BREAKING: Kotaku readers are the greatest pumpkin carvers in the entire world. We don't know if it's something in the writing or those pills we've been slipping in your food, but seriously, we are blown away by your incredible talent we've seen since we quasi-intentionally called you to arms.

As you can see, my wife and I didn't even attempt gaming pumpkins after seeing your brilliance, but hit the jump for a complete list of our exclusive gaming pumpkin coverage.

Pac-Man, Dots and Clyde

They were carved with love for all games old school.

Metroid Pumpkin Glows, Might Eat Your Head

I know, some of you are getting sick of the pumpkins, but just remember, in one more day they'll be gone forever. Reader Christopher sent in his beautiful Metroid pumpkin along with several pics of the construction process. While we would never question the talents of such an Artist, what's the general consensus on power tool use in pumpkin carving? Is harnessing electricity considered, dare we say, cheating, in some circles?

Sonic-o'-lantern

i gotta say, seeing mario, zelda, master chief, toadstool, amaterasu from okami and others' likeness carved into big orange vegetables, I had to make a pumpkin creation with sonic's mug on it, mind you this is the sonic of old side scrolling style, not the abhoration of new school iterations, anyhow, thanks for making me excited about halloween again

Kotakuite Dennis R. sends in this Halo themed pumpkin with a terribly clever play on words included. It was a father/son project and apparently Dennis is really excited by this particular pumpkin. Says Dennis:

Waking up to this is about as entertaining as waking up to Angliena Jolie in your room, asking you what you would want to have for breakfast, whilst wearing an insy winsy yellow polka dot bikini. Think about it for a second.... now look at the pumpkin.... see where I'm going with this?

Now, I might not be into women or bikinis, but even I would rather be faced with Angelina in the morning than a pumpkin since a pumpkin can't bring you breakfast, but that's just me. Still, cool jack o' lantern and a fine addition to our collection.

Every gamer's worst nightmare... the center fell out and had to be taped *cries due to lack of skill*

Smashing Xbox 360 Pumpkin Stencils

We've been on a bit of a pumpkin tear lately and someone at the Microsoft corporation noticed. They've passed on their own approved designs for your festive fall gourd artistry. If you're a Halloween celebrating gamer who's got carver's block, these helpful Xbox themed Jack O' Lantern stencils will do right by you when showing your console allegiance. The only thing to keep in mind when displaying your J O' Lantern(TM) is to ensure that you fill them with glow sticks of the green variety. Front porches decorated with red (or orange) rings of death is nothing short of a PR disaster.

TriX and Treats [Xbox]

Another Awesome Zelda Pumpkin

This is how my girlfriend and I started out the Halloween season, with two of our favorite characters Jack and Link.

Pyramid Head Pumpkin

Do you feel that? It's the new sensation that's sweeping the nation. That's right, gaming pumpkins! Model citizen Jamison sent us not one (oh, no), but two Jack-o'-Lanterns. He writes:

My girlfriend made this great set of two pumpkins featuring Katamari and the Prince! Hope it tickles your fancy!

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The Near-Collapsing D-Pad Jack-o'-Lantern

This thing was a pain in the neck to carve, trying to keep it from collapsing.

A reader, obviously a pumpkin-phile too, has been keeping his eye peeled for gamer pumpkins and dropped us a line as soon as he found this one over on the MySpace account of AsideFromThat Mrs.Lincoln HowDidYouLikeThePlay. Now that's a Halo pumpkin.

AsideFromThat Mrs.Lincoln HowDidYouLikeThePlay [MySpace]

The only reason I love this pumpkin is because I can pretend that the second image is actually of Pikachu ablaze, screaming his little heart out as his neon yellow fuz turns to ash and his obviously pink skin blisters.

Ashcraft keeps prodding our readers into barbaric acts of pumpkin vandalism with his game-themed pumpkin posts. Every time he posts a picture somewhere a pumpkin dies, the relief of a video game character carved into its chest.

Above, the latest victim a pumpkin carved in two hours by reader Brandon. "My friends said I couldn't make one so I had to prove them wrong."

Big Daddy from BioShock

I was bored this weekend so I decided to make a BioShock themed jack o' latern.

It's one thing to cheat at blogging, but quite another to cheat at Halo 3.

While we're not certain Gilbert Arenas is cheating to up his in-game stats, it certainly looks that way and a whole bunch of Bungie forum-goers agree.

Look at all his games that he gets 1st place in. He joins up with a friend and has his other account quit out so he gets 1st place every time. How can this be allowed?

Checking out his stat page you can see that he does play an awful lot of Social Doubles and always ends in first place. Oh and that the lifespan of many of his "matches" is under five seconds.

Hey Arenas, I hate to break it to you, but matching and dumping just pumps up your experience, it doesn't do a thing for your Rank. To boost that you're going to have to actually play a game. Hit me up at Gamertag Crecente anytime so I can show you what a teabag is.

NBA player Gilbert Arenas cheating at Halo 3 [Bungie Halo 3 Forums]