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How To Cosplay When Your Guns Are Banned

There was a potentially serious event at the Phoenix Comicon over the weekend that saw prop weapons banned from the showroom floor. Which would wreck your cosplay plans if, like these guys, you couldn’t improvise. Up top is Amorongand her husband thedocdorlooking great as D.Va and Soldier 76 from Overwatch. That cardboard might not look…

SonicFox Wins Inaugural Injustice 2 Premier Event At Combo Breaker

At the end of an intense top eight, Dominic “SonicFox” McLean secured a 3-1 win in the first Injustice 2 Pro Series event at Combo Breaker 2017 on the PlayStation 4. SonicFox made a dominant run through the winner’s bracket on both his Deadshot and Black Adam play, including a 3-0 win over to-be grand…

Australian Pokémon Are A National Treasure

Pixel God Paul Robertson has drawn up an exhaustive catalogue of Australian Pokémon based on national foods, sayings, places, plants and animals, some of which could kill you, some of them which (probably) wouldn’t For those outside the antipodes who don’t understand many/all of these, niboswald has started annotating them so that you can read…

It Cosplay. Sweet Dreams.

Here’s Stooshwith something you don’t see every day: clown cosplay. Specifically, Pennywise from Stephen King’s It It’s the new Pennywise, not Tim Curry’s immortal version, which I’m kinda glad for, because the 1990 clown with this photography might have been a bit too much. We’ve featured Stoosh here before for his awesome, reimagined Mega Man…

Creepy Mod Transforms Fallout 4 Into A Horror Movie

Pilgrim is a mod for Fallout 4 that takes Bethesda’s Commonwealth and turns it into something you’d see in a game like Silent Hill It doesn’t add new much new content, so there won’t suddenly be quests to chase down chainsaw-wielding hick families or bog witches. But what it does do is overhaul the game’s…

The Week In Games: Tokyo Vice

Tokyo 42, Star Trek: Bridge Crew (for real this time), and a bunch of other stuff comes out this week. As Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, it’s only fitting that release schedule starts winding down as well. The last few months still feel like a blur though, so I’ll be taking this…

Street Fighter V’s Balrog Is Pretty Damn Strong, But Not Unbeatable

Balrog is Street Fighter V’s One Punch Man. Capable of dishing out an insane amount damage, the fighting game community is divided over the power he has at his disposal, with some writing him off as an overpowered brawler to be nerfed as soon as possible. But does a character who few players are finding…

Last-Second Comeback Highlights USA Vs UK Killer Instinct Finals

At Combo Breaker in St. Charles, Illinois, two countries clashed to prove who was the best in the tournament’s own namesake. Valoraxe, a player from the United Kingdom, had stormed through the upper bracket with his Cinder, while Wheels, the home-crowd favorite, was in his first-ever Combo Breaker grand finals. What resulted when these two…

Everything You Wanted To Know About Super Mario 64‘s Surfaces 

People have been playing Super Mario 64 for years but few have plumbed the depths of how it was constructed and the unique ways its world works the way speedrunners have. “Every surface in SM64 is made up of triangles,” writes YouTuber, speedrunner, and Mario 64 analyst Pannenkoek at the beginning of his latest video…

This Sure Is A $600 Mega Man X Statue

Good statues don’t come cheap and Mega Man X is no exception. But for the price of six months’ car insurance or a round-trip flight to the North American coast of your choice, it could be yours. The little blue robot man measures 21″ and is 1/4th scale, so naturally it’s already sold out. Produced…

There’s More To Phantom Trigger Than Just Another Beautiful Pixel Brawler

Phantom Trigger is, in the words of its development team, a “neon slasher,” and it’s slated to arrive on the Nintendo Switch later this year. But don’t let pink and teal pixel art fool you, it’s more than just Hyper Light Drifter-lite. Revealed two months ago, the PC action adventure game with roguelike elements looked…

Sumail Makes The Great Escape In Victory At Manila

Some days, you just can’t catch a good Puck. The Manila Masters concluded today with a grand finals between Newbee and Evil Geniuses, a rematch of the winner’s finals. In a 3-1 win for EG, one player showed up time and time again: Sumail “SumaiL” Hassan, the 18-year-old mid-lane master. Whether on Outworld Devourer or…

We’ve Spent Way Too Much Time Not Playing Games On Our Microwaves

You should probably be playing video games on your microwave or doing absolutely anything other than watching it slowly count down while your leftovers are getting nuked. In the most recent episode of his Invention Show on YouTube, gadget stunt man Colin Furze revealed the “Play-O-Wave,” a fully functioning microwave with a screen and component…

Podcast: Why A Couple Would Get Married At Taco Bell

Dan Ryckert, Giant Bomb editor and lover of terrible Mexican food, joins today’s Kotaku Splitscreen to tell us why he’s getting married at a Taco Bell. First, Kirk and I talk about YouTube copyright strikes (10:21), Red Dead Redemption 2‘s delay (21:10), and Overwatch’s one-year anniversary (27:19). Then we bring on Ryckert (31:58) to chat…

Sunday Comics: Cohesive Branding

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published May 26. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 22. Read more…

Remnants Of Naezith Shows Gaming Needs More Grappling Hooks

Remnants of Naezith is a platformer that stars a grappling hook and wants to be the Super Meat Boy of twitch-based ledge swinging. There are dragon souls and remnants of them (as the title suggests), but in the end it’s all about being a futuristic Tarzan in a low-res world. “I loved playing Spider-Man 2…