Yannick LeJacq

Murdered: Soul Suspect: The Kotaku Review

I came across something midway through Murdered: Soul Suspect that summed up the majority of my experience playing this game. I was strolling through a police station as Ronan O’Connor, a detective so hard-boiled that his own death could not stop him from hunting down the notorious murderer as The Bell Killer. The game begins…

Top League Of Legends Pros Suspended, Kicked Off Team For Being Jerks

Two top League of Legends players have been banned from competitive play for six months because of “extremely toxic behavior.” Shortly after the ruling came down from League developer and publisher Riot Games, the players’ team also removed them from their roster. The two players in question were both members of the European team Ninjas…

Track: 0 To 100 / The Catch Up | Album: Single | Artist: Drake Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The big Battlefield news this week was about Hardline, but EA doesn’t want you think that means it’s forgotten about Battlefield 4. Longtime series developer Karl Magnus Troedsson wrote a blog post yesterday assuring fans of the still-struggling online multiplayer shooter that DICE will “continue to improve the BF4 experience” as best it can. “Yes,…

Zenzizenzic is a mouthful of a video game But it’s got to be the prettiest mouthful I’ve ever seen. If you can’t stop looking at these mesmerizing GIFs either, check in on its Kickstarter campaign while you still can. Seriously, just look at these things: This game is going to make my head explode and…

Man, I Could’ve Sworn I Was Done Killing Nazis

I expected to hate the new Wolfenstein. I wanted to, even. The whole idea of rebooting the Nazi-killing epic for the umpteenth time disturbed me. I don’t remember where I was or what I was doing when I first learned that the Wolfenstein franchise was being brought back to life by a new Dr. Frankenstein—this…

Watch Dogs Would Make A Pretty Solid Bollywood Movie

Watch Dogs has been out for all of two days, but Ubisoft’s hacking-themed open world game has already proved a big inspiration for one Bollywood movie. The film is called 18.11, and judging from the trailer, it doesn’t have much to do with hacking and the surveillance state except as it applies to terrorism and…

Here’s How PlayStation Plus Is Changing

Now that we’re good and (sort of) settled into the PlayStation 4 generation, Sony is adjusting PlayStation Plus, its premium online gaming service, for all three of its major gaming devices. Sony marketing VP John Koller spelled out the changes in a post on the PlayStation Blog today. By his description, it sounds like the…

Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare Is Coming To PlayStation

Good news, PlayStation loyalists! The excellent Plants Vs. Zombies shooter is coming to Sony’s PS3 and PS4 consoles on August 19th, developer PopCap announced today. PopCap’s Brian Lindley said in a post on the PlayStation blog that the new version of the game will run at “a native 1080p resolution and blazing fast 60 frames…

The Dots Sequel Feels A Lot Like Candy Crush, In A Good Way

Dots, one of the best and most popular mobile games of 2013, is finally getting a sequel of sorts, creator Betaworks announced this morning. It’s called—you guessed it—TwoDots. I’ve only been able to tinker with TwoDots for a few hours, but my first reaction upon opening up the new game was that it feels an…

I Bought This Game Two Weeks Ago, And I Still Can’t Play It

The video game industry is no stranger to fizzled hype. But for all the controversies about delays, unstable launches, or games that are just plain terrible, until recently I’ve never had to stop and wonder whether or not a game actually exists. Then I went in search of a mysterious fighting game named Death Cargo…

Here’s the first bit of artwork from the next Hitman game. Sadly that’s all we’re gonna get for a while since developer IO Interactive also said that it won’t be showing the game at E3 next month. For the time being, read more about upcoming Hitman news here.

How You’re Going To Build Houses In The Sims 4

Another day, another reason to get excited (or terrified) for The Sims 4. This morning, Electronic Arts released a new trailer for the highly anticipated life simulating-video game that spells out how the house-building mechanics work: Basically, it sounds like they work the same way that the character-creation system does. That is to say, it…

Nintendo Has A Plan To Share Money With YouTubers

Almost exactly a year after Nintendo sparked a controversy over the way it was forcing ads on YouTube videos featuring footage from its video games, the company looks like it’s officially changing tack. It took to Twitter earlier today to describe a new “affiliate program” that will split revenue between Nintendo, Google, and the person…

Gears of War Is Still My Favorite Shooter

Francis is the closest thing to a hardcore gamer I have in my life. He’s the kind of guy that bought a DualShock 4 controller on a lunch break before the PlayStation 4 had come out just so he could hold it. Buying the PS4 over the Xbox One was a calculated decision he can…

Try As I Might, I Can’t Convince My Friends To Get The Wii U

Ever since the new season of Game of Thrones started, I’ve gathered with a group of friends each Sunday night to play video games for a few hours before the new episode airs. We sometimes call it pre-gaming Game of Thrones, because we’re huge dorks. This past Sunday was different, however. We began planning for…

1980’s Newscasters Struggled To Explain How Pac-Man Works

Pac-Man turns 34 today. It’s exciting to see that the little yellow guy has survived into middle age. But before the Pac became the dot-eating legend we know him as today, he had to do the same thing every celebrity does: make a name for himself. To commemorate Pac-Man’s birthday, popular video game personality Patrick…

Maybe It’s Not That Easy To Make A Flappy Bird Clone

Epic Games just released a new tech demo of sorts for Unreal Engine 4. There’s something different about this compared to the usualvisual splendor of most of Epic’s Unreal showcases, however. Something much more…flappy. That’s right: Epic Games, the studio behind juggernaut titles like Gears of War and Unreal made a Flappy Bird clone. It’s…

The fourth episode of The Wolf Among Us comes out on May 27th, developer Telltale Games just announced. It’s called “In Sheep’s Clothing,” and it’s the penultimate episode. The season started to get really good in the last episode, so let’s hope that it stays that way!

The Metro Games Are Coming To PS4 And Xbox One

4A Games’ grim post-apocalyptic shooters are finally getting the next-gen treatment they deserve with Metro Redux, series publisher Deep Silver announced today. Redux features re-mastered and updated versions of Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light and is coming out for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles. They’ll also come to PC for any gamers…