Tempe Public Library, already a haven for book lovers and pop-culture obsessives, got exponentially more nerdy this past weekend. On Jan. 31, hundreds of Valley residents turned out for Tempe FanCon, ...

Cosplay, a word that has only recently entered everyday vocabulary for a lot of us, describes something most of us have unknowingly grown up doing — dressing up for fancy dress competitions, school ...

Cosplay has evolved far beyond a niche hobby into a global industry where creativity meets entrepreneurship, and some of its biggest stars have turned dressing up into fortunes. These obscenely ...

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NOVI, MI - It’s like Halloween, but a little more intricate as some people spend days, weeks, even months creating their costumes. Cosplayers have been turning heads this weekend at Michigan’s largest ...

MANILA, Philippines — Japanese artists and Filipino cosplayers, including Japan’s voice actress and singer Marika Kohno and Myrtle Sarrosa, are set to headline the Philippine Game Show 2025 (PGS 2025) ...

A cosplayer posed as Padme Amidala from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace during New York Comic Con 2025 at The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on October 11, 2025 in New York City. Getty Images for ...

Angelo Sotira started the online digital art platform DeviantArt when he was just a teenager, growing a formative community for millions of artists in the 2000s. Twenty-five years later, Sotira wants ...

Domestically made mobile romance games such as Light and Night, Love and Deepspace have become popular among young women in China, where some have even tried to bring their online obsessions to life.