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Intel Haswell Makes Its Debut: Core i7-4770K Review

Regular TechSpot readers will have no doubt spotted several mentions of Haswell on our front page this year. In the past few months we have covered everything from model names to performance and battery life claims. A key focus has been Haswell’s graphics, with rumors suggesting its performance is set to be 2 to 3…

Trivialize an Anti-Gay Riot With This Bizarre Facebook Game

Two weeks ago, priests in Georgia (the former Russian state independent republic, not the US state) led a mob that attacked about 50 gay rights demonstrators, hurling rocks and, ifthis YouTube video is an indication, swinging furniture. Someone’s cooked up a nearly unplayable side-scroller lampooning the chaos. This is Call of Taburetka, the latter word…

Someone’s Going to Dig Up Atari’s Infamous New Mexico Landfill

Alamogordo’s city council has granted an excavation permit for the infamous landfill said to hold thousands of copies of E.T. and Pac-Man for the Atari 2600—two titles blamed for the mid-1980s crash of console gaming—and yes, the permit-holder is digging out the site specifically to find those games’ remains. The story is well known to…

The Best Of Kotaku, The Week Of May 27

Welcome to the weekend, Kotaku. Which means I’ve got a round-up of all our best content on Kotaku Selects. While Microsoft and Sony still aren’t talking about the online and other details for their newest consoles, others are talking. So while we wait for news from E3 in roughly a week (oh god one more…

Oculus Rift Developer Killed, Was A Bystander During a Police Chase

Andrew Scott Reisse, an accomplished developer at Oculus VR, the company behind the virtual-reality Oculus Rift headset, was killed in Santa Ana, California on Thursday. He was an innocent victim of a police chase gone horribly wrong. Reisse was apparently out for a walk when an alleged gang member, fleeing the police in a Dodge…

So, These Are The People Who Post On NeoGAF!

A teaser video for the upcoming GameTrailers.com documentary about the popular gaming message board NeoGAF finally puts some faces to the screen-names. These people don’t look anything like their avatars! I quite like the GIF-generating, news-aggregating, secret-finding, incessant-games-journalism-analyzing NeoGAF. I even post there from time to time. But I’ve not met many other people who…

More Game of Thrones Characters As Bad 90’s Stereotypes

Last time around, we showed you what some Game of Thrones stars would look like in stereotypical 90’s fashion. The artist, Mike Wrobel, has returned with some more characters in this style. Excellent. Of course I would think this is excellent, since this batch includes two of my favorite characters. But, c’mon, Brienne as a…

This Portal-Themed Bedroom Is Outrageous And I Want To Live In It

Have you ever wanted to live like an Aperture Labs test subject? You have? Well then, you might want to consider living in a ridiculously cool custom-made bedroom like this one. The room, designed by a gamer/interior-decorator/accountant/wizard named Lauren, has been a labor of love, and man, does it show. She details her work at…

Gamasutra’s got a fascinating article about how the developers behind Japanese games like Paladin’s Quest create worlds and characters. Go check it out.

The Week In Gaming Apps Is Sorry It Tried To Kill You

Look, we all make mistakes. None of us are infallible. Sometimes I forget to pay my cable bill until after the due date, Stephen Totilo thinks Majora’s Mask is one of the best Zelda games ever, and the Week in Gaming Apps plotted your demise. Let’s all just make up and move on. Look, Week…

This Tank Can Barrel Roll And Other Popular GIFs From This Week

Whether it’s StarCraft II, Grand Theft Auto IV, or Battlefield 3, seems like the possibilities for something unexpected and funny to happen in games are unlimited. And one of the best ways to share that moment is through an animated GIF. Just like we did last week, it’s time to sort and collect some of…

I Wish America Had Local Game Coverage Like This

I end up watching a lot of news in my line of work, and one thing that is frequently hammered home is this: mainstream American media doesn’t know what they’re doing with games. Across the board what you see on television (with the exception of business reporting) is at best marginally competent and at worst…

A Game Where Keeping Your Date Alive Is Surprisingly Difficult

Save the Date is one of the more clever games I’ve played in recent memory. It’s a visual novel with a simple premise: go out to dinner with someone. Well, it should be simple, except every time you try it, the dinners turn into scenarios that would be right at home in the Final Destination…

How To Get Out Of Work You Hate…And Other Advice

Welcome to another week of Ask Kotaku, where people are fed up with their jobs and responsibilities. You need a way out, and I can offer some hope for you (hopefully). **If you want advice on anything at all, send me an email at Tina at Kotaku dot com for next week’s column.** Regarding Work…

If WarioWare Were An Epic Fantasy Adventure, It’d Be This Game

Welcome to another one of those app reviews where I spend all day planning on reviewing a specific title but then get so caught up in something unexpected and new that I go completely off-track until I’m peeing on a brush fire. Peeing on a brush fire is just one of many activities in G.O.L.…

How Razer’s New Ultrathin Gaming Laptop Compares To A MacBook Air

Despite the company’s marketing tagline, Razer’s new Blade ultrathin gaming laptop isn’t really “thinner than a dime.” It’s thinner than a dime… that’s been placed on its side. That said, it’s still a pretty darned thin gaming laptop. (And you know what, it’s sort of a cute tagline. After all, a laptop truly thinner than…

Watch This Guy Draw A “Playable” Duck Hunt With Chalk

It’s mesmerizing to watch AweMeChannel do 3D chalk art of Duck Hunt at high speed. Not only that, but they also animate the chalk art at the end to make it look like the Duck Hunt is “playable.” Very awesome. Duck Hunt 3D Chalk Art [AweMeChannel]

The Game Boy Color Zeldas Are Still Two Of The Best Games Around

It’s always fascinating, as a video game fan in 2013, to pick up old games and see how well they’ve aged. Sometimes you’re disappointed. You discover all the warts and blemishes that somehow looked oh-so-lovely a decade ago. You find that Xenogears, which you consider a masterpiece, has text so slow you’ll start thinking about…

Prison Architect, a Smart Game Worth a Look, Now Has Better Riots

The somewhat-wonderful, somewhat-demented interactive incarceration simulator Prison Architect always gets the best updates. To wit: “Internally we’ve done a lot to increase the realism by implementing a more advanced model of prisoner anger. This now results in full scale riots and riot police to restore law and order.” They’ve also added Steam Workshop support and…

Why Is Company Of Heroes 2 Poking At World Of Tanks?

You want tanks? Oh, Company of Heroes 2 has your tanks. It’s got an entire world of tanks. It also has things that aren’t tanks, which is something you can’t say about World of Tanks why are we doing this? Perhaps you are confused, Sega, being new to the whole Company of Heroes thing. You…