Yannick Lejacq

So long, game retailers. But what’s next?

Dismal news continues to pour in about the sad state of gaming retail stores across Europe and Australia. The Australian Financial Review reports today that many shops are now simply cleaning house:  Game Group isn’t the only retailer to feel the slow death of brick and mortar video games in Austral

PAUSE: this is your cat on Yu-Gi-Oh!

Hats off to BuzzFeed for curating the finest-quality cat material on the internet. But this one is especially relevant. I mean, this kid doesn’t even need an iPad to play with his cat.  [BuzzFeed]

Do videogames abet cyberbullying?

As the recent resolution of the case following Tyler Clementi’s harassment and suicide illustrates, regulating online spaces is a difficult (if not impossible) task with potentially fatal consequences. Harder still is drawing the line between legitimate hate crimes and “cyber bullying,” which has st

That’s right, Martha Stewart is coming to CastleVille.

Just when I thought Zynga’s place in the game industry couldn’t get any weirder or more contentious, Mashable gave me this little gem: Martha Stewart is setting up house on Facebook. From now until mid-April, players of Facebook gameCastleVille will be able to interact with a virtual (and much young

PAUSE: A tour through 8-bit videogame history in Snafu’s new music video.

Video Sna-fu Grand Désordre Orchestre‘s new music video for their song “Dreamorama” first seems like it’s just making a kitschy reference to 8-bit nostalgia. But as the video (made by French filmmaker Pierre Manry) progresses, the arcade history it pulls out is impressively comprehensive—making refe