Cosplay

One of the best parts of BlizzCon is seeing people dressed as some of our favorite characters in incredibly skilled -- and sometimes just plain hilarious -- cosplay around the convention.

Community Night at BlizzCon represents the best we have to offer for cosplay, filmmaking, and art, showcased in one spot.

Last week the Hearthstone team had a cosplay contest that was a lot of fun with some worthy winners, but what I found interesting was how much it made people miss BlizzCon.

Sometimes you need to take the silver linings where you can find them, and one silver lining of BlizzCon being forced completely online is the fact that we can see our fuzzy friends dressed in their best cosplays -- usually they discourage guinea pigs at the Anaheim Convention Center.

As our staff at BlizzCon has walked about the convention, they encountered some of you who graciously allowed us to take your photo.

It was only a couple months ago that I started playing Final Fantasy XIV. As a longtime World of Warcraft player, it's hard not to compare the two games all the time, even if just subconsciously. While both games certainly share a host of features, they vary in even more. Most notably -- for me, anyhow -- Final Fantasy XIV's wealth of in-game looks and customization options never seems to stop surprising. Case in point: My Free Company (FC) -- basically the FFXIV equivalent of a guild -- hosted a costume contest this past Wednesday, and oh. my. Yogg. I expected some clever outfits. I did not expect Anna and Elsa, Sailor Saturn, Soldier: 76, Link, or Mickey Mouse (just to name a few) to show up. Nor did I expect them to show up looking as similar to their original counterparts as they did. The whole thing felt like I was watching an actual real-life cosplay competition unfold, and the experience was frankly too much fun not to share. Click through to see all of the amazing looks that showed up.

People have made a lot of the weapons from Overwatch.

Seriously, I thought I heard someone say [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker].