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Consumer tech products are often imbued with a pristine, ornamental quality in our current design-crazed age. In spite of that, most gadgets aren't exactly things that you could imagine hanging up on your wall to impress new guests.Read more...

Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: Is Europe the Epicenter of Next-Gen Graphical Fidelity? • Valkyria Chronicles II is Worth Your Time • Games to Increase Your Typing Speed! • Finding True Love on the Farm • Why Don't We Have Smartphone Reviews for Gamers?Read more...

At PAX East last weekend, Team Kotaku went and played Evolve, the upcoming co-op shooter that pits a group of four hunters against one vicious monster. Yesterday, we talked about it. Here's that conversation. Read more...

Today's Amazon Gold Box features flash storage ranging from 16GB to 2TB, and we're not talking external hard drives. Pick up a new flash drive or memory card, or get your hands on the DataTraveler HyperX Predator 1TB USB3 Flash Drive, which is sitting at a new low by $100. [Amazon]Read more...

It really, really is chaos. Good chaos. Go on, have a look. Read more...

I generally hate slice-of-life stories. I find them meandering and pointless. But Silver Spoon stands at the pinnacle of the genre and weaves a tale so full of life lessons, deep characters, and thematic exploration that even I can’t help but love it.Read more...

Finding excuses when we lose online is something we all sometimes do. It can be frustrating, after all. Tutorial Central collected a fair amount of StarCraft II-related ones, but most of them would apply to any competitive game.Read more...

Costly slippage demonstrates Ubisoft's focus on quality, says Massive Entertainment.

Daimidaler: Prince vs. Penguin Empire is the story of a boy who finds that by doing perverted things—i.e., groping women—he can power and pilot a giant robot. And with a premise like that, is it any surprise the enemy robots have giant penis guns?Read more...

South Korean plastic surgeons, it appears, are good at their jobs. But they might be too good for some customs officials. Read more...

There are a few Twitter accounts that can delight you on a daily basis. This is one of them. Read more...

It's full of those little moments that make you go "ooooh." Like that one up there, when the little guy jumps over. Ooooh.Read more...

Ever wonder what kind of person would want to shake hands with a Japanese love doll? Read more...

Alex Tornberg is an artist who works mostly in games, movies and advertising. Some of his recent clients include EA, Paradox, Mattel and Random House.Read more...

It's been a few weeks since I wrote about Glitchspace , but I just got my hands on an early build of the game. It is a very different first-person experience.Read more...

Spelunky players just refuse to give up. It makes sense, considering the game they've chosen to spend so much time playing. The world record for highest possible score has been beaten, with an amazing run by YamaYamaDingDong.Read more...

Sure, Frozen is a lovely tale about sisterhood and love...but it really didn't have to go down like it did in the movie.Read more...

Imagine, for a moment, that The Avengers weren't the Marvel heroes that we know and love—and instead, they were Sailor Moon characters. Okay, I know that sounds bizarre but...just stick with me here, okay?Read more...

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Meet Chasm, an upcoming indie 2D dungeon-crawler inspired by the likes of Ys III: Wanderers From Ys and other old-school RPG-slash-platformers from the 16-bit days.Read more...

Straight out of PAX East 2014, here's Below, a serene dungeon crawler from Capy, the company behind Clash of Heroes and Sword & Sworcery. It's hard to capture just how pretty this game really is, but we did what we could.Read more...

It's been ten years since the greatest comeback in competitive video games happened. In the decade since Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong met in a fateful match of Street Fighter III: Third Strike, EVO Moment 37 has become the stuff of legend. Now there's a book about it.Read more...

If you missed it last month, we announced a partnership with Future Publishing to launch Kotaku UK, the UK's own version of Kotaku. And that site is officially live today.Read more...

David Attenborough, the journalist behind many beloved nature documentaries including the Planet Earth series, is going fully next-gen for one of his upcoming projects. It's a movie called Conquest of the Skies, and unlike any of Attenborough's previous work, it's being made for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, director John Morris told the website realscreen. Read more...

Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: Nintendo Made It Great, The Community Made It Better • Tales of Vesperia: Thoughts and Feelings • A Day at PAX East 2014 • Why Brütal Legend is Actually A Super Amazing GameRead more...

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Photos with Star Wars figurines can't really get more dramatic (and funny) than in Malaysian photographer Zahir Batin's machroshots on DeviantART. He only needed a few droids, some stormtroopers and the touch of nature to fill his series with emotion.Read more...

As much as I love dogs, cats are the ones who rule the internet, and in China it's no different. Taking China's largest social network by storm in conjunction with the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, is this Beijing kitty, Piggycat KeLe. Read more...

Asia seems to have a fascination with scatalogically-themed things. From the dessert restaurant in Taiwan and Japan (with a location in NYC), to now Burger King China's latest cold beverage, the PooPoo* Smoothie.Read more...

To promote the new Patlabor movies, the life-sized Ingram mecha was shown off in Tokyo. Sure beats a movie poster. Read more...