On the left, cosplayer and make-up artist Sosenka. On the right, cosplayer and make-up artist Sosenka. Her Majin Buu cosplay looks good in stills, almost photoshopped in parts (like around the nose and mouth), so it pays to see the whole thing in motion so we can get an appreciation for how legit the whole…
Will Jinho Bik is a concept artist based in Los Angeles. You can see more of Will’s mechs, armour and weapons 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 game artists, showcasing…
In most instances, yeah, you can get some impressive cosplay photos from a con floor or a studio. If you’re Canadian, though, you can head into that country’s vast wilderness, and get some pics that are truly special. Similar to an Iceland trip made last year by some of cosplay’s biggest stars, a band of…
Socks, Bill & Hillary Clinton’s actual cat, died in 2009. He’s never coming back. But a video game starring the lil’ guy, which was developed for the SNES, never released and assumed lost, might soon be making a comeback. As digboston reports, game collector Tom Curtin and retro publisher Adam Welch have managed to get…
Halloween isn’t about getting hold of candy. It’s about who is in control of the supply. And when it comes to Overwatch, only one character is in charge: the dad. Cajun Captain Cosplay dressed as Dad 76 for Halloween, and went all out, with t-shirt, dad shoes, dad pants and rocking chair (to match Soldier…
It wouldn’t be the Wild West—even a fake one full of robots—if there wasn’t some fancy gun-slingin’ to be had. SPOILERS AHEAD While Kirk’s most pressing thoughts from this week’s episode revolved around tanks and computer sex, mine were with Dolores and her alt outfit, which seems to have unlocked some “stone cold killer” abilities.…
You know how the space stations you see in things like Mass Effect and Elysium are always bright and shiny and full of fancy futuristic tech? Habitat takes place on one of those stations, only everything has gone to shit. Set decades after an event that somehow isolated them from the outside world/universe, it depicts…
Titanfall 2 isn’t just a very good video game, it’s also a very pretty one, with some of the best character, mech and environment design around. So let’s take a look at where all that stuff came from. Below you’ll find a collection of concept and promo work done by Respawn’s team of artists during…
Julien Gauthier is an artist who has worked on stuff like the PS4’s “This is for the players” commercial, and on movies like Guardians of the Galaxy and Batman vs Superman You can see more of Julien’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button…
According to a story on The Hollywood Reporter, Tim Miller—director of Deadpool—is going to be “developing an adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog for Sony Pictures”. Which is a “a hybrid CG-animated/live-action family film”. Miller wouldn’t be directing; that honour would go to Jeff Fowler, the director and co-founder of Blur Studios, aka the trailer guys…
Routine, a first-person sci-fi game that we first wrote about in 2012, will finally be out in March 2017. Fans of Alien Isolation might want to take a look.
Last Year is a first-person game where five people play as scared high school kids, and one person gets to play as the villain in an old horror movie, hunting them down one-by-one. The game is set on October 31, 1996. It’s October 31, 2016. So if we’re ever going to watch a trailer for…
The Iron Throne is what happens when you take pretty much every murderous stereotype about Game of Thrones, break them down then turn them into a board game where you lie to your friends before stabbing them in the guts. Based heavily on an older title called Cosmic Encounter, but here leveraging the immense popularity…
Track: The Poltergeist | Artist: Fliptrix | Album: Patterns of Escapism Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
Photographer Lawrence Brenner took these shots of cosplay superteam Spiral Cats while they were in NYC doing some League of Legends work. I’ve never seen an assault rifle-carrying police officer look so happy in my life. You can see more of Lawrence’s photos here
This is Jelfishwith some Ring cosplay. Photos by Georgia Nelson
Blizzard artist Rene Koiter isalso one heck of a cosplayer, which he showed once again this year by taking out (along with co-worker Jaime Scheffler) the company’s internal Halloween contest dressed as Negan from The Walking Dead A reminder this is not the first time he has won Blizzard’s contest Jaime is the zombie. Photos…
Come on guys. Nobody that handsome would be called “Gerald”. Cosplay by Maul
There may be more elaborate Halloween costumes on the internet this year, more technical costumes, but none will win my heart like this family’s take on Narcos It’s not the first series that comes to mind when I think “wholesome family cosplay”, especially given the relationships between some of the characters here, but I’m willing…
Five years ago, danrharvey wanted to “get stuck into a creative mode build” in Minecraft. Looking back on it today, he’s built something that’s not only original, but beautiful. “It was fairly aimless at first”, he says, “I just started building a castle, with tunnels beneath, then about three or four months in, during an…
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