Captain Planet (Captain Planet cocktail)

Ingredients:
3/4 oz Whiskey (earth)
3/4 oz Tequila (fire)
3/4 oz Vodka (wind)
3/4 oz Seltzer (water)
3/4 oz Fruit Punch (heart)

Directions: Add all ingredients into mixing glass with ice. As you pour each ingredient in be sure to shout, EARTH FIRE WIND WATER HEART! By there powers combine! CAPTAIN PLANET! Shake and pour into a tall glass with ice.

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Drink created by Aggressive Comix, as part of their Secret of the Booze video series. Photography by Holly Jo Photo.

Gaige / Mechromancer (Borderlands 2 cocktail)

Ingredients:
1 oz Irish cream
1 oz White crème de cacao or White chocolate cream liqueur
½ oz Vodka
½ oz Berry liqueur (e.g. crème de fraise, crème de framboise, crème de cassis etc)
2 medium strawberries
1 medium strawberry to garnish

Mixing instructions: Crudely dice the 2 medium strawberries. Add the diced strawberries to a cocktail shaker and muddle them until thoroughly crushed and juiced. Fill the cocktail shaker with ice. Add the Irish cream liqueur, white crème de cacao or white chocolate cream liqueur, vodka and berry liqueur to the cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail/martini glass. Garnish with a strawberry on the edge of the glass.  

“Don’t screw with a girl and her robot!”

Drink created and photographed by Manuka Cliffe.

Borderlands 2 Cocktails

Gunzerker
Ingredients:
25 ml Dark Rum 
25 ml Spiced Rum
50 ml Whiskey
300 ml Ginger Beer
Directions: This drink requires dual wielding. In two separate tumbler glasses, mix your chilled ginger beer and whiskey. Float the spiced and dark rums on top and serve. 
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Assassin
Ingredients:
30 ml Vodka
25 ml Jagermeister
175 ml Coke
Directions: Mix the vodka and Jagermeister in a highball glass over ice, then add the Coca-Cola on top. 
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The Siren
Ingredients:
25 ml Blue Curacao
25 ml Lychee Liqueur 
100 ml Peach flavored Water
25 ml Chambord/Berry Liqueuer
Directions: Mix your lychee liqueur and Chambord in shot glass. Place the shot glass inside a martini glass, for a high vantage point. Shake the blue curacao and peach flavored water with ice. Strain into the martini glass, for your fire-resistant Maliwan Grace skin.
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The Commando
Ingredients:
25 ml Gin 
200 ml Lemon Lime Soda 
Ice
25 ml Kahlua 
10 ml Vodka 
15 ml Cream 
Cocoa to garnish
Directions: Mix the lemon lime soda and gin in a short glass with ice. For the Commando’s “gun turret”, mix a miniature White Russian cocktail in a tall shot glass. Serve together and lead your team to victory. 

James Dance of Loading has created a ton of cocktails inspired by some of the top games of 2012. We’ll be posting the rest this week but if you want to see them all now you can check out the article on The Guardian. Photography by Will Edgecombe.

Absolut Pleasure (Rocky Horror Picture Show cocktail)

Ingredients:
1.5 oz Cherry Brandy (Kirschwasser used)
1 oz Absolut Vodka
1/4 oz Irish Cream
1/4 oz simple syrup
A few drops of Absinthe
4 Maraschino Cherries

Directions: First, evenly coat your glass with Absinthe. Muddle two cherries in a shaker and add ice, along with the remaining ingredients. Shake vigorously, and strain directly into the middle of your Absinthe coated glass. Garnish with two cherries. As you sip, contemplate giving yourself over to absolute pleasure and dance the time warp.

Drink created and photographed by Eddie Strickland.