Stephen Colbert Explains The ‘Real’ Reason Activision Bought Candy Crush

5.9 billion, spent on a company that’s known for making a match-3 game.Wild, isn’t it? That’s more than Disney spent on Star Wars! How do you explain such a thing? Stephen Colbert has a theory. It’s a pretty silly theory, but you know what? Maybe he’s onto something. The best/worst part about this skit, is…

How To Get One Of Fallout 4’s Best Guns At The Start Of The Game

When you first leave the vault in Fallout 4, you’ll notice there’s a locked container at the end of the level. It has a gun; a really good gun, by the looks of it. One problem: there’s no way to actually open the container so early in the game. Unless, of course, you know of…

Weeks Later, SOMA‘s Haunting Ending Still Has Players Debating What Happened

I spent a few minutes staring at the screen when SOMA ended. It’s messed up, and even though you can see it coming, it’s still heartbreaking and shocking. At the heart of SOMA’s conclusion is something called the “coin flip” theory, which hardcore fans have been going back and forth on. Warning: There are major…

Wolf Link from Twilight Princess Makes a Badass Statue

Link’s Twilight form, immortalized in statue… form. It took the artist several long weeks, but I’d say it was worth it. Said artist is VIIStar, sculptor and illustrator, and Wolf Link is a commission piece based on First 4 Figures’ Midna and Wolf Link statue from 2011. Here’s a couple photos of it: Of course,…

Professional Stuntman Recreates Tekken Moves in Real Life

This is Eric Jacobus. His workouts might be a little different from yours. Real-life Tekken! Via Event Hubs, we see Jacobus showing off all of Hwoarang’s attacks from what seems to be Tekken Tag Tournament 2. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter@Brian_Ashcraft

K-Pop Group Releases Lightsaber Song

While the world should start bracing itself for a nasty Star Wars: The Force Awakens hangover, it isn’t. Korean pop fans, included. As tipster Sang points out, boy band Exo teamed up with Walt Disney Korea for this songvertisement “Lightsaber.” The video seems kind of low budget, and there’s a side-helping of cringe, but Exo…

Kobe Earthquake Memorial Park. Kobe, Japan. By Pavel. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

Video Game Characters Read Mean Tweets

Twitter is mean. Take it easy on Sonic, guys. He’s had a tough couple of years. This is a pretty awesome skewering of all those celebrities read mean tweets videos. Link’s one is good, but I’m gonna say Liara’s one takes the cake. This post originally appeared on Kotaku Australia, where Mark Serrels is the…

Send In The Clones

Matt Gaser is a concept artist and illustrator who has worked on everything from the Clone Wars cartoon series to gigs with Blizzard, Riot, EA and 2K. You can see more of Matt’s stuff here. He’s also just released a book collecting his work, which you can grab here To see the larger pics in…

100 Fallout 4 Enemies Battle To The Death

Remember when Skyrim launched, and one of the first things people did was build huge battles between the game’s AI enemies? Yeah, same story with Fallout 4 Here, Tyrannicon (who made some of the best Skyrim vids) has set 50 Raiders up against 50 Synths. It is as gory as it is glorious.

Fallout 4 Is Having Shipping Issues [Update]

You probably haven’t heard, but Fallout 4 is out. After months of eager expectation, countless fans are tearing into it. Some, however, still don’t have their copies, and they’re not sure why. Today was supposed to be the big day. Fallout 4 fans of all shapes and power armor sizes planned to “call in sick”…

For Two Months, All I Played Was Destiny. I’m Taking A Step Back

Over the last two months, I played a lot of Destiny. Too much, if I’m being honest. I have few regrets: It was fun, it was challenging, it was rewarding and ridiculous. I’ve finally run out of things to do in the game, so I’ve decided to reclaim some hours of my life. Destiny’s The…

We Can Do It!

Tis’ the season for Fallout, and Baty Alquawen knows how to do it right with this killer Vault dweller/Wendy the Welder cosplay. Photos by Lifestalking

It’s Not Clear Who Alienware’s Steam Machine Is For

Alienware’s Steam Machine is on the right track, but I can’t wholeheartedly recommend it. [This post originally ran on 10/15/15. It’s been updated to reflect changes (primarily to Steam) that have occurred over the past month.] Alienware’s Steam Machine officially launches today. I really like what it tries to do. Since time immemorial, PC gaming…