
ButtonMasher - The Buttonmashers had a LAN at the weekend. We tell the tale. Paul and I have been playing Day Z, with mixed results. Wugga’s played some Battlefield 3, and James’s favourite band is Green Day. Paul, as it turns out, has had a go at Slender. We go on to discuss scariness in video games. uPlay breaks, free Max Payne DLC, gamer dating, Apple’s new Dualshock, and Zynga’s insider training (or not).

It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.

Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.

A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.