Jason Schreier

Microsoft just announced their plans for E3 2015: they’ve got their Xbox presser at the usual time (Monday, June 15 at 9:30am PT) and a daily live show they’ll be streaming from the conference floor. More info over on Major Nelson’s blog

LEGO Jurassic World comes out on June 12, publisher Warner Bros. just announced. It’ll be right on time for the movie. New trailer above.

Eight Months Later, Destiny Players Are Still Hunting For Secrets

Last Tuesday, a Reddit user named DemonCipher13 wrote a passionate call for help on a subreddit dedicated to Destiny, a video game about the mysteries of space. “The time has come,” DemonCipher13 wrote, directly addressing David “DeeJ” Dague, a community manager at Bungie, the studio that develops and maintains Destiny. “Help us. Is there anything…

Ubisoft Announces Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate

It’s official: the next Assassin’s Creed is called Syndicate, and it’ll be out for PS4 and Xbox One on October 23, with a PC release coming later in the fall. If you read Kotaku, you already know a lot about Syndicate—it’s set in Victorian London, it will have both male and female protagonists, and it…

Announcement Of Announcement Of Announcements

By now we’re all used to announcements of announcements, but Nintendo is taking things to the next level: here, for your amusement, is an announcement of an announcement of how they’ll deliver their E3 announcements. Video games! You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @jasonschreier

Fallout 4 Is Driving Everyone Insane

Few games drive as much breathless fever as Fallout 4, the game that everyone assumes Bethesda Game Studios is currently making. And few games have driven people so crazy. Maybe it’s because people fell in love with the tone and scale of Bethesda’s excellent Fallout 3 and their follow-up, the instant-classic Skyrim. Maybe it’s because…

Sources: You Can Play As A Woman In Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate

Almost a year after publisher Ubisoft made headlines for not including female protagonists in Assassin’s Creed Unity, today we’ve got news that there will be a playable woman assassin in the next entry of Ubisoft’s mega-series, according to two people familiar with the game. This fall’s Assassin’s Creed, which will be officially announced tomorrow as…

Now That’s A Lot Of HP

Via Miiverse, a screenshot from the Japanese version of Xenoblade Chronicles X (which comes out in North America and Europe later this year). Is this the most damage we’ve ever seen done at once in an RPG? Discuss.

Destiny’s House of Wolves already looks way better than the disappointing The Dark Below. If you’ve missed any of Bungie’s reveals so far, check out the above trailer for a good recap of what’s coming when the new expansion drops (May 19).

Kotaku Asks: A Game Designer Who’s Worked On BioShock And South Park [Q&A Over]

Meet Jordan Thomas, a veteran game designer who’s worked on games like BioShock and South Park: The Stick of Truth. He’s here to answer your questions today. Thomas, who has been working in the video game industry since 1998, was the lead designer on Thief: Deadly Shadows back in the Ion Storm days. He also…

Nintendo Thinks They’ll Dominate The Garbage Mobile Gaming Market

This week in Japan, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata made some lofty promises about the company’s plan to make mobile games. “We will strive to expand this business into global markets at a steady pace so that eventually we will entertain hundreds of millions of people all around the world,” he said. “We are aiming to…

PAX Prime tickets are now on sale. They’ll be sold out in roughly five seconds, so if you want’em, get’em now

Next Assassin’s Creed To Be Announced Next Week; Now Called Syndicate

Ubisoft will officially announce the next Assassin’s Creed on Tuesday, May 12, the publisher said today. If you read Kotaku, you already know a lot about it:this year’s AC game is set in Victorian Londonand, if early footage is anything to go by, will let you use a grappling hook and fight on carriages, among…

Here’s Lots More Info On Destiny‘s House of Wolves

This afternoon, Bungie shared a bunch of new info on the next expansion for Destiny, a video game about the great galactic battle between talented actors and a terrible script. For starters, the folks behind Destiny gave us a brief description of the new strike that will be included in House of Wolves when it…

Here’s EA’s upcoming (announced) lineup for the next year or so. The news? Mirror’s Edge is slated for Q4 (January-March 2016), as is a new Plants vs. Zombies game. (Screengrab via EA’s presentation for Q4 2015.)

GOG’s Take On Steam Goes Live Today

Last year, the folks behind GOG announced plans to launch their own PC gaming service, GOG Galaxy, to compete with Steam and Origin. Today, it’s finally going public. GOG Galaxy, which you can download here, is now in open beta. Like Steam, Origin, and other PC gaming clients, it’s a stand-alone program with its own…

Nintendo Admits They Screwed Up Amiibo, Promises To Do Better

It’s no big secret that Nintendo has totally bungled the way they handle Amiibos, their line of plastic figurines based on iconic characters like Mario and Peach. Today, Nintendo’s finally admitting there’s a problem—and they’re vowing to do better. Ever since Amiibo first launched last year, customers have run into supply shortages and intense scalping…

What It’s Like To Crunch On A Video Game

It’s hard to understand what really goes into game development until you’ve heard the stories firsthand. For a long time now we’ve been covering the cruel world of video game developer layoff cycles, but there’s another element of game development that has become a horrifying standard: crunch time. Often, while approaching a milestone goal or…

GamerGate Meetup Evacuated After Bomb Threat [UPDATE]

Attendees at a GamerGate meetup evacuated a bar in Washington, DC last night after police showed up in response to a threat, according to people who were there. Workers at the bar told patrons there was a fire drill, attendees say, but as people left the building, they found police officers standing outside. In various…

Pillars of Eternity: The Kotaku Review

I once heard a game designer say that anyone older than a teenager who plays video games isn’t actually enjoying them. Instead, the designer theorized, we’re all just endlessly trying to recreate the enjoyment we used to feel, years ago, back when we were young and the world was full of possibility. Can’t say I…