Guy Builds Crazy 1,000-Key Emoji Keyboard

YouTuber Tom Scott won’t have any problems reacting to anything on social media with his emoji keyboard. That’s 14 individual keyboards synced together with over 1,000 keys bound to emojis. This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve built in a long while: a full-size, real-life emoji keyboard, made of 14 keyboards and over 1,000 individually…

Meanwhile, in Tokyo. Fuchū, Tokyo, Japan, on October 18, 2014. By texasstorm JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

Some excellent Guardians of the Galaxy cosplay. More shots here!

Disney Infinity’s Toys Are Just The Best

I’ve said this before, but if they were a few bucks cheaper I think Disney Infinity’s toys are so cool that they’d be viable purchases as, well, just toys, the game be damned. So it’s a pleasure on Fine Art today to highlight the work of Ian Jacobs, Senior Character Artist at Disney Interactive Studios.…

LEGO Is As Close As We’ve Got To An Actual Destiny Weapon

This is Destiny’s MIDA Multi-tool Scout Rifle. Elliott Feldman spent a few months building it, and he’s done a hell of a job. I like two things in particular: the small details (like a removable clip and sliding trigger mechanism) and the fact he laughed at the notion of doing the normal LEGO builder thing…

Steam Fighting Game Takes Risks That Super Smash Bros Won’t

Confession: despite being mostly a PC guy, I adore Super Smash Bros. Now my lack of a Nintendo console isn’t much of an issue. Rivals of Aether—which just launched on Steam and rocketed straight into the service’s top ten best sellers—is not shy about its primary influence. It may not be wearing Mario’s trademark hat…

Man Learns To Drive On PlayStation, Arrested After Police Chase

Englishman Adam Jones, 24, doesn’t have a driver’s license. He’s never even sat a license exam. So when he was arrested last week by police for driving at over 100mph through the town of Grantham, his excuse was that he had “learned to drive on his Playstation.” As ITV reports (via Boing-Boing), Jones was arrested…

Dota 2 Mod Turns Game Into Nonstop Co-Op Boss Fight

Dota 2 got a major update recently that, among many other things, made it much easier for players to create and share custom games with one another. One of the best (and certainly the silliest) of the new player-made modes turns Valve’s into a PvE game that’s fittingly known as “Epic Boss Fight.” Like all…

Panoramical Is A Trippy Journey Of Light and Sound

The goal in Panoramical is to find yourself in a series of fantastical works of audiovisual art. It’s a personal journey. Here’s a bit of mine. Some call it a game. Others a tool. I call it a trip, a mental and perhaps spiritual journey through realms of sound and light. Developer Fernando Ramallo, composer…

The Creator Of The ‘Hardest Super Mario World Level Ever’ Is At It Again

Right now, there’s a course titled “Pit of Panga: P-Break” floating around in Super Mario Maker. Thousands of people have tried this level. Not a single person has beaten it yet. The creator is calling it the “hardest Super Mario Maker level ever made,” and when you see how grueling it is, you’ll understand why.…

How Until Dawn Ended Up With A 10,000-Page Script

When Graham Reznick and Larry Fessenden landed the gig to write Until Dawn in 2011, it seemed easy enough: write some dialogue! Known for working on horror films like House of the Devil and The Innkeepers, the writers had taken on a bigger task than they thought—they were signing on to write two games in…

The Only 1TB PlayStation 4 Is Ugly As Sin

If you get it, just put this mega-capacity PS4 behind something else, m’kay? Sony just unveiled a Call of Duty-themed PS4 that boasts 1 TB of internal storage. It is also damn difficult to look at. The orange piping and highlights are already questionable choices. But the Call of Duty: Black Ops III symbols and…

SOMA: The Kotaku Review

When the credits rolled on SOMA, my head fell into my hands. I felt relief that the harrowing journey was over, and was reeling at what my character had sacrificed along the way. SOMA is not just a horror game, it’s a nightmarish commentary on the possible future of humanity. SOMA is the latest scarefest…

Destiny‘s Leveling System Is Finally Fixed

For the past week, I’ve done very little but play Destiny, a video game in which you travel through space lamenting that Destiny has gotten way harder to make fun of in the first lines of Kotaku posts because it’s so friggin’ good now. This is not much of a change—I’ve been a Destiny addict…

Ta-Nehisi Coates Will Write Marvel’s New Black Panther Comic

Was anybody expecting this? The Black Panther is arguably Marvel Comics’ most important black superhero, a king who’s never been mired in the kinds of stereotype-heavy portrayals that have dogged other characters. And news has just hit that the Wakandan monarch’s next ongoing comics series will be written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent for…