That's not a dog in a Nintendo sweater. You are looking at groomed, dyed and trimmed dog hair. Let's call this pooch "Yoshi Dog".

According to Nikkei, 21 year-old police officer Ryo Yamashita allegedly took 75,000 yen ($733) and a game portable from another officer's room in a police dormitory in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.

This much. Actually, a bit more. They couldn't fit everything on one photo.

One week after declaring they will build an in-game memorial to the ships lost at the colossal Battle of B-R5RB, Eve Online publisher has decided to go whole hog and erect a monument, in real life, to all EVE Online players. Anyone who is an active player on March 1 will get his or her name engraved on it.

But nope! For that kind of luxury, you need to pay at least three to five times as much.

If you've got $US75 a month to burn and live in California, you can get a 250-pound arcade cabinet running a 30-year-old game delivered to your door. This is the service offered by All You Can Arcade, a San Francisco business that opened shop last month. If all goes well, it'll expand to the east coast.

We've seen first-person representations of Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 before. If you've ever pondered what Green Hill Zone's Act 1 from Sonic the Hedgehog would look like in first-person view, here's a virtuoso remake of the stage, courtesy of Machinima.

Next time you complain about Half-Life 3 taking forever, consider this: the modern game of chess is believed to have originated in 1575, and only now is Chess 2: The Sequel coming out. And it's an Ouya exclusive.

Video game petitions have a very long and mostly pointless history. As I've said several times, an internet petition is worth the paper it is printed on. But I'll give a little publicity to this thing, because it's the most ridiculous one I've seen yet (that includes this).

Two years ago, the internet stumbled across a guy who would work upwards of two hours to create virtuoso sprite patterns within Tetris. Well, anything humans can do, a computer can do better, right? Here's the Tetris Printer Algorithm. Showoff ...

Craigslist ain't simply your one-stop source for $27 flea-infested futons, or where you celebrate a third DUI by buying a moped. No, you can find some truly bizarre shit, like this rolling deathtrap in which you may play an Xbox 360 with your knees tucked to your chest.

A website for Chinese newspaper Global Times recently published photos of a new Japanese military helicopter "design concept". Too bad it's not real. It's not even made by the Japanese military.

Frank Lee, a professor at Drexel University's Westphal College of Media and Design, brought a five-year obsession to a successful conclusion on Friday: play the world's largest game of Pong, using the side of a building.

There's an easy way to play 18 different console formats (or more) on a single device. Most of us would use an emulator. But modder John Grayson chooses to do things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

Capcom is now taking preorders for this Mega Man sleep set (yet only through its Japan site, for now) that will run about $US60 once it arrives in the summer. It's a brilliant idea, and I expect to see a ton of these running around Comic-Con.

It's real, and it's ... boring. Back in 2009, we reported that some 500 Hilton hotels created a training video game, and it wasn't some PC game played on an HR computer. It was a PSP game with its own UMD disc. Well, now someone has gotten a look at its contents.

Mirrors lined with blue and red LEDs have long been a staple of Portal-themed decoration. Taking it to the next level, however, is jamin101wolf. He bought the Portal gun prop available through ThinkGeek and Amazon, then plugged the two mirrors into remote-control power boxes. With this he pulls off the effect of firing a red and blue portal (which are located on opposite walls, creating the requisite hall-of-mirrors effect.)

Hack A Day is a fount of awesome mods and game themed creations, featured here frequently, and this portal gun which "levitates" a companion cube is one of the best conversation pieces they've come up with yet.

In addition to being a cheerleader in the attract mode for the original NBA Jam, former Playboy model Kerri Hoskins Branson also portrayed Sonya Blade in several Mortal Kombat games, beginning with Mortal Kombat 3 in 1995.