Smosh Games gives everyone's second-favorite bathroom game the Honest Trailers treatment, brutalizing Kings' innocent candy-swapping game, which never did nothing to no one. » 5/31/14 4:00pm 5/31/14 4:00pm

Back in the '80s, hardcore gamers loved the sort of simplistic fare that mobile gamers thrive on today. So why can't the hardcore embrace popular mobile games? I'm guessing it's the lack of almost completely unrelated painted cover art. » 5/28/14 2:30pm 5/28/14 2:30pm

If we take away one positive thing from the world's once fiery-hot obsession with Candy Crush Saga, let it be this compilation of feline feet flailing against expensive electronics. » 5/10/14 5:00pm 5/10/14 5:00pm

King, the controversial developers behind Candy Crush Saga, just finished its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. It was the single worst first day's trading so far in 2014. » 3/26/14 10:30pm 3/26/14 10:30pm

You might be stuck on level 20 or 30 of Candy Crush Saga, but now you can take some small solace in the fact that science has proven that a computer would have just as hard a time beating the game. » 3/12/14 12:15pm 3/12/14 12:15pm

Remember the drama when the makers of Candy Crush Saga tried to trademark the word "candy?" And then they wanted to put a claim on "saga," too. Of course, trademarking a name isn't the same as owning it. Regardless, a new game shows you what it would be like to have everyday words become verboten someone else "owns"… » 3/04/14 5:45pm 3/04/14 5:45pm

We all know Candy Crush Saga is addictive, but have you ever wondered why? » 2/28/14 12:30pm 2/28/14 12:30pm

The company behind Candy Crush Saga has withdrawn their trademark application for 'Candy' in the United States, according to documents they filed with the U.S. Trademark Office yesterday. » 2/25/14 12:51pm 2/25/14 12:51pm

The maker of a little-known match-3 game involving candy pieces says he's being steamrollered by the scorched-earth trademark strategy of the casual gaming powerhouse Candy Crush Saga, despite the fact his game and its name are two years older. » 2/12/14 6:45pm 2/12/14 6:45pm

In the world of flash games, derivatives vastly outnumber original concepts, so the charge someone copied a game is quite common. But the makers of a Pac-Man-style game in 2009 say they have an email proving that King, the outfit trademarking words like "candy" and "saga," ordered a developer to directly copy their… » 1/25/14 2:00pm 1/25/14 2:00pm

Lately, Candy Crush Saga-makers King.com have been busy blocking trademark applications and going after people with the words "Candy" and even "Saga" in their game names. While they're doing that—technically, they say, simply to protect their brand from copycats—the game-making denizens of the Internet have been… » 1/23/14 6:30pm 1/23/14 6:30pm

"The law is a ass," Mr. Bumble said in Oliver Twist. And trademark law is a asshole, or at least it is to video gamers whenever it becomes a newsworthy topic. A match-three mobile puzzle game is telling a PC indie game it can't call itself by a word that dates to 1709. WTF? You've got questions, I'll try to answer… » 1/23/14 11:30am 1/23/14 11:30am

The creators of the Banner Saga are fighting to keep the game's name. In a statement sent to Kotaku, Stoic Studios say: » 1/22/14 4:32pm 1/22/14 4:32pm

Sad giant viking is sad. » 1/21/14 8:00pm 1/21/14 8:00pm

Yesterday we learned that King.com, makers of the wildly popular game Candy Crush Saga, had submitted a trademark application for the word "Candy" that would block other game-makers from using it in their game titles. This has struck more than a few people as more than a bit ridiculous, and some people are responding… » 1/21/14 5:00pm 1/21/14 5:00pm