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…

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…