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System : Darons 89, podcast edition · 134 episodes indexed
Readme - Notepad
LES DARONS DU GAME - README
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An independent French video game podcast, running since 2016. Honest
reviews, deep dives and interviews. We talk about what ships, what
flops, and what lasts.
What we do
Reviews: we play, we finish, we call it.
Deep dives: the story of a studio, a series, a scandal.
Interviews: the people who actually make the games.
Arguments: because we never all agree.
What we play on
PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, PC, Meta Quest, Steam Deck. And retro,
often, because that is where it all started.
Independence
No sponsored content, no payment, no favours. Press access never binds
our schedule, our tone or our scores. The full rules are in the
editorial charter, available on this desktop.
Get in touch
Question, tip, press request or right of reply: open Contact.eml on the
desktop, or write to
contact@lesdaronsdugame.fr.
We read everything.
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Editorial charter - Notepad
Editorial charter
This charter binds everyone who contributes to Les Darons du Game. It is public and
applies to all our content: podcast, articles, videos and social media posts.
Independence
Les Darons du Game is an independent, volunteer-run and non-commercial publication. No
content is paid for, sponsored or commissioned, in any form whatsoever. No publisher,
studio, agency or platform has any right of review over our content, either before or
after publication.
The games we cover are either bought by us, obtained after their commercial release, or
provided as press access by a publisher or its PR agency.
Press access entails no obligation to publish, no commitment as to timing, no commitment
as to tone and no promise of a score. We reserve the right not to publish, to publish
late, or to publish an unfavourable opinion. Any request to the contrary results in the
press access being declined.
No financial or material consideration is accepted in exchange for coverage, a
publication schedule, a tone or a score.
Recusal
Any person contributing to Les Darons du Game who also holds a professional role with a
publisher, studio, distributor or service provider in the video game industry is
fully recused from content concerning that company and its productions.
Recusal covers the entire editorial chain:
the decision to cover the subject;
requesting and accepting press access;
dealings with the publisher or PR agency concerned;
writing, reviewing and hosting;
scoring;
proofreading and sign-off before publication.
The content concerned is produced exclusively by other contributors, and says so
explicitly.
Non-public information
No content relies on non-public information, an internal document, a confidential
schedule or a contributor's professional source. The information we publish comes
exclusively from public sources, official communications or our own hands-on testing.
Bylines and responsibility for content
Content is produced by several contributors. Each hands-on impression, critique or
analysis commits its author or authors, not the publication as a whole. The opinions
expressed fall under freedom of expression and the right to free criticism. They in no
way commit the contributors' employers.
Corrections and right of reply
Any request for factual correction or right of reply can be sent to
contact@lesdaronsdugame.fr. We undertake
to respond and to correct any established error, flagging the correction in the content
concerned.
First published on 1 September 2022. Updated on 31 July 2026.
Any substantive change is dated.
See also our legal notice.
Legal notice - Notepad
Legal notice
Site publisher
The website lesdaronsdugame.fr is published by Tristan Belotti, co-founder and
representative of the Les Darons du Game collective, acting as an individual and on a
non-professional basis, the publication giving rise to no commercial activity and no
remuneration.
The publication director is Tristan Belotti, in the capacity of co-founder and
representative of the Les Darons du Game collective, in accordance with Article 6 III
of French Law No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 (LCEN) and the French Law of 29 July 1881
on freedom of the press.
Editorial team
The Les Darons du Game editorial team is led by its founder and also relies on a
variety of contributors â columnists, guests and specialist speakers â brought in on
an ad hoc basis depending on the topics covered and editorial needs. All content is
published under the responsibility of the publication director. Contributions are
voluntary and unpaid.
Editorial governance and recusal
Content is produced by several contributors. Each hands-on impression, critique or
analysis commits its author or authors, not the editorial team as a whole.
Any contributor who holds a professional role with a publisher, studio, distributor or
service provider in the industry is fully recused from content concerning that company
and its productions: they take no part in the decision to cover it, in obtaining press
access, in writing, in reviewing, in scoring, in proofreading, or in sign-off before
publication.
Les Darons du Game is an independent, volunteer-run and non-commercial editorial
publication dedicated to news, criticism and analysis in the field of video games.
Published regularly since 2016, it produces editorial content in the form of hands-on
impressions, features, analyses and interviews, distributed as a podcast and on this
website. No content is paid for, sponsored or commissioned. The opinions and critiques
published fall under freedom of expression and the right to free criticism.
All content on the website lesdaronsdugame.fr (text, visuals, logo, graphic identity,
audio productions of the Les Darons du Game podcast) is protected by copyright and
remains the property of its author, unless otherwise stated. Any reproduction,
representation, distribution or exploitation, in whole or in part, without prior
written authorisation, is prohibited and would constitute infringement. The
trademarks, logos and visuals of games or publishers cited remain the property of
their respective owners and are used solely for editorial illustration purposes.
The website lesdaronsdugame.fr does not set any cookies and does not use any audience
measurement, tracking or advertising tools. No browsing data is collected for
statistical purposes. The third-party services the website links to (listening
platforms, social networks) may set their own cookies if you visit them; their use is
governed by their respective privacy policies.
Liability
The publisher strives to ensure the accuracy of the information published but cannot
be held liable for any errors, omissions or unavailability of the website. Any
external links cannot engage the publisher's liability as to their content.
It depends on what you want: a review for a clear verdict, a deep dive or Story Mode for the bigger picture, or an interview to hear from the people making games. Start with a subject that interests you.
Reviews, where we play and call it. Deep dives into a studio or a scandal. Interviews with the people who actually make the games. And arguments, because we never all agree.
Les Darons du Game is a collective of video game enthusiasts. Everyone has a day job and contributes voluntarily, bringing their own perspective to the discussions and the making of the show.
Not a network, but the same team: we also produce Familles de Coeur, a podcast of first-hand accounts about foster families and child protection. A world away from video games.
No. No paid content, no favours. Press access binds neither our schedule, nor our tone, nor our scores. It is all written down in the charter, this is not a figure of speech.
Never. Anyone working for a publisher is fully recused from content about that company. They do not discuss the game, they do not vote on the score, they are not in the room.
Welcome. We accept codes and announcements, with no guarantee of coverage, timing or tone in return. The charter sets out exactly how we handle press access.
A Windows 95 desktop. Windows move by their title bar, resize from the bottom right corner and minimise to the taskbar. All the site content lives inside.
Episodes and the audio player to listen, My Listening PC for the platforms, the documents (charter, legal notice, readme), and the games sitting on the desktop that launch longplays.
Open the episode list and click a title: the page opens with a button to start playback. The player keeps going even if you close its window and carry on browsing.
Familles de CĆur gives a voice to foster families, children in care and child protection professionals.
Through sensitive, first-hand accounts, the show explores family bonds, resilience and life stories.
The aim is to shed light on a reality that is often overlooked, without dwelling only on hardship: it is also about regained trust and everyday victories.
Editorial production: Tristan Belotti and Christel Navarro, in collaboration with the La Sauvegarde association.
The Daron's Attic
The Daron's Attic
The consoles of our youth, emulated right in the browser. Pick a machine, open your own file, and off you go.
No games provided. This site distributes neither ROMs nor BIOS files. You open your own files, from your own drive. They never leave your machine: nothing is uploaded, everything runs locally in your browser.
Emulation takes power. On a phone the 8 and 16 bit machines run fine, the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 much less so. Expect a few seconds of loading on the first launch too.
Game Boy
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.gb or .gbc file
DaronBoyTMRed Version
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Nintendo 64
.z64, .n64 or .v64 file. No BIOS required.
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Video games, unfiltered.Reviews, deep dives, interviews.
