“Humans build robots for various reasons. Usually those reasons involve a functional purpose designed to make life easier for us squishies. Other times we design them to provide amusement. But visitors from another galaxy might have their own ideas about the best use for robotic entities — like exterminating life on our inferior planet. So why not drop a giant, sentient, mechanical behemoth the size of a skyscraper onto Earth and see what happens? Walkie Tonky is on the loose, and crushing the humans is its prime directive.”

Check out the full column here at IGN’s Green Pixels.