Remember that 2020 gaming and geek convention calendar we posted? As elsewhere in the world, COVID-19 has hit the South African event landscape hard, resulting in a wave of postponements and cancellations. These are the popular local gaming and pop culture gatherings affected so far.
The World Cosplay Summit 2019 finals kick off soon, with the local pairing of Tayla "Kinpatsu Cosplay" Barter and Genevieve "KomboKatjie" Lesch having made it to the top 8 with their Fate/Apocrypha outfits. The ladies are looking amazing, but they’re going to have some stiff competition in the form of Team USA, Team Mexico and Team Australia.
This past Easter weekend at ICON, the cream of the crop of South African cosplay competed for the honour of representing the country at the prestigious World Cosplay Summit. Here are the teams who will be waving the Rainbow Nation flag in Japan during 2019 and 2020. Otsukaresama desu!
In 2019, ICON Comic and Games Convention, South Africa’s longest-running geeky lifestyle con jumps forward to Easter weekend. That’s, like, mere days away. Here’s what you can find at this year’s event.
ICON is looking to avoid the mid-year crunch and move the convention away from the usual June holiday slot and over to the Easter Weekend instead.
South Africa finally has a spot to strut its stuff on the grandest cosplay stage of them all: The World Cosplay Summit.
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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