Amazon Releases Its Own Game Engine For Free

Amazon’s releasing their very own game engine. Lumberyard, as they call it, is based on Crytek’s famous CryEngine, and can be used to develop games for both PC and consoles. It’s also free to download, and comes with “no seat fees, subscription fees, or requirements to share revenue.” Fees come in only, as Lumberyard’s official…

Last Night in Japan. Osaka Prefecture, Japan. By Pavel Buga. 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 Website GameTrailers Closes After 13 Years

Gametrailers, a site that was once the internet’s go-to place for…game trailers, today announced that after 13 years it was ceasing operations. This is Brandon Jones, founder and boss of the site: In the mid-00s, as video game marketing moved on from magazine previews to flashy video trailers, Gametrailers (and to a lesser extent 1UP’s…

An Adventure Game About Stopping Hitler

Sebastian Frank: The Beer Hall Putsch is a video game about stopping HItler. Fertile ground for a video game setting if ever there was one Set in Germany in the 1920s, you play as Frank, an old acquaintance of Hitler from before the First World War. Because he knows the budding dictator better than most,…

XCOM 2 Bebop. I’m not sure why ion bomb decided to mash-up XCOM 2 and sci-fi anime classic Cowboy Bebop, but you know what? It works weirdly well. (Warning: this video will give you glimpses of a few later-game alien types. Also “Tank” will be stuck in your head forever.)

Guild Wars 2 Cosplay Includes 9-Foot-Tall Golem

Guild Wars fan Enayla has outdone herself here. Not only has she gone and made a fantastic Asura costume, but she built the accompanying Golem as well. A Golem that’s nine-feet-tall. The Golem can’t walk (at least not yet, anyway), but it has been wired so that its gems light up. Enayla can also clamber…

That Time A Horse Became Empress Of Rome

Only in Crusader Kings II could a horse rise to power and, after decades of war and conquest, restore the might of the Roman Empire. Normally CKII is a very serious game, as much a simulation of blooodthirsty medieval politics as it is a strategy game, but developers Paradox aren’t without a sense of humour.…

The New Version of Jughead Isn’t Into Girls Or Boys

Jughead likes to eat. This we know. Getting physical with members of the opposite or same sex? Not so much. Jughead #4 comes out this week and, via preview at Comic Book Resources, it’s got a little detail that nudges along the modern-day re-inventionof the classic high-school characters even further. Mild spoilers follow. In an…

XCOM Snake Alien Can Bust A Move

Today on Highlight Reel we have rhythmic snake monsters, loafing Assassin’s Creed workers, Black Ops 3 mistakes, and much more. Watch the video above or on our Youtube page, then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Fallout…

That Time Xbox 360’s Uno Game Was Flooded With Dick Pics

Uno was one of Xbox Live Arcade’s best games in the early years, a fact that’s been somewhat forgotten because all anyone can remember are endless penises. Besides being an excellent online multiplayer game, lots of people owned Uno on Xbox 360 because it came bundled with the then-novel Xbox 360 Vision Camera accessory. Unfortunately,…

Endciv Is Like A Fallout Version Of SimCity

Endciv is a post-apocalyptic city builder with a focus on, you know, surviving. Think Banished meets SimCity meets Fallout The game recently popped up on Steam Greenlight, and though it’s fairly early, it’s already looking pretty solid: Here’s what it’s about: “In a world where civilization suffered from weather phenomena and collapsed financial markets, a…

Reminder: Final Fantasy Tactics Is Still Incredible

It has become clear, in the wake of the disastrous Unsung Story, that we may never get a proper successor to Final Fantasy Tactics. Fortunately, the original game is as good today as it was in 1998. This past weekend, the game studio Playdek broke months of silence to announce that they’d put Unsung Story…

Making An IRL Bloodborne Weapon Looks As Hard As The Actual Game

The craftsmen of Yharnam sure knew their business. The latest “Video Game/Movie Weapons IRL” video from Man At Arms ends on a fantasy weapon that I’d aaaaactually kinda sorta like to own. Their team has forged Bloodborne’s Saw Cleaver, probably the most iconic of the trick weapons in the game. It may be a starter…

The Unreal Engine, Used To Create Better Dick Physics

We’ve seen video games nail cloth physics, hair physics, and even water physics. Penis physics, though? That’s mostly a new frontier. Massive NSFW warning ahead! While games like Mount Your Friends and Loadout were some of the first games to venture into this somewhat uncharted territory, we now have a more modern example of people…

Snacktaku Judges Lay’s ‘Flavor Swap’ Potato Chips

Eight flavors enter, four flavors leave. The latest in Lay’s interactive marketing is the Flavor Swap, pitting tried and true potato chip flavors against newcomers across four categories—BBQ, spice, cheese and heat. Let’s do this. The stakes are high in the Flavor Swap event, with four classic flavors on the line. Should they hold up,…

WWE Star Daniel Bryan Says He Is Retiring

WWE wrestler Daniel Bryan, considered one of the best of his generation for his dynamic hard-hitting style, just announced on Twitter that he is retiring from wrestling for medical reasons. With pro wrestling, anything could be a storyline, but there’s reason to think it’s true. We recently chronicled the concussion issues he’s facing, his desire…

Firewatch: The Kotaku Review

Firewatch is a very lonely video game that’s all about people. Set in 1989, you play as Henry, aka Hank, a guy who has had a pretty shitty time of things lately, and who decides that a Summer job in a Wyoming national park is just the thing he needs to take his mind off…

Let’s See If You Could Be an Undercover Superspy

Okay, breathe. You’ve been trained for this. All you need to do is answer the questions about your cover identity correctly and your captured colleague doesn’t get subjected to all manner of inhuman torture. Uh, how old is your pretend brother again? Riffing gently off the James Bond mythos, Q is a Twine game based…

Someone Created A Working Calculator In Mario Maker

OK, I know that someone built a cell phone in Minecraft not that long ago, but Mario Maker isn’t the most expansive toolset, and yet someone’s built a god damn math machine. Dubbed The Cluttered-Chaos Calculator—705C-0000-01B3-FE78—Mario Maker creator Giant strung together a Rube Goldberg-style device that, on the surface, looks like complete madness. What’s happening…