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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…

‘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…

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.…

Whac-a-Mole’s Inventor Linked to Weird Experimental Fuel Explosion

This happened in Florida, of course, where Aaron Fechter, creator of Whac-a-Mole and Chuck E. Cheese’s “Rock-a-Fire Explosion” animatronic band, owns a warehouse. On Thursday, it went kaboom, and cops say an experimental fuel called “Carbohydrillium” is to blame. No one was injured in the blast, but it shook downtown Orlando and shut down train…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of September 23

Can you believe September is almost over already? In the week post-_GTA V_ launch, we’ve still had lots to say about the massive game, and we’re just about to experience a hell of a lot more with GTA Online approaching next week. In the meantime, read back on all our best stuff over at Kotaku…

Valve’s Controller Has Been Tested. Here Are Some Impressions. [UPDATE]

Game creators who have tried Valve’s unusual new game controller tell Kotaku that the device holds a lot of promise. But make no mistake, they also say it feels pretty different from what we’re used to. “We’ve been at Valve this week and only used it briefly, however, you immediately notice its increased responsiveness.,” Sega’s…

U.S. President Barack Obama pressed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani today over the detention of three Americans in Iran, including one-time game developer Amir Hekmati, who has been jailed on espionage charges since late 2011. The discussion occurred over the phone during a conversation that largely focused on the status of Iran’s nuclear program. It was…

A Photobomb Master: Ain’t nothin’ wrong with liking PDA…it just so happens that you might find yourself in a photograph with the ever-serious DrewPhillips, a man who keeps a Tumblr featuring pictures of himself standing next to couples who make out in public. (Via Buzzfeed)

Sickest Way To Get Around In GTA V? Shredding On BMX Bikes!

Oh, the places you can go and the tricks you can land while on a BMX bike in Grand Theft Auto. It’s the kind of thing that almost makes riding around in a car seem boring. Kirk vouched for going around in GTA on a bike recently, but it’s watching YouTubers like Ready Up Live…

We’ll Learn More About The ‘Piston’ Living-Room PC On Monday

Xi3, the company making the mysterious Valve-backed “Piston Console,” says that it will be revealing more information about the product this Monday. In a brief update to the Xi3 site, the hardware makers say that “the wait is over,” and that they’ll have more info on the modular PC on Monday 9/30 at 11AM Mountain…

Will Infinity Ward Continue to Support Competitive Call Of Duty?

With Activision publicly announcing their support of eSports at the recent Call Of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer reveal it’s become evident that this growing community has a chance to become a long-term fixture of the scene, but a lot of that is dependent on the efforts of Activision, its studios and Major League Gaming. Most recently,…