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Google Street View Glitches Show A Haunting Digital World

Finding something glitchy and weird on Google Maps and Google Street View is always exciting. It feels like finding the needle in a haystack, even if it’s just a malformed panorama photo. Artist Emilio Vavarella decided to collect the best ones into a gallery, to reflect the relationship between humans and technological errors. He named…

It’s About Time We Got A New RoboCop Video Game

If you ask me they should have just re-released the amazing 1989 arcade RoboCop arcade game with character sprites from the new movie, but I’ll take a free-to-play mobile shooter from Glu Mobile in a pinch. It doesn’t look too shabby, as mobile movie tie-ins go. A bit of cover shooting never hurt anyone. Well,…

Here’s the latest from Kotaku‘s official reader-written blog, Talk Amongst Yourselves: If You Want to Beat This Game, You’d Better Pause It • Here’s the New Anime You Need to Be Watching This Winter • Writing About Games Is Changing and the Games Are, Too • The Most Magical Pokémon Gets a Makeover TAY Classic…

Valve Unveils 13 Steam Machines, With Specs And Prices

During Valve’s CES 2014 event last night, the company released a brochure featuring images, prices, and specificiations for 13 third-party Steam Machines. Let’s take a look-see! Update: And here’s the 14th, Maingear’s tiny little Spark. Aside from Alienware, the party pooper, each of the 13 machines at the very least comes with some basic specs,…

There Are Four Ways To Mount A Motherboard In This PC Case

Origin PC is calling the new PC enclosure they’ve created “the most advanced and customizable desktop case in the world.” I think they might just have something here. Origin PC calls the feature, rolling out now exclusively to the company’s Genesis and Millennium lines, “Variable Mounting.” The case allows for the motherboard to be inserted…

Disney Princesses Would Be Fascinating Warcraft Characters

Poor Disney characters, they have to live through the weirdest transformations over and over. But there should be no escape for them, when the results are as good as LiberLibelula’s World of Warcraft mashup on DeviantART, where—among others—Snow White is transformed into a female dwarven paladin. So here’s Jasmine from Aladdin, transformed into a blood…

Is that… a Link to the future? Digital artist Jamie Boylan on DeviantART created one of the weirdest (in a good way!) pieces of Legend of Zelda fan arts. You can’t say it lacks enough twists. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art…

Sony Sweetens Playstation 4 And Xperia Z1S Combo With A $100 Coupon

Among the many exciting features of Sony’s Xperia Z1S Android handset is “deep integration” with the Playstation 4. Treat yourself to both the console and the phone and Sony will reward your brand loyalty with a $100 discount. Considering that the Playstation 4 is only a few months old and the Z1S isn’t available until…

An Xbox Marketplace listing for Alien: Isolation lines up with our reports from back in October of the game in development by Creative Assembly, starring Ellen Ripley’s daughter. Here’s the full description from the Xbox listing: Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread…

My Favorite Steam Machine So Far Is Barely Larger Than A Sandwich

Maingear’s Steam Machine didn’t make it into Valve’s brochure. At 4.5 x 4.23 x 2.34 inches and weighing less than a pound, it’s pretty easy to miss. While many of the official third-party Steam Machine partners have been doing their damndest to make a full-size gaming PC as small as possible, manufactures like Maingear (and,…

Origin’s Steam Machine Has That Set-Top Box Look

Origin Systems’ entry in the Steam Machine market would look right at home atop your television, if we hadn’t advanced to the point where such a thing requires tremendous balancing skills. The Chronos looks like my brother’s stereo in 1989. I can dig it. Steam Machines come in all shapes and sizes — one might…

Why Gabe Newell Isn’t Worried About The Xbox One

Sitting at Valve’s CES conference in Las Vegas today, one inquisitive audience member couldn’t help but ask…is Valve worried about keeping up with Microsoft’s momentum, having just announced 3 million units already sold? Here’s how it went down, transcription courtesy of Kirk: Question from the audience at a Valve CES presentation: Microsoft just announced 3…

We Take The Steam Controller For A Spin

Straight from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Kirk has some hands-on impressions of the Steam Controller for you—in case you’re curious about what Valve’s new, somewhat bizarre controller is like. And in case you want to see more of the controller in action, make sure to check out our previous coverage here. Valve…

Someone Please Finish Making This Game. It’s A “Murder Simulator”

An indie developer by the name ‘Kazerad’ was working on a two player game where each is trying to uncover the other’s identity, and kill them. Sadly, he’s abandoned the idea, but he posted everything you’d need to pick up where he left off. I think “Murder simulator” was a good word for it. It…

One Minute Mash-Up: check out this wonderful medley of classic video game songs by Chad Neidt—he mashes up over twelve different songs/games flawlessly.

A Bold Solution For Your Steam Backlog Woes

Backlogs: most of us have ’em, and most of us don’t have a chance of wading through it. Well. Not unless we’re willing to go all the way with ’em. For some, this will mean taking their backlog seriously—making schedules, sticking to certain amounts of play time every day. But there’s another solution, which Dorkly…

I Knew We Couldn’t Trust Those Damn Ewoks

There was always something a little off about the cuddly creatures that played heavily in the sixth act of the Star Wars saga. Now we know. It’s not so much a LEGO stop-motion animation from the Brotherhood Workshop as it is a a dramatic representation of true events. It makes sense. There’s nothing quite as…

​Metal Gear Solid V Gets Rare ‘Sexual Violence’ Ratings Description

Phrases you see all the time on the back of video game boxes: “Blood and Gore,” “Intense Violence,” “Strong Language.” The “Sexual Violence” content descriptor has only been used once before, back in 2006. This year, that infrequently used tag will be used to tell consumers some of what happens in Metal Gear Solid V.…

Last year at this time we got surprise news that MLB 2K was returning for one more year. Don’t count on it this year. The series’ Facebook page and official forums were wiped from existence, and all PC versions are gone from Steam, notes Pasta Padre. A statement from 2K Sports confirms the series’ widely…

The Bear Hat Makes This Skyrim Cosplay Flawless

A redguard adventurer in nord carved armor from Skyrim, as described by its maker, fevereon. You can tell how incredibly well-made the whole set is by just looking at the bear helmet. Here are more photos showing off the gauntlets and the bow that are also 100% scretchbuild: The photos were taken during MomoCon, and…