Jason Schreier

House Of Wolves Will Change Destiny In Some Huge (Possibly Great) Ways

During a livestream today, Bungie shared a bunch of new information on the upcoming second expansion pack for Destiny, a video game named after a Calvin Klein fragrance. Although House of Wolves might not have a raid, it will bring along a few new features that Destiny needed really badly. The most important news: you’ll…

Xbox YouTube Channel Advertises The Witcher 3 With PC Footage [UPDATE]

Today, the Xbox YouTube channel released a rad new video for the upcoming role-playing game The Witcher 3. There’s just one problem: it’s not actually running on an Xbox. Whoops. Yep, despite that XBOX logo stamped on the bottom right corner of the above video, this is actually footage from the (presumably better-looking) PC version…

Objectivity

For the past few weeks, a lot of people have been asking me about “objectivity,” mostly thanks to a contextless tweet that has been circulating among the GamerGate crowd for quite some time now. I know what you’re thinking: “GamerGate? Taking things out of context? NO.” But here we are. Take a look at the…

The Brilliant Star Wars Galaxies Idea That Didn’t Happen

In 2003, way before anyone could even imagine a Star Wars-Disney union, thousands of eager padawans signed up for an online game called Star Wars Galaxies. Today, Galaxies is no more, rendered obsolete by a glut of other massively multiplayer RPGs including BioWare’s recent Star Wars: The Old Republic. But back then the SOE-developed game…

Very soon, GameStop will start buying and selling classic games and hardware—Wired’s got a new interview with some specifics on the upcoming program, which will include NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, PS1, and Dreamcast games and systems.

‘Invisible Nunchuck Guy’ And Other Video Game Retail Horror Stories

It turns out a whole lot of parents think video game stores are good substitutes for daycare. Not cool, parents. That’s according to the stories we’ve been getting from all sorts of current and former employees in the world of video game retail, who have shared with us tales of terrible customers, heartwarming interactions, and…

Watch The First Trailer For Star Wars Battlefront

After a decade of cancellations, false starts, and one tragic studio demise, this is the year we’ll finally see a third Star Wars Battlefront game. Here’s our first look. Today as part of the Star Wars Celebration, publisher EA released a trailer for their upcoming take on Battlefront, which is developed by DICE (best known…

First Star Wars Battlefront Details Emerge

The third Star Wars Battlefront—just called Star Wars Battlefront—will be out on November 17 for PC, Xbox One, and PS4. It’ll take place during the original film trilogy and let people play as iconic characters like Boba Fett and Darth Vader, according to an AP report. It’ll also let you go to a planet from…

Kotaku Asks: An Anonymous PR Person For A Major Video Game Publisher [Q&A Over]

Today on Kotaku Asks we’ve got a very special treat: a professional public relations person is here to answer your questions about what it’s really like behind the scenes at a major video game publisher. Our PR professional has to remain anonymous so he or she can stay a PR professional, but what we can…

Be careful, Mewtwo players—there’s a glitch in Smash Bros. Wii U that can prevent some people from playing online if they play Mewtwo in certain modes. Nintendo says they’re working on a patchto fix the problem, but for now, stay away from Smash Run, All-Star, Classic, Stadium, and Trophy Rush modes while playing as Mewtwo.

Here’s The New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer

Good afternoon, everyone. Here’s a new trailer for that movie about space. The teaser, which opens with a great Luke Skywalker monologue about his family’s connection to the Force—and sets the stage for plenty of speculation that this new set of movies will star his kids—is full of sizzling moments that will likely be analyzed…

Everything You Might Have Missed In The Final Fantasy XV Demo 

If you skipped the Final Fantasy XV demo last month, you can go on continuing to skip it, because this morning Square Enix released a three-minute video that sums up all the cool parts just for you. Of course, watching something is never quite the same as playing it, but this video will give you…

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, the fascinating PS4 adventure game announced back in 2012, will be out this summer, Sony says. New trailer above. This one looks pretty neat—it’s developed by The Chinese Room, the game studio behind Dear Esther

Here’s the first English trailer for Tales of Zestiria, which is now slated to come west this fall. (It was previously scheduled for summer.) It’s for PS3 only, sadly—keep that DualShock 3 charged until then!

We’ve Solved The New Star Wars: Battlefront Teaser

For the past few days, EA has been teasing a spectacular new image from the upcoming video game Star Wars: Battlefront, which they’ll be showing off Friday as part of this week’s Star Wars fanfest. The teaser, split into eight parts and posted on EA’s Twitter and Instagram accounts, contains pictures like this, clearly leading…

Here Are All Of Mewtwo’s Moves In Smash Bros. Wii U

Meet the new Mewtwo, same as the old Mewtwo. Like always, the psychic cat-lizard-Pokémon chimaera is spending most of its Smash time floating around and conjuring big blasts of purple energy to knock opponents off the stage. Today, Nintendo sent out early codes for Mewtwo—who will be officially released on April 28 as $5 DLC…

Surprise: Hearthstone’s out on iPhone and Android phones today. It’s free, excellent, and will probably take over your life. HAVE FUN.

Today’s Destiny Patch Fixes Raids, Adds More Vault Space

This afternoon, Bungie released a new patch for Destiny, a video game in which players must travel the galaxy fighting against powerful adversaries like the Fallen, the Vex, and Bungie. In addition to expanding the vault (as seen above) and fixing a bunch of crippling raid bugs like the mysterious vanishing Crota sword, this new…

’90s Video Game Ads Were All That And A Bag Of Chips

From fish-eye lenses to Big Dog-style one-liners, 1990s video game ads had it all. And by “had it all” I mean “were absolutely ridiculous and almost hurt to look back on today.” This gallery of ‘90s ads, put together by Flickr user jonathantaylorthomasfan and passed along to us by a couple of anonymous tipsters last…

Someone Beat Pillars of Eternity In Under 40 Minutes

Thanks to a combination of glitches, sequence breaking, and some seriously skilled clicking, speedrunner Jiseed has turned Obsidian’s epic new RPG into a 40-minute cakewalk. In this speedrun, which appears to be the current world record for Pillars of Eternity, Jiseed takes advantage of a few different game-breaking glitches to bypass chunks of the game…