Crafty | TAIPEI, TAIWAN: A Creeper cosplay stood tall at a recent cosplay event in Taiwan. (Photo: Game Impress Watch)

Disgaea | TOKYO, JAPAN: Developer Gamania is developing a casual game called Phantom Brave. (Photo: Game Impress Watch)

Binary | TOKYO, JAPAN: Via tipster Jinah comes these photos. (Photo: Game Watch)

STICHED | THE INTERNETS: Via tipster Jinah comes these photos. (Photo: Marie-Emilie Lanteigne | Facebook)

Duke Nukem's on a Roll | A games store employee applying price tags supplies this zinger. Not sure I'd pick that up used. (via Reddit.)

Concentrate All Firepower on that LEGO Star Destroyer | The assembly of an enormous Executor-class Star Destroyer, in LEGO. It's 50 inches long, 3,152 pieces. (via Geeks are Sexy)

VITA | TOKYO, JAPAN: Video game The Legend of Heroes: Evolution gets a press conference with funny outfits. Ha. Ha. (Photo: Game Impress Watch)

Tim Schafer Made $8,000 While This Photo Was Taken | At D.I.C.E. 2012, Al Lowe, the creator of Leisure Suit Larry, met up with Double Fine's Tim Schafer, whose studio had a pretty good day raising money for its next project. Al is helping with the remakes of the original Leisure Suit Larry games. (Photo by Stephen Totilo)

Gabe | THE INTERNETS, AUSTRALIA: It even looks like Gabe addressed the envelope. If so, that's nuts! (Photo: Twitter)

Elegant Portraits for a More Civilized Age | Terry Fan has released more of his Victorian-era portraits of Star Wars characters. C-3PO and Yoda also have posed. The portraits are available for sale. (Terry Fan, via Neatorama)

Leathers | TAIPEI, TAIWAN: Sony showed off the PS Vita and Shinobido 2 in Taipei recently. (Photo: Game Watch Impress)

Force It | TAIPEI, TAIWAN: This photo cuts quite the tableau. What's with that glum Gus in the background? (Photo: Game Watch Impress)

Ouch | TAIPEI, TAIWAN: Namco's Katsuhiro Harada got picked on by Capcom bullies at the Taipei Game Show. (Photo: Game Watch Impress)

Street Cred | "In response to your latest post of the Mega Man collection, thought I'd share with you photos of my Street Fighter game collection," says reader Clarence L. "All games are NTSC-1. Every game, version, variant, demo, cameos, even games with official Street Fighter special moves ... all in original packaging." (submitted photo)

That Old College Try | All-Americans LaMichael James, Justin Blackmon and Robert Griffin III celebrate a fumble return and touchdown late in the fourth quarter of Madden Bowl XVIII. But next year's NFL rookies left too much time on the clock, and fell to the team of Drew Brees, Tim Tebow and Jimmy Graham. (EA Sports)

Ultra Cool | TOKYO, JAPAN: Ultraman (men?) pose in 2006 at the opening of an Ultraman movie. (Photo: Shizuo Kambayashi | AP)

Helghast or Sith? | "Apocalypse Vader," is one of 24 custom Darth Vader helmets going up for auction on Feb. 7 by HalloweenCostumes.com, (along with "Skevader," by artist Ryan Renders, featured here in December). Proceeds will benefit two Minnesota charities.

Rare Appearance | TOKYO, JAPAN: Kinect popped up on Japan's TV Asahi. Not something you see everyday—or every month. (テレビ朝日)

The Amazing Cube | Minecraft-themed Rubik's Cube created for fun by Matt Boynton, a programmer for 5th Cell, the makers of Scribblenauts.

Miku | TOKYO, JAPAN: This desk belongs to the Dengeki PlayStation editor in chief. So much aqua! (Photo: @dengekips)

Bowser Mario's real boss, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, takes a bow on January 27 before presenting the company's not-so-wonderful financial news. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Binary | TOKYO, JAPAN: Sega game designer Toshihiro Nagoshi chows down for a Binary Domain restaurant promotion. (Photo: Famitsu)

Jobbers | In pro wrestling terms, "doing the job" means losing in a scripted match. The wrestlers that lose all the time are jobbers. (Buy the T-shirt here.)

Bones | TOKYO, JAPAN: Anime studio Bones is doing the animated scenes in the upcoming Wright-Layton collaboration. (Photo: 4Gamer)

Puck | Long exposure photos taken with friends. (Photo: Eric Deitz | SeeSpotRun)

Sonic | SAN FRANCISCO: A Sega of America exec posed with Mayor Willie Brown at Sega's then new headquarters back in 1999. (Photo: AP Photo/Court Mast, ho)

Cap Bar | TOKYO, JAPAN: Sister site Kotaku Japan checked out Capcom's new bar. More pics here. (Photo: Kotaku Japan)

Spotted | NBC News folks were in our offices today for a piece about Gawker Media (our parent company). The reporter said she'd only ever played Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, but I trumped her wacky fact by telling her that there are two Kotaku staffers with Masters in journalism. —Stephen (Image by Gizmodo editor Joe Brown.)

Fighter | TOKYO, JAPAN: Pro-gamer Daigo Umehara plays the Street Fighter cabinet with big, punchable buttons. (Photo: 4Gamer)

Dragon Nest | TOKYO, JAPAN: HanGame promotes its latest title in Tokyo. (Photo: Game Watch Impress)

Take One | Spotted by thejesus. (Photo: peekeep)

Ambition | TOKYO JAPAN: Akina Minami shows off her new threads. (Photo: Game Watch Impress)

Gaming against SOPA | On a day when Wikipedia and Reddit blocked their content to protest two controversial potentially speech-squelching, Internet-mangling bills—and legislators fell over themselves dropping support for those bills—an online guild, the makers of Minecraft and FarmVille giant Zynga all made their hatred of SOPA and PIPA known.

Skyward | NORTH BEND, WA: Wii games at a Nintendo of America distribution center. (Photo: Ted S. Warren | AP)

Mood lighting | U.S. Marines take aim in a scene lit like an action game. (Image via Flickr.)

Portable | LOS ANGELES: A "Pret a PSP" fashion show marked the console's 2005 launch. (Photo: Chris Pizzello | AP)

Good Luck, Link | You're going to need it and a sword. (Image via Cracked.com.)

She's Published - My wife's book is in print. She got her first copy this week. Pretty damn cool to hold something in your hands someone you know, respect and love worked on for so long. Have a great weekend everyone. (Photo by Brian Crecente)