The Best Of Kotaku, This Week

This week’s beautiful image comes from one Noah Bradley, who submitted this Magic: The Gathering photoshop painting to Reddit recently.

It’s an awesome rendition of the Kjeldoran Outpost. Bradley does awesome work, and offers his other prints for sale, if you’re interested. You can follow his work over on his Facebook page or Twitter, too.

Moving on to our Best Of content this week, we kick things off as usual with a comment from the community.

If you want to see the list of nominations (and other random conversations) you can head to my most recent nomination post that goes up every Friday here

https://lastchance.cc/this-is-where-you-nominate-this-weeks-best-comment-5903435%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Want to suggest an article, comment, tweet, or any other content on Kotaku to be featured for a weekly Best Of nomination? Drop me a line at [email protected] with the subject line of “Best Of Nomination.” Or any other subject line that will help me sort through and search for them. I’m not too picky.

The Best Comment From The Community

This week’s winner is squibsforsquids, who invents a new first-person…kind of shooter after Kotaku heard wind of a Black Ops sequel on the way. His nominator was so impressed, he linked to several other deserving comments

https://lastchance.cc/494354924%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Holding out for Call of Duty: Post-Apocalyptia with real stick-on-stone action, a stunning flattened wasteland lovingly rendered in full 1080p, dynamic player-killing environments interacting through a 60 fps frame rate, and fully customizable loin cloths. Paint your favorite stone red to throw faster, or sharpen your stick into a blunt point to drag your victims home for torture and cannibalism in expansive 24-on-24 player warfare. The blackened sky’s the limit!

The Best Optimistic Resident Evil Fan

https://lastchance.cc/resident-evils-biggest-fan-is-mostly-optimistic-about-r-5902309%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

This Resident Evil fan loves the game so much that he even pre-ordered the $1300 special edition of Resident Evil 6, and he loves the entire franchise. More »

The Best Rage Against Grinding In Games

https://lastchance.cc/im-sick-of-the-disturbingly-neat-lives-video-games-expe-5902377%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Patricia Hernandez explains what’s wrong with the chore of the grind in games. More »

The Best Fake Gamer With An Incredibly Supportive Girlfriend

https://lastchance.cc/fake-gamer-of-the-week-enthusiastic-guy-with-incredibl-5902110%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Kirk Hamilton shares one of the best “Fake Gamer” stock photos yet. More »

The Best Mass Effect 2 Romance Gone Wrong

https://lastchance.cc/i-sunk-40-extra-hours-into-mass-effect-2-to-salvage-my-5902437%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

I loved Thane so much, I replayed Mass Effect 2 to save his life. More »

The Best Domino’s iPad Game

https://lastchance.cc/the-dominos-ipad-game-could-transform-the-way-we-order-5901817%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Stephen Totilo tells us about the Domino’s iPad game that lets you make pizzas, and potentially get a job. More »

The Best Exclusive Look At Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

https://lastchance.cc/exclusive-grimlock-rampages-through-a-transformers-gam-5902832%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Feast your eyes on this space robot, Grimlock. More »

The Best Video Game Wife

https://lastchance.cc/the-best-new-feature-in-the-next-medal-of-honor-might-b-5902837%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

What’s the coolest new feature of the next Medal of Honor game? Stephen Totilo says it’s the player’s wife. More »

The Best New Machinarium Game

https://lastchance.cc/the-splendid-botanicula-overflows-with-weapons-grade-jo-5902784%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Kirk gushes over Botanicula in this week’s Indie Spotlight. More »

The Best Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Leak

https://lastchance.cc/is-this-an-official-poster-for-call-of-duty-black-ops-5903137%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Is this a poster for a Black Ops sequel? More »

The Best Infinite Combos in Street Fighter

https://lastchance.cc/in-defense-of-the-infinite-combo-which-only-ruins-stre-5902839%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Stephen Totilo talks to Seth Killian about infinite combos in Street Fighter and why it’s not as terrible as people may think. More »

The Best Reasons To Appreciate Dragon Age 2

https://lastchance.cc/why-i-hope-dragon-age-3-is-a-lot-like-dragon-age-2-5903001%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Kate Cox doesn’t brush BioWare’s Dragon Age 2 off as easily as others have. More »

The Best Mods for Skyrim

https://lastchance.cc/how-to-get-skyrim-looking-as-awesome-as-computationally-5903204%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Kirk shares all the sexy mods he uses for Skyrim. More »

The Best Review Of A Video Game That Beats You Up

https://lastchance.cc/trials-evolution-the-kotaku-review-5903475%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Evan Narcisse has fun with Trails: Evolution, crashing a lot and creating his own tracks. More »

https://lastchance.cc/the-life-of-a-mass-murderer-in-world-of-warcraft-5903501%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

The Life Of A Mass Murderer In World of Warcraft

Anders Behring Breivik smiled during court on Monday as the prosecution displayed an image of his World of Warcraft character, Andersnordic.

The Norwegian mass-murderer, who admitted last year to killing 77 people, must have tapped into some inner well of nostalgia when he thought about Blizzard’s… More »

The Best Halo 4 Soundtrack Composer

https://lastchance.cc/meet-the-man-whos-making-the-music-for-halo-4-5903515%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Kirk interviews Halo 4‘s composer, Neil Davidge. More »

The Best Shouts at Skyrim

https://lastchance.cc/i-shouted-fus-ro-dah-at-skyrim-and-i-kinda-liked-it-5903174%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Jason shouts at a Kinect to play Skyrim. More »

The Best (Trippiest) RPG

https://lastchance.cc/earthbound-the-trippiest-game-in-rpg-history-5903445%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Jason reminisces about the trippy RPG, Earthbound. More »