Yannick LeJacq

Microsoft Announces The ‘Halo Channel’

Microsoft just announced that it’s making a special channel for all things Halo related for the Xbox One. It’s known simply as “The Halo Channel,” and looks like it will have lots of stuff to make fans of the shooter happy. Microsoft described it as an “interactive digital network that provides unprecedented, personalized access to…

BioShock’s Terrifying Predecessor Turns 15 Today

Before there was BioShock, there was System Shock 2. The first full title produced by Irrational Games when it was still a tiny spin-off from Looking Glass Studios, this terrifying hybrid of a first person shooter and RPG first came out 15 years ago today. Let’s all remember in turn just how scared we were…

This Toad really knows his way around a banana peel

Some impressive item work in this Mario Kart 8 video:

Hotline Miami is coming to the PS4 on August 19th, Sony just announced If playing this excellent hyperviolent indie game on the new console isn’t enough good news, Sony also promised will feel even more violent than ever before thanks to some newfangled DualShock 4 features: Gamers can now use DualShock 4′s touch pad to…

EA Access Is Now Live On The Xbox One

That didn’t take long! Electronic Arts just said its newly-announced subscription service EA Accessis officially live on the Xbox One. That means all gamers who own Microsoft’s current-gen console can download the app through the app store and start using it today for $4.99 or a full-year subscription for $30. For a more thorough breakdown…

One Thing That’ll Be Different In Dead Island 2? Freeze Rays.

You know how they say that there’s more than one way to skin a cat? Well, there’s more than one way to kill a zombie, too. In case you thought you’d run out of new ways to lay the living dead to rest, Dead Island 2 is here with a new gameplay trailer to try…

Square Enix’s New Game Is Something Completely Different

Well, this sounds interesting. Square Enix just announced that it’s making a new “episodic adventure game” called Life is Strange with Dontnod Entertainment, the studio that made last year’s stylish beat-em-up Remember Me. I’m curious and tentatively excited. The game was announced in post on Square Enix’s blog this morning which included a brief description…

Track: Numbers On The Boards | Artist: Pusha T | Album: My Name Is My Name Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

‘Gaming Is A Disease’

Got this message from my friend Jeremy this week. He’s a music critic at Pitchfork. But as you can tell from our text-versations, he cares a lot about games too: …maybe a little bit too much, now that I think about it…

One Backpack, Two Super Mario Levels

When you play video games as an adult, you have a lot of moments when you find yourself wishing you could be a kid again. Like this morning, when I came across a reversible Super Mario-themed backpack I would have worn until the straps fell off and my teacher asked me: “Shouldn’t you have graduated…

The Worst In Video Game Marketing

Before we ever get to play most video games, we see ads for them. Usually they’ll get us excited about the next chapter in a favorite franchise, or even a brand new one. But sometimes they take things too far. We’ve seen loads of ads that are meaningless or, worse, in bad taste. Ill-advised. Offensive,…

How EA Access Will Work, According To EA

Last week, Electronic Arts announced a new online gaming service called EA Access for the Xbox One. It sounded like a promising deal to many gamers: a Netflix-style subscription service that would give people access to a library of EA games for $5 a month, or $30 a year. But many important questions remained unanswered.…

‘CREATIVE BRUTALITY’

From Dying Light’s new trailer: This is right up there with “strategic dismemberment” as one of the most wonderfully obscene phrases in video game marketing.

Bayonetta 2 Is Looking Good, Adds Surfing

Familiarity is underrated in video games. Sometimes, I don’t want anything new or crazy. Sometimes, I just want to play Bayonetta again since the original game was already awesome. Thankfully, it looks like that’s what Bayonetta 2 is shaping up to be…plus some added surfing levels, which are always are a good thing, in my…

Turns out those rumors were partially true: a revamped version of Sleeping Dogs is coming to next-gen consoles and PC this October, Square Enix just confirmed. It’s called Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, and here are a few key details that the publisher clarified from the various rumors that have been swirling around: It includes all…

Now that’s what I call retro gaming. One inventive soul hooked up new (and new-ish) games like Watch Dogs and Grand Theft Auto V to a TV set from the 1970’s, and the results look surprisingly cool. This gives the hipster in me so many ideas… imgur via Reddit

The First Game That Truly Disturbed You

Video games don’t usually repel their players. Gamers are nothing if not tolerant—of horrific acts of violence, long loading times, high prices, we’ll put up with a lot. But everyone has their limits. What was the first game that turned you off not because it wasn’t fun, but because you found it morally repugnant? This…

YouTuber: Twitch Streamers Should Have Seen Music Crackdown Coming

Gamers have been up in arms ever since Twitch began to enforce harsher restrictions against users playing copyrighted music in their videos. Hovering around the edges of this chorus of unpleasantly surprised voices, meanwhile, are all the YouTube broadcasters who are still reeling from the crackdown they all experienced back in December 2013. Popular video…

Battlefield 4 For PC Is Free Until August 14

Starting today, PC gamers will be able to play Battlefield 4 for a week free of charge—provided you have an internet connection and an Origin account. EA just announced a new trial period for its popular online multiplayer-friendly shooter as the latest installment in its newly-minted Origin Game Time program. EA said that the offer…

Great, Ryu, NOW look at what you’ve done

Always breaking things… via Reddit