We breed them, kill them, cook them. Millions of man-hours have been spent flinging Angry Birds at them, but has anyone ever tried playing video games with them? A team of livestock ethics researchers and game designers in the Netherlands is doing just that with Pig Chase. More »
You remember that Bearded Dragon, right? Or the orangutans? Or the African bull frog crushing virtual ants? More »
I’ve seen orangutans play video games on a touch screen, but this is the first lizard. And this Bearded Dragon doesn’t need opposable thumbs to master the art of gaming, he uses his tongue. More »
Hard-working professionals (who usually stand on two feet) are paid to sound like dogs and, now horses in the video game series The Sims 3 Pets. Today, we present footage of some of their work. More »
On the topic of shooting animals in Red Dead Redemption, one player of Rockstar’s big Western writes to Kotaku about his resistance to killing virtual bison. More »
Do Red Dead Redemption players hate crows? I shoot virtual deer and wolves a lot in that fantastic video game Western, but look at these stats, pulled from the Rockstar Social Club: More »
After losing his back feet to a combine harvester, Oscar the cat thought he would never walk again, but we can rebuild him. We have the technology. More »
Reacting to yesterday’s news that popular Facebook game Mafia Wars is adding animals as weapons, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals requests developer reconsider, using Zynga founder Mark Pincus’s own beloved pet as ammunition. More »
