Yannick LeJacq

Denmark Re-Created Their Entire Country In Minecraft

Something is blocky in the state of Denmark. Well, at least in the full-on rendition of the country that was built in Minecraft Two people at the Danish Geodata Agency have recreated a one-to-one model of Denmark inside the indie gaming sensation, according to reports from DR, the country’s national broadcasting corporation. In addition to…

One More Reason To Be Excited For The PC Game Prodigy

For all the toy lovers out there, yesterday was all about the new Skylanders game. But let’s not forget about Prodigy either The beautiful PC game that plays like a mashup of Activision’s kid-friendly franchise and an intricate card game like Magic is still in development, but the toy fiends here at Kotaku have been…

Papers, Please scored two big wins last night at the 2014 Games for Change festival’s awards ceremony, taking home the top prize in the “Best Gameplay” and “Most Innovative Game” categories. The 2013 indie game that casts players as an immigration inspector also won the grand prize at the 16th annual Independent Games Festival awards…

Famous Internet Cats, Now In Pretty Colors

The internet and cats go together like, well, the internet and cats. As Wired Magazine once astutely observed, there is only one thing that can legitimately “compete with porn for Internet real estate,” and that thing “is cats.” Much like their less safe-for-work rivals, however, cats have adopted a decidedly low-fi, amateurish aesthetic in making…

Meet The New Skylanders: Skylanders Trap Team

The next major installment in Skylanders, Activision’s wildly popular toy-video game mashup, is called Trap Team, the company announced at a special event this afternoon in New York City. It’s being developed by series creator Toys for Bob, and as the name suggests, the new game is going to let you capture bad guys and…

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is coming to Google Play and the Amazon Appstore “soon,” according to the game’s official Twitter account. This is great news for all the mobile gamers out there who’ve long felt the sting of not owning an iPhone or iPad. Not only is Enemy Unknown one of Kotaku’s all-time favorite ways to…

Blizzcon 2014 is officially taking place on Friday, November 7 and Saturday, November 8, Blizzard just announced in a press release. The convention will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Southern California. Find out more about this year’s festivities and get yourself some tickets here.

How Much It Costs To Mortgage An Xbox One And PS4

Video games are an expensive habit. And few things are pricier than being an early adopter for a next-gen console like the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. So if you’re really itching to dive into some quality PS4 or Xbox One games, are you better off renting one system or the other and paying it…

Minecraft’s New Terrain Generator Looks Amazing

Mojang has been slowly teasing out details about the next big update for Minecraft for a while now. This Tuesday, the team decided to drop a bombshell on fans of the legendary PC game in the form of a quiet little YouTube video announcing how players will soon be able “to create their own wild…

Nintendo and Japanese studio Tecmo Koei are developing a new installment in the horror series Fatal Frame, according to Famitsu. The good news for Nintendo fans is that it’s for the Wii U, which is a console in dire need of more quality games to play. The bad news for American Nintendo fans living stateside…

Please, Space Games, Don’t Become The Next Nazi FPS

Space games never really went away. But they’ve been on something of a comeback trail all the same. What happened to give all us neglected X-Wing fans reason to have faith once again? I’m willing to bet it has something to do with a little thing called the Oculus Rift. I mean, the gadget is…

Miyazaki Films Would Be Just As Pretty With Pixel Art

Last year’s news that Studio Ghibli mastermind and all around amazing person Hayao Miyazaki was retiring hit us all pretty hard here at Kotaku. If you’re like us—i.e., still grieving in between bouts of playing Ni No Kuni—then I suggest you feast your eyes on these charming pixellated recreations of iconic moments from some of…

Report: Apple And Google Buy Exclusive Games With Promo Space

As mobile gaming continues to loom ominously over the console wars, Apple and Google are beginning to adopt a tactic from their predecessors: fighting tooth and nail for platform exclusivity. According to a report in today’s Wall Street Journal, the two tech giants are starting to compete with one another to woo mobile game developers…

Music Video Recreates The Booze-Induced Haze Of Leisure Suit Larry

Leisure Suit Larry may not have exactly stood the test of time in terms of sheer staying power, but the series of famously salacious adventure games will always be remembered fondly for being some of the first major titles to broach topics like sex and human intimacy on their own sloppy terms. Norwegian DJ Todd…

Here’s 12 More Minutes Of Skywind To Gawk At

Hey, remember Skywind, that breaktakingly beautiful mashup of the two classic Elder Scrolls games Morrowind and Skyrim? Of course you do, because all us here at Kotaku can’t seem to stop posting about it Just look at this new developer diary, though, and you’ll see why. The ambitious plan to transport Morrowind into the engine…

Space Invaders And Other Classic Games As Renaissance Paintings

You know what would have made sitting through lectures on early modern European history a lot more bearable? Giant space lasers, and plenty of ’em. Unfortunately, the renaissance painter Fra Angelico would have had to live another 500 years or so in order to get a chance to draw inspiration from the modern-day muse that…

The Beautiful Mobile Game That Never Was

The road to video game greatness is paved with unfinished projects and half baked ideas. Simogo, the tiny studio behind many revered mobile games including Beat Sneak Bandit, Year Walk, and Device 6 reminded us of that today with a short tease of a video about one of their earliest prototypes. It’s a game called…

Who would’ve guessed that this is what the Little Sisters in BioShock started out as? Eurogamer just published a thorough report on the origins of the seminal first person shooter that’s worth a close read.

The second season of the The Walking Dead, Telltale Games’ renowned episodic adventure game, is coming to the PlayStation Vita next Tuesday, April 22, Sony announced this morning. In other words: if you have a Vita and you haven’t already started playing this phenomenal game, plan to set aside a few hours next week. We’re…

People Are Playing Frogger On A Skyscraper

The comparison has been many many, many times by people trying to run and dodge through traffic: it feels just like playing Frogger. Except it’s terrifying, because you’re the frog. This is particularly troubling in developing countries still in need of a robust public infrastructure to regulate traffic. Spanish game studio Noobware is trying to…