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Up Close with the iPlay, the Apple Gaming Console That Doesn’t Exist

Today, game website IGN showed the launch trailer for the iPlay. It’s poised as Apple’s effort at video game hardware. And it’s totally made up. That’s right! Check your calendars, folks. It’s April 1. Then admire this iPlay console mock up, and IGN’s tongue-in-cheek trailer. You can watch it in the link below. iPlay [IGN]

I Would Play Mortal Komrades. I Would Also Play Deers Of War.

Brent Engstrom, an artist who has worked on the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards, recently tried his hand at making some video game box art. Not real box art, though. Weird, fake games that, thanks to their names and art, I suddenly want to play. Badly. Especially Deers of War. It’s like all those poor…

When Readers Try To Redesign Kotaku. Again.

Despite the fact we just got a redesign, courtesy of our network paymasters at Gawker HQ, reader Tom Schwanke has ideas of his own as to how this website should look. We may never actually get to use them, but that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate the effort! Tom’s looked at everything from our logo…

Tiny Nintendo Consoles Made Out Of LEGO

Flickr user CK Tsang has, with great patience and attention to detail, rebuilt Nintendo’s first two serious home consoles – the Japanese Famicom and Western NES – into teeny tiny LEGO models. Where his designs shine is the detail. Rather than just create the boxes, he’s made tiny control pads, tiny cartridges that slide into…

Learning to use a new TV is hard. So many settings. Why,this great story argues, can’t they gradually introduce features like a video game does?

April Fool’s Day Is Especially Cruel To Batman (And Adventure Time Fans)

Continuing a long and proud tradition of producing some of the only April Fool’s Day content worth a chuckle, online retailer Thinkgeek has revealed three bogus items that aren’t really for sale. What makes them interesting, though, is that sometimes these gags do end up as real products. So giggle if you must now, but…

Mass Effect, GI Joe & Half-Life 2 Lead The Cosplay Charge This Week

Now that I’m back from vacation, our weekly roundup of the best cosplay from around the world may resume. And what a week to bring things back online. Some of these shots are from conventions, others are not, while one has Gordon Freeman posing in his (well, her) hallway at home. To see larger images…

This is a new TV commercial for Naughty Dog’s The Last Of Us. I share it here mostly because of the soundtrack. Whoever decided on moody acoustic guitar over pop songs or dubstep, I salute you.

Far Cry 3 Expansion Suggests The Game Has Jumped The Shark In The Most Amazing Way Possible

Above is apparently the “box art” for Blood Dragon, an upcoming (and seemingly downloadable) expansion for Far Cry 3. Take a good look at it. It’s as amazing as it appears unlikely, especially given our proximity to April 1, but considering the title has been rated by both the Australianand Brazilian classification boards (it has…

Microsoft Blog Says Battlefield 4 Will Be Out On October 29

When Battlefield 4 was officially unveiled last week, the only release timeframe given was “Fall”. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 blog is being a lot more specific. It says that “Battlefield 4 will arrive on the Xbox 360 on October 29, 2013″, which while far from a guarantee – there’s a lot of time between now and…

Game Of F**ks Is All The Swearing From Game Of Thrones, Together In One Video [NSFW]

Just in time for the beginning of season three tonight, here’s your highbrow Sunday evening content: a supercut of every nasty curse word whispered, spoken and screamed in the first two seasons of Game of Thrones. There’s a certain poetry to it, all seen together like this. Makes you really miss ol’ Robert. And also…

This Fully-Playable 16-Bit Wonderland is Guild Wars 2‘s Idea of a Joke

Originally planned as a fake 8-bit update to celebrate April Fools’ Day, Super Adventure Box grew into an expansive three-level homage to the golden age of gaming available to Guild Wars 2 players the length of April, because ArenaNet. Where other developers might have stopped at mocking up a few screens or maybe filming an…

A New Deus Ex “Game” Is Being Unveiled Tomorrow

The official Deus Ex Facebook page has posted the above image, promising that the “World’s first look at Deus Ex: Human Defiance” will come “TOMORROW!” (their caps, not mine). I know, I know, tomorrow is April 1. While the page is official, it could just mean this is an official joke. Assuming it’s not a…

Pilots, you are required to maneuver straight down this Death Star trench, constructed within Minecraft, and skim the surface to this point. The target area is only two meters wide.

Play Halo‘s Atari 2600 ‘Port’ With This Cartridge Now On Sale

Almost three years ago, Ed Fries—a Microsoft executive instrumental in acquiring Bungie and making Halo the definitive Xbox series—created Halo 2600, a flash game demake that imagined the game on an old Atari VCS. Now, AtariAge.com is putting the game’s ROM on a proper cartridge, with period box and label art and an instruction manual.…

Winners Always Quit, and Quitters Always Win—If It’s in a Video Game

After he carded a seven, then got the dreaded snowman on a par 5, then a six and a double-bogey on a par 3, I half expected to see Rory McIlroy slink off the green, feigning tooth pain. He’d come into this final round atop the leaderboard at 10-under par, and now saw all of…

StarCraft Turns 15 Today, and Blizzard Wants You to Celebrate

March 31, 1998. StarCraft launched, soon becoming a landmark of the real-time strategy genre and a bulwark of the modern eSports scene. The game turns 15 today, and its publisher, Blizzard, is offering a few goodies to help fans celebrate the anniversary. Beginning today and lasting until April 17, fans need only to play one…

The Week in Games: Inna Gaiden a Vida, Baby …

Tuesdays after holidays typically don’t see much in the way of new releases in North America. Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge, which was the Wii U port of Ninja Gaiden 3, now gets ported back to the PS3 and Xbox 360. There’s DLC for Borderlands 2 and some oldies but goodies on PSN, plus an…

New Mural Could Reveal Grand Theft Auto V Box Art

Looks like Rockstar is building a big ol’ Grand Theft Auto V mural in downtown Manhattan. It could hint at box art for the upcoming open world game — Rockstar built a similar mural to show off GTAIV‘s box art back in 2007, and that “RP” on the bottom left sure looks like the ESRB’s…

Chris Hecker Rants at GDC Without Saying a Word

It’s revealing that at first I didn’t get the point of this, which is Chris Hecker’s rant at Game Developers Conference 2013. So much of the nonstop big budget press conference bullshit you hear in this business all sounds alike, forcing me into a kind of weird active listening where I’m trying to decode pabulum…