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In Real Life

North Korea Has A Tractor Simulator. It’ll Plough The Fields Of Your Mind.

The wizards in North Korea created this: a computerized simulator that teaches students how to drive a tractor.

December 22, 2011
PC

Razer Rakes In $50M, Noses Options For Going Public

You might know them as the computer gear makers who love the colour green. Or maybe as the technology futurists who had a piece of that future stolen from their labs. But Razer seems themselves as a “cult” computer brand on the cusp of now only going mainstream, but perhaps public.

October 28, 2011
PC

Does Playing Battlefield 3 On A PC Make You Twice As Accurate?

Battlefield 3 is an amazing, bar-setting online shooter. It’s also one of the first games of its kind that has had me ping-ponging back and forth between computer and console to play.

October 14, 2011
PC

Zynga Responds To Mafia Wars Drone Scare

The keystroke-capturing computer virus that infected the networks used to pilot U.S. Air Force drones had nothing to do with Mafia Wars despite early reports to the contrary, Zynga tells Kotaku.

August 5, 2011
News

Woman Drives Over Boyfriend Because He ‘Cheated Her At A Computer Game’

Love hurts. Sometimes video games can hurt more. In 2009 a UK woman, Erin Slingsby, 20, had a heated argument with her boyfriend, Kane Charles, 20, over a computer game, an argument that ended in her storming out.

April 19, 2011
Retro

One Of The Worst Keyboards Ever. Reborn!

The Atari 400′s keyboard sucked. It wasn’t so much the brown and orange colour scheme, but those pressure sensitive keys.

News

Video Game Ratings Board Lets Computers Do The Rating

Last year the Entertainment Software Ratings Board reviewed approximately 1600 video games prior to their US release, painstakingly poring over video game footage before arriving at a final decision. Starting today, the board is passing a great deal of that responsibility on to computers.

April 1, 2011
News

Japan’s Biggest Amateur Pin-Up Brings This Adult Game To Life

Ushijima Ii Niku (Ushijima “Good Meat”) is Japan’s biggest amateur pin-up. And this (northern) summer, she’s coming to a theatre near you.

March 30, 2011
PC

These Video Game Nebulae Could Rival Reality

Eve Online is a game made famous by many things: Its passionate followers, its epic space wars, its impact on the economy of the real Iceland and it’s wondrous glimpses of outer space in a game.

March 8, 2011
News

Can You Beat A Computer At One Of The World’s Oldest Games?

As the world continues its love affair with Watson. the Jeopardy champion computer, The New York Times creates a simple online game that demonstrates how an artificial intelligence can outsmart a human at a slightly simpler game.

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