If you want to strut your cosplay these days, you’re going to need to get creative. Conventions are down for the count, having taken a haymaker to the face by Apollo COVID-19. What’s a cosplayer to do? Find some safe streets to walk down, strike a pose and make a video out of the experience. Without a doubt, My Hero Academia still stands as one of the breakout success stories of anime in recent years, thanks not only to a fantastic story and cast, but also due to its overall design being perfect for cosplay.

Arenas are empty, fighters have nothing to connect their fists to and armchair critics are dying for new content that they can rip apart and tell you exactly how a fight should go according to them if they were younger, fitter and could shrug off multiple blows to the face. What’s a fight promoter to do? Hold a tournament away from the more populated sections on the planet and on a private island instead.

It was inevitable! With many an event being postponed or flatout cancelled, it was only a matter of time before Comic Con Cape Town had to make a hard decision in the interest of public health and safety.

It’s a new year (technically), and you know what that means: New conventions with which to strut your cosplay! While the road to San Diego Comic Con, Dragon Con and a whole host of other tentpole events on the cosplay calendar is still a good couple of months away, 2020 has no shortage of events catering to fans who are looking to show off their hard work.

A sexy collection of stories detailing the development of Sega’s biggest arcade game sellers, Space Harrier, After Burner, Hang-On, Out Run, Thunder Blade and Power Drift by games writer Keith Stuart, but it’s also presented in format where you can construct paper replicas of those cabinets. Just look at the glorious arcade origami that Helen Friel and Kam Tang came up with.

Tomorrow may see couples from across the world remember why they fell in love, but there’s plenty of us who’ll be shaking our fists at Hallmark and refusing to allow that light into our lives. We’ll be alone, celebrating Valentine’s Day as Odin intended: In our underwear, covered in crumbs of knock-off Lindt chocolate and watching Rambo: First Blood yet again. Alternatively, one could surf the internet and forget about Cupid by dipping into the hive of scum and villainy that is Reddit.

Yes I know we’re a pop culture website but we’re also motivated by food over here. Most of it disastrously unhealthy and currently burning a path through our organs like weaponised thermite but I digress. If there’s one staple snack in the arsenal of any couch potato, it’s a packet of crispy chips. We all have our preference, whether it’s …

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