Jason Schreier

Watch Today’s Nintendo Direct Right Here [UPDATE]

Ready for a new Nintendo Direct? We’re expecting to officially hear the U.S. release date for the New 3DS, along with a whole bunch of other news from the folks behind the 3DS and Wii U. This one’s gonna be a whopping 46 minutes, so we’re expecting a lot of info on Nintendo’s plans for…

Looks Like The New 3DS Is Coming Out Next Month

Rumor suggests Nintendo’s New 3DS—a poorly-titled yet excellent hardware revision of the Old 3DS—will be officially announced for North America tomorrow, and that it’ll come out on February 13. Though nothing is official yet, there’s a lot of compelling evidence. The above flier, via NeoGAF, showing a “2.13” release date. A report from the fan…

~Video Games~

Above: Excerpt from a press release sent out today by 2K Games, the publisher of the upcoming shooter Evolve. Video games.

Grand Theft Auto V Delayed On PC

Sorry, PC owners—you’ll be getting Grand Theft Auto V a little late this year. Rockstar has delayed the upcoming PC port of their massive open-world game to March 24. The good news: Rockstar says the much-anticipated heists are (finally) coming to GTA Online before then. Heists will launch on consoles “in the coming weeks” before…

It’s Official: No More Pulling Out Your LAN Cable To Kill Crota

Farewell, hilarious Destiny exploit that allowed us to kill Crota by pulling out a LAN cable and watching him enter a permanent state of paralysis as we danced around his big dumb green head. As of today—as of right now!—the Crota cheese is fixed, as are a bunch of other exploits Destiny players have been…

Suikoden II Finally Gets Its Due

Suikoden II, a video game about being a sous chef, finally came to the PlayStation Network last month, and it totally flopped, proving that Konami was right and that nobody in North America wants Japanese role-playing games because they are garbage. Wait, what? The PlayStation Blog just put up their top-sellers for December? Good work,…

Five-Hour Ocarina of Time Speedrun Is Like A Totally Different Game

If you’re looking for something nice and meaty to watch today—or to keep in the background as you do other things—allow me to recommend this impressive 100% speedrun of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time by the great runner ZFG. Unlike other Ocarina of Time runs you may have seen—the ones that use glitches…

Guy Beats Ocarina of Time‘s First Three Dungeons With A Blindfold On

It’s the last day of Awesome Games Done Quick 2015, and to celebrate, speedrunner Runnerguy2489 played a few dungeons in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Also, he did it all blindfolded. Yep, he played through a solid chunk of the iconic N64 game without looking, finishing the first three dungeons thanks to some…

Video Game Pre-Order Bonuses Are Getting Stranger Every Day [UPDATE]

Pre-ordering video games is, in general, a Very Bad Idea, as we’ve learned from the likes of SimCity, Battlefield 4, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Assassin’s Creed Unity, Aliens: Colonial Marines, and many many more. So these days, video game publishers have to get a little more creative when it comes to getting you to…

Watch Pokémon Red/Blue Get Destroyed In Just 21 Minutes

When I first saw that the schedule for Awesome Games Done Quick listed the original Pokémon games with an estimated completion time of “30:00,” I had a feeling we were going to see something ridiculous today. And we sure did. It took just 21 minutes for speedrunner Werster to rip through Pokémon Red/Blue this afternoon,…

Bungie Is Fixing Destiny‘s Most Ridiculous Exploits

Sorry, Destiny players—starting next week, you won’t be able to use the LAN trick on Crota anymore. Bungie is finally fixing the Crota cheese—and implementing a bunch of other fixes and tweaks—in an update that they say will go live next week. In addition to the LAN fix, Bungie says they’re fixing many of the…

It’s 2015 And There’s A New PSP Game Coming Out Next Week

Who says the PSP is dead? Oh, everyone? Including Sony? Right, right, because the PSP is dead and has been for like five years now. BUT HEY, that won’t stop the folks at publisher XSEED Games from releasing a new PSP game next week anyway. Above: the trailer for Brandish: The Dark Revenant, an action-RPG…

Tetris Mastermind Beats The Game With All Blocks Invisible

You have probably played Tetris. You have probably watched people play Tetris. You have almost surely not watched people play Tetris like this. During the Awesome Games Done Quick speedrun marathon this week, a group of puzzle masterminds tore through various versions of Tetris: The Grandmaster, pulling out all sorts of tricks to show off…

Final Fantasy Theatrhythm: Curtain Call is getting some new DLC tracks—starting today you can get songs from Xenogears and even Seiken Dentetsu 3 (a Secret of Mana sequel that was never released in North America) for $0.99 each. Full list here.

Hearthstone‘s Latest Trend: Making Your Opponent Run Out Of Cards

It is testament to the brilliance of the digital card game Hearthstone that its players have come up with dozens and dozens of crazy, effective strategies over the past year. One tactic that’s becoming particularly popular these days? Forcing players to run out of cards. Let me explain. Every Hearthstone deck consists of 30 cards,…

30 Minutes Of Impossibly Precise Mario Speedrunning

You probably know the story behind Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels, otherwise known as the real Super Mario Bros. 2, deemed too challenging to release in America back in the NES days. (The SMB2 we know and love is called “Super Mario USA” in Japan, which probably should be grounds for World War III.)…

Watch One Guy Speedrun One Of The Hardest Games Ever Made

I Wanna Be The Boshy is one of the silliest games I’ve ever seen, a mishmash of characters and levels from classics ranging from Castlevania to Mega Man that seems designed to be as infuriating as possible. It’s insane. Outrageous. Totally unfair. Maybe that’s why it’s the best part of this week’s Awesome Games Done…

Star Wars: Jedi Knight Speedrun Is Way Funnier Than It Should Be

If you are a fan of A) Star Wars; B) Jedi Knight; C) blocky 1997 graphics; D) watching things go very fast; or E) all of the above, you will likely enjoy this speedrun of Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, a game that looks way funnier when you’re playing most of it in…

Sources: BioWare’s Shadow Realms In Flux, Possibly Rebooted

Shadow Realms, last year’s surprise announcement from BioWare Austin, is going through big changes and may have been totally rebooted, sources tell Kotaku That Austin branch of BioWare, best known for developing the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic, originally unveiled Shadow Realms as an online 4 vs. 1 action-role-playing game that would be released…

‘We Do Apologize’: Life At Sony Customer Service During The PSN Attack

A few days ago, I got an e-mail from someone who said he was a customer service agent for PlayStation. He asked me—and, really, all of Kotaku‘s readers—to cut Sony a little slack in the wake of a DDoS attack that took the PlayStation Network down for several days. Have some sympathy for the people…