Ten Indie PC Games You Must Keep An Eye On

There are so many small teams out there working on so many promising PC games that it’s often impossible keeping tabs on them. You read about them, you like the looks of them, then the world keeps spinning and you forget all about something you may otherwise have loved. That’s a shame. So we’re going…

The Mouse Of The Future Might Be This Weird Little Thing

This is the iMotion, a controller concept by Intellect Motion. It’s a mouse, that you hold in the air, which doubles as a motion-sensor, and triples as a means of getting haptic feedback. All of which sounds awfully ambitious, not to mention tiring (holding the thing in the air for prolonged use doesn’t look ideal),…

Orbitor, a very pretty game we’ve looked at previously, has been signed to a console publishing deal. So expect to see it…everywhere.

1.26 Billion Facebook Profiles, All In The One Place

Artist Natalia Rojas, who calls herself a “creative technologist”, has devised a way for a single webpage to host all 1.26 billion Facebook user profiles. What’s more, it’s interactive, meaning you can actually find yourself amongst this sea of humanity. It’s a staggering image. Organised by the date a user joined, you can track people…

Let’s Appreciate Grand Theft Auto V’s Panoramas For A Second

Using GTA V’s in-game Snapmatic app – and a very steady hand on the right thumbstick – reader Timothy made some panoramic shots of Los Santos by stitching photos together in Photoshop. They’re great! Grand Theft Auto 5 Panoramas [Flickr]

Adventures In Skyrim Co-op (Cosplay)

Skyrim’s fun, but Skyrim five-player co-op sounds better. That ensemble is joined this week by some fantastic Sailor Moon, a terrifyingly realistic GlaDOS and, awesomely, some Magic: The Gathering cosplay. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand”…

Terrifying Robot Can Solve Rubik’s Cube In Less Than One Second

As soon as it gets bored with the cubes, we are all going to die Don’t Blink: Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube in a Second [Bloomberg]

You Can Play Star Fox Multiplayer On Steam, Via Team Fortress 2

Star Fortress is only in pre-alpha, the devs kicking the tyres to see how stuff works, but already it looks incredible. If only because it’s Star Fox. Running as a multiplayer game. On the PC. As a Team Fortress 2 mod [TF2] Star Fortress [Gray Mann Gaming]

How To Get A Job With Nintendo

They’re the godfathers of modern video games. Creators of some of the most beloved games of all time. For many, it would be a dream working for Nintendo, but seeing as the company runs pretty much everything out of its Japanese offices, that’s impossible, right? Well…not quite Programmer Anditto Heristyo recently applied for a job…

The Week in Games: It’s Fannnn-tastic

The week’s big console launches are NBA 2K14, also arriving for PC, on Tuesday followed by the physical HD release of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker on Wii U on Friday. Tuesday • NBA 2K14 (360, PS3, PC) • Flashback (PC) • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Trilogy Edition (360) • Assassin’s Creed Ezio…

‘I’m an RPG-Kind-of-Girl’ Says Newly Crowned Miss World

Megan Young enjoys Assassin’s Creed, Fable, and especially Pokémon—her favorite is Blastoise (a “basic Pokémon with a lot of strength and spunk.”) Last night she was crowned Miss World 2013. If we’re ever in a beauty pageant with aliens from other galaxies, folks, this is the woman we want representing humankind. Young was crowned Miss…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: No-Stick

Look, I’m not saying it’s the best exploitable—but it certainly is the most timely. Valve’s Steam controllermade its debut to the public on Friday and people are trying to wrap their heads around gaming without twin analog joysticks. Let’s explore even greater possibilities in this week’s ‘Shop Contest. Simple, yet open-ended task. Take that image,…

Xbox One Presenter Humiliated Me on Stage, Says Transgender Journalist [UPDATE: Some allegations recanted.]

A journalist says she was “completely dehumanised” on stage during an Xbox One Event at Eurogamer Expo 2013, by a comedian who made degrading jokes about her gender. Eurogamer Expo says it is investigating the matter. Laura Kate Dale, who is a transgender woman, says she was called “he,” “it,” “thing” and “this one,” by…

Sunday Comics: Inferior Decoration

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics, chosen by you, our readership. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Sept. 23. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published Sept. 23. Read more of Penny Arcade Brawl In The Family by Matthew Taranto. Published Sept.…

Little things mean a lot in Grand Theft Auto V: YouTuber GermanScientistTV noticed that the flip-flops actually flip and flop in GTAV, which set him off in search of other small nice-to-have details in the game. Anything else you’ve noticed?

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Canine Countenances: The Winners

Risking certain death by Polonium-210, ten ‘Shoppers bravely took up last week’s mission—using a picture of a Ukrainian dog that looks like Vladimir Putin, create something even more hilarious. I hope their life insurance policies are airtight, because we have all of the winning entries inside, including No. 1 enemy of the state Jose Sediles!…

Now We’ve Heard It All: Minecraft Blamed in School Violence Case

A nine-year-old Orlando, Fla. boy—”so tiny … he could barely see the judge over the podium”—was sentenced to home confinement by a state judge after he brought “multiple weapons to school.” The video game being blamed? Minecraft. Mine-bleeping-craft The unnamed student had “an unloaded handgun, a magazine with six bullets inside, a steak knife and…

Sounds Like Aliens Will Invade Your Base in XCOM: Enemy Within

The 30 new achievements for XCOM: Enemy Within—the expansion for last year’s XCOM: Enemy Unknown—slipped out to Steam a couple of weeks ago, but only now have I noticed what they describe. From the list, we can assume that a Base Defense mission is returning to the series. XCOM diehards lamented Enemy Unknown‘s lack of…

The Art of Fighting, an event mustering the charitable spirit of the fighting games community to raise awareness of and money for the treatment of fatal birth defects, is underway now. The tournament just began, and you can watch it here. The story of the father who organized it may be read here. To contact…

NY Library Discovers Timothy Leary’s Stash of Experimental Video Games

You may not remember that Timothy Leary, the psychologist renowned for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs and a key figure of the 1960s counterculture movement, dabbled in video games development in the 1980s. Now a trove of games discovered inside hundreds of discs in Leary’s archives will be playable at the New York Public Library.…