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Amazon Wants To Deliver Your Stuff Using Drones. Seriously.

It sounds like a late April Fool’s joke, but no. Amazon has really just announced a new service called Amazon Prime Air, where sometime in the next few years select customers can get stuff delivered straight to their doorstep via drone You can’t use it yet – Amazon is awaiting approval from the FAA –…

Fake Trademark Breaks Sega Fans’ Hearts

Some people – who you’d think should know better – got excited last week when they learned that Sega had filed a trademark in Europe for “Shenmue III”. The only problem: it wasn’t actually Sega who filed it. “Sega has confirmed that the recent application for the trademark of Shenmue III is a fake and…

A Video Game Might Recreate Auburn’s Miracle, But It Can’t Be Repeated

As Auburn’s grandstands still thundered above him, A.J. McCarron, the Alabama quarterback born in 1990, searched for the words to describe losing in such irregular fashion—on a play that had happened only five times before in major college football history, and never to decide a game, much less one this consequential. Today there seems to…

Report: Lindsay Lohan Calls Lawyers Over Grand Theft Auto V

A report on TMZclaims that shining diamond Lindsay Lohan “has called in her lawyers” to take legal action over her supposed portrayal in Grand Theft Auto V. I’ll give you a moment to collect yourselves. She’s apparently going to demand that Rockstar and Take-Two pay her for using her likeness. No word on specific instances,…

The Best Cyber Monday Gaming Deals of 2013

Update: Looking for 2014’s best Cyber Monday Gaming Deals? Head over to this year’s post Welcome to our coverage of all the best Gaming Deals of Cyber Monday. Stick with us as we constantly update this post, and follow along on Twitter so you don’t miss those lightning deals. The Best Cyber Monday Deals The…

Holiday Heads Discovered in Borderlands‘ Thanksgiving DLC

The second Headhunter pack of DLC for Borderlands 2 arrived at a suspiciously large download size this week—large enough that fans went poking and probing and, lo and behold, they found something they shouldn’t have. Up above, in that video, are the holiday-themed heads and skins to be unlocked (or otherwise distributed) by some future…

Studio Ghibli Gold Box On Amazon Today

It’s not the first time Amazon has run a gold box on Studio Ghibli’s amazing catalog, but this is the best, most complete one so far, and features the option of saving on Blu-ray/DVD combos if that’s your style. Classics like My Neighbor Totoro and Howl’s Moving Castle are marked down to $20/each, along with…

Yes, you can also win Mario Party: Island Tour by doing nothing. Like Mario Party 9 and Super Smash Bros. Melee—and Global Thermonuclear War in Wargames—the only winning move is not to play. [Video by StreetPass Princeton, N.J.]

The Bittersweet Story of Francis, YouTube’s Biggest Video Game Nerd

It’d be easy to think that getting a PS4 four days before most of the world was the coolest thing to happen to the man who plays combustible video game nerd Francis on YouTube. Or maybe it was having Xbox exec Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb fly down to his house for a trash-talking lightsaber battle…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: I Love a Parade

Despite high winds, on Thursday Macy’s managed to fly balloons in its annual Thanksgiving Day Parade without anyone being injured (or cops stabbing and stomping Barney the Dinosaur to death) That gives me an idea for this week’s ‘Shop Contest. Two years ago, Sonic the Hedgehog’s reintroduction to the parade was the subject of this…

GTA V Cop Has a Nervous Breakdown, Goes Walkabout

There’s something Falling Down-esque about this cop’s nervous breakdown in Grand Theft Auto V. He almost gets the squad car out of the driveway with a multi-point back-and-fill move—but then … he just loses it. Tim Burke over at Deadspin captured this; it happened in the open world after finishing the heist mission Blitz Play.…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Sportsbros: The Winners

This week we asked you to make hay with the forbidding gaze of EA Sports’ next-gen cover stars. Son, I am not disappoint with this effort, which gives us a split overall No. 1 between Ginger Snap and halfbeast! Halfbeast, know that your work was greatly admired by everyone here inside Kotaku. Tina was amazed…

Here’s How To Redeem Your PSN Codes Right Now And Save Your Weekend

To redeem your PSN codes now, simply redeem under the Account Management tab of the XMB, instead of from inside the Playstation Store. Kotaku recently let you know that Sony has disabled certain Playstation Network features, among them PSN code redemption, in an effort to stabilize everything in the wake of Black Friday purchases and…

Robbers Settle for PS4 When GameStop is All Out of the Xbox One

In the new console generation, the PlayStation 4 appears to be the second best choice—for robbers in Indianapolis that is. Tuesday evening, two suspsects stormed a GameStop on the south side of the city and demanded—by name—all of the Xbox Ones in stock. The GameStop employees replied, more or less, “Uh, we don’t got any.”…

Modder Shows Xbox One Can Boot From a Bigger, Faster Hard Drive

Despite the lack of support to swap in different hard drives (especially ones of a larger capacity) in the Xbox One, this guy says he’s gotten the two pieces of hardware to cooperate. Not only that, the console runs faster with a non-stock hard drive installed. Booting to the main screen goes about 10 percent…

Get over here! Dwight Howard of the NBA’s Houston Rockets is apparently a Mortal Kombat enthusiast. Here he is re-enacting Scorpion’s signature move during pre-game introductions against Brooklyn on Friday. [NBA on YouTube]

He Thought He Was Buying a PS4; He Got a Box of Towels Instead

A man in Colorado Springs got (sunglasses) fleeced when he met a dude to buy a PlayStation 4 and ended up with a box of towels. That said, they do dry you off a lot better than the Xbox One. Cops in the Springs say the man answered a Craigslist ad, hoping to buy the…

The Sun‘s Page 3 Girl was The Playstation 4

Friday saw the launch of the PlayStation 4 in the U.K., and The Sun’s notorious Page 3 treated blokes there to a new model—one much less curvy than usual. Sony took over Page Three (and two) for a day, apologizing (sigh, apologising) to “Rosie, 22, from Middlesex,” for displacing her. That couldn’t have been a…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of November 25

Hello, I am writing to you from the past, where my belly is not filled with all sorts of Thanksgiving-style food and birthday cake. If you’re still around, check out our best content from this week over at Kotaku Selects And yes, it’s my birthday! Today! This very day! This moment! I am probably out…

3DS XL For $145

Hurry over to Toys R Us’ eBay storefront to grab a 3DS XL for $145. No Zelda, but it’s ridiculously cheap nonetheless. [eBay]