Hello, Kotaku!
Let’s dive right into the bests this week, starting with the image above. Mario and his cute princess are featured above, in the form of very interesting graffiti art. If you look closely you can see the bubble letters that make up each part of the drawings. Thanks to XombieDIRGE for finding the image!
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://kotaku.com/calling-all-comment-of-the-week-nominations-5909344
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 Shagittarius, who wins for reasons of perverse comedy:
The problem is when you masturbate the screen scrolls up and down.
But Ashley Parker gets a win this week, too, for an awesome joke:
https://kotaku.com/amazon-exclusive-spider-man-preorder-bonus-lets-you-pla-5908822
I want to play a game where you get to play as Jack Kirby saving the day, and then the next day’s Daily Bugle headline is “STAN LEE HERO OF NEW YORK”.
The Best, Kingliest King of the Geeks
https://kotaku.com/three-cheers-for-joss-whedon-king-of-the-geeks-king-o-5908069
Kirk Hamilton writes a tribute to Joss Whedon and his recent success with The Avengers. More »
The Best, Longest Mass Effect 3 Ending
https://kotaku.com/my-mass-effect-3-ending-lasted-34-hours-it-was-wonderf-5908224
Stephen Totilo explains why he loved his Mass Effect 3 experience and ending. More »
The Best (Worst) Desensitizing of Black Operations
https://kotaku.com/the-trouble-with-call-of-dutys-scary-new-war-of-the-fut-5908216
Carnegie Mellon professor and Molleindustria developer Paolo Pedercini explains what’s wrong with the Black Ops II marketing campaign. More »
The Best (Worst) MMO Tropes That Need To Die
https://kotaku.com/its-time-to-take-these-old-mmo-games-out-back-and-shoot-5908402
Luke Plunkett is sick of these MMOs, and they need to die already. More »
The Best Facebook Game That Isn’t NBA Jam
https://kotaku.com/the-first-facebook-game-from-the-creator-of-nba-jam-is-30785761
Stephen explains the new Facebook game from the creators of NBA Jam. More »
The Best New Art From the Powers Artist
https://kotaku.com/exclusive-powers-artist-michael-avon-oeming-shows-off-5908651/
Evan Narcisse gets us exclusive art from Victories, whose artist also did work for Powers. More »
The Best (Worst) Diablo III Product-Description
https://kotaku.com/wal-marts-hilarious-diablo-iii-product-description-read-5909738
Kirk has a laugh over Wal-Mart’s online product description for Diablo III, which reads like something out of a grade school book-report.More »
The Best Sex Game That Made Its Own Creator Uncomfortable
https://kotaku.com/the-sex-game-that-crossed-lines-and-unnerved-its-creato-5908827
Patricia Hernandez interviews the creator of Polymorphous Perversity, an RPG game that spares no censorship with sex. More »
The Best (Worst) Jerks Who Are Your Friends On Twitter
https://kotaku.com/is-twitter-turning-your-friends-into-jerks-or-were-the-5908732
Stephen wonders if our Twitter friends were jerks to begin with, or only jerks on Twitter. More »
The Best Transgender Transition at EA Sports
https://kotaku.com/a-transgender-transition-inside-ea-sports-will-everyo-5909038
Owen Good shares one transgender employee’s transition at EA Sports. More »
The Best Reasons To Stop Pre-ordering Games
https://kotaku.com/stop-preordering-video-games-5909105
Luke shares his opinion of how pre-ordering games are a problem. More »
The Best Close Look at the Assassin’s Creed III Gameplay Trailer
https://kotaku.com/lets-look-more-closely-at-the-great-assassins-creed-iii-5909330
Stephen gives you a play-by-play of the new Assassin’s Creed III gameplay trailer. More »
The Best Sleep Lost Over The New Civilization V
https://kotaku.com/i-lost-sleep-waging-holy-war-in-the-new-civilization-v-5909235
Kate Cox previews the upcoming Civilization V expansion. More »
The Best (Worst) Tales of the Xbox 360 Minecraft
https://kotaku.com/some-misled-xbox-minecraft-buyers-cant-get-refunds-5909259
Jason Schreier reports on Xbox 360 Minecraft players who can’t splitscreen without HD TVs. More »
The Best Lessons Learned From The Secret World Beta
https://kotaku.com/eight-lessons-learned-during-my-first-foray-into-the-se-5909506
Mike Fahey jumps into The Secret World’s press beta and learns eight new things. More »
The Best Gamer/Hip-Hop Artist Crossover Culture
https://kotaku.com/geeks-and-gamers-are-taking-over-hip-hop-5908939
Patricia examines the hip-hop artists rap about nerd culture, and the ones that don’t quite fit in. More »
The Best, Most Healing Video Game Mother’s Day Gift
https://kotaku.com/i-buy-my-mom-video-games-every-mothers-day-it-helped-h-452564796
Kate tells us the touching story of how she buys her mother video games every Mother’s Day. More »
The Best Social JRPGs
https://kotaku.com/do-jrpgs-need-to-be-social-to-survive-5909625
Jason examines the social aspect of JRPGs, and how great characters can suffice fill in those roles. More »
