Sources: Amazon’s Breakaway Is Basically Canceled [Update]

Amazon Game Studios’ hero sports brawler Breakaway is essentially canceled but may reemerge in some form later, two people familiar with plans for the game tell Kotaku No layoffs are planned at the moment for the internet shipping giant’s gaming arm, but the game is on “indefinite hiatus,” a source said. UPDATE (1:51pm): In a…

Here’s November’s Xbox Live Games With Gold Lineup

Tales from the Borderlands is another one of those games I own on multiple platforms but still haven’t gotten around to playing. If you’re in the same boat, Xbox Live Games with Gold has you covered this month. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Games with Gold…

X-Bows Ergonomic Keyboard Review: Strange Shape, Great Typing

Last month Iintroduced readers to the X-Bows, a weird-looking mechanical keyboard featuring a unique cross-radial layout designed to keep the wrists straight and typing strain to a minimum. Now that I’ve gotten my hands on it, weird feels pretty good. The X-Bows story sounds like something you’d hear in a late night/early morning infomercial. Dr.…

Look At These Little Hanzo And Genji Action Figures

Now that Tracer, Mei andMercy have been transformed into adorable action figures by Good Smile Company, it’s the guys’ turn. Brothers-at-odds Hanzo and Genji Shimada join the big-headed battle next year. Look at Hanzo’s little beard! Seriously, the beard is the best. While the Hanzo Nendoroid figure’s expressions capture the seriousness of the former leader…

Thousands Of NeoGAF Users Flock To New Website

Last weekend’s NeoGAF implosion was upsetting to anyone who enjoyed reading and posting on the influential gaming message board. Fortunately for them, a new option has already emerged. On Wednesday night a group of former GAF users launched ResetEra, a clean new message board with sections for discussing video games and other topics (“EtcetEra”). As…

The Live-Action Contra Movie And TV Series Will Be Released Worldwide 

A few years back, an official Contra mobile game was released in China. Konami isn’t stopping there, and teaming up with a Chinese media giant for a live-action Contra movie and TV drama. The film project was first revealed earlier this year, and via China Film Insider, here is the initial synopsis: In 1988, a…

Assassin’s Creed Origins: The Kotaku Review

For all its extraordinary visual splendor, Assassin’s Creed Origins is ultimately an ordinary video game. That’s not such a bad thing, particularly if you like looking at pretty vistas and watching numbers go up. Origins is the 10th main entry in Ubisoft’s series of historical murder games. It is also the latest in the current…

“Cosplay” Isn’t The Best Word For Halloween In Japan 

The last time my family went to a Halloween party with friends here in Japan, my oldest son ended up bummed out with how his outfit turned out, saying it wasn’t a very good cosplay. I don’t think that was the word he was looking for.  When my son said “cosplay,” I immediately corrected him,…

Atlus On Why Shin Megami Tensei V Is A Nintendo Switch Game

When Atlus revealed Shin Megami Tensei V earlier this week, the game’s debut trailer had a Nintendo Switch logo. We’ve known this since it was teased earlier this year. In a recent Weekly Famitsu interview, producer Kazuyuki Yamai discussed why the game is a Switch title. One reason is that the Switch is “charming.” When…

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There Should Probably Be An Uncharted Children’s Book

Janice Chu worked at Naughty Dog earlier this year on Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. Specifically, on the game’s cute-as-a-button closing credits. You can see more of Janice’s work at her ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of…

PUBG’s Bulletproof Frying Pan Was A Happy Accident

The frying pan in Battlegrounds is one of the best weapons in the game thanks to its bulletproof qualities. And like many of the best pieces of game design, that’s only in the game by mistake. “We wanted to eventually make it that you could hit a grenade with the frying pan,” the game’s creator…

Gollum Sucks

I’ve been playing a lot of Shadow of War lately, and like in Shadow of Mordor before it, Gollum just goes through the motions. He menaces, he cowers, he tries to bash somebody’s head in with a rock. Then he says something zany and bounds away. Gollum has become the Jar-Jar Binks of Middle-Earth. I’m…

Five Scary Games To Play With Your Friends

Some horror games are best played alone at midnight. Other ones are meant to be played in a room full of friends with a six pack of beer. Here’s a few of the latter kind. Slender: The Eight Pages I have never seen anyone more terrified playing a game than my roommate and his friends…