The Man Behind Some of the Best Cosplay Gear in the World

A badass Mass Effect rifle replica. Creepily realistic Skyrim bad guys. Armor and weapons from loads of beloved video games. Bill Doran’s Punished Props studio makes all of those things. And, man, it doesn’t sound relaxing at all. Bill Doran is a guy that other cosplayers look up to, someone who manages to craft fictional…

Discounted Gaming Gift Cards, Mechanical Keyboards, and More Deals

If you own a game console, this is basically free money. 10% off PlayStation Gift Cards | Best Buy 10% off Xbox Gift Cards | Best Buy 10% off Nintendo eShop Cards | Best Buy Bonus: We’ve seen 12 months of Xbox Live for $40 recently, but how’s 13 months sound? [13 Month Xbox Live…

Danganronpa is a wonderfully weird and subversive murder mystery series, so it makes sense someone would eventually cross it over with wrestling. Enter Danganwrestling, where we learn John Cena’s most coveted secret: he looooooooves anime. As luck would have it, that might actually be true A few episodes are already live, actually. Here’s the first…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: How to Make The Legend of Zelda TV Series Work • Elihu’s Four in February 2015: It’s Out of This World [The Bureau: XCOM Declassified] • Parasyte Continues to Impress • Anime Theme Song Roundup by Ani-TAY – Week 6 • Nintendo, I Have Some Questions TAY…

Cancelled Justice League Game Pops Up Again, Looks Bizarro

Let’s be real: the Green Lantern project that was also supposed to be a Justice League game didn’t look like it was going to set the world on fire. But it’s an interesting footnote in the history of superhero games, one that would’ve featured some of the most popular fictional characters ever created. The newest…

Guy Turns His PS1 Into Final Fantasy VII‘s Midgar

Well, that’s one way to play the classic JRPG: With a miniature version of Final Fantasy VII‘s capital city on top of the console. MakoMod‘s creation, which took 10 months to complete, might look rusty and dark, just like Midgar, but the modified PlayStation and reads discs perfectly. The creator shared a gallery on his…

World of Warcraft‘s Next Patch Adds Racing Mini-Game

Warlords of Draenor‘s first big content patch is shaping up nicely, and besides a new quest hub, redesigned crafting, a selfie camera and some new Garrison features, one of the new additions will be a racing activity. The race’s final version will be added to the Darkmoon Faire island, WoW‘s ever-growing, mini game-filled theme park.…

Scar from The Lion King is one dapper gentleman in Hyung86’s Disney University fanart series. In-universe, he teaches political science, and is a fan of classical music, English literature, and… Jeremy Irons films. Of course. Look below for Professor Scar in his full glory, and over here for more from Hyung86 Dayshot is an image-based…

Bravely Second, the sequel to Bravely Default: Flying Fairy, finally has an official subtitle. The game will be called Bravely Second: End Layer.

After Two Decades, I’ve Finally Outgrown Mortal Kombat’s Violence

It’s taken Mortal Kombat X to show me how much I’ve changed since 1992. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK See, back then I was in love with a new arcade game they’d just installed in the cinema at Sheffield’s Meadowhall shopping centre (this was before the proper arcade was even built). It looked…

Studio Ghibli Doesn’t Know What To Make Next

The studio behind Totoro, Porco Rosso and more is not dead yet. But as Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki explains, the studio isn’t sure about its next feature film project. “Right now, Studio Ghibli is open, but not in production,” Suzuki is quoted as saying by Oricon. “We’re worrying over what would be good to make.”…

The “Most Wonderful” Anime of 2014

Reader poll time! Japanese website Anime Anime (via Otanew) polled seven hundred of its readers, asking them to name the most splendid anime of last year. Here are the results. Keep in mind that this is a reader poll and not representative of all anime viewers in Japan. It is, however, representative of the seven…

Guy Swatted In Front Of 60,000 Viewers While Playing Runescape

Joshua Peters, a US Air Force vet who hangs out on Twitch playing video games, was the victim of a swatting hoax last week, during which his home was stormed and the police reportedly pointed guns at his brothers. Streaming as Koopatroopa787, Peters had around 60,000 people watching him play Runescape when the raid took…

So Long, RadioShack, And Thanks For All The Sweet/Shitty Box Art

RadioShack is gone, but it is not forgotten. Amidst all the weekend obituaries for a company that had already been dead for years, though, people seem to have forgotten one thing: the company’s legacy of making its own supremely dorky box art. I mean, get a load of the fonts! The placement! Some of them…