In Real Life

From Chun-Li To Final Fantasy, This Lady Gets The Thumbs-Up

Meet Mei Wei. She’s one of China’s top coplayers (or “coser” as they’re called there). She appears in Chinese cosplay mags, game promotions and event after event.


November 26, 2010
In Real Life

The Video Game Alphabet

You make one of these charts for animals, or fruits, or cars, and you really have to stretch sometimes. It’s crazy that video games are able to be recognised so easily. By Maicon Costa, thanks Dan!


October 14, 2010
In Real Life

A Celebration Of Low-Resolution Game Heroes

Deciding to see how minimalist he could get before iconic video game characters became unrecognisable, artist Alexander Shen limited himself to a 5×5-pixel block. As you can see, even at such low resolution, you can still pick ‘em.


September 23, 2010
In Real Life

In This Case, Video Games ARE Art

Artist Jon Hansen walked into a second-hand store, saw a pile of awful Thomas Kinkade rip-offs and had an idea: to make them better. By adding some Street Fighter. And Space Harrier.


News

Super Street Fighter IV On PC? Not Likely

As someone who actually owns Street Fighter IV on PC, this makes me a little sad: it doesn’t look like Super Street Fighter IV will be gracing the platform.


February 4, 2010

This Week In Comics

Today marks the final “This Week In Video Game Comics” here at Kotaku and the birth of “This Week In Comics”. Video game comics first, then some others I think are worth highlighting, all in US shops this week.