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The Celebrities Behind These Cartoon Characters Might Surprise You

Celebrities lend their voices to all sorts of cartoons, movies, and anime all the time—but you don’t always pick up on it. Did you know, for example, that Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston has been in a bunch of anime? That’s just one example of the type of cartoon voice actor reveals featured in this…

Tomb Raider For $9, Black Flag for $30, iPad Air [Deals]

Amazon is offering up a Steam copy of Tomb Raider for a measly $9 today. If you still have any $5 editor’s choice gaming credits to your name, you can apply them here as well. It’s not the definitive edition, but it should look just about as good on your gaming PC. Tomb Raider [Steam]…

GameStop Wii U Pre-Order Cancellation An Error, Game Still Coming

[UPDATE 2, 2:58PM:] Good news, everyone! GameStop Italy and our U.S.-based source have both said that this was all a glitch in the system and that Watch Dogs is—or will soon be—available for pre-order for Wii U again in Italy and the U.S. Apologies for making everyone nervous about this and for not getting that…

It cost one video game company $35,000 to be featured in one of Conan O’Brien’s Clueless Gamer segments. Re/Code reports that the late night talk show receives payment from game companies for some of the segments, with confirmation that horror game Outlast paid to be part of a three-game scare-focused spotlight

Net Neutrality and Gaming: Things Can Get A Lot Worse

After last week’s court decision striking down the Federal Communication Commission’s net neutrality rule, it is worth taking a moment to remember that a world without net neutrality—the principle that the company that connects you to the internet does not get to control what you do on the internet — is a world that is…

The Most Popular App On iTunes Is An Impossible, Ad-Riddled Mess

Flappy Bird is a game in which players tap the screen to make the titular Nintendo sprite conversion navigate a series of familiar pipe obstacles. It’s sloppy, frustratingly difficult and covered with in-game ads. It’s also the most popular free app download on iTunes. What gives? That’s the question being asked by Joseph Bernstein, who…

​We Can Make This Lego Batman Set Happen

What’s that up there? It’s a Lego Batcave. Where is it? Under Lego Batman’s Wayne Manor, of course. Awesome, right? It’d be more awesome if a blocky version of Bruce Wayne’s ancestral home actually existed. You can help with that. Right now, this miniature version of the Dark Knight’s lair only lives on a Lego…

​Mighty No. 9 Screens Give New Look at Mega Man Successor

Mighty No. 9—the spiritual descendant of Capcom’s beloved Mega Man franchise—seems like it can’t get here fast enough. But a glimpse at the crowdfunded game assures us that work is proceeding on the side-scrolling action game. Keiji Inafune’s Comcept dev studio gave a peek at the Mighty No. 9 alpha build in images that only…

Here’s the latest from Kotaku‘s official reader-written blog, Talk Amongst Yourselves: Monster Girl Quest: The Review • Tales of Numbers: A Love Letter • “We must make the games we wish to play in the world” TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Bill Gates Plays Chess With The World’s Best, Loses In 71 Seconds

The stunned face of Bill Gates, as he realises he has no chance to win against the Norwegian chess grandmaster, Magnus Carlsen, is priceless in the above video. The two met on a TV show last night, and you don’t have to wait a lot for the checkmate. Skavlan: Magnus Carlsen VS Bill Gates [YouTube]…

Resident Evil 4 PC Looks So Much Better In HD

Announced earlier this week, the Steam version of Resident Evil 4 is atonement for the god-awful Windows port released in 2007. Capcom’s released some comparison shots showing off how much better the game looks when the textures don’t look like they were painted with mud. According to a post on Capcom’s Unity blog, the SD…

DayZ Bandits Cruelly Force Victims to Sing Their National Anthem

We’ve seen numerous examples of bandit brutality in DayZ, but this concept really surpasses everything. If you get caught by this group of YouTubers, you have to choose between singing your country’s national anthem or being shot. It’s pretty simple. The singing starts around the 0:45 mark. Even though these guys play it nice and…

Artist Liza van Kempen did a great job showing us what the characters in a Japanese-themed The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker would look like, by changing the atmosphere and everyone’s outfit, yet keeping the original art style of the game. The larger, original image has a few more characters on it, as you can…

Four Awesomely Hilarious People Play Starbound

Starbound is actually barely discussed in this one. Not that it matters. It’s utterly brilliant either way. Note: Don’t look at this at work. It’ll make you chuckle loudly. Also, it’s moderately NSFW It’s a longer vid at fifteen minutes, but I’d recommend hanging around at least until they start talking about superheroes. That’s the…

Well, that didn’t take long. Kingdom Come: Deliverance, the historical sandbox RPG, reached its funding goal in 36 hours. That’s half a million dollars over a one-and-a-half day period. Damn

Petition: “We Want More Sega Games (Like Bayonetta) on PC”

Bayonetta. Virtua Fighter 5. Vanquish. These are all Sega games that must receive PC ports, according to a petition born out of a Twitter campaign from last December. But why those three games, specifically? As the creator of the petition explains, they’ve been chosen because they fulfill three criteria: 1. Do we feel the PC…

Is Mass Effect‘s Commander Shepard in an Old Spice Ad?

It sure looks like him! But, what’s with the nunchaku? And is he riding a raptor? With a rastacap? The spot appeared on an Old Spice viral site called Flavorpatch.com and was noticed by Tumblr site Pirate Reject The armor does resemble Commander Shepard’s N7 Armor from Mass Effect 2. There are some differences, though.…

People Really Want That Other Scary-Cool Virtual Reality Headset, Huh?

Small screens inches away from your eyes. Light beamed directly at your retinas. At this rate, the next war for cutting-edge display supremacy will be happening on your face. Sometime in the near future, the headgear showdown is going to be the Oculus Rift vs. the just-funded-twice-over Avengant Glyph. Ophthalmologists of the world, prepare! We…

​Ten Computer Glitches That Caused Mayhem And Cost Millions

I remember Y2K. You remember Y2K. Everyone remembers Y2K. But do you remember the time a California courtroom computer accidentally summoned 1,200 people to jury duty, causing a huge traffic jam? Or the time Google accidentally caused browsers to read their own site as malware? I learned a thing or two about several disastrous viruses…

From Clothespin To Pocket Pistol In Just A Few Steps

Have a clothespin and some matches lying around? Then you already have much of what you need to make a cool mini matchstick gun—a toy which packs a surprising amount of power considering how silly it sounds. Grant Thompson walks us through all the steps necessary to make the matchstick gun (which can also shoot…