Yannick LeJacq

“The Rock Does Not Answer To You”

WHY DOES HE KEEP REFERRING TO HIMSELF IN THE THIRD PERSON?!?!

Here’s a short and very shiny-looking teaser that San Diego Comic-Con attendees got to see for the new Transformers series, Robots in Disguise. Those Autobots sure love their three-point landings, don’t they? The show kicks off Spring 2015.

“His beard alone required 2½ hours of careful yak-hair application.”

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson takes his job very seriously. As he should!

Here’s What World Of Warcraft’s New Tauren Will Look Like

Blizzard’s ongoing overhaul of World of Warcraft’s character models has wound its way towards the majestic bovine class known as the Tauren. This is a standard female model, shown in a post today on the studio’s Artcraft blog by senior art director Chris Robinson. On the left is what she once was. On the right,…

​Mario Kart 8 vs. Sonic Racing: The Comparison We Had To Make

When it comes to kart racing, it often seems like Mario Kart is the only game in town. I’m here to tell you that it’s not. In fact, there’s another, arguably better game that came out for Nintendo’s Wii U console two years before Mario Kart 8 was even a thing people were playing. I’m…

“hip-hop has spread its wings”

Time just published an interview with Questlove (thanks, Rich!) in which he gives a thoroughly Questlove response to a question about being pro or anti Iggy Azalea: Here’s the thing: the song is effective and catchy as hell, and it works. Just the over-enunciation of “hold you down”? [Laughs] It makes me chuckle because all…

Suspended Kickstarter Says They’re In An ‘Information War’ With Russia

With barely two days left in its controversial Kickstarter campaign to bring “a definitive spiritual successor to the cult hit S.T.A.L.K.E.R.” into the world, Areal developer West Games had the rug pulled out from underneath it yesterday when its project was suddenly suspended. But that hasn’t stopped the Ukrainian developer from trying to bring its…

I Wish Every Oculus Rift Demo Looked This Cool

I’ve seen lots of Oculus Rift-enabled games that offer players a glimpse (or more) inside immersive-looking spaceships and monster-infested hallways. The ideas that truly excite me, however, come from more experimental kinds of games that invite players to experience their own bodies from a new vantage point. Daniel Ernst’s The Shoebox Diorama does this in…

The classic puzzle game The Room is finally making its way from the iPad to the PC next week. Developer Fireproof Games also said that the new version will be done in “fully enhanced HD.” So you know you’ll have something pretty to look at when you’re pulling your hair out in frustration!

The isometric Guantlet-style Tomb Raider game Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is coming out in December, a Crystal Dynamics developer said in a recent interview with IGN. Square Enix first announced it was working on a sequel to the cult hit Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light at E3 last month, saying…

Final Fantasy XIV Players Put On Virtual Gay Pride Parade

Well, this is fabulous. Now that gay relationships are officially sanctioned in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, players have gathered together to put on their own pride parade inside the virtual world of Eorzea. The parade took place last weekend, and was organized by the Rough Trade Gaming Community (RTGC), a network that spans…

The Mario Kart hacks continue to be awesome

I know this gets into dicey territory quickly, but MrBean and Chadderz keep making videos that seem like they’d make for very fun alternate versions of Mario Kart 8 tracks:

Attention League of Legends fans: Riot Games just released a fun video based on its popular online game that’s full of explosions, cat ears, and mild gore. You can watch the whole thing above. And if you like what you see, you can also check out a short making of film that Riot put out…

The Story Of Areal, One Of Kickstarter’s Weirdest New Games [UPDATE]

UPDATE (12:45 pm): Shortly after we published this story, Areal’s Kickstarter campaign was suspended. A representative from Kickstarter wouldn’t go into detail about the project or its suspension, and referred Kotaku to this relevant section of its FAQ Original story follows: STALKER was the kind of gloomy and artful first-person shooter that left gamers wanting…

Who wants to mainline and/or liveblog this

This is the closest I’m going to get to binge-watching the entirety of The Simpsons once it finds its way onto Netflix (unlikely) OR I dig up all my old DVD collections from my mother’s storage unit (also unlikely):

Sims 4 Trailer Hints At New ‘Premium’ Version

Electronic Arts recently released a lengthy trailer for The Sims 4, the upcoming installment in its popular series of life-simulation games. The new video contained a surprising hint that EA might be planning a “Premium” version of the new game. The trailer is more than 20 minutes long, and the majority of that time is…

Happy Fiftieth, Ryu!

They grow up so fast, don’t they? Street Fighter characters, that is. One day, they’re just a bunch of pixels in your favorite arcade game. Next thing you know, they’re being cast in live-action dramas including one regrettable movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme Sigh. Enjoy middle age, Ryu. It’s pretty damn impressive if you’ve been…

They grow up so fast…

What’s Your Favorite Mario Kart 8 Vehicle Combination?

Mario Kart 8 has been out long enough for players to put every possible vehicle combination through the wringer. So now that we’ve all taken a few laps around Rainbow Road, I have to ask: what do you think the best build is? There’s no one answer to this question, of course, any more than…