Jason Schreier's discussions

Well that part isn’t complex, but as I’m sure you’re aware if you’re in France, the whole Code du travail is notoriously complicated. The convoluted part of this process, as far as I know (from talking to people there) will involve Blizzard’s management negotiating with the French labor counsel and figuring out who’s… Read more

Don’t feel guilty. They said on their blog that they’ve sold 2.8 million copies. At $15, that’s a gross of $42 million. Even when you account for sales and take out the Steam/eshop/PSN/XBL cuts, Kickstarter backers/fees, and other expenses, they’re doing juuuuust fine. Read more

Last year, Gizmodo Media Group editorial had layoffs. But because we’re unionized, we were able to get a seat at the table to ensure that we were all kept informed, and we convinced our parent company Univision to instead offer buyouts, allowing those who wanted to leave the company to leave by choice (with 4 months… Read more

For those of you who see “2D Zelda” and get hyped to hell and back (like me!), keep your expectations in check. Buzz around Nintendo circles suggests that this one is on the weirder side. And Triforce Heroes sure sucked... Read more

Nahhh it was clearly a mistake that anyone could have made. In fact, I’m no technical expert but because it’s a pre-rendered cut-scene I think they can just re-render it and then add the new version via patch to everyone’s games. Read more

I believe you because I’ve heard the same from many people over the past year. Some of them were even high-profile, like Ben Brode (former Hearthstone director, who went on to start a new company). Read more

A relevant image, from last year’s SEC filings.

This is a dark theory, one I hadn’t even thought of as I was reporting this, and of course it makes complete sense. Given recent news that GameStop won’t be selling itself to anyone, I think this is a very good guess. Read more

Yes, I think $5 minimum to pre-order. That’s standard, I think. Read more

Yeah, I guessed the same. Just to be clear, though, that’s just a guess on my part. For all I know, Titanfall 3 could be out this fall. Read more

My understanding is that Respawn wanted Titanfall 2 to go head to head against Call of Duty, and that Battlefield 1 was originally supposed to come out earlier (September-ish). But DICE had to delay BF1 and by the time that happened, it was too late to bump back Titanfall 2 because of various marketing deals they’d… Read more

I would love to write a story about the making of Anthem! We shall see. Read more

The same source I cited above told me that Titanfall 2's release timing was entirely Respawn’s decision. Read more

Good suggestion, thanks! Read more

To clarify, BTW, you can suspend a battle and then resume it. (The game won’t actually tell you this, but it’ll let you resume an in-progress battle if you close the application or need to update your system or whatever.) But yeah, no saving your progress and then reloading. Read more

I did! Outside of the genre and a few quirks (like your units getting critical strikes under certain conditions, like if your flier is over a mountain tile), this is a 1:1 recreation of Advance Wars. Read more

I actually hadn’t known about that R6 event until after this piece went live, but it makes perfect sense - they must have taken stuff they built for the canceled spinoff/expansion and turned it into that mode. Read more

I’m pretty sure in this story I un-cancelled a game! Read more

Not gonna say that I’m always right, but... Read more

I think it would be interesting (and definitely funny) for you to take a month or so and only play online shooters