Jason Schreier

Scarlett Johansson will star in an upcoming live-action Ghost in the Shell movie, Variety reports. It’s still not officially greenlit, but with Johansson’s involvement and some pushing from Steven Spielberg, it could be on the fast track now.

PlayStation Now Is Finally Getting Subscriptions

PlayStation Now, the exorbitantly expensive service that allows people to rent and play PS3 games on their PlayStation 4s, is finally taking steps to be… well, actually usable. Today Sony announced a new subscription plan for PlayStation Now that will cost far, far less than renting PS3 games piecemeal. The plan will launch on January…

New Destiny Leak Could Show What’s Coming Next

Curious about the future of Destiny? Here’s a leak you might find interesting—a graphic purporting to lay out what developer Bungie’s got planned for the rest of 2015 and beyond. The image, which has apparently been floating around the internet since October but only drew widespread attention this morning thanks to a massive Reddit thread,…

Destiny‘s Latest Exploit: Pulling Out Your LAN Cable

I like to think I’m pretty Internet savvy, so when someone first told me that the latest cheese for Destiny involves yanking out your ethernet cable, I thought they were screwing with me, like when some forum miscreant says that “Alt-F4” is the solution to your web problems. Turns out they weren’t. It’s real. Yep,…

Jason’s Top 10 Games Of 2014

2014 was a year. There were video games. Here are my favorites. Threes Perfect. Addictive. Timeless. Hearthstone It’s hard to imagine that a tiny free-to-play digital card game could be so accessible, addictive, and thoroughly satisfying to play. Nice work, Blizzard. Destiny Simultaneously the best and worst game of the year. The game that I…

British Police Arrest Alleged PSN Attacker

UK police are investigating and have arrested 22-year-old Vinnie Omari, an alleged member of the group connected to the attacks on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live last week, according to multiple reports this afternoon. The arrest, which occurred on Monday, appears to be part of an ongoing investigation by UK police into a series…

Users Complain Of False Charges On EA’s Origin

A number of people across the web say they’re seeing fraudulent charges on their EA Origin accounts—though a representative for the publisher says there’s no evidence of a hack. As with all outages and security issues of this nature, it’s tough to tell exactly how widespread this is, but yesterday we started getting reports that…

How DDoS Attacks Work, And Why They’re So Hard To Stop

Last week, eager Christmas celebrators across the world hooked up their brand new Xboxes and PlayStations only to find that both online networks were down, leaving countless new games totally unplayable. It was a particularly large piece of coal in gamers’ stockings, and while Microsoft’s service recovered after 24 hours, the PlayStation Network suffered a…

PSN Is Still Having Problems

Four days after an apparent denial of service attack knocked out the PlayStation Network for all of Christmas, and in the wake of a weekend during which things appeared to be working OK for most people, Sony’s online service is still unstable. About half an hour ago, we started seeing a spike of people reporting…

It’s Not Quite Super Metroid, But It’ll Do

The bad news: we haven’t seen a Metroid game in almost five years, and that’s not looking to change any time soon. The good news: Xeodrifter, which came out earlier this month for PC and 3DS, is a fine enough substitute. Well, it’s an OK substitute. A decent enough substitute. It’s margarine, basically. It’s I…

Here’s a 30-minute look at Cosmic Star Heroine, an indie RPG by Zeboyd Games (Penny Arcade Adventures Episodes 3-4) that’s sorta like a cross between Lunar and Phantasy Star, with dashes of Suikoden. It’s out next year for Steam and PSN.

Destiny‘s Biggest Flaw

On Saturday, I started a brand new character in Destiny, a video game in which players travel through space fighting against impenetrable dialogue. By Sunday night, my newly-birthed Titan was already level 26—a milestone that might have taken her weeks had I not had the right equipment. This is because Destiny, unlike many other games,…

Here’s Final Fantasy XV In English For The First Time

With every passing week comes new assurances that Final Fantasy XV is actually a video game that will be released at some point in the future. Today’s assurance: English voices! Above, via Square’s Facebook page: a localized version of the FFXV trailer from TGS a few months ago, demonstrating the highly-anticipated RPG in English for…

Tips For Playing Suikoden And Suikoden II

So you’ve just bought Suikoden II on the PlayStation Network. Finally, for the first time ever, you’re going to play through one of the finest role-playing games ever made. Exciting, isn’t it? There are some things you should know before you start, though. Tips to make your life easier. To make your gaming better. To…

Destiny‘s New Exotic System Is A Total Mess

Destiny, a video game in which players roam the solar system getting angry at Destiny, recently introduced some changes to exotic weapons and armor, and today, as we finally see the last of those changes in action, it’s become clear that they’re a total mess. Let me explain. About two weeks ago, Bungie totally overhauled…

The Final Fantasy XV Demo Will Be Very Limited

A few months ago, Square Enix announced that copies of Final Fantasy Type-0 HD will come with a demo forFinal Fantasy XV. Today, they’re backtracking a bit: turns out only some copies will actually come with the demo—the copies that are part of the first shipment. So if you buy a later copy of Type-0…

Are you playing Suikoden or Suikoden II for the first time this week? What do you think? Post all thoughts, discussion topics, and opinions below—I want to hear from newcomers in particular.

Pewdiepie Starred Again On Last Night’s South Park

The most popular YouTuber on the planet guest-starred on last night’s episode of South Park—a continuation of last week’s Lets Play episode, in which Pewdiepie also appeared—and they were kinder to him than you might think. Don’t read further if you don’t want to see spoilers for last night’s episode of South Park. Though South…

Final Fantasy VII Will Cost $16 On PS4

Fresh off the biggest trolling in video game history, Square Enix has announced that the upcoming PS4 port of Final Fantasy VII will cost sixteen dollars. For comparison, that’s about $1 more than your average digital title—or $4 less than Square’s own newly-released Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris—and about 1/4 the price of…

When Hearthstone Revenge Goes Perfectly

Behold, one of the funniest Hearthstone matches I’ve seen in a long time, thanks to an insane new Goblins vs. Gnomes card that puts a friggin’ landmine in one player’s deck. Let’s set the scene. At the bottom is infamous YouTuber Totalbiscuit (narrator of the video), who here is trying to put together the insane…