Tell Us Your Best Toxic MOBA Player Stories

Toxicity is a fact of life in popular MOBA games like League of Legends, Heroes of the Storm, and Dota 2. No two toxic players are exactly the same, though. Encountering toxicity can even lead to genuinely heartfelt moments between people who’ve never met before. What’s your most memorable run-in with MOBA toxicity? These can…

StarCraft II Is Transforming In Some Huge Ways Very Soon

Blizzard is launching a closed beta for StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void on March 31, and it sounds like the upcoming expansion pack will change their real-time strategy game in some totally drastic ways. For one, starting worker count is going to double, as outlined on Blizzard’s blog You’ll also notice that the starting…

Nintendo will be making mobile games in the future, but we don’t know much about their plans yet. TIME spoke with Satoru Iwata, Reggie Files-Aime, and Shigeru Miyamoto for a tiny bit of insight into their plans. Here are a couple of interesting quotes, but I’d recommend reading the whole piece! On whether Nintendo will…

Veteran Game Developer Says Atari’s Trying To Screw Him Over [UPDATE]

Tempest 2000 designer Jeff Minter wants to release his latest tube-centric shooter, TxK, on a bunch of platforms, but the longtime designer is saying Atari won’t let him do that. Let’s just say Minter doesn’t have many kind things to say about his former employer. Minter didn’t create Tempest—that was Dave Theurer—but jumped on board…

What Do You Think Of Final Fantasy XV So Far?

By now, you’ve had 24 hours to play Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae, one of the most fascinating video game demos in recent memory. (How many other demos actually let you save your progress?) And those of you who read Kotaku regularly might recall that during an interview in January, FFXV director Hajime Tabata told…

Video game programmer Jesse Bright passed away last week, and one of his friends has started a crowdfunding campaign to raise college money for the son he left behind. You can find it here

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That’s How You Build A Giant LEGO Castle

A labyrinth of gray towers and walls, hidden chambers, a busy port and marketplace. A proper medieval castle needs all of these, and LEGO fanatic Marco den Besten made sure his giant fantasy build had all that and a lot more. His walled city, called Armortug (via Eurobricks Forums), took him around 3-4 months to…

The Walking Dead As A SNES Run And Gun Game

A game like this wouldn’t be about important decisions or character development, but rather blowing up endless armies of zombies in a top-down view. CineFix recreated the first two seasons of The Walking Dead TV show and made it similar to 16-bit run and gun games like Jurassic Park, The Chaos Engine or even Zombies…

Spider Infestation Reminds People of Totoro

In the Studio Ghibli anime My Neighbor Totoro*, there is a scene in which the family moves into their new house and finds the attic crawling with soot sprites. This is kind of like that, but WITH SPIDERS. On popular Japanese blogs like My Game News Flash, the below video is reminding people of that…

Elder Scrolls Plush is Not Poisonous, Just Cute

Netch are basically giant land jellyfish, domesticated in the region of Morrowind for their hide and jelly. They also have huge, strong tentacles, and are quite vicious when you come at them with a sword. So why wouldn’t you want one? In Morrowind, where they were introduced, Bull Netch would try to bludgeon you to…

Square Enix honcho Yosuke Matsuda told Nikkei Trendy that the company had “a little surprise” to announce this year. When asked for details, Matsuda replied, “It’s not possible to say now, but it’s a JRPG and for home consoles.”

Dreamcast Theme For Nintendo 3DS Reopens Old Wounds

Look, I know, Sega and Nintendo have been working together for years. Doesn’t matter. There’s something about this that still blows my mind. It’s a theme for a Nintendo system, copying the dashboard of a Sega system! A little piece of the Dreamcast, living inside a Nintendo handheld! It even has the disc spinning noise!…