Yannick LeJacq

Frankenstein And Joan of Arc Duke It Out In This Online Battle Game

If you like the sound of “Joan of Arc and Robin Hood cooperating to hunt down Little Red Riding Hood,” then Crytek has the game for you. The studio behind Crysis just announced a new Dota-esque online multiplayer game called Arena of Fate that lets two teams of five band together and duke it out…

Blizzard Is Suing Starcraft II Hackers

Blizzard is taking legal action against a group of StarCraft II players who created a set of cheats and hacks for the real-time strategy game. First spotted by TorrentFreak, Blizzard filed papers in a California court on May 19th alleging that an unidentified group of programmers infringed on the publisher’s StarCraft II copyright with a…

Consoles Are A Lot Prettier When They’re Made With Wood

The dream of boutique video game consoles has been alive for a while now. But has wood paneling ever looked this good on a PlayStation 4? This Balolo cover certainly puts last year’s attempt to shame. Check out more of Balolo’s work for the PS4 and Xbox One below. If you like what you see,…

The studio that helped bring many a Littlebigplanet to life is spreading its wings with an original game of its own. It’s called Hunger, and its concept art looks gorgeous in a gloomy sort of way. Learn more about it on the Tarsier Studios website

RuPaul Really, Really Likes The Matrix

I always love it when famous people come out of the nerd closet. Considering how proudly eccentric RuPaul is, I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised to hear that the legendary drag queen finds inspiration from any number of myriad quirky sources. But I found his recent interview with Marc Maron eye-opening all the same.…

Chuck E. Cheese Is Becoming Oculus Rift Compatible

Children’s parties are a curious ordeal for parents, other kids, and really anybody other than the birthday boy or girl. And they’re about to get a lot weirder. How much weirder, you ask? Well, consider the phrase “Chuck E. Cheese’s Virtual Ticket Blaster Experience.” That’s right: Chuck E. Cheese is officially becoming an early adopter…

Listen To All Of Transistor’s Incredible Soundtrack Right Here

Transistor came out today, and it’s pretty great. But you know what’s even better? An original soundtrack posted in full on YouTube, you say? My thoughts exactly! Thankfully, it seems like the good people over at Transistor developer Supergiant Games had the same idea, because that’s just what they did. You can listen to the…

Transistor: The Kotaku Review

“Jesus, how much longer is this?” I texted my friend, putting down the PlayStation 4 controller to pause Transistor “I think I’m just bad at video games,” I added. “About 5 hours maybe,” he wrote back, laughing in the way that one makes clear through a text message. He had finished the whole thing in…

Company Sued For Making ‘Magic Clone’ Says They’re Being Bullied

Less than a week after Wizards of the Coast announced that it was suing Hex Entertainment and Cryptozoic Entertainment for cloning the company’s popular card game Magic: The Gathering, the two companies have come back with a statement in defense of their game Hex: Shards of Fate Here’s the full statement written by Cryptozoic president…

Remember The Universim, that gorgeous-looking god game I wrote about late in April? If its early development is any indication, it looks like everything I want out of a good god game. But before my prayers can be answered, it has to finish that whole crowdfunding campaign thing successfully. So if you’re also interested in…

Yes, The Blue Team Has An Advantage In League of Legends

Red versus Blue. Shirts versus skins. Zombies versus humans. These are all surface level distinctions, saying nothing meaningful about one team’s likelihood of trouncing the other…right? If only there was some way to quantify the results of many different matches of a particular game and then use this information to come to a conclusion. Big…

Go To Google.Com Now To Play With a Rubik’s Cube

The Rubik’s cube was first invented by Hungarian architect Ernő Rubik in 1974. Google is commemorating this achievement with one of its trademark Doodles that lets you play with the legendary toy in the comfort of your own web browser. Head over to Google.com to give it a whirl. But be warned: as the New…

The story of Death Cargo, that mysterious horror-themed fighting game I first wrote about last week, gets stranger and stranger the more I look into it. Since I originally said that I was supposed to receive a working copy of the game two days ago, a lot of readers have been asking why I haven’t…

Does This Look Like A Magic: The Gathering Clone To You?

Disputes over intellectual property walk a fine line between meting out justice and delving headfirst into a ridiculous bramble of legalese. It’s not clear which side Magic: The Gathering publisher Wizards of the Coast’s lawsuit against the creators of Hex: The Shards of Fate will end up on. But trying to compare the two games,…

The Elder Scrolls Online Players Are Pissed About Bots

Players who have waded into the newly-minted Elder Scrolls MMO are up in arms about the game’s bots. According to a number of player reports, ZeniMax Online Studios and Bethesda Softworks have been struggling to fend off a proliferation of bots in the latest installment in its acclaimed series of Elder Scrolls games, the first…

Wizards Of The Coast Is Suing Someone For Cloning Magic: The Gathering

Magic: The Gathering publisher Wizards of the Coast has filed a lawsuit against Cryptozoic Entertainment and Hex Entertainment alleging that the companies’ online card game Hex: Shards of Fate is a Magic clone. Here’s the Wizards of the Coast statement, which was posted on the company’s website today: Today Wizards of the Coast LLC, a…

Assassin’s Creed Can Actually Teach You A Thing Or Two

Assassin’s Creed is a lot of things: blockbuster entertainment franchise, beautiful open-world murder simulator, inspiration for rock climbers the world over. “History textbook” doesn’t seem like it would be at the top of this list. Even its dearest fans will admit that Ubisoft’s series takes creative license to stray from historical fact. Nicolas Trépanier, a…

The Sims 4 Is Going To Be Dangerous For Me

Character creation menus will be the death of me. I love pouring my soul (and my time) into crafting the best-looking cat mage in Skyrim. Or a Commander Shepard in Mass Effect. Or a Jew inSouth Park: The Stick of Truth. The more complicated the interface and range of options is, the better. In other…

Realistic Yoshi Would Not Be A Friend To Mario

Pete Holmes returns to the burning question of what Super Mario would be like in real life in his latest video, and the answer is just as gruesome as the first time he asked: Be warned, people. Sure, Yoshi is cute and all. But he’s still a dinosaur too! To contact the author of this…

‘Bong Animation Did Not Sync Properly’ And Other GTA V Patch Notes

Software patch notes usually make for dry reading. Other times, as with The Sims, they’re pure poetry. The patch notes for Grand Theft Auto, like many things in Rockstar’s popular series of open-world mayhem simulators, are pure insanity. I stumbled upon the latest set this morning when looking into Rockstar’s new updates forGTA Online, and…