Video games

An Armed Siege in the UK Was Caused by a Video Game Light Gun

The next time you’re waving your light gun out the window in celebration of another 1,000 zombie headshots in House of the Dead, spare a thought for your distressed neighbours peering through the curtains — you may look like a crazed gunman. That was the hilarious unfortunate situation in Spellow Lane, Walton, Liverpool, where police…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK Sep 27

The Steam Box Is Real, But It’s Not Just From Valve

Valve made a big splash on Monday when it announced SteamOS, its own gaming-flavored Linux operating system, but SteamOS was just one announcement in a trio. The second one’s here and yes, it’s a Steam Box. https://gizmodo.com/steams-got-its-own-operating-system-now-1371883607 Just like we heard way back when, Valve’s Steam Box initiative isn’t a one-size fits all deal; Valve…

Tech News Eric Limer Sep 25

Real Life Grand Theft Auto Would Be Way More Fun Than GTA V

As an ode to Niko Bellic from GTA IV, Andrew McMurry imagined what a real life version of GTA would look like. In this short, Niko loses his all powerful cell phone and a random passerby manages to get a hold of it. He can cue up outfit changes, special powers, rocket launchers and the…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23

All Your Favorite NES Games in One Swirling Vortex of Nostalgia

Remember before video games had polygons? Or online play? Or more than just an “A” and “B” button? When ducks were hunted and princesses were in another castle? Well now you can stare into that cyclone of NES history with this tornado of video-game-days-gone-by from Pop Chart Labs. The spiral timeline includes some 700 games…

Tech News Eric Limer Sep 21

The Surprisingly Long History of Nintendo

Believe it or not, the history of Nintendo goes all the way back to 1889. And before you ask—no, they were not selling Mario figures carved from wood. Originally named “Nintendo Koppai”, the small business based in Kyoto started by Fusajiro Yamauchi produced Hanafuda Cards. For those unfamiliar, these are simple playing cards that are…

Tech News TEGAN JONES - TODAYIFOUNDOUT.COM Sep 20

Can you spot all the videogame references in this animated short?

The short film Coin punches all other video game mashups in the face and then ends them with a finishing move. A video game hero wants to recover his stolen coin, and has to prove himself master of tons of games to win it back. Exit 73 Studios is behind this incredibly dense tribute to…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 8

Microsoft Just Gave the Xbox One a CPU Boost

Not only is the Xbox One’s graphics powers getting better, the CPU in the Xbox One is now going to be faster than what was announced. The Xbox One’s CPU will now clock in at 1.75GHz which beats the 1.6GHz speed we originally thought we were going to get. Free hertz is always a win.…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 3

How Every Argument About Xbox and PlayStation Ends

It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about the Xbox One versus the PlayStation 4. The 360 versus the PS3. Pitting Xbox Live against PlayStation Plus. Comparing Microsoft and Sony. Even including Windows Phone with the PSP. Whatever. Any argument between Xbox fanboys and PlayStation fanboys eventually reaches the point where they’re both so thankful that…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 29

Realistic game gets you right inside Gitmo to torture prisoners

One of the biggest games of the year—Tom Clancy’s new Splinter Cell: Blacklist—takes players right into Guantanamo Bay prison camp to torture an inmate—and then lets them “decide to spare or kill their interrogated target.” In the game you play Sam Fisher, a “U.S. government super-spy and needed savior of the free world.” In this…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Aug 23

What if Pixar made the Pacific Rim sequel?

It’s a valid question. And if Pixar did somehow get the rights to make a sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s wonderful monsters-vs-robots movie, it could look something like this great art by artist James Chung. Chung posted this Pixar/Pacific Rim mashup, called “Pixar Rim,” over on his Deviant Art page. Where he also has some…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 20

Cool new crime game also lets you pretend to smoke marijuana

Marijuana isn’t legal everywhere yet, but kids everywhere would like to try marijuana. One way to virtually experience getting high is to play the new car-stealing video game called Grand Theft Auto. Sources just confirmed that this game lets you pretend to smoke pot and have sex. https://kotaku.com/you-can-smoke-pot-in-gta-v-according-to-official-ratin-1173843764

Sploid Ken Layne Aug 20

Just taking a null-gravity stroll in the city. Like you do.

Sometimes you just need to step out and get some fresh air. On the side of a building. A few hundred feet above the ground. Because the view is awesome, and your cat needs to pee on some rooftops. You know how it is. The above concept art is from Japanese artist Takeshi Oga, and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 15

Our favorite art of the day: tiny Deadpool flying on an eagle

Why yes, that is tiny Deadpool flying on an eagle and shooting a massive machine gun. Why do you ask? (Warning: potentially NSFW Deadpool art below.) This concept art comes from artist José Emroca Flores, whose work Kotaku has featured before. It was created for the new Deadpool video game, and it’s basically our new…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Aug 15

Fun new game lets you support a liberal monster or fascist lunatic

Even people who don’t care about video games are laughing at the fake (?) political commercials in the new Grand Theft Auto game. A drug-addicted right-wing “former stuntman” is campaigning against a know-it-all teacher’s union lackey who wants income taxes raised to 74%. Kill ’em all—that’s what this game is about! https://kotaku.com/grand-theft-auto-v-mocks-republicans-skewers-democrats-1134219480

Sploid Ken Layne Aug 14

Violent new video game is the perfect portrait of Southern California

In the mid 20th Century, hard-boiled detective stories and moody crime movies made Los Angeles, its scheming people and its endless decaying sprawl the main characters. The upcoming Grand Theft Auto V takes over “sunshine noir” by making the crime-ridden and corrupt boomtown of Los Santos the star of a video game that’s supposedly just…

Sploid Ken Layne Aug 13

The Xbox One Controller Will Work with Your PC…. in 2014

PC Gamers! You won’t have to spend more money to make your Xbox One controller work with your computer. Unlike the 360 which requires a wired controller or an extra dongle, the Xbox One’s controller will work fine with your PC games. Well, it’ll work fine with your PC after a software update in 2014.…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 12

The Difference Between Real Life and Video Games Is Comically Sad

It’s not at all embarrassing or shameful to admit that you learned a lot about life from playing video games. Maybe you fell in love with sports by playing Madden. Or first understood the concept of driving with Mario Kart. Or maybe it was Sim City that taught you budgeting or Tetris that introduced logic…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 5

These Super Geeks Created a Virtual Reality Version of Paperboy

The only thing nerdier than keeping an old NES hooked up to your TV to play your favorite old games is recreating your favorite old games using virtual reality equipment. That’s exactly what this crew of programmers did recently with Paperboy. A team of supernerds from the custom video game studio Globacore recently built a…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jul 31

Famous Surrealist Art Amazingly Reimagined with Super Mario Bros

René Magritte’s art is famous for tickling your brain, making you question and helping you dissolve the line of what’s real and what matters. You can recognize Magritte’s work and influence anywhere but can you imagine it as Super Mario Bros? The artist Racoonda has re-created paintings from Magritte by putting them in the world…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 26

How will humans cope with boredom on their first missions to Mars?

A human mission to Mars will last more than 8 months, each way. Ship quarters will be sardine-esque. Communications will be laggy and intermittent. And, despite the thrilling nature of the larger mission, astronauts en route to the Red Planet will likely struggle with psyche-crushing boredom. So how might an astronaut occupy her time on…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jul 18

An Armed Siege in the UK Was Caused by a Video Game Light Gun

The Steam Box Is Real, But It’s Not Just From Valve

Real Life Grand Theft Auto Would Be Way More Fun Than GTA V

All Your Favorite NES Games in One Swirling Vortex of Nostalgia

The Surprisingly Long History of Nintendo

Can you spot all the videogame references in this animated short?

Microsoft Just Gave the Xbox One a CPU Boost

How Every Argument About Xbox and PlayStation Ends

Realistic game gets you right inside Gitmo to torture prisoners

What if Pixar made the Pacific Rim sequel?

Cool new crime game also lets you pretend to smoke marijuana

Just taking a null-gravity stroll in the city. Like you do.

Our favorite art of the day: tiny Deadpool flying on an eagle

Fun new game lets you support a liberal monster or fascist lunatic

Violent new video game is the perfect portrait of Southern California

The Xbox One Controller Will Work with Your PC…. in 2014

The Difference Between Real Life and Video Games Is Comically Sad

These Super Geeks Created a Virtual Reality Version of Paperboy

Famous Surrealist Art Amazingly Reimagined with Super Mario Bros

How will humans cope with boredom on their first missions to Mars?

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