Kotaku: Whimsy

Mario Bids Bon Voyage to the Space Shuttle

Owen Good — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:00:00 EDT

So you're attending the final launch in the U.S. space shuttle program's 30-year history. How would you document the moment? One guy whipped out his 3DS and AR cards and put Mario among those in attendance. More »

Fight In The Shade Of 600 Arrows Launched By This Minecraft Contraption

Owen Good — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:30:00 EST

Wait, we forgot to mention those arrows are on fire. Minecraft user ScottyDoesKnow built this dispenser array as a monument to overkill. The framerate only slows down when it shoots eggs. Or eggs and arrows. [thanks Trakata for the tip.] More »

Final Fantasy Classic, with Lyrics: Soak It In, Mofo

Owen Good — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:00:00 EST

Brentalfloss is back to camp out in our corpus callosum or medulla oblongata or wherever it is songs of this type embed themselves. If Styx were members of my church growing up, this would sound like 4/5ths of the hymnal. More »

Frogger: Mad as Hell, Not Taking It Anymore

Owen Good — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:00:00 EST

Give firearms to one pissed-off amphibian and watch roadkill turn into road rage. Oh, so I'm gonna die if I hit the edge of this screen, MFer? Yeah, well, Frogger's goin' home, bitch - through the front goddamn door. More »

I Pity the Childhood with No 8-Bit A-Team

Owen Good — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:30:00 EST

Hot Blooded Gaming put together the following video, solely as an an excuse to create an 8-Bit A-Team theme (which is itself awesome.) The gameplay's a little formulaic, but have you tried Next-Gen A-Team, for Grand Theft Auto IV? More »

Plumbing? You Want-a Aisle 7

Owen Good — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:00:00 EST

As seen on a Home Depot apron. [Thanks irishpnk323] More »

No Mercy in Left 4 Dead Hospital "Reviews"

Owen Good — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:30:00 EDT

Mercy. The hospital in Left 4 Dead's "No Mercy" campaign, and the name of a real one in Pittsburgh. And Louis, Zoey, Francis and Bill are sowing panic about its conditions, the access to medication, and patients you'll find there. More »

Look Everybody, It's A-Me, M Bison!

Owen Good — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:30:00 EDT

As drawn by Will Stopinski [Seen via Tiny Cartridge] More »

Miyamoto's Wii Measure

Owen Good — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:20:00 EDT

Kotaku reader phNord's concept based on Shigeru Miyamoto's recently confessed fetish. More »

Video Games and Balloons: Because Everyone's Talking About this Right Now

Owen Good — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:00:00 EDT

The saga of Colorado's Balloon Boy had me and Crecente nostalgic for our days of four-alarm all-hands coverage at the Rocky (which only happened every week). So I've localized today's report to include the video game angle to balloons. More »

Sega's Office Prank Doesn't Think Too Much of Game Informer

Owen Good — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:30:00 EDT

Jen Groeling went off on a two-week vacation and came back to find her cube at Sega cordoned with plastic wrap and filled with about a zillion pages from Game Informer magazines. See for yourself in this video. More »

Toad's Gay? Not That There's Anything Wrong With That ...

Owen Good — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:30:00 EDT

Brentalfloss is back at it again, discovering clues to Toad's sexual orientation in the lyrics to the Super Mario Bros. 2. Or at least the ones he made up for it. More »

Nananana nananana — ARKHAM!!!!

Owen Good — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:00:00 EDT

Danny Elfman can piss off. I roll with Neal Hefti's theme from the 1960 TV show, and here someone's set it to Arkham Asylum gameplay in an attempt to mimic the show's opening. More »

We Didn't Have Achievements Back in the Day

Owen Good — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:00:00 EDT

But if we did, posits Gamespy's Brian Altano - in this nostalgic and disarmingly sweet take on growing up with games - they might have looked a little like these. More »

Mario Teaches Typing Warcraft

Owen Good — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:30:00 EDT

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Since I just got promoted, I can finally reveal that I lack any experience with one rather common game. I haven't played a minute of Warcraft - except for the original RTS. On a Mac. More »

Confused About Commenting? Consult This Chart

Owen Good — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Late to the party on the latest development? Weekend friends B-Miggs and Agent B have broken down the orthodoxy of each console's partisans and their most common reactions to the most common industry news. More »

Toad Revealed to be Ungrateful A-hole After All

Owen Good — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:00:00 EDT

Blah blah blah, thank you Mario, another castle, etc. ... But magnify the sprite and we see the rancorous contempt Toad has had for us for more than a quarter-century. More »

More Proof that Anything + TF2 Soundfile = Comedy Gold

Owen Good — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:00:00 EDT

About 30 seconds in you see the clip that probably inspired this 5 minute masterpiece: "I must stop little baby!" More »

This is So True ...

Owen Good — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:00:00 EDT

As seen on Hawty McBloggy. More »

Lots of Bad Career Choices in Fallout

Owen Good — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:30:00 EDT

A list of the 11 worst virtual jobs in video games gives us places three from the Fallout series in the top 8, including el numero uno. More »

E3 Activity Book: Fun With No Purpose

Owen Good — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:00:00 EDT

For those too young to attend E3 - which is to say, damn near all of us - B-Miggs and Agent B have cooked up their latest laugher: The E3 Activity Book for Kids, with its deadly accurate Nintendo presser mad libs. More »

I Breathe Fire and I VOTE

Owen Good — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Bowser recently went into town to speak his mind about the dangers of unchecked power in the executive branch. Funny that a monarch would feel that way, but it's a free country, brah. More pics on the jump. More »

Halo 3 Box Art De-Make

Owen Good — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:00:00 EDT

The original Mega Man must represent the widest disparity in game greatness and box art awfulness. It could only be eclipsed by, say, another groundbreaking title done in exactly the same hideous style. More »

SF Flowchart: All Roads Lead to Shoryuken

Owen Good — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:00:00 EDT

This incredibly deep flowchart nails the entire spectrum of decision-making Ken presents to 98.7 percent of those who play Street Fighter - especially jump backwards-Hadouken! More »

Magazine Covers That Don't Exist, But Should

Owen Good — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:00:00 EDT

Visitors to The -Minus World haven't seen any updates since being told "BRB" on April 11. Well, there's one change - B Miggs and Agent B went to GameSpy, where they cooked up this feature. More »

Tetris Lessons Available, 2 Hours for $40

Owen Good — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:00:00 EDT

Shawn Elliott (2K Boston) tweeted this this past week. Some wit up in Vancouver is offering Tetris lessons "at affordable rates," one of those things the un- or underemployed will now rush out to imitate. More »

King Denies Little Boy's Wish to Be Named 'Sonic X'

Owen Good — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:30:00 EDT

This reads like a fairy tale, but it's all true. A 6-year-old Norwegian boy wanted to change his name to "Sonic X," and in his land, such things must be approved by the king. More »

Rapscallion Mega Man Plays Ding-Dong Doorbell

Owen Good — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:30:00 EDT

After this Mega Man left a bag of flaming dog poop on Guts Man's door step. More »

Prank Rated A for Blood, Comic Mischief, Cop Involvement

Owen Good — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:00:00 EDT

Cops at an Atlanta shopping center recently found a box of clothes covered in fake blood - and "Grand Theft Auto in China" promo material. A GameStop employee contacted Kotaku to claim responsibility. More »

w4m? m4w? ... L4D ...

Owen Good — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:00:00 EST

After a lonely Valentine's Day, let's head over to the infamous Craigslist Casual Encounters, see if we can find some zombies to join some hot w4mmm action. I'm clean and real, you be too. More »

The Games that Inspired Porn

Owen Good — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:00:00 EST

Ah, Feb. 15. It's the day for porn, shame and regret. So is Feb. 14 if you don't have a girlfriend. (I do. It's a picture of Olivia Munn). More »

10 Video Game Athletes Who Probably Roided

Owen Good — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:00:00 EST

This past week, Alex Rodriguez copped to taking steroids and everyone went on TV and radio to bitch about it, including me. But is the world of video game sports any more pure? More »

Mario Gets a Ransom Note

Owen Good — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:30:00 EST

The -Minus World hallucinated a ransom demand from Bowser to Mario Re: Princess Peach (aka "ho" according to this) — but look closely. All the letters were cut from game-related logos. More »

Hey, You Got Your Mega Man in my Dutch Garden

Owen Good — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:00:00 EST

Capcom might want to get on the phone with Unilever, owner of the Knorr brand. Because, really, that's Mega Man, albeit in green, encouraging Dutch children to eat more fruits and vegetables (I think.) More »

Fast Food Mascots in Street Fighter Alpha

Owen Good — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:00:00 EST

Taking us up to the end tonight, some humor. I find this fitting because I may be working in a fast food restaurant come Christmas. It's a long hilarious story whose punchline rhymes with "schmaid schmoff." No not from Kotaku. Anyhow, I'm super pissed the Hamburglar is not in this game. Nor the Fry Guys. Then again, when was the last time you saw Wendy's bewbs? Ronald as a laconic Joker-esque figure is a nice touch, although my guess is they'd have to tone down his finishing move just to get the T-for-teen rating, too. The original artist is Lysol-Jones. If Fast Food Mascots had to Fight in Street Fighter Alpha [neeBiT] More »