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Google is reportedly working on Android TV, an Android-based interface for enjoying video content and games on your television.

Microsoft is pushing forward on its original television programming initiative by partnering with UK broadcaster Channel 4 and production company Kudos to create a drama series called Humans. The sci-fi drama is an English-language adaptation of Sveriges Television and Matador Film's series Real Humans, and depicts a modern family that lives with a highly-developed robotic servant known as a "Synth." The show will air on the Xbox platform in North America and Channel 4 in the UK in 2015.

What's more, Bloomberg recently interviewed Microsoft's President of Entertainment and Digital Media Nancy Tellem about the company's media ambitions on Xbox Live. Tellem said Microsoft's approach to television, which spans multiple genres like sports, animation and feature-length projects, will be "under the banner of Xbox Originals." Tellem also touched on the properties that Microsoft owns, such as Fable, Age of Empires, Gears of War and Forza, noting that "these are the things that frankly if we weren't attached to Microsoft everyone would yearn to have."

Tellem is the head of Xbox Entertainment Studios, which set its sights on "interactive TV" in February 2013. One of the company's projects is a live-action show based on the Halo series that has ties to Steven Spielberg, which Tellem assured is still in development. As far as the expansion of the Halo brand is concerned, while no movie based on the property is in sight, a "digital feature" for Halo is expected to launch this year. Additionally, former AMC programming director Ari Mark joined Xbox Entertainment in January to create unscripted video content. [Image: Xbox Entertainment Studios]

If you've always wanted to have more automatons in your DOTA experience, then I may have just the thing for you. AirMech Arena is a fast-paced free-to-play MOBA that puts you control of giant killer mechs that can transform into vehicles like a military jet or helicopter. And it's coming out for the Xbox 360 this summer, publisher Ubisoft announced today.Read more...

Bethesda has revealed the first content patch due to arrive for The Elder Scrolls Online later this month, introducing the zone of Craglorn.

Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: Ani-TAY: Buddy Complex Review and Discussion • My Time Gender Bending in MMOs • The Ultimate Guide to Fishing in Elder Scrolls Online • Multiplayer Unlocks Really Suck, Don't They? • Why I'm Bored with Adventure and Art GamesRead more...

When I saw the 22 minute length of the new Ultimate General: Gettysburg beta footage I thought, ‘No way am I watching all of this. I’ll skim it.’ 22 minutes and 45 seconds later and I’ve watched the whole thing. It is full of tiny men fighting and on-screen annotations (Like a recipe? –Headline Justification Ed) explaining the tactics and AI manouvers underpinning the game’s accessible, historical real-time strategy. Come see what hooked me below the fold.

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Put on your sneaking suits, folks, it’s time to escape a deadly lab in Stealth Inc. A Clone in the Dark. This puzzle platformer requires you to stick to the shadows, ‘cause if you’re spotted you’ll be terminated on sight. Rough crowd. There are 80 levels to maneuver through, so make sure you don’t get vaporized by a laser, okay? As an added bonus, because Stealth Inc. is a Cross-Buy title, PS Plus members can download both the PS3 and PS Vita versions of the game.

You can download Stealth Inc. A Clone in the Dark after the PlayStation Store updates tomorrow, 4/8.

Stealth Inc. A Clone in the Dark (PS3, PS Vita)

Free for PS Plus members

Stealth Inc is a fast-paced stealth platformer featuring brutal hazards, ruthless enemies, fiendish puzzles and red pixels galore. Jump, sneak, and be chunked through 80 levels. Will you make it out alive? Armed with only your wits and a pair of top of the range Stealthing Goggles, it’s your job to sneak your way through a deadly facility that’s determined to extinguish your fragile little life. With no weapons and no armour, being seen means instant death.

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It's a really great way to prove how big and popular GTA V is, when someone uses it to recreate some classic album covers. Here's PizzaBagels' gallery, with Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon on top and Blondie, The Beatles and The Ramones below. Read more...

Remember that time you walked into a big chain store with a shopping bag full of games, thinking you were going to cash out big time, only to leave with a gift card housing barely enough credit to grab even one new game? Of course you do; we've all been there.Read more...

If you've been itching to start work on a new PC , or just want to replace a few bits and pieces on one you already own, Amazon's Gold Box is full of deals to get you started today. Read more...

If you missed our first announcement, then hear us roar again. For the first time ever, five of PlayStation’s Worldwide Studios community teams have banded together to construct a community-focused booth at PAX East. Come hang out with your PlayStation family in booth #608 at the Boston Convention Center April 11-13. Not only will we be selling exclusive merchandise and highly collectible PlayStation memorabilia, you can also discuss, share, and create PlayStation memories with community team leads from Guerrilla, Media Molecule, Naughty Dog, Sony Santa Monica, and Sony Xdev.

Wait! There’s more! We have a slew of daily booth and online activities planned for all attendees, even those who cannot make it to Boston. Join the conversation today and continue it all show long by using #PSPAX whenever you talk about PAX or PlayStation online. Here’s the grand rundown of events and our full booth schedule below!

Share with #PSPAX to win

Create or find any of the PlayStation symbols – Square, Triangle, Circle, and Cross – from wherever you are in the world and post pictures or video directed at us on Instagram or Twitter. Every day during PAX East our PlayStation studios will select random winners for our mystery prizes, which include the rare Tearaway PAX Exclusive Iota pinny!
Follow our studios on Twitter and Instagram, and then participate by sharing your photos and videos using #PSPAX. You must include #PSPAX in the post to enter. There is no limit! Let your creativity rule!

Cosplayers — Come one, come all!

If you are cosplaying at PAX East as any PlayStation character, stop by our booth, and we’ll award you the Tearaway PAX Exclusive Iota pinny while supplies last. Let’s see your best PlayStation character! We like cosplay!

Daily Booth Contests

The following contests will be running all day, every day at our booth:

Killzone Shadowfall Botzone Challenge

Take on the Botzone Deathmatch challenge to rack up as many bot kills in the set time. The daily Top 3 on our PAX Killzone Leaderboard will claim Dogtags, DLC Season Passes, signed posters, and a Custom Killzone DualShock 4 controller.

Sound Shapes Speed Run

Race the music of Deadmau5 “Invaderoids” in Sound Shapes. The Top 3 daily fastest times on our PAX Sound Shapes Leaderboard will win a bundle of DLC, full game codes, and a rare poster.

Name That Tune

How well do you know OUR PlayStation music? We’ll be blasting tunes from our games all day at the booth. Find the designated “jar next to our speaker” and tell us a game you think the music is from. Random correct winners will be selected at the end of every day for great prizes.

Live Booth Schedule

You didn’t think we’d just stand around flipping PlayStation controllers in the air now did you? We have a number of live activities planned, including a live AMA with each studio.

Friday

11AM – Trivia Contest with Naughty Dog & Media Molecule
12PM – Tearaway Poster Giveaway
1PM – AMA w/ Naughty Dog Community Managers – Ask Away!
2PM – Trivia Contest with Sony Santa Monica & SonyXDevEurope
3PM – Tearaway Poster Giveaway
4PM – Trivia Contest with Guerrilla Studios

Saturday

11AM – Trivia Contest with Guerrilla Studios
12PM – Tearaway Poster Giveaway
1PM – AMA w/ Media Molecule Community Managers – Ask Away!
2PM – Trivia Contest with Naughty Dog & Media Molecule
3PM – Trivia Contest with Sony Santa Monica & SonyXDevEurope
4PM – AMA w/ SonyXDev Community Managers – Ask Away!
5PM – Tearaway Poster Giveaway

Sunday

11AM – Trivia Contest with Sony Santa Monica & SonyXDevEurope
12PM – Tearaway Poster Giveaway
1PM – AMA w/ Sony Santa Monica Community Managers – Ask Away!
2PM – Trivia Contest with Guerrilla Studios
3PM – AMA w/ Guerrilla Studios Community Managers – Ask Away!
4PM – Trivia Contest with Naughty Dog & Media Molecule
5PM – BLOWOUT GIVEAWAY! WHATEVER WE HAVE LEFT!

Whew! We’re going to have some sore throats when all is said and done but there’s just one more thing…the Molecules and all of us want to make sure the PAX Exclusive Iota Pinny will get in the hands of those who interact with us. The pinny game of PAX has a simple rule: trade or kindly ask for it. Chat with any of us at the booth wearing a World Wide Studios PAX T-Shirt and perhaps we will pin Iota to your lanyard, shirt, or give to you at our discretion. Maybe we’ll even trade you for an Ellie pinny.

The PAX PlayStation Community Exchange is a constant conversation, come join and get to know us. We can’t wait to see you all! #PSPAX

As if three movie villains weren't enough, Electro and the Green Goblin are are joined by the ugliest Kingpin ever, bad-hair-lighting Black Cat and... is that Carnage? Yeah, Parker is screwed. Read more...

The PC MOBA is coming to Xbox Live and will receive "regular updates" featuring new content.

Batman & Robin is, I will insist until my dying days, one of the best-executed superhero movies. “What killed the dinosaurs?” Arnold Schwarzenegger asks as Mr. Freeze. “The ice age!” he cries as he starts blasting away with an ice laser. It wanted to be an absurd take on dim memories of Adam West-era Batman silliness and by Jove, the neon eye*crag* certainly succeeded. Modern spandex flicks, no, they’re trying too hard to be mature, edgy, and grown-up. The balance they try to strike between the fantastic and the human rarely works.

Come see what I mean in a new trailer for the tie-in Amazing Spider-Man 2 game, then I’m sure you’ll agree with me that Batman & Robin is brilliant and we should all thank Joel Schumacher.

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Greg Wohlwend is the co-creator of Threes, and it's not the first to deal with the complexities of the mobile world. What's a clone in 2014, anyway? We explore this and other questions in a lengthy conversation.

Greg Wohlwend is the co-creator of Threes, and it's not the first to deal with the complexities of the mobile world. What's a clone in 2014, anyway? We explore this and other questions in a lengthy conversation.

It's not a No. 1, but Bethesda may be quietly satisfied with how The Elder Scrolls Online fared in the UK. The MMO's launch on Windows PC and Mac was enough to take it up to second place, and there are still PS4 and Xbox One versions to unravel in June.

As it is, we may have to get used to the name currently on top of the UK charts. FIFA 14 is now up to 11 weeks in total (non-consecutive) as the country's No. 1, and - as if it needed the help - the English soccer season is excitingly close this year, and there's a World Cup just two months away. In related news, let's go live to the scene at EA Sports HQ... [Image: Bethesda]

Gawker Southern California Beach Party Ended in a Giant Street Brawl | io9 Star Wars: Episode VII Has Already Begun Filming | Jalopnik This Is How Cops Stop The Real Life Fast and Furious | Jezebel SNL's International Nasty Girls Sight-See 'Dongs All Over The World'Read more...

Borderlands is going to the moon, baby! It appears a leak on GamePointsNow has the next game in the cooperative shooter franchise pegged as Borderlands: The Pre-sequel! (exclamation!). So, you know, Gearbox studio head Randy Pitchford wasn't technically lying when he said there was no Borderlands 3 in development.

The game is allegedly scheduled for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, and it takes place in the five years between Borderlands and Borderlands 2. It's in development at 2k Australia and will feature four new playable characters.

Today is April 7th, the last day before the worldwide phaseout of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. While most people out West will be operating happily in either Windows 8, 7 and even, hahaha, Vista, close to 200 million people in China will still be holding onto XP.Read more...

To celebrate the start of Game of Thrones' fourth season, DeviantART artist Betteo made an excellent stylization of the show's characters. Despite the minimalistic style you can still recognize all of them easily.Read more...

Casting players as space-janitors cleaning up after an alien attack, Viscera Cleanup Detail is pretty great as one-note wacky physics sim jokes go. Now let’s go one step further. Imagine playing as the dying lab technician without whom the space marine hero would be lost. Dragging useless gnawed legs behind her, she leaves diary entries hinting at puzzle solutions, scrawls cryptic warnings in her own blood, and plants supplies. Stack chairs and crates to reach odd hiding spots, hunt down iron tablets to top up her blood ink, and sacrifice everything to ensure that bumbling dolt triumphs. An idea for me to make in the next Peter Molydeux game jam, perhaps. Anyway.

For those who insist upon only buying games on Steam, keeping their games library as tidy as their space station, Viscera Cleanup Detail is now on Steam Early Access.

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Version 2.0 of Nvidia's GeForce Experience offers enhanced support for laptops and the ability to stream PC games to the Shield from (almost) anywhere.

Microsoft still has plans to make Xbox 360 games playable on your Xbox One.

Broforce is Now Available on Steam Early Access!

When evil threatens the world, the world calls on Broforce - an under-funded, over-powered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force. Brace your loins with up to four players to run n gun as dozens of different bros and eliminate the opposing terrorist forces that threaten our way of life. Unleash scores of unique weapons and set off incredible chain reactions of fire, napalm, and limbs in the name of freedom.

Japan is famous for its convenience stores. They're so, um, convenient. The country is also famous for karaoke parlors. And this month, they're finally coming together. Literally. Read more...

Goat Simulator might be one of those games that don't need any fan-made mods, being already glitchy enough—in a good way of course. Modder Dafini thought otherwise and added an angry, rampaging version of poor Shrek to the game.Read more...

Borderlands 2 is set to get a prequel game on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC later this year, according to a new report.

It’s Monday and, if you have the same system shocked headache as I do, you might find it comforting to peruse a selection of in-development games. There are videos, there are GIFs (but only one!), there are fine anecdotes. There are promises of a brighter future somewhere on the horizon. It’s videogaming ibuprofen.

Cyberdragons! Colour blindness! Dwarven rumours!

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With its monumental, raw design and lighting, Hungary's new, fourth metro line undeniably has a lot in common with old-school FPS games. Quake II in this particular case.Read more...