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Detective Pikachu Is a Simple Point-and-Click Adventure for Pokémon Fans

Three things you need to know going in about Detective Pikachu: 1) It’s not hard. 2) It’s not long. 3) Detective Pikachu himself makes the whole thing worth playing. Detective Pikachu is the story of Tim Goodman, a young man who heads to Rhyme City in search of his missing father. Shortly after his arrival,…

Pewdiepie Is Just Plain Famous

Pewdiepie used to be pretty well known among gaming circles. You can say that he was internet famous. Now, he’s actually famous. Last night, Pewdiepie appeared on Conan to promote his new YouTube Red series Scare Pewdiepie. What’s truly remarkable isn’t that Pewdiepie is a guy who made his name with funny and interesting “Let’s…

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.)

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Lady Gaga Looked Like A Pokémon At The Super Bowl

Who wore it better last night, Blaziken, or Lady Gaga? Lady Gaga sang the Super Bowl national anthem yesterday, and throughout the performance, she had a pretty distinctive get-up and hairdo. Hilariously, people thought Lady Gaga resembled all sorts of geeky and nerdy things, not just Pokémon. Let’s take a closer look and judge the…

The Xbox 360 version of Red Dead Redemption was briefly playable on Xbox One this weekend, but it’s since been removed. Said Microsoft’s Major Nelson: “Microsoft tests all Xbox 360 games with our emulator to ensure a quality experience across a breadth of titles. Due to an error, some of the games currently in test…

Marvel’s Latest Avengers Game Is Such A Shame

Marvel put together an awesome re-imagining of Avengers heroes and villains as college students. They recruited top notch voice talent like Alison Brie, Colton Haynes and John Cena. All that design work and talent for a glorified Simpson: Tapped Out clone. Look at this key art. I would watch that cartoon. I would read that…

Someone Built A Playable Space Invaders Inside Dwarf Fortress

The classic ASCII-roguelike builder sim Dwarf Fortress is notorious for being unforgiving for even the smallest mistake. If you’re not familiar with the rules, it’s tough to build even simple things and not ruin everything at the same time. Still, someone managed to make a playable version of Space Invaders in it. Even the idea…