Jason Rubin, the former THQ president, left work with head(s) held high last week. Though the publisher is no more, we’ll always remember his member, the good ole Penetrator from Saints Row: The Third. I couldn’t pi...

Jason Rubin, the former THQ president, left work with head(s) held high last week. Though the publisher is no more, we’ll always remember his member, the good ole Penetrator from Saints Row: The Third. I couldn’t pi...

Dead Island‘s meatheaded special edition premium—a butchered big-boobed torso—provided the laughs for this week’s Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. Among the finalists inside you will find Manti Te’o, th...

Life is more funny with googly eyeballs attached. So are video games. Proving this corollary are the 20 ‘Shop Contest finalists for this week, led by the outstanding retrofan! See them all inside. arniejolt AttorneyAtMusi...

I told you maggots to hold the damn file size under 2 MB, but no, one of you just had to create something so hilariously excellent above that limit that I am now forced to take extraordinary measures just to bring it to you. So...

Anything goes and anything went as we asked you to revisit the exploitables and callbacks of the year that was 2012. halfbeast’s bitchin’ fightstick leads our roundup of overall finalists, with hat-tips to all-stars...

Last week’s Shop Contest asked for a mashup of Sons of Anarchy, the badass motorcycle gang TV show, with Full Throttle, the badass motorcycle gang video game. You folks must not be fans of one or the other or both, becaus...

Kurt Sutter was right. Sons of Anarchy, which wrapped up its fifth season two weeks ago, should be a video game—and not some slapcrap browser-based one, either. But with the publishing industry generally averse to doing l...

A grab bag full of silly exploitables from the 2012 Video Game Awards, from Snoop Lion to Cliff Bleszinski to our own Stephen Totilo and, of course, Samuel L. Jackson, supplied the grist for this week’s edition of the Kot...