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Screw CGI, This War Movie Used 15,000 Real Soldiers

We may never see a movie like 1970's Waterloo again

By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2015

Elite: Dangerous Honors Terry Pratchett With Discworld Space Station

Last week, revered author Terry Pratchett, best known for his brilliantly witty, insightful, and incisive Discworld series, passed away after a battle with Alzheimer’s. The makers of Elite: Dangerous have created a whole space station in his honor. The space sim’s latest patch added a location called Pratchett’s Disc starport. If you want to check…

By Nathan Grayson Published March 18, 2015

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Track: Courtesy | Album: PRhyme | Artist: PRhyme Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2015

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Every Time I Beat A Demon’s Souls Boss, I Feel Like A Badass

Games don’t prompt me to stand up and scream on a regular basis. When I kill off a boss in a Souls game, however, I feel powerful. I earned this victory, and want to shout it to the world. There are few games I’m proud of beating, but Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, and Dark Souls…

By Patrick Klepek Published March 18, 2015

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The Best (And Weirdest) Cities: Skylines Creations

We’ve seen road porn, we’ve seen useful mods, now let’s take a look at the best of the most obvious kind of Cities: Skylines creations: buildings and maps. The game’s vanilla building selection is…weird, throwing together European, American and Asian architecture in a way that means your city never really feels as cohesive (at least…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 18, 2015

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Getting A Bot ‘Turned On’ With Fake Sexts

I just spent the past 15 minutes trying to fool a bot into thinking blurry phone pics of my elbow crease were steamy photos of the world’s greatest butt. That, in a nutshell, is Sext Machine. Offworld came across the amusing oddity, which you play by texting an actual phone number (text “;)” to 669 333-SEXT…

By Nathan Grayson Published March 18, 2015

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Final Fantasy XV Has Unlimited Chicken Wings

On today’s Highlight Reel we have reality-defying food in Final Fantasy XV, 2 Chainz Xbox One remixes, perfect unintentional heist getaways and more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links below. The Last…

By Chris Person Published March 18, 2015

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The Dragon Age Secret That Took Months To Find

Up until very recently, there was something hidden in Dragon Age: Inquisition that nobody knew about. That is, until an alleged Bioware developer leaked part of the secret to some players. As ProjectFalconPunch explains it, there’s a secret quest that you can find in the Emerald Graves—around here, to be specific: Near that marker, you…

By Patricia Hernandez Published March 18, 2015

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Players Are Making The Best Dragon Ball Xenoverse Characters

Dragon Ball Xenoverse lets players create their own custom characters, which they can then insert into classic DBZ storylines. The character creator is pretty robust, too—which also means that players are having a lot of fun with the tool. Some players like to make their DBZ characters riff off real people, places, or things. Other…

By Patricia Hernandez Published March 18, 2015

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A Better Take On Video Game Sex

A few exceptions aside, video games are pretty shitty at sex. It’s often presented as a stilted, awkward “reward” or a tool for cheap titillation. It’s also heinously un-sexy. Games have come a long way since Dragon Age: Origins‘ infamously nightmare-inducing dead-eyed doll sex, but I think there’s still ample room to grow, for games…

By Nathan Grayson Published March 18, 2015

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Q&A: The People Behind Helldivers Spill Some Secrets

I like Helldivers. It’s one of my favorite PS4 games. But I had 11 questions about it. I posed them to one of the game’s designers. He had answers. Thank goodness. The following Q&A was conducted over e-mail. Answering my questions is Patrick Lasota, a designer at Helldivers dev studio Arrowhead Game Studios. Oh, and…

By Stephen Totilo Published March 18, 2015

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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…

By Yannick LeJacq Published March 18, 2015

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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…

By Jason Schreier Published March 18, 2015

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How One League Of Legends Champion Has Changed Over Five Years

You know what people say when admiring the glory of real-world teenagers: “They grow up so fast.” The same goes for League of Legends characters. You just have to replace “grow up so fast” with “received a number of small but not insignificant changes over the course of many, many patches.” My, how time flies!…

By Yannick LeJacq Published March 18, 2015

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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…

By Patrick Klepek Published March 18, 2015

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25 World of Warcraft Players Tell Their Best Stories

World of Warcraft lives up to its name in that it is a vast world of its own. There’s so much more to do than just grind your way up to the latest level cap. You guys shared some fascinating stories involving everything from friendships to deaths to glitches. Here are the best ones, in…

By Tina Amini Published March 18, 2015

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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…

By Patrick Klepek Published March 18, 2015

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The First Five Zelda-Riffic Minutes Of Oceanhorn

The closest one can legitimately get to playing The Legend of Zelda on mobile is now the closest one can get to legitimately playing The Legend of Zelda on PC. Let’s see how much Link is packed into the first five minutes of Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas. It’s no secret Cornfox & Bros.’ epic…

By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2015

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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…

By Jason Schreier Published March 18, 2015

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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

By Jason Schreier Published March 18, 2015