Walking through the cavernous exhibit hall of the San Diego Convention Center, dodging thousands of attendees clad in meticulously crafted spandex, foam armor, and wizard robes, it is easy to assume you have left reality behind. Yet, against the backdrop of the 2026 Comic-Con International, the line between science fiction fantasy and the daily grind…

The dice are back in Indianapolis, and downtown is once again becoming a four-day stage for board games, role-playing campaigns, cosplay and the kind of convention traffic that makes every nearby restaurant look like a quest objective. Gen Con opened Thursday and runs through Sunday, bringing its annual wave of gamers back to the city.…

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But the saying never specified exactly how.

Cosplayers representing 10 countries and regions visited Aichi Governor Hideaki Omura and Nagoya Mayor Ichiro Hirosawa on July 29 ahead of the World Cosplay Summit, one of the world’s largest cosplay events, which opens in Nagoya on July 31.