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Movies & TV Get More Viral With Upworthy Headlines

We’ve seen what happens when video games get Upworthy-style headlines. What happens when sci-fi and fantasy movies get them will amaze you. SFFWorthyslaps the low-hanging fruit by giving your favourite movies and TV shows headlines in the style of the infamous viral site. This joke will get old very quickly. So let’s enjoy it while…

Kid Stays Up Late Gaming, Saves Family From Burning House

If you’re still young enough to have someone telling you when to go to bed, remember this story the next time your mother tries to tell you enough’s enough for one day. 12-year-old Jaxxyn Wood, from Kentucky, was up at 3:30am playing video games when he “smelled something really bad, like Legos on fire”. What…

Batman Figures Look Like Real, Tiny Batman Actors

Just when you thought Hot Toys couldn’t make a better Batman action figure, along comes a better Batman action figure. Sorry, figures I don’t know what to get more excited about with this new “Dark Knight Armory” piece by the Hong Kong-based toysmiths. Maybe it’s the fact it comes with Bruce Wayne, who is looking…

Call of Duty, BioShock Infinite More Enjoyable As Text Adventures

As they did lastyear, the team at PC Gamer are ringing in the new year by celebrating the biggest games of the old year. And by celebrating, I mean re-doing them as text adventures. There are two of them so far, both of them shooters, one which was fairly terrible, the other which, well, let’s…

NSA Accused Of Hijacking Laptop Shipments, Spying On Undersea Cables

In case you weren’t scared enough of the reach of the US National Security Agency, reports coming out of Germany are accusing the intelligence agency of literally seizing shipments of computers, installing malware and sometimes even hardware bugs on them. The allegations have been published by German news site Der Spiegel, and are reportedly based…

Sports Video Games in 2013: A Year in Decline

To a video gamer, the pairing was so natural that I didn’t recognize how unusual it really was. On Oct. 12, ESPN broke up its top two announcing teams to put Brad Nessler and Kirk Herbstreit in the booth for the network’s Texas A&M-Ole Miss nightcap. The two have, virtually anyway, worked millions of games…

They Put a Racing Game in a Race Car So They Could Race While They Race

This is so stupid it’s awesome. Viagame pit one of the world’s top racing video game drivers against a real-life professional to see who was better. But the best part is Frederik Brolin, the video gamer, is driving the course, virtually, inside a car that is driving the course in real life. The real-life driver…

Resident Evil Fanbase Also Old, Decaying, Capcom Tells Investors

Resident Evil is old enough to vote as of March. (That means its 18 years old). Its fanbase also has aged commensurately, Capcom said in a recent investor guide. This is not really a good thing, the company delicately points out. “The longevity of the Resident Evil title also comes with problems,” Capcom said in…

He’s Played 57 Straight Hours of Missile Command. His Goal is 100.

If you want to watch a Swedish guy tear Missile Command a new one, tune in to this. Around 11 a.m. EST, he beat his world record of 81,795,035, but that’s not the goal now. He’s trying to play the game for 100 hours, on a single credit. That would be a record across all…

Nintendo eShop Back, Online Problems Fixed, Pokémon Apps Still On Hold

Nintendo’s eShop is back online for all systems following repairs to many online services that had failed over Christmas. Nintendo gave the all-clear moments ago. The eShop had been on-and-offline for some platforms and regions since Dec. 25 as the company worked to resolve the problem. On Facebook yesterday evening, Nintendo said the outage had…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The 2013 Year-End All-Star Extravaganza

We’ve had 48 ‘Shop Contests this year, and now comes your 49th—our annual roundup of the best exploitables to kick off the new year with a buttload of callbacks to the old one. The 10 source images for this roundup were chosen because they fit a number of criteria, including how many entries we got…

Live-Action Minecraft Brings the World Into Higher Resolution

Here’s another way to look at the world of Minecraft—through the eyes of its protagonist, “Steve,” if he were a real person. The video is by Ben Combes, who delivered an earlier two-part series on the creepers. Combes’ creeper/enderman series began with a guy waking up in a strange world, fighting for survival. This one…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: ‘Shop Talk: The Winners

Nintendo’s first electronic toy bravely took the bullet for this week’s ‘Shop Contest. We’ve dialed up 21 winners for you, plus overall No. 1 QCSRK! One note: It’s just not the same without uscg_pa, who didn’t enter this week for the first time in forever. Last week’s disappointing roundup may have had something to do…

A Christmas YouTube Tradition: Tricking Kids With a Fake Console Gift

There’s a Christmas morning video spreading over the Internet the past two days, in which a naughty boy gets the modern lump of coal: an empty box instead of a PlayStation. It looks outrageous. Remember, though, this is on YouTube. And this kind of prank has gone on there for years. The latest one has…

Hello Games, the indie studio flooded out on Christmas Eve, said its insurance company won’t cover the damage to its office. Even if work on No Man’s Sky was backed up remotely, this doesn’t sound good. We’ve reached out to ask how things are going. A beloved office couch is among the casualties.

Resogun on the PS4 has been compared (favorably) to Defender, another sidescrolling, save-the-humans shooter. How does an old-school Defender champion feel about the new game? Well, for starters, it doesn’t suffer from any framerate drop when everything explodes …

Indianapolis: Home of Next-Generation Console Heists, Apparently

A month after bandits stole nine PlayStation 4s from an Indianapolis GameStop, armed robbers stormed another store in the same city, making off with 15 Xbox Ones in a pre-Christmas heist that left employees and customers tied up in a store room. The robbery happened just after 10 p.m. on Monday, Indianapolis police said. Two…

Ten Grand Theft Auto Online Jobs Get Rockstar’s Seal of Approval

Ten user-created jobs in Grand Theft Auto Online were “officially certified” by Rockstar Games yesterday, meaning all players on all platforms will be able to play them. They’re the first gigs to get the Rockstar stamp of approval since the GTA Online Creator toolkit released. Six races and four deathmatches compose the first 10, chosen…

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The Best Gaming GIFs Of 2013

What did we get from this year of next-gen press conferences, console launches, Nintendo Directs, and huge open-world games? Some good times. And some amazing animated GIFs. Enjoy our selection of this 2013’s best gaming GIFs, and giffy posts. Don’t forget to toss up your picks too in the comments below, to turn the whole…