This Dragon’s Crown Statue Is Freaking Me Out

I know the character designers in Dragon’s Crown are exaggerated, but holy shit. RocketNews24 (as noted on Twitter by Polygon’s Mike McWhertor) noticed a new 1:6-scale Dragon’s Crown figure that Beat Hobby will sell next March for 17,064 yen (roughly $138 USD). The proportions on the original artwork were pretty ridiculous, of course, though in-line…

There’s A Pretty Great ‘Cheers’ Easter Egg In Fallout 4

The new post-apocalyptic video game Fallout 4 takes place in Boston. You know what else took place in Boston? The beloved 1980s sitcom Cheers Hi! This post reveals a cool thing I found in Fallout 4. If you want to find it on your own, maybe stop reading. While wandering the Boston wastes last night,…

Call Of Duty: Black Ops III: The Kotaku Review

There are too many Call of Duty games. Let me clarify that statement: There are too many Call of Duty games in Call of Duty: Black Ops III. In my initial impressions of the single-player experience of the latest installment of Activision’s annual military shooter series, I celebrated what Treyarch had achieved with an extra…

Nintendo Explains Microtransactions In The Most Nintendo Way Possible

Nintendo’s “free” crane game for the 3DS requires a dollar for every five tries with the crane. Some companies would just tell you to pay and leave it at that. Not Nintendo. They’ve got a cartoon rabbit ready to explain to you why Nintendo needs to do this. All screenshots here are from the game/app/3DS-decorating…

More Games, Please Do This

Many video games give players the chance to invert the Y-axis, but too many of them force the Y-inverters among us to start the game, then pause it, then invert. Not the new Tomb Raider. Rise of the Tomb Raider gives players to invert on the same screen where we can adjust our screen brightness.…

Tristana’s New League Of Legends Skin Turns Her Rocket Launcher Into A Baby Dragon

Gamers might not know this, but League of Legends developer Riot Games is one of the very best purveyors of cute things in video games. Yup, right up there with Nintendo. Don’t believe me? EXHIBIT A: Tristana’s adorable new baby dragon that’s disguised as a cannon. Tristana, in case you don’t know, is one of…

Watch Us Take on Rise of the Tomb Raider’s New Tombs

Almost everyone who played it said there weren’t enough tombs in the 2013 reboot of Tomb Raider. Its sequel is out this week and Rise of the Tomb Raider definitely doesn’t have this problem. Take a look at two of the hidden environments in Lara Croft’s new adventure below. Spoilers follow for the locations and…

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…

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