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We breed them, kill them, cook them. Millions of man-hours have been spent flinging Angry Birds at them, but has anyone ever tried playing video games with them? A team of livestock ethics researchers and game designers in the Netherlands is doing just that with Pig Chase. More »
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I've seen orangutans play video games on a touch screen, but this is the first lizard. And this Bearded Dragon doesn't need opposable thumbs to master the art of gaming, he uses his tongue. More »
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With a puppy appearing in the opening scene of the Grand Theft Auto V debut trailer, animal-loving commenter Nostrapadamous is worried that a virtual dog might run out in front of his virtual car and virtually die. In the arms of angels goes today's Speak Up on Kotaku. More »
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Hard-working professionals (who usually stand on two feet) are paid to sound like dogs and, now horses in the video game series The Sims 3 Pets. Today, we present footage of some of their work. More »
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Britain's hedgehog population is in crisis, with many falling victim to roadkill. Sega staged a "hedgehog road crossing" to raise awareness of the creatures, and, of course, Sonic Colors. Here one's fitted with red booties. Seen via Daily Mail. More »
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On the topic of shooting animals in Red Dead Redemption, one player of Rockstar's big Western writes to Kotaku about his resistance to killing virtual bison. More »
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Do Red Dead Redemption players hate crows? I shoot virtual deer and wolves a lot in that fantastic video game Western, but look at these stats, pulled from the Rockstar Social Club: More »
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After losing his back feet to a combine harvester, Oscar the cat thought he would never walk again, but we can rebuild him. We have the technology. More »
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Reacting to yesterday's news that popular Facebook game Mafia Wars is adding animals as weapons, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals requests developer reconsider, using Zynga founder Mark Pincus' own beloved pet as ammunition. More »
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Evey game has a Horde Mode these days. EVERY game. I mean, Bass Pro Shops: The Hunt has one, except it's no standalone stand-off-against-ugly-Locust-soldiers mode. It's a mode that is all about man against attacking forest animals. More »
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The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have thrown their support behind the Academy of Notre Dame student protest against dog killing in Call of Duty: World at War. More »
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Bad reviews, so what? The Hollywood version of Max Payne staring Mark Walhberg came out on top at the box office in its first week, beating out Oliver Stone's W. That film debuted at the fourth spot. Explained Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers: "The estimates for 'W.' were all over the place... You can't really expect that a politically charged movie like that would take the weekend over a big video game adaptation with a movie star in the lead role." W., of course, is director Oliver Stone's take on the presidency of George W. Bush. Hey, W., so you're President. What's that like? Say "hi" to your mother for us, okay? More »
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MTV Multiplayer tapped a number of industry folks to judge their latest stop on the road to their naming the Greatest Animal in the History of Video Games. More »
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What happens when you marry the worldwide Halo phenomenon with the plague of cat pictures with humorously misspelled captions? I'm pretty sure the world is supposed to explode, but until that happens there's Halolcats.com. It features many of the same cat pictures you've seen infesting forums or sent to you in emails from your co-worker who thinks they're just so darn cute, spliced with the game series you either love or despise. Pictures are sorted by categories much like the medals you achieve in multiplayer, such as 'Catting Spree' , 'Double Cat', and 'Catastrophe'. You can even submit your own pictures in case you have far more free time than I do. The creators went as far as to send out a press release announcing this unholy union, so hit the jump to see if you can figure out why the hell someone would do this. More »
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Today is turning out to be a very stressful day for me for various reasons, and when I have a stressful day going on, only one thing can help calm me down. Animals playing console games. Kotakuite Taylor comes to the rescue!
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So the DS / 360 playing cat thinks he's hot stuff, hmm? Seattle Roll's hamster, Kumanoko, thinks otherwise, and is fully prepared to put the witty kitty in its place. More »
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Playing fetch is out. Video games are in. Reachers at Emerging Art and Architecture Research Group, or RASTER, and Singapore's Mixed Reality Lab are developing a hamster video game. Make that, a video game for hamsters. More »
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