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The Best of Kotaku, This Week

Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week’s best content. This week’s best image is the work of 25th Pixel, found by Corey Moving on to our Best Of content this week, we kick things off as usual with a comment from the community. The Best Comment From The…

Weapons Negotiation Deal Turns Into The Biggest Roller Coaster Of Emotions

You might say it’s more of a roller coaster of… personalities? Identity confusion? Episodes of schizophrenia? Whatever the hell is going on in the video above, Warialasky sure does hit that weird space of reality-bending that they always do.

This Is What Every Slender Video On YouTube Is Like

I know, I know. You’re all tired of the Slender videos. “It’s not even scary!” many of you have said in the past. But don’t worry. This one is a mockery video by Evanz111. *Headphone users beware.* Every Slender video on YouTube. [YouTube via Reddit]

The Most Badass Weapons in Borderlands 2

What’s the most badass weapon you’ve seen in Borderlands 2? We’ll start. Above is my favorite and best weapon. Sure, I’ve got a Tediore rocket launcher that does over 10k damage. (Although the danger with having a Tediore-made rocket launcher is that I’ll forget it shoots out an extra rocket when I reload it. And…

Guy Tours Ubisoft, Gets Warped to The Tropical World of Far Cry 3

An innocent tour of Ubisoft’s studio sends this poor traveler smack in the middle of the crazy, savage Far Cry 3 world. FinalCutKing’s journey is part beautiful, part incredibly dangerous, much like the game itself will be. There must have been quite a lot of drugs inhaled in that mask.

Sword & Sworcery, Pixelated Versus Spray Painted

Sword and Sworcery is an elegant iOS game (now on PC, Mac and Linux). Its quaint, pixelated art is equally charming. But we haven’t seen many renditions of that memorable, triumphant thrust of the main character’s sword-hand into the midnight sky quite like this. That is to say, we’ve never seen stencils of that scene…

I Could Swear Valve’s “Eye Guy” Is Now Etsy’s “Crazy Augmented Reality Headgear Guy”

You guys remember Valve’s logo with the dude with a valve on his eye, right? If not, he’s posted below. Or, or! Maybe it’s more like Deus Ex or Syndicate. The three definitely seem to have the same idea of futuristic fashion. Sure, sure we’ve seen some futuristic augmented reality headgear before, but nothing as…

Guy Redesigns Rare NES Model For His Steampunk-Loving Nephew

Though collectors everywhere feel a pang in their sides from seeing the rare sight of a Top Loader edition NES (NES-101) so brutally redone, everyone else can lean back and enjoy this beautiful reconstruction. Reddit user Andrew5785 took his old NES, and turned it into something a little more steampunky for his nephew. Head over…

A Determined Group Sets Out To Recreate The Legend of Zelda In Real Life

The Zelda Project is twofold: on the one hand it’s a group of cosplayers, recreating scenes from Ocarina of Time. On the other hand, the project also has a bigger goal of producing a short film to represent the game, as well. From their site: The Zelda Project is a Los Angeles, CA based group…

Conan O’Brien Reviews Just Dance 4. Side Note: He’s Also A Terrible Dancer.

I never realized how dangerous some of these dance moves look to be until Conan took it upon himself to review Just Dance 4 with Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan. I laughed at Conan’s outside-the-box dance moves and interpretations of the dance cards, caught a glimpse of some Conan midriff, and learned about a revolutionary…

Poop Glitches Are The Best Glitches

Borderlands 2 has a lot of outhouses—or porta potties, if you will—around every bandit camp. More than a couple of players seem to have stumbled upon overflowing ones, which you can see an example of in the video above. For all I know, knowing Gearbox, this could very well be a feature and not a…

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In A Realistic Fighting Game, We’d Play As Drunken Pansies

College Humor tackles the fighting game genre today, shedding light on the reality of what (probably) most fights look like. Basically just two dudes in a bar, watching as the situation escalates and both totally hoping it will just go away. Or at least that’s what I imagine is going on in their heads. Realistic…

Represent Your Borderlands 2 Character With Some Fancy Wallpaper

Maya is the sexiest—and also the first character I chose to roll as in the recently released sequel to Gearbox’s hit FPS/RPG hybrid—so she’s obviously my first choice in terms of wallpaper. But the rest of these designs made by CodyAWilliams are just as suitable. Though, I personally prefer the more colorful designs. Take a…

Get In The Heads Of Far Cry 3‘s Most Deluded Characters

Vaas and Buck are two of the most savage, brutal characters you’ll meet in Far Cry 3. They’re prone to stabbing, and setting tigers to feast on your limbs. But here’s the thing about being this particular brand of crazy: it’s usually followed by a heavy dose of delusion. Case in point: “We’re not the…

The Flood Return In Halo 4

Halo Waypoint released a massive amount of new Halo 4 screenshots for us to feast our eyes on. These include campaign shots (beware that spoilers might follow in several of those in reference to the Dawn and Infinity missions), multiplayer mode War Games and cooperative mode Spartan Ops. War Games includes a Flood “simulation,” where…

These Are The Most Unexpected (and Horrifying) Diablo III Errors You’ve Ever Seen

Error 37 and Error 3003 might have been the popular ones in Diablo III‘s first burst of popularity, but the Mega64 folks have found quite a few other…”interesting” ones. I rarely shield my eyes from anything, especially not from a silly YouTube video, but Error 5 really horrified me. I guarantee you haven’t seen Error…

Amazing Cosplay Videos Played To The Music From Drive Make Me Grin

This DragonCon 2012 cosplay compliation video by beatdownboogie is absolutely fantastic. Besides the fun cuts, in-the-moment poses/character acting and perfect music, I really enjoy the hundreds of impressive cosplayers featured above. And they’re all having so much fun. You can catch some awkward, hilarious moments that make me feel like I was a part of…

Wall-E Meets Limbo Is Great For Wallpaper, Not So Great For Smiling

This might be the saddest combination of characters/worlds ever. Thanks, z0h3, for making me go “aww” and then promptly “aww.” They were two totally different “aww”s, I swear. Check out the full size for all your wallpaper needs below: Wall-E [z0h3 via Samara Lex]

Dishonored Characters Get Freaky Recreations on SyFy Reality Show

SyFy show Face Off—no relation to the film with one of Nick Cage’s most hilarious outbursts—is a reality show where makeup artists compete on projects with one another. Like Top Chef but with movie characters. Last night’s episode assigned said makeup artists to delve into the world of Dishonored, creating ogreish characters that I have…