Fake ports of modern games? Yeah, it's been done before. Same with cart labels. But someone stuck them on actual carts, which will be hilarious once the next yard sale rolls around. Redbeard Math Pirate on Flickr created 15, spanning the range of cart art on the Atari 2600 - original VCS, second gen...

Here's two more Guitar Hero: Metallica trailers, featuring Motorhead and King Diamond, showing the headbanging action you won't see because you're concentrating on the note highways. Sweet mercyful crap, dig some of those sets. Of course, the full tracklist has already been revealed, but here's a vi...

I love it when the ESRB rates music games, because it means someone, somewhere, is marking down every "damn" "ass" and "bitch" they hear on a clipboard. In this case, we can piece together a few of the songs that might be on the Rock Band Classic Rock Track Pack, which just got rated and put on the ...

But this is a working Dreamcast inside an iMac G3 case. Modder logicdustbin had some spare G3s and a 15-inch LCD monitor laying around, had a moment of inspiration, and soon the iCast was born. "So I started taking shit apart," he says, and seeing the monitor fit in nicely the Dreamcast was the next...

To: Luke From: Owen Re: Kotaku Signs Syndication Deal The Oscars are tonight of course, and one of my favorite parts about this show - inveterate sentimentalist that I am - is the montage of all the great artists, directors and contributors who passed away in the preceding year. They always pull the...

Everyone loathes posed photos where neither the models nor the photographer know what the fuck they are doing. Yet they've glutted stock photo sites, which charge ridiculous amounts for them. The -Minus World did a brilliant rundown of 30 among the worst, capturing "gamers" in various states of rigo...

"An inadvertent administrative error" meant that some of the 1,400 Microsoft laid off recently received overpayments in their severance packages. The company's asked for the money back, making this a hat trick of HR Kops komedy. "We ask that you repay the overpayment and sincerely apologize for any ...

The sick minds of Madworld released three more gameplay trailers this weekend. Commodes, jet engines and bus stop signs are some of the improvised weaponry in the first, covering the game's subway levels. They are not holding back with the language, too. Unlike the last trailer I posted, it comes in...

Everyone remembers the ultrafantabulous do-want Portal Gun prop we showed you back in January. This weekend its creator, Harrison Krix, revealed future summa-cum-badass prop projects he's working on. Among them: • Life-sized Big Daddy from BioShock. "I realize this has been done before, but I thin...

Although it's some versions are rated T, Call of Duty had some troubling aspects for a father of a 13-year-old who wanted to play it. So they came to an agreement. On Boing Boing, a writer named Hugh Spencer mentions his son Evan's enthusiasm for Call of Duty, but also that his kid knows there are s...