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In Real Life

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

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.

November 25, 2011
News

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

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.

November 4, 2011
In Real Life

Google "Do A Barrel Roll" Right Now

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

September 27, 2011
News

Angry Birds Creators Talk Up Google Chrome

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.

August 12, 2011
PC

Google+ Adds Games, Minus The Social Games Annoyances

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.

July 23, 2011
PC

Google Says Game ‘Stream’ Coming To Google+

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.

July 13, 2011
News

The StarCraft Tournament Where Facebook, Microsoft And Google Are Competitors

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.

July 12, 2011
News

The Role Felicia Day Was Born To Play

Felicia Day prematurely answers the casting call for the Space Invaders movie on Google+.

May 28, 2011
PC

80,000 Screenshots Later, Grand Theft Auto IV’s Liberty City Gets Google Maps Street Views

Now you can cruise the seedy streets of Grand Theft Auto IV‘s take on Liberty City from the comfort and safety of your web browser, thanks to the efforts of GTA’s most dedicated fans and some 80,000 screenshots.

May 12, 2011
PC

Play Angry Birds Online, Right Now, For Free

Google isn’t above killing a little productivity to prove the power of its web browser. The search engine king has released a special free browser-based version of Rovio’s avian-flinging sensation Angry Birds on the Chrome Web Store, just to prove it can be done.

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