Throwing more fuel on the Call of Duty: Black Ops II fire, here are a couple new screenshots apparently from the upcoming game.

Last month's leaked art images showed the gun-toting "quadcopter" that appeared in internet videos and on the game's website. The quadcopter also appeared in these latest screens, courtesy of Japanese site Doope.

Previously, Kotaku ran what is rumored to be Black Ops II's poster and cracked the morse code on the Call of Duty website.

Details on the rumored Black Ops sequel are scant, but supposedly, the still unconfirmed game is set in the future.

「Call of Duty」新作のスクリーンショットが流出、やはり近未来設定で確定か [Doope]

Throwing more fuel on the Call of Duty: Black Ops II fire, here are a couple new screenshots apparently from the upcoming game.

Last month's leaked art images showed the gun-toting "quadcopter" that appeared in internet videos and on the game's website. The quadcopter also appeared in these latest screens, courtesy of Japanese site Doope.

Previously, Kotaku ran what is rumored to be Black Ops II's poster and cracked the morse code on the Call of Duty website.

Details on the rumored Black Ops sequel are scant, but supposedly, the still unconfirmed game is set in the future.

「Call of Duty」新作のスクリーンショットが流出、やはり近未来設定で確定か [Doope]

Last month, a 12 year-old girl was caught trying to smuggle iPhones into Shenzhen, China from Hong Kong.

While the iPhone is assembled in China, there is considerable demand for the product in the Mainland. This has led to the birth of smugglers bringing the iPhone back into the country.

According to recent Chinese news reports, the girl was dressed in a school uniform, but did not carry her school bag as she crossed through Sha Tau Kok Control Point—the immigration between Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Immigration officials noticed that the girl seemed nervous and pulled her aside. They discovered 30 iPhones sewed into her skirt. This wasn't the girl's ideas, but her mother's.

A smuggler told the girl's mother that it's possible to earn around US$2.60 for each phone smuggled into China. The mother decided to have her kids bring in the phones to make this extra money.

Increasingly, more and more young students are being caught smuggling iPhones back into China through the Sha Tau Kok Control Point. In March, one schoolgirl was caught with iPhones taped her legs and lower back.

母亲竟唆使12岁女儿走私手机/12岁学童绑藏走私手机30部入境 [NDDaily/Guangzhou Daily via M.I.C. Gadget]

Late last week, cosplay event Cosgallery!4 kicked off in Tokyo. It was an event for cosplayers and cosplay fans. Increasingly there are more and more of these types of get togethers. And like many other cosplay events, the cosplayers themselves operate booths and sell their cosplay ROMs and DVDs—while in costume.

The cosplayers were also available for photo shoots.

At Cosgallery!4, there were a whole host of cosplayers on hand, including Motiusagi. Kotaku interviewed her earlier this year.

コスプレイヤー同人作品即売会「Cosgallery!4」　-サークルの様子-", -コスプレ彼女　その1-, -コスプレ彼女　その3-, -コスプレ彼女　その4-,
-コスプレ彼女　その5- [アサガヲBlog]

Poor Pikachu! If it's not inflatable Pikachus that are totally inappropriate, it's stuff like this.

This is some sort of Chinese drink container, featuring a phony Pikachu, a straw, and an invitation to have a really good time. So, you do that—have a good time!

同桌的早点 [TT.Mop via はちま起稿]

How do you celebrate a 30th birthday? With some cake? Presents? If you are Macross, you do it with a 1/1 scale VF-25 Valkyrie.

Sci-fi anime Macross debuted in 1982 as The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, which was reworked as part of the hodgepodge known as Robotech for the West.

This variable fighter is on display in Tokyo through May 6, and these photos come courtesy of sister site Kotaku Japan. Click here for more details about the event.

［マクロス超時空展覧会］ ド迫力の「1/1 VF-25F バルキリー」であなたもキラッ☆ってしてみよう！ [Kotaku Japan]
［マクロス超時空展覧会］みんなが俺の翼だ！ 「ランカ」「シェリル」「ミンメイ」を等身大フィギュアで再現 [Kotaku Japan]

Kotaku East runs from 4am to 8am Eastern. For more info about Kotaku East click here.

Last June, the brother-in-law of reader Taylor was tragically killed in action while serving in Afghanistan. He had been due in September to return home and join Taylor in getting tattoos.

While he never made it back, Taylor decided to go ahead and get a tattoo done anyway, only now it would be done as a memorial.

Because the pair bonded while playing Final Fantasy XI - "it was the thing that made me see him more as my brother and not just a guy dating my sister" - Taylor got his brother-in-law's character emblazoned across his shoulder, complete with dog tags around the chocobo's neck.

Danish company Monstrum may sound terrifying, but they do amazing work, building children's playgrounds across Europe that look more like fantasy arenas than the dirty old contraptions most of us grew up with.

Founded in 2003, Monstrum takes playground design very seriously, building with things like Siberian larch, Robinia wood and birch plywood, which the company say helps them last for up to 40 years.

"We meet boys that like pink and girls that likes trees", the company's website says, "so why only play on a monky frame and a sandbox, when you can play in a moon crater or a submarine or a giant spider or an enormous snail or a Trojans horse or a rocket or an ant or a princess castle."

Monstrum [Official Site, via Super Punch]

It's a question proper athletes face all the time. What do you do when you hang up the cleats/boots? Well, if you're Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger, former pro Counter-Strike player, you make the move from video games to online poker.

Which sounds a little random, seeing as one involves furious mousework and fast reflexes while the other relies on cool heads and a honed bullshit reflex, but apparently it's a natural progression.

"I used to be a professional gamer", Benger tells PokerListings. "I played Counter-Strike for a living, so I transitioned into poker because it has a lot of the same skills, mostly being able to sit in front of a computer for long periods of time."

"But it's a pretty natural transition and a lot of people were doing it. Once I got into poker I became really obsessed with it. It's really one of those games where there's always room to get better, and that was one of the problems with Counter-Strike, I got to a point where I couldn't really get much better."

That...actually makes sense. I mean, I'm sure the fact there's a ton more money in poker helps, but the ceiling's got to be a lot higher for getting to the top of the food chain.

Counter-Strike Champ Griffin Benger Wins Millions at Online Poker [PokerListings]