic masks last year during the election. Here are a couple of news ones, shown off at Monsterpalooza. Amazing how an over-sized head, some…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 9, 2017 - Culture
The Week In Games: Shiny Collectibles On The Horizon
Picking stuff up in games will never get old. Whether its coins in Super Mario Bros. or rings in Sonic, game developers learned a long time ago that we love grabbing stuff in games. It’s what made Pac-Man a sensation decades ago and what’s still driving the Ubisoft collectible-industrial complex. Instead of chomping on ghosts…
By Ethan Gach Published April 9, 2017 - Esports
Fnatic Upset Top European Team In League Playoffs
This weekend marked the kickoff of the League Championship Series’ spring split playoffs, and in the European region, top team H2K finally met its match against a revitalized Fnatic. H2K was a clear favorite in today’s match, with a 10-3 record for the season compared to Fnatic’s 6-7. Having beat Fnatic 2-0 in regular play,…
By Eric Van Allen Published April 9, 2017 -
UncategorizedHyper Dragon Ball Z is still getting new characters, stages, and move sets. The latest trailer for the fan-made fighting game that dumps everyone’s favorite DBZ characters into the Mugen engine used to make Street Fighter and Dark Stalkers shows off the progress made in the latest build now available to download.
By Ethan Gach Published April 9, 2017 - Uncategorized
Heroes Of The Storm Matchmaking Helps Two People Get Hitched In Real Life
You never know where you might meet that special someone who makes you want to spend the rest of your life with them. For SadJetsFan and Venus1812, that place turned out to be a match in Heroes of the Storm “Against all odds, two people from different countries and cultures were able to find each…
By Ethan Gach Published April 9, 2017 -
CultureRandom Encounters Are The Bane Of A Final Fantasy Speedrunner’s Existence
The Final Fantasy Series Relay Race III is going on right now, with three teams of seventeen people competing to see which can beat every game in the series first. Begun back in 2015, the annual event is streamed across several days with speedrunners on each team dedicating themselves to completing a specific Final Fantasy…
By Ethan Gach Published April 9, 2017 -
UncategorizedParadigm Wants You To Confront The Ruling Class
Paradigm looks bonkers and it is. Released on PC early last week, it pokes fun at the systems we’re all constrained by, inspired by classic point-and-click games. A surreal adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic Eastern European country, Paradigm explores the theoretical use of genetics technology by the rich and powerful to help them spawn…
By Ethan Gach Published April 9, 2017 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Zelda Economics
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published April 6. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 3. Read more…
By Ethan Gach Published April 9, 2017 - Uncategorized
Salt And Sanctuary‘s Claustrophobic Exploration Is Perfect For The Vita
It took Ska Studios just over a year to get its side-scrolling action game onto the Vita, but the wait was worth it. Salt and Sanctuary takes the best of Metroidvania-style games and Souls-likes and condenses it into the ideal portable experience. Thanks to Sickhead Games, a developer who has ported games like Axiom Verge…
By Ethan Gach Published April 8, 2017 - Esports
Bizarre Modes Lead To Insane Rocket League Goals
We’re halfway through season three of the Rocket League Championship Series, and to celebrate, several teams are participating in an invitational today where the maps and settings were determined by viewers. Opening the action were Atelier and Denial Esports, who would soon be plunged into the sound and fury of community-nominated novelty game modes. Game…
By Eric Van Allen Published April 8, 2017 - Uncategorized
Goodbye Sweet Nomad
Things get weird on Mass Effect: Andromeda’s desert world of Eos when you start pushing the Nomad over 160 kilometers per hour. As several players have reported on Reddit, the glitch happens while zooming around the planet’s surface at high speeds. The DeLorean-like teleportation doesn’t send the Nomad into the past or future, however. Instead,…
By Ethan Gach Published April 8, 2017 - Uncategorized
Celebrate The Most Famous Egg In Gaming With Mystery World Dizzy
It only took a little over two decades to arrive, but Mystery World Dizzy, the NES port of the arcade game Fantasy World Dizzy, which was supposed to come out back in 1993, is now available to play for free in honor of the character’s 30th birthday. Created by programmer twins Philip and Andrew Oliver,…
By Ethan Gach Published April 8, 2017 - Uncategorized
The Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Look Way Better With SNES-Themed Buttons
The Nintendo Switch grey Joy-Con controllers are pretty nondescript all by themselves, but you can throw a few SNES-themed buttons on there to spice things up if you’re brave enough. YouTuber JordiPower decided he didn’t want to wait for Nintendo to release its own SNES-themed buttons for the Switch and so went ahead and inserted…
By Ethan Gach Published April 8, 2017 - Esports
The Weekend In Esports: Tecmo Super Bowl Returns
Tecmo Super Bowl is back! Re-live the glory of the most beloved sports game of all time by watching its top players face-off this weekend in the game’s annual Madison Bowl. Below you’ll find where and when you can catch all the weekend’s biggest events in competitive gaming. Let us know what you’ll be watching…
By Ethan Gach Published April 8, 2017 - Esports
RunAway Blows 3-1 Lead In Overwatch Apex Finals
OGN, a Korean esports organization, hosted the grand finals for Overwatch Apex Season 2, and it was a barn-burner. RunAway, a Cinderella story team with no organization, met the titanic Lunatic-Hai, a team whose only loss in the group stage was to RunAway. A mixture of revenge and underdogs, and a grand finals that went…
By Eric Van Allen Published April 8, 2017 - Uncategorized
GameStop Acknowledges Possible Breach Of Customers’ Credit Card Information
If you’ve shopped at GameStop.com between mid-September and early February, it’s possible your credit card information has been compromised according to a report by the web security blog, KrebsOnSecurity. After reaching out to the video game retailer about the breach, GameStop confirmed to KrebsOnSecurity that it had been notified by a third party that possible…
By Ethan Gach Published April 8, 2017 - Culture
This Week In The Business: Scorpio’s Price May Sting
QUOTE | “I estimate the basic hardware will cost around $650, so if Microsoft wants any kind of margin at all, Scorpio will have to retail for $700 or more.” – IDC analyst Lewis Ward is bracing for a bit of sticker shock on Project Scorpio QUOTE | “At the end of the day we…
Brendan Sinclair Published April 8, 2017