Shirtless Spartan Warrior Cosplay Made Easy!

All you need are incredible art skills, and bam, and you too can look like King Leonidas. This is Mr. Nagata from Japanese comedy site Omocoro, which recently had artist Hikaru Cho paint him a chiseled chest. Kotaku has featured Cho’s body paintings before (here, here, and here). They are terrific. The process took over…

Japanese Young People Are Imitating That Crying Politician

Politician Ryutaro Nonomura made national news in Japan after he turned into a crying mess during a press conference. The incident spawned internet memes, the latest of which is Japanese youth posing as Nonomura for laughs. In case you missed it, here is the now infamous press conference, which was supposed to address the Hyogo…

Numenera Technology Compendium

The cover for The Technology Compendium: Sir Arthour’s Guide to the Numenera. The 150-page hardcover contains “400 new cyphers, 225 new artifacts, and 300 new oddities” and will be available in August for $40 or $15 for the ebook. Here’s a sample illustration from the book: Via the official site You are now looking at…

Pay To Win Claw Game

Pay to win mechanics in the real world. Via R/Gaming You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

The Brazil-Germany Match, Explained Via Pokémon

If you’re having trouble understanding what happened in the World Cup today, then perhaps this highly scientific Pokémon image of Mega ‘mon versus baby Pokémon can break it down for you. Makes sense to me, at least. (Via Will Thompson)

The Sun Is Gone, So It’s Time To Make Friends

This is Ashen. It’s “an action RPG about a wanderer in search of a place to call home”. It looks awesome. Set in a world with no sun, which I first took to be Scotland (sorry Mark) but which is instead some kind of fictional wasteland, its developers say the main aim of the game…

The Smoke Is A Cosplay Superstar

Eric “The Smoke” Moran is a wrestler, actor and producer (and comic book hero). He is also one hell of a cosplayer. You know what’s most impressive, other than the obviously fantastic outfits? It’s the range. From Spawn to Battle of the Planets to Batman to Appleseed to Judge Dredd to Assassin’s Creed, he’s covering…

If Sailor Moon Starred In A Fantasy RPG

Sailor suits might work when it comes to fighting evil by moonlight, but in an RPG? Maybe not so much. Check out these cool GIFs by Sasha Mutch, which reimagine a few sailor scouts as fantasy RPG characters: Sailor Moon, the armored cleric (It’s based on Marek Jarocki’s Sailor Moon design.) Sailor Mercury, the mage…

Every day that we get to see Princess Mononoke cosplay is a good day. Cosplay by Meisha Mock, photo by Joits (via cosplayblog).

An Amazing Glitch That Makes Super Mario World Way Easier

Ever heard of the “cloud glitch” in Super Mario World? It’s a technique that allows you to spawn a usable Lakitu cloud in your item box, which you can then use to speed through the game. Heck, the glitch even allows you to skip some of the animations in the final Bowser fight, peculiarly enough.…

​Luigi Death Stare Cosplay Terrorizes Convention

Luigi isn’t just a jerk in Mario Kart 8, he’s also started drive-by shelling cosplayers. How cruel! D Piddy of dancing Deadpool fame took to Anime Expo 2014 and shelled the hell out of half of your favorite animated characters. Sure, the meme is played — but good cosplay is good cosplay, and I won’t…

Highlight Reel: The Safest Mario Kart Racer

Today in gaming highlights: We see how to safely navigate a Mario Kart 8 course. Very safely. Also, a Counter-Strike dance party! Mario Kart 8 Elusivebyte shows us how to handle a Mario Kart 8 course like a driving instructor. As he puts it: Always drive carefully. Don’t speed. Avoid obstacles on the road, especially…