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In Real Life

Google Maps Becomes A Video Game

11:30AM January 17, 2012 | Pierre Bienaimé

Coming to Google+ Games in February is what appears to be a virtualised marble balance game with a theme more grounded than what you’d find in your average dentist’s waiting room; you’ll be tilting your way through the streets of our own world. More »


In Real Life

Adventure? Hardcore Pornography? A Jedi Cares Not For These Things

10:00AM December 28, 2011 | Mike Fahey

A Jedi might not care about the sins of the flesh, but Google certainly does, replacing the still for a developer diary with a steamy porn thumbnail in the search results for Star Wars: The Old Republic. More »


News

Battlefield 3 Captures Google’s Zeitgeist

7:40AM December 16, 2011 | Brian Crecente

Rebecca Black, Google+, Ryan Dunn and… Battlefield 3? More »


In Real Life

Google Shoot View Game Shot Dead In The Street By…Google

7:30PM December 15, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Google Shoot View, an amusing little distraction cooked up by a Dutch advertising agency that let you wander the streets of planet Earth shooting the place up, has been killed by Google. More »


News

Google’s Latest Doodle Draws You Into Old-School Adventure Game

12:40AM November 25, 2011 | Evan Narcisse

The masters of information over at Google are commemorating American Thanksgiving with a quaint turkey doodle taking place of their usual rainbow font. It’s what you’ll see if you’re logging in from the United States. But non-American web surfers are getting something much cooler. More »


In Real Life

Google "Do A Barrel Roll" Right Now

7:30AM November 4, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Do it. Right now. Why are you still here? You need a link? To Google? Seriously? Fine. More »


News

Angry Birds Creators Talk Up Google Chrome

2:20AM September 27, 2011 | Brian Crecente

This Google Chrome ad has been out for about a week, but I didn’t catch it until last night. In the ad, Peter Vesterbacka (CMO of Rovio), Jaakko lisalo (Senior Game Designer of Angry Birds) and Serdar Soganci (Web Games Manager) talk about the wonders of Google Chrome and the popularity of their game. More »


PC

Google+ Adds Games, Minus The Social Games Annoyances

7:10AM August 12, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

Google’s latest stab at building a social network, Google+, has (as expected) added games to its ever-growing list of services. And while it may have some many of the usual social games suspects, Google+ Games aims for more privacy and less pestering. More »


PC

Google Says Game ‘Stream’ Coming To Google+

12:40AM July 23, 2011 | Brian Crecente

We’ve heard rumblings that some form of, perhaps social, gaming was coming to Google+ but it hasn’t really been verified officially until today. More »


News

The StarCraft Tournament Where Facebook, Microsoft And Google Are Competitors

7:30PM July 13, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Well now this is interesting. Sean “Day[9] ” Plott, who we’ve featured here before on Kotaku, has helped put together a StarCraft II tournament. Only, instead of it being man versus man, it’s company versus company. And the companies are big ones. More »