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Amouranth Spends $17 Million On Fruit Field To ‘Overtake’ Bill Gates
29.11.2023
Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, one of livestreaming’s most recognizable women, is something of a tour de force. She’s building an empire, after all, having bought a gas station, purchased an inflatable pool company, sold water straight from her hot tub, and slung beer made with her vaginal bacteria....
Our Fave Cosplay Looks From Dragon Con 2023
3.10.2023
Atlanta Georgia’s annual convention, Dragon Con, is infamous in the cosplay community for the quality of looks on the show floor. And of course, this year’s convention did not disappoint, from elaborate Godzilla costumes to a lengthy cosplay parade.Read more
Twitch Streamer Quits Lewd Content To Protect Mental Health
10.8.2023
A popular Twitch streamer and YouTuber has opened up about her decision to refrain from publishing lewd content on platforms like Fansly and OnlyFans, citing mental health and relationship stability as the reasons.Read more
You Need To See This Haunting Ring Cosplay In Seven Days Or Else
28.2.2023
Just when you thought it was safe to freely scope out CRTs at celebratory nerd gatherings, one of the best cosplays from this year’s ATL Comic Convention has reminded us of at least one nasty issue with old cathode ray tubes: Sometimes ghostly girls can crawl out of them. Or at least that’s what...
Cosplay Universe Is A Great Documentary About The Craft
18.10.2022
I’ve been covering cosplay for well over a decade now, and in that time I’ve seen loads of books, posts, YouTube videos and even TV series about the subject. What I had never seen, until now, was someone actually go and make a documentary as slick and comprehensive as Cosplay Universe.Read more
Our Favorite Cosplay From Yeticon 2022
4.7.2022
In case you’ve never seen our coverage of the event before, Yeticon isn’t like most other cosplay shows. Instead of taking place in a convention centre in a big American city, it’s held at the Blue Mountain Resort in Ontario, Canada, which means our gallery is swapping hotel carpet backdrops...
Breath of the Wild Guardian Cosplay Is A Sight To Behold
20.6.2022
People have been cosplaying as Link and Zelda (and even Ganon) since the series first debuted, but those guys are (relatively) easy. They’re bipedal, they wear clothes, you put some make-up on, get a weapon, boom, you’re cosplaying as a Nintendo character. But what about Breath of the Wild’s...
Amouranth Says She's 'Quitting' OnlyFans, Invests In Twitch
15.4.2022
On April 12, top Twitch streamer and content creator Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa announced her intention to quit OnlyFans this June. She tweeted that she had made a $350,000-$400,000 investment in Twitch, and that she had plans for “moving “influencer” and “creator economy” into what...
Where Japan's Most Famous Cosplayer Keeps Her Costumes
11.1.2022
Enako, Japan’s most famous and successful cosplayer, has a whole bunch of costumes. How many? An entire storage room full of them.Read more
Cosplayer Simply Becomes Angelina Jolie
1.11.2021
I’ve featured the work of Alyson Tabbitha a bunch of times here on Kotaku, because she’s just the best. Her make-up work is transformative, and in the past she has shape-shifted into everyone from Wonder Woman to Jack Sparrow to Leeloo Dallas.Read more
Manga Editors Explain Why Official Cosplay Looks Different
5.8.2021
Monthly Action magazine publishes Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, a manga about a maid-outfit-wearing dragon who lives with a computer programmer named Kobayashi. The editorial department thought a good way to promote the manga would be with an official cosplay by Enako.Read more
The PS2, GameCube, And Game Boy Advance Are All Officially Retro Now, It Seems
14.5.2021
Maybe you already thought they were! To be honest, I’m not sure if I did, but that doesn’t really matter. Retro game master Shinya Arino thinks so!Read more
The Japanese Government Could Change Cosplay Forever
25.1.2021
Currently, anyone in Japan is free to dress as their favorite characters. That will continue, most likely, but there might be big changes for those who make money from cosplaying—and possibly, even for those who don’t.Read more