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League of Legends Fan Tries to Bring Five-Inch Spiked Blade on Plane
Andy Cush · 03/04/15 03:09PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/k5kwtwurutzixvele9ar/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.png)
The latest entry in the Transportation Security Authority's Instagram catalog of heavy artillery: the five-inch, eight-spiked death blade above, which some hapless traveler tried to bring onto a flight from Baltimore-Washington International Airport. But worry not: it was only his trusty spinning axe, straight out of League of Legends.
College Student Sets Himself on Fire After Dad Tells Him to Stop Gaming
Jay Hathaway · 02/27/15 03:20PMGamer Gets SWAT Raided Over Prank Call During Livestream Broadcast
Andy Cush · 08/28/14 03:20PMPranks can a real hoot, sometimes. Just goofin' on your friends, clownin' around, havin' fun. If there's any chance your innocent joke might end with your buddy facedown on the floor with an assault rifle pointed at his back, though, you might want to reconsider.
Gawker Gift Guide: Kotaku Edition
Adrian Chen · 12/06/13 02:41PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/198hr707hfs1wgif/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.gif)
Merry Christmas. Or not. Whatever winter holiday you celebrate, you probably do it by substituting love and kindness with cheap plastic garbage wrapped in pretty paper. And if you're like us, you find it distracting to put too much thought into what to buy your loved ones. Each year we try to solve that problem by HARNESSING THE AWESOME POWER OF GAWKER MEDIA'S PROPRIETARY PUBLISHING PLATFORM, KINJA, to gather the best gift suggestions the internet has to offer. This year, we've divided the universe of potential gift recipients into readers of our Gawker Media brother and sister sites—I mean, we're all surrounded by Jezebel and Deadspin and Lifehacker types, right? We begin with Kotaku: What should you buy for the nerd gaming person in your life?