Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish Favorite

Operation Kingfish is the sequel (of sorts) to Find Makarov, the fan-made short film based on the Modern Warfare series—the mini-movie that fooled us into thinking a Modern Warfare 3 announcement was imminent in February. (Oops!)
Not sure we can call this over-the-top action packed short a fan film, though, as it has the official backing of Activision. Toronto-based creative studio We Can Pretend got a call from Activision after the success of the original Find Makarov film, commissioning them for a sequel. And, yes, the filmmakers say, it is possible to shoot down an AC 130 with a shoulder mounted RPG launcher.
Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish made its debut at this weekend's Call of Duty XP gathering. Here it is in all its high-definition glory. I suspect we'll see more of this in the not too distant future.

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Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Backstage at Nintendo World Winners

Our efforts to meme-ify a moment from the big 3DS public event in Japan last weekend bore prodigious fruit - more than 600 entries. But we still haven't answered who that guy was.

First, the inevitables Andy Bane (5) gives us Antoine Dodson, Berd (7) and Zigzagoon (20) gave us good treatments of Team Fortress 2; Duck45 (9) gave us the creeper and Strikephoenix (18) found Waldo.

Movies were fair game, too, as Akrid (4), Carl0fDuty (8) and GiantBoyDetective (11) brilliantly illustrated. (GenMan's (10) was both movie and video game.)

Some went completely off-stage - adenonis (2) gave us Backstage Guy on Larry King; jojo1288 (14) shows he's a mole for Sony; and tsroach (19) showed why Reggie has the hardest job in Nintendo.

My favorite? not MazerRackham's (15) but thanks for thinking of us. No, it's ARYXANDRE's excellent WTFery (6) involving John Marston and Abraham Lincoln, who looks like he found out a little too late he picked the wrong night to go to the show.

Take a bow, everyone. See you in here tomorrow.

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