It's summer once again with the con season blazing in regards to the heat, especially in the southern part of the US but the cosplayers are looking cool over at this year's Delta H Con in Houston, Texas. I'm back once again to check out som...

The face paint really gave it away. Maybe it's all those moments I spent basking in the glory of Fierce Deity Link, but I instantly recognized this cosplay from Reddit user Enoughrose as the iconic Majora's Mask persona. The story behind th...

WonderCon 2018 was just held at the Anaheim Convention Center this past weekend, and man there are some great cosplay pictures coming out of it -- especially in the wake of Marvel's impending Infinity War.  But one stood out to me in p...

This month will mark my fourth year writing for the main page of Destructoid. It's been an amazing ride and I've been able to have a lot of fun meeting developers and publishers from around the world to talk about a hobby we all love. But u...

E3 2018 saw Microsoft making its strongest pitch to date: that it offers value to those who prefer to play their games alone. Since entering the market in 2001, the company has tended to focus on the online world, with Halo: Combat Evolved, Gears of War, and Forza...

In case you haven't heard, we're hosting a convention this weekend with our parent company, Enthusiast Gaming! It's been a pretty great weekend so far and the turnout today was massive, which means a lot of cosplayers are out and about doi...

After a steady influx of new players across its second year, Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege has solidified itself as one of the most popular online titles of the current day. The pro-league of the squad-shooter culminates in the annual Six Inv...

Make sure to equip your Bandit Mantle so that he drops Large Peels.

Dead Rising was one of my favorite franchises to debut during the last console generation, and the one launch game I thought best made the case for upgrading to an HD system. The game's main draw, having tons of interactive zombies on ...

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time had a great collective of horrifying imagery. It wasn't just the pixelated graphics -- the whole idea of facing down a Shadow Temple with creatures that look like they came straight out of the nightmares...

Every year Blizzard's stable of characters grows a bit. I mean we've had over 10 characters alone in Heroes of the Storm, several in Overwatch, multiple Hearthstone expansions with unique cards, Diablo III's Necromancer, a few Starcraf...

I see Zelda related cosplay at nearly every event I attend, but this is something else. Cosplayer TheCrashProject managed to make a full-on Lynel suit for NYCC 2017, a creation that ended up taking them "three long weeks" to prepa...

Representing Flixist, this lonely writer made his first pilgrimage to the holy mecca of nerddom that is the New York Comic Con. I'd done my research. I'd read the guide, and reached out to those I knew who'd bravely gone before me. Their wo...

I'm a big fan of cosplay. I'd take part myself if I was younger, better-looking, more-talented, creative, more proactive... umm... anyway, I get a real kick out of cosplayers and their great outfits. I really enjoy the public performance as...

Japanese cosplay company Cospa are bringing the rain-deflectors of two of Persona 5's badass babes to life, so you too can wear the super-cool jackets adorned by uber-hacker Futaba Sakura and high-school sweetheart Ann Takamaki.The coats ar...

That bastion of calm, rational order, the Overwatch fanbase, is going gaga over a potential new hero based on little more than a torn poster and a trailer narration.The arena-shooter's upcoming Australia map, Junkertown, is a wasteland rule...

Near Toronto this weekend? Fan Expo Canada runs Thursday Aug 31 - Sept 3rd and Jessica Nigri will be there. Also, videogames. Oh, and Tim Curry. In what order would you prioritize those three?  Destructoid's Dave Soeiro ...

Last night, as is my yearly tradition, I attended the Zelda Symphony concert. It's my fourth year going and my first not in Southern California. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco is a choice venue for the show -- much better than the Do...

Last weekend I decided to drop by and check out a little bit of Delta H Con, one of the many anime/fandom conventions in the city of Houston, Texas. I was only there for around two hours and had to go home early since Houston weather got r...

Kay Pike has a talent, quite an astounding one. Kay has been covering herself in swaths of color in order to recreate comic book, cartoon, and video game characters for an ever-increasing Twitch audience, and the results really have to be s...

Last weekend in Houston, Texas, the annual Anime Matsuri convention took place. The convention was held at the George R. Brown center where attendance was a little over 36,000, up from 30,000 last year. I was there to take a look at the fes...

Say what you like about Blizzard, but their fans are some of the most passionate gamers I've ever seen, particularly those who really get into cosplay. Last weekend was Blizzard's annual BlizzCon convention, and among other championships, t...

[Update: I've uploaded a number of other pictures from BlizzCon showing off some other great cosplays.] BlizzCon brings out the best in cosplayers. I've seen a lot of impressive work at just about any show, but the sheer character factory n...

Free Dad videos sent us a short film featuring a little girl getting ready to trick-or-treat dressed as Link from Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series. She's more interested in the adventure than the candy, and takes on more tha...

Every year, PAX draws thousands of game enthusiasts to Seattle, and lots of them decide that the best way to express their affection for a given game is to dress up like one of the characters. Cosplay has really taken off at PAX since it st...

[Editor's note: This story ran in our community blogs a week ago. Backing is now closed, so I've made tiny adjustments to the headline and calls to action for fundraising. As backing the project isn't necessarily a pre-order I thought I'd p...