Jason Schreier

Steam Is Now Offering Refunds

Steam is finally getting a proper refund system. Starting today, users of Valve’s PC platform will be able to get a full refund on any game for any reason, provided it’s been less than 14 days since purchase and they’ve spent less than two hours playing. You’ll be able to get your money back for…

Nintendo has denied a recent Nikkei report that their new NX console will use Android as an operating system. Of course, Nintendo has a habit of denying Nikkei reports that later turn out to be true. On the other hand, Nikkei’s track recordisn’t 100%. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

The Fallout 4 Announcement Has Begun [UPDATE: Announced]

UPDATE (10am): On Wednesday morning, Bethesda announced Fallout 4 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. You can watch the trailer right here Original post follows: It’s official: Fallout 4 is coming. Bethesda just put up a countdown timer leading up to the announcement, which will apparently take place tomorrow. It’s curious to see Bethesda announce…

One of the designers behind Turok has launched a Kickstarter for a spiritual successor—except it’s a comic, not a game. Designer Tim Lewinson—who also worked on the ill-fated Turok 2—tells Kotaku he hopes to eventually turn this into a game in the future.

LEGO Just Launched Their Own Minecraft

The best way to describe Minecraft is as “digital LEGO,” so I guess it was inevitable that LEGO would make their own version too. Meet LEGO Worlds, which is on Steam Early Access—a platform for selling early and unfinished games—starting today. The devs are promising procedurally-generated worlds, complex terraforming tools, and whatever else you might…

Surprise! Here’s A Bunch Of Nintendo News

Sometimes, Nintendo just randomly throws up a “Nintendo Direct Micro” and announces a bunch of new 3DS games for North America, including Bravely Second, Dr. Mario, and Chibi-Robo. Because Nintendo likes surprises. In the 17-minute video, hosted by Bill Trinen and published out of nowhere this morning, Nintendo announced Chibi-Robo: Zip Lash (for 3DS this…

Kotaku Asks: An Anonymous Video Game Tester

Curious about what it’s like to play video games for a living? Want to know how grueling—or how satisfying—it can be to work as a QA tester for major video game companies? This afternoon we’ve got a professional video game tester here to answer your questions about all things QA. Our tester requested anonymity in…

Two Years Later, Sony’s ‘#JRPGVita’ Campaign Is A Bust

On June 6, 2013, Sony director of strategic content Shahid Ahmad wrote on Twitter that the company was looking to bring more Japanese role-playing games to the Vita. “Greetings,” he said. “We’re looking at JRPGs and similar for Vita. Your votes on which ones you’d buy using #jrpgvita please.” The tweet exploded, drawing attention from…

FIFA Video Game Finally Adds Women’s Teams

FIFA 16, a video game in which players must navigate the ins and outs of a corrupt organization, will finally allow players to use women’s national teams. That’s a first for the longrunning soccer series, whose producers have been teasing the inclusion of female players for a long time now. It’s wonderful to see EA…

Twitch Bans Adults-Only Games

Just in time for Hatred, an upcoming video game about a dude who goes around and mindlessly slaughters everyone, the video website Twitch announced last night that users will no longer be able to stream games rated Adults-Only by the ESRB. It’s a curious move by Twitch, which was purchased last year by Amazon for…

StarCraft II just got a new unit—the Terran Liberator, who’s entering the Legacy of the Void beta this week. Looks perfect for clearing out clumps of Mutalisks and Void Rays.

The Witcher 3 Takes Shots At DRM

Above, via Kotaku reader SilentAssassn87, a lovely little dig from the developers of The Witcher 3, CD Projekt Red, who are quite critical of the restrictive anti-piracy method known as Digital Rights Management (DRM). If you can’t read that text—yes, The Witcher 3 has a font problem!—here it is: The Defensive Regulatory Magicon (or DRM…

Tickets to see PlayStation E3 Experience live in theaters are now available. They’re free, so snag’em quickly if you want them, because they’ll go fast.

What’s Up With Mortal Kombat X On PS3 And 360?

Last week, publisher Warner Bros. quietly delayed the last-gen port of Mortal Kombat X, according to several GameStop employees, who tell Kotaku they informed customers on Friday that PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the new fighting game had been delayed from summer until fall. The mega-retailer changed the listing on their website, too, quietly…

The Mad Max Game Has Me Less Excited Than The Movie

It’d take one hell of a video game to live up to the brilliant, relentless action of Mad Max: Fury Road. This does not appear to be that video game. I got to play the Mad Max game during a brief hands-on session in Los Angeles last week, and although the upcoming game does a…

Destiny‘s Newest Helmet Is An Instant Boss-Killer

Meet the Celestial Nighthawk, one of Destiny’s newest helmets and perhaps the most lethal boss-killing device in the game. Nighthawk, an exotic hunter helmet that was added to the game with the House of Wolves expansion earlier this week, offers one very interesting unique perk: BIG GAME: Golden Gun fires one shot, delivering 6x damage,…

Kotaku Asks: Video Game Personality Greg Miller [Q&A Over]

In January, Greg Miller quit his cushy job at IGN to go indie. Although it seemed like a risky move at the time, things have worked out for the longtime video game personality and his friends, who doubled down on video-making and podcasting and now rake in over $45,000 a month via Patreon support for…

Kudos, Square Enix! The publisher has moved their E3 press conference an hour later, to 10am PT on Tuesday, June 16, to avoid overlapping with Nintendo’s 9am digital presentation. Props to Square for being flexible.

Surprise: Nintendo just released a new Pushmo game. It’s called Stretchmo, and it’s on the 3DS eShop today. The first seven puzzles are free; you can buy the rest separately, or as a bundle for $10. (Pushmo, of course, is one of the 3DS’s best games.)

Microsoft Punishes Gears of War Leakers [UPDATE]

UPDATE (7:12pm): Well now here’s an interesting addendum. Earlier today, following a number of video leaks from a wide-scale beta test of the upcoming Gears of War remake, the game testing company VMC said in a memo that Microsoft had both permanently banned the leakers from Xbox Live and temporarily disabled their consoles, rendering them…