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More Beautiful Sci-Fi Art From Simon Stålenhag

Things from the Flood is the second book from Simon Stålenhag, following on from his first, Tales from the Loop. They’re collections of his beautiful artwork, which combines idyllic imagery from a Scandinavian childhood in the 80s and 90s with…aliens and mechs. We’ve featured Simon’s art here before, but the images below are from Things…

Fantasy Games Become Cosplay Reality

Eylerwainis a cosplayer from Belarus who has put together fantastic outfits for Dragon Age,  StarCraft and Skyrim

Track: Days Gone | Artist: Tor | Album: Blue Book Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

There’s a lot of Disney cosplay going around, as you’d expect, but Hercules doesn’t get much love. Oh, except from CosplaySymphonyhere, with this amazing Megara. Photo by EosAndy

This may be the first—and last—time you ever see someone cosplaying as a character from PS1 platformer Tomba! Cosplay by Leon Chiro, photo by Alzak

Destiny, A Game About Cosplay…

Fenix Fatalist, by day a cosplayer herself, is also a cosplay photographer, and took (and edited) these shots of an incredible Destiny outfit by Colossus. Costume by FD Cosplay Shop

The Long, Strange History Of Video Games Sponsoring Football Teams

Video games and football have long gone hand-in-hand

Pikachu Car Used Drift, It’s Super Effective!

Today on Highlight Reel we have drifting Pikachu cars, bad driving, slams, boxes, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Halo 5 Guardians –…

The Super Mario Bros. speed record is broken again. Old champ Darbian has reclaimed the throne with a 4:56.878 run. The previous record, set earlier this week, was Kosmic’s 4:57:194

Ask Dr. NerdLove: Am I Too Ugly To Date?

Hello you electric blue angels of the abyss, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column to master the Dim Mat. This week, we’re talking about what it takes to be more attractive. Is it all about the face? The body? The bank account? Or is there something more to it? What…

Podcast: The Good And Bad Of PlayStation VR

This week, Kotaku EIC Stephen Totilo joins the Splitscreen podcast to talk about PlayStation VR. What does it do? Does it virtually create reality? Let’s find out. I reviewed PlayStation VR yesterday, and Stephen and I have been using it and discussing it for the past week. We decided that it wasn’t difficult enough to…

Cloudy, With A Chance Of Doom

Jason Martin is an artist at id Software, where he most recently worked on the Doom reboot. We’ve actually featured Martin’s stuff before, but the last time was in 2012, so it’s well and truly time for a refresher, especially with all the Doom stuff to look at. You can see more of Martin’s work…

Track: Feel like | Artist: Alexandros | Album: Exist!  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

You Need To Get Out More, My Man

Luca Nemolato is a concept artist from Italy who hasn’t just worked in video games, but also on Hollywood movies like the new Independence Day, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Jupiter Ascending (see above) and The Hunger Games You can see more of Luca’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To…

Overwatch’s Hanzo, As A Lady

Some very cool crossplay here by Rinrin from China. Note that the tattoo isn’t real, it’s just drawn/painted on to match the design of Hanzo’s from the game. You can see more of Rinrin’s cosplay at her Weibo page. Photos by Flow Vision

Ain’t No Party Like A Smash Bros. Party

Since Smash Bros.’ roster is drawn from other games, you might have thought it was impossible to cosplay as something genuinely, 100% Smash Bros. But that would be overlooking the humble Party Ball toddallthetime made this for GaymerX, and it is just too perfect.

Pull off an unbelievable stunt in Forza Horizon 3? Did FIFA 17 glitch out in a hilarious way for you? Get a one in a million shot? We wanna see it! Our show Highlight Reel is looking for great clips. Send your amazing gaming moments to [email protected] and tune in for more!

DC Super Hero Girls Sets Make The Most Of Lego’s Friends Line

Lego’s girl-focused Friends line, which replaces the traditional minifigures with something closer to tiny plastic dolls, can rub certain collectors the wrong way. Making the tiny plastic dolls DC Comics characters, as Lego is doing with six new DC Super Hero Girls sets, certainly helps. I’m a big fan of the DC Super Hero Girls…

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Here’s AlyCat Cosplay showing Hotel Transylvania’s Mavis some love. Pics by Chiseled Light Photography

A Cosplay Wedding Proposal

Kona Cosplay was doing her thing at DragonCon the other week, filming this nice video with AKIOBOY, when she was suddenly interrupted. By her boyfriend. Cosplaying as himself, he dropped to one knee and proposed right there, to a woman dressed as Nidalee from League of Legends Kona said yes. Congratulations guys! If you want…