Every now and then, a title shows up on the video game market that has all the passion and talent of the "AAA gaming" scene, but without the budget or the marketing machine of a Warner Bros. or an Activision in its corner. Despite this, som...

One of the most notorious Assassin's Creed games has found new life five years after launch. In the wake of the Notre Dame fire in Paris, Ubisoft ran a promotion where it gave away Assassin's Creed Unity for free on PC. The Notre ...

Ubisoft is doing what it can to preserve the legacy of the Notre Dame. Following the tragic fire earlier this week, Ubisoft is gifting players the opportunity to explore its incredibly well-detailed recreation of the famed cathedral. Assass...

Take others' fates into your hands with this contest. Win We. The Revolution for Steam! Hey, so this one is pretty unique. There's a great setup, great visuals, and what looks like some pretty harrowing gameplay. Sounds good, right? Win a S...

I recently finished playing and loving Return of the Obra Dinn. Its unique gameplay and immersive atmosphere felt like a breath of fresh air with regards to what games can do. We. The Revolution has been on the outskirts of my radar for a ...

In France, a teenager has been busted after using a self-service checkout to buy a PlayStation 4 console for less than a tenner. 19-year-old "Adel" picked up the console at a local supermarket and hefted it over to the fruit and veg section...

Deciding whether to get the puppies in flower pots or kittens in baskets on your new personalized credit card is a hard enough decision to break a person. Well, worry no more as customers of the French banking group Sociét&eacut...

To a lot of people, the reveal that the Switch port of Ubisoft's upcoming Starlink: Battle for Atlas would include exclusive Star Fox content was enough to propel the game from, "Looks decent," to, "Holy shit, I need this!" I know I'm sudde...

Octopath Traveler, Square Enix's upcoming classic RPG throwback game for Switch, has been heavily marketed for the last year as offering eight distinct job classes for players to tinker with. Turns out, there are going to be a few hidden jo...

Last week saw The Emotional Games Awards 2018 take place in Laval, France. It was the second year for the ceremony, which exists to "reward and promote games which bring on the most complex emotions in the players".The jury consisted of sev...

Almost a year ago, Ubisoft claimed that it would be adding dedicated servers to its historical brawler For Honor. While that update arrived on PC last month, it hasn't made its way onto consoles...that is, until now! Starting tomorrow, Marc...

Right now, and this could change once Nintendo gives us an updated figure, the Nintendo Switch has sold nearly 15 million units. It's already surpassed the lifetime sales of the Wii U worldwide, and in many specific regions, and it's still ...

The burgeoning "battle royale" sub-genre is about to get another entrant. Coming from Focus Home Interactive and some of the devs behind the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, this post-apocalyptic first-person shooter will take place in Chernobyl and ...

Over the weekend, French online retailers Micromania posted a pre-order listing for a Nintendo Switch release of the adorably grim Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.The murderous visual novel, which released on PS4, PS Vita and PC last year, ...

Earlier this week, the Switch beat out the Wii U's lifetime sales in Japan. The same Switch that's been out for 10 months against the Wii U's five plus years. That same milestone is now happening all over the world it seems, as the Switch j...

Decades of playing video games slumped in chairs and beds all but obliterated my developing spinal column. Thank you WWF No Mercy. If you want to be like me, an "Arcade Sofa" might be just what you need.Manufactured by French company Harow,...

Nintendo is doing a line of GAMER BAGS with LeSportsac, which is actually an American company, despite the French affectation, though it is owned by a larger Japanese company. The sacs are coming to Japan on July 19 and will be released sta...

The only known third-party exclusive for Nintendo Switch at this time is Seasons of Heaven, an indie game based on the book of the same name about a boy with Asperger's named Yann and his bulldog Ani. The first full trailer shows vibrant an...

When news broke last month that five Ubisoft executives were accused of insider trading by a French stock market regulation committee, things didn't look bright for those men. They offloaded some of their shares of Ubisoft in the weeks befo...

The Nintendo Switch has its first third-party exclusive: Seasons of Heaven by France-based AnyArt Productions, who is known for indie titles such as Seasons of Heaven. I started to write Story of Seasons three different times befo...

Verdun is a realistic multiplayer FPS, set in WW1. You don't see those every day. The game is inspired by the Battle of Verdun France in 1916 and features authentic period weaponry (and realistic bullet physics). Squad based, trench warfare...

With all of the poor handling of amiibo from Nintendo, you'd think it couldn't get any worse, but then things like this happen. Following on the heels of an entire shipment of Splatoon amiibo (and copies of the game) being stolen, Hype...

There's a new developer in town and its liable to eat your grandmother and blow your house down. Well, that or make dark, mature role-playing games about things like choices and emotions. Big Bad Wolf, a new independent studio based in Bord...

Paris Games Week has finished happening. It happened across the street from Games Connection, where I was busying myself with loads of smaller folks' games, so naturally I visited. I played The Order, which a lot of folks are carrying water...

Game Connection Europe held its annual Development Awards this week in Paris, with Area Effect's Izle leading the way with five wins. Each of the ten categories feature two possible awards, the European Games Booster Award and the Developme...