Kotaku Gimp Contest just doesn't sound right.

Plumbing sucks but whatever they got one ups, shrooms, frog suits, Duck Hunt, a dog too - The opening to Bad Plumber's Mate by Princess Peach Superstar.

looks like the bad costumes from Argos

Coming this Autumn... FALL.

I spent half an hour on the phone with the guy behind The Fine Young Capitalists yesterday. Don't assume that just because you haven't seen a story on Kotaku, we're not interested in something. I don't know whether we'll wind up publishing anything about all that just yet, but I assure you that we have looked into it…

This is a whole different can of worms, but no, if a male indie developer's ex-girlfriend posted on Tumblr about him cheating on her, that would probably not be a story on Kotaku. I wouldn't consider either of those people to be public figures in the video game industry.

Some rejected alternatives:

At least 75% of those people just want to break into Valve to get some information about Half-Life 3.

May dearest Bobsplosion be given the power? I can vouch for him.

Someone make this a reality.

Who else had this level's theme music start playing in their head?

I'd post a 'That escalated quickly" gif...but I can't.

Found it

Still the best video game ever made. It's amazing that it went on to influence everything from Portal to Doom 3 to Dead Space.

Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?

OF COURSE YOU CAN'T CHANGE A FUCKING DIAPER IN THE MIDDLE OF A RESTAURANT.

But there's already a Twin Peaks video game. It's called Deadly Premonition, and it's... well, it's many things, but the only word I can really use to describe it is 'magical'.

I think you just tend to choose the game that your friends play.

Riveting fight scene. I haven't seem one that violent and intense since I argued with my sister over who gets to use the remote control.