In Real Life

The Team Fortress 2 Proposal: One Small Leap Year For Taryn and Derek

Kotaku AU

In game proposals are quite common nowadays, and we’ve seen a fair few extreme ones — mods, LittleBigPlanet levels, elaborate Minecraft contraptions. But this Wednesday was a leap year, and you know what that means — women have a short window of opportunity to propose to their boyfriends!


November 20, 2011
In Real Life

A Live Action Minecraft Wedding Proposal

Reader Matt writes in to tell us how he proposed to his girlfriend up on the big stage at MineCon, getting the wonderful folks at Mojang to play along in getting his future wife up on stage to pop the question.


August 23, 2011
In Real Life

When GLaDOS Asks You To Marry Someone, You Say Yes

Gary Hudston commissioned three spectacular custom-built Portal 2 levels complete with fresh dialogue from the voice of GLaDOS, Ellen Mclain, just to ask his girlfriend to marry him. After watching the glorious spectacle unfold, I’m ready to marry the guy.


February 15, 2011
In Real Life

Bioware Dev Proposes With Minecraft For Valentine’s Day

Kotaku AU

The power of love is a curious thing, makes one man weep, makes another man sing. But love sometimes compels a man to build an enormous proposal shrine in Minecraft, and have his wife play through it. Makes the big chocolate Zelda heart I bought at the last minute look crap! Thanks for nothing Bioware dev!


September 14, 2009
In Real Life

A Post-Apocalyptic Marriage Proposal

This is the most touching marriage proposal involving the word “motherf–ker” – and a spiked baseball bat – I’ve ever seen. A woman enlisted the help of Fallout’s modding community to build a level in which she popped the question.