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The Power Of Cosplay Make-Up

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve posted some quality cosplay here and some commenter has wailed “oh that’s PHOTOSHOP” when, in reality, most of the visual sorcery is actually taking place thanks to some amazing make-up work. This shot above is a good example of how that work is done. Alyson Tabbitha,…

Look At This Amazing D&D Diorama

Suddenly a nice table and some beers just doesn’t seem good enough. This incredible tabletop setup was posted by Amazing Tabletop Terrain over the weekend. It belongs to (and was built by) Ryan Devoto, featuring the detailed and almost lifelike ocean work of Micheal Tiskus from Terranscapes The scale of it all just crushes the…

“Pay To Win” Protests Hit The Streets Of Black Desert Online

Korean MMO Black Desert Online—yes, the pretty one—recently made a change to the game’s economy. To say players are pissed would be to sell it a little short. The change, which lets players buy items using real money then turn around and sell them for in-game currency, has caused literal in-game protests. Like, characters marching…

Iran Becomes First Country To Ban Pokémon Go

Iran’s Supreme Council of Virtual Spaces, which is a real thing and not the dystopian government from a sci-fi TV show, has announced that Pokémon Go has been banned in the country. As the BBC reports, the ban is related to “unspecified security concerns”, and comes following a short deliberation where the Council “were waiting…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Mario And Sonic At The Real Olympic Games

With the real Olympic games going on, there’s no reason Mario and Sonic need to remain trapped inside their colorful fantasy land. Let’s send them to Rio, and hope they survive. What I’m looking for in this week’s contest, which might be my last for awhile, is Sonic and Mario characters inserted into real images…

More A-Mei-Zing Overwatch Cosplay

Still not sorry Cosplay by Henchwench, photos by R.A Photography Like…this is absolutely perfect. From the fur to the quality of the props and accessories, I cannot see how you can do Mei better than this. UPDATE: It can’t get better, but it can get just as good. Cosplay by Bananzers, photo by Mojo

The Week In Games: Gimme Back That Sky

No Man’s Sky? Bullshit. I’ve got a deed and everything, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned from failed science fiction television show theme songs, it’s that you can’t take it from me. It seems like a challenge, this No Man’s Sky. Everybody’s Sky would have been a much nicer title. Or maybe Sky For…

Rocket League‘s Rumble Mode Brings The Goofy Power-Ups Next Month 

Giving players the ability to kick away other cars with giant boots or disrupt their driving ability are too silly for standard competitive Rocket League play, That’s serious business. Next month’s newly-announced Rumble mode looks to be anything but. Announced during the finale of the Rocket League Championship Series in Hollywood, California today, Rocket League…

AMD Radeon RX 470 Review: Almost The Next Best Thing

Looking to swipe some market share away from Nvidia before the arrival of its GeForce GTX 1060, AMD launched the Radeon RX 480 at the end of June. Codenamed Polaris 10, the company’s first fourth-generation GCN GPU appeared to have everyone rooting for it leading up to its release, and although we were largely satisfied…

A Bro In The Life Of A Steam Greenlight Developer

German independent developer Roman Uhlig recently had his excellent local multiplayer game 12 Orbits added to Steam Greenlight. He’s posted a lengthy, bro-packed conversation demonstrating the sort of attention such a move brings. 12 Orbits is a local multiplayer game for 2 to 12 players, currently available for free on iOS and Android. It’s good…

No Man’s Sky‘s Day-One Patch Will Make Some Huge Changes

If you’ve been playing or watching streams of No Man’s Sky over the past few days, you should know that things are about to get very different. Today on the No Man’s Sky website, director Sean Murray posted a list of the changes that will hit the game when the day-one patch goes live on…

What’s Up With World Of Warcraft‘s New Double-Jumping Fetish Elves

World of Warcraft’s second hero class goes live this week, and there’s a lot more to Illidan Stormrage’s elite Demon Hunters than meets the blindfold. Sometimes they can triple jump. Blizzard’s Demon Hunter developer preview will tell you all about them. The MMORPGs second hero class starts life at level 98 some ten years before…

Sunday Comics: You’re Mine

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published August 6. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published August 1. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Winston And Reaper Take On McCree In One Raw Overwatch Diss Track

YouTube’sCheezy McWiggles weaves together voice clips from Overwatch into a double-team takedown of the game’s resident cowboy, bluntly titled “Fuck McCree.” Warning: immature language, profanity, Reaper trying to be all cool. While some of the lyrics rub me the wrong way, I have to admit the technique Cheezy used to build words from sound slips…

30 Years Of Galactic Bounty Hunting With Metroid

Thirty years ago today the platforming of Super Mario Bros. and the exploration of The Legend of Zelda coalesced into science fiction action adventure starring a person in a powerful suit of armor. Shh. Don’t want to spoil the Metroid surprise. Launching in Japan for the Famicom on August 6, 1986, Metroid combined elements of…

You Can Only Hope To Look This Cool Wearing A Pokémon Z-Ring

Destructoid’sChris Carter inspired me to go shopping for one of those fancy Z-Ring bracelets being released withPokémon Sun and Moon, but after seeing the kids modeling them in the official product shots, I’m not so sure I can pull one off. Made by Tomy, the Z-Ring accessory features special crystals (most sold separately) corresponding with…

The Perfect Box Art For The Stanley Parable

Nothing evokes a life of cubicle-bound drudgery like a white box with four differently-colored things arranged in a square on front. It’s the oddly wonderful The Stanley Parable in box form. Also inside the box. With a tie. The IndieBox subscription service takes independent PC games there’s a good chance you already own and places…