One of the greatest video game openings of all time made somehow even better.

The mystery of Helix has been solved. Nintendo claims he was created in a lab but Kotaku’s ‘Shop contestants know better.

Last week-ish I asked our readers to use the power of Photoshop to beat the inevitable flood of Pokémon Go-alike games to the punch. Together they’ve created an array of imaginary AR games ranging from compelling to mildly murderous.

Suuuuuu-paaaaaahh-maaaaaaaaan. And we have a winner.

Last week I asked our Photoshop-savvy readers to bring a little bright and fluffy to the dreary world of Dark Souls. This is the prettiest ‘Shop Contest winners post ever.

The $600 Oculus Rift is a pricey piece of equipment at launch, but it could be worse. Much, much worse, as our Photoshop-friendly community demonstrates in the winning entries from last week’s ‘shop contest.

Earlier this month we found out that M-rated action star Bayonetta would be one of the final competitors added to Super Smash Bros. on Wii U and 3DS. I asked our image-manipulating community to put her in all the games. They did not disappoint.

Last week Disney released an image of the official product packaging for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It was up to our image-manipulating community to package the products—or not, in the case of this week’s winner.

Does President Obama really love anime? It really doesn't matter. What does matter is it's so much fun imagining he does that last week's Kotaku 'Shop Contest produced some of the most wonderful work of the year thus far.

Last week I tasked our Photoshop army to hide famous crowd-member Waldo someplace no one would ever find him—especially not science. As you can see, uscg_pa's winning entry depicts a place we will never, ever find Waldo. Well played.

After Microsoft showed us what Minecraft might look like enhanced by its futuristic Hololens technology, I asked our 'shop-savvy readers to show us what would really be behind that shattered wall. They delivered. Big time.

Three-hundred and sixty-five days of Photoshopped pain, all at once, all for you. Tasked with combining up to five (or more) of 2014's most popular 'Shop Contest subjects into one majestic gestalt, the final image manipulation battle of last year yielded spectacular results.