Gaming-fail compilation doesn’t need a laugh track

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Most of us aren't strangers to the odd bout of gaming gaffes. Why, just last night, I took a fatal dive off a chasm-spanning bridge in Star Wars: The Old Republic into a supposed "lake" (actually a tiny puddle). But Rooster Teeth's Fails of the Year for 2011 video represents the cream of the crop of side-splitting tomfoolery. The folks behind the Red vs. Blue machinima series rounded up a batch of Skyrim glitches, Halo: Reach multiplayer dumbassery, and one seriously creepy Battlefield 3 soldier into a top-10 list of hilarity. Check it out below.

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