Yannick LeJacq

Minimum is going to be free to play this weekend, Atari announced today. You can try to snag a code for the neat-looking shooter the publisher rescued from TimeGate’s untimely closure over at GamePedia’s wiki for the game. Learn more about the game here

Grand Theft Auto V Plus Goat Simulator Equals Chaos

Grand Theft Auto V isn’t even out for PC, and the game is already getting some very…unique takes from the modding community. Just take this one, which looks like a hybrid Frankenstein monster made of spare parts from GTA, Tokyo Jungle, and Goat Simulator: My favorite part is when the wolf tries to get into…

What do you get when you combine Lemmings and Tetris? Letris? Uh…sure. But the good people over at indie studio Crunching Koalas seem like they have a better idea with this painfully adorable-looking new game MouseCraft. Check out the new trailer above. It comes out July 8th for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PC,…

You Should Really Listen To The Full Mario Kart 8 Soundtrack

We still have to wait a few more weeks to play Mario Kart 8, but here’s something to help tide us all over until the game finally launches at the end of May. If you go over to Nintendo’s main Mario Kart 8 website, you can spend the rest of your Friday listening to the…

Small Massachusetts Town Lifts 32-Year Ban On Pac-Man

Just in time for the arrival of next-gen consoles, residents in the town of Marshfield, Massachusetts are going to be able to play Pac-Man publicly for the first time in over three decades. According to a report from local newspaper The Patriot Ledger, Marshfield residents voted to overturn a 1982 bylaw that banned coin-operated arcade…

In Defense Of Zombie Games

Even in video game terms, this week has been chock full of zombie news. Sony and Microsoft, the dueling juggernauts of the console market, both offered up fresh and appropriately gory details about their respective (and exclusive) open-world games about killing the living dead—H1Z1 and State of Decay. Personally, I’m excited for both games. And…

After a “rocky start,” the sci-fi MMORPG Defiance is marking its one-year anniversary by going free-to-play, developer and publisher Trion Worlds announced today. Coming alongside the premier of the second season of the related SyFy show, the change will go into effect on June 4th on the PC and July 15th on the PS3. No…

All The Tracks In Mario Kart 8

In the latest bit of Mario Kart 8 news, Nintendo has compiled a helpful list of all the tracks that will be featured in the new game that’s out later this month for the Wii U. As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve been talking about a Mario Kart lot lately, mostly just because the game looks…

Watch Sony’s New Zombie MMO In Action [UPDATE]

Sony is continuing its semi-crowdsourced campaign to help develop and promote its new zombie MMO H1Z1 with a series of compelling public-facing initiatives. Yesterday, the Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) team ran a 12-hour live-stream of gameplay from an early build on Twitch. It’s still pretty rough around the edges, but you can watch some of…

Here’s a new creeptacular trailer for Murdered: Soul Suspect, the game that’s like L.A. Noire but with ghosts. It comes out on June 3rd for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC.

Artwork Made With Kinect Puts You Inside A Magical Forest

I’m not usually one for hyperbole, but this has to be the most stunning artistic use of Microsoft’s Kinect I’ve ever seen. Le Vent Nous Portera (French for The Wind Will Carry Us) puts users (for lack of a better word) inside a magical midnight forest that reminds me of Grave of the Fireflies, only…

Video Commentator TotalBiscuit Gets Personal About Cancer

“If you were hoping to hear about video games…” he says, pausing for a moment. Comically gruesome gameplay footage of a doctor clumsily fiddling with a half-excavated chest cavity continues to run uninterrupted on the YouTube video. “Not today. I think that needed a video of its own, to explain there.” The man talking is…

Video Game About Masturbating Is A Lot Less Fun Than It Sounds

Video games have a lot in common with porn. That’s not meant as a criticism—some of the best minds in the business have compared the two as a way to advocate on behalf of the creative merits of both. But here’s the thing: once you accept that video games are often structurally similar to porn,…

Nintendo Says Americans Like Kirby When He’s Angry

“You won’t like me when I’m angry” might make sense as a tagline for an angsty green monster like the incredible hulk. A pudgy little pink one? Not so much. Nintendo’s longtime Kirby developer HAL Laboratories has finally opened up about a perplexing facet of the character: why an otherwise cheerful small pink ball looks…

The DuckTales Theme As An R&B Slow Jam

Barely a week after they brought you a jamming rendition of the Pokémon theme song, Scott Bradlee and co. are back at it with a cover of the iconic DuckTales intro. Here’s the original for a point of comparison: Now just imagine how much more laid back Scrooge McDuck would be if each of his…

Sorry, Rabbits, This Strategy Game Says You Have To Die

For fantasy buffs of a certain age, there’s a series of books dearer to our hearts than Lord of the Rings or even—dare I say it—Harry Potter. I’m talking about Redwall, the kid-friendly epic that reads like Games of Thrones with furry little animals instead of gratuitous raunchy sex. Unlike those other series, however, Redwall…

The Universim Looks Like Everything I Want From A God Game

Who knew you could get so emotional from watching a Kickstarter video? I certainly didn’t. But then I looked at the first few minutes of the pitch for this new god game Universim and, well, just check the thing out and see for yourself: Developed by the young and relatively unknown indie studio Crytivo Games,…

Console-Exclusive Metal Gear Missions Are No Longer Exclusive

Starting May 1, the platform-specific content in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will become platform agnostic, publisher Konami announced today. Up until now, PlayStation and Xbox players both got slightly different Ground Zeroes experiences, since both versions of the game came with a unique mission. PlayStation 3 and 4 players were the only ones…

Battlefield 4 Should Have One Less Problem Soon

After months of scrambling to fix a plethora of technical issues that were keeping fans from going online and actually playing Battlefield 4, series developer DICE announced Friday morning that it’s officially bringing out the big guns to try and fix the game’s problems once and for all. The furor over Battlefield 4’s initial connectivity…

Here’s the new trailer for Mad Max, the upcoming car combat game based on the memorable series of eighties-era post-apocalyptic movies that starred Mel Gibson before he became a crazy person. The video mostly focuses on the cars, which all look pretty in the rusty post-apocalyptic sort of way, and suggests that players will be…