Jason Schreier

Here’s The First Trailer For StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void

StarCraft II‘s next expansion—which actually isn’t an expansion, but a standalone game, Blizzard says—is all about the Protoss. Blizzard announced StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void years ago, but this is the first time we’ve really seen it. Here’s the trailer, shown off at Blizzcon today: And here’s Blizzard’s official press release: ANAHEIM, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—…

This Is What Smash Bros. Looks Like With Eight Players

Nintendo sent us an early copy of Super Smash Bros. Wii U this week, which means we get to share some footage with you in advance of the November 21 release date. Witness: EIGHT PLAYER SMASH. It’ll take some careful logistical planning to get seven controllers (and seven friends), so you might want to get…

Bungie Sends One-Of-A-Kind Destiny Gun To Man Who Had Brain Surgery

Today in Stories That Will Warm Your Cold, Cynical Heart, meet Brittany Levasseur, whose husband has had seven brain surgeries over the past year. It’s been brutal, but they’ve found at least one helpful recovery tool—earlier this week, Levasseur wrote a long Reddit postabout how their doctor recommended that he play Destiny as a form…

Star Wars: Episode VII Is Called… The Force Awakens

Filming is done on the seventh Star Wars film, which today got an official name: The Force Awakens Discuss.

The Witcher 3 Will Have 16 Pieces Of DLC (But They’re All Free)

Development studio CD Projekt Red, who are trying their very hardest to be the anti-Ubisoft, announced today that their upcoming role-playing game The Witcher 3 will have a whopping 16 pieces of downloadable content. All for free. Ina cheeky blog postthis morning, the folks behind The Witcher proclaimed that the downloadable content—which even includes horse…

South Park Craps All Over Free-To-Play Games

Last night’s episode of South Park was an ode to all things freemium, and as you might expect from the longrunning comedy show, they went in hard on the unethical free-to-play menace that has been plaguing video games for the past few years. I won’t spoil much about the episode—which you canwatch herestarting Thursday if…

Duck Hunt’s Smash Bros. Entrance Video Is Hilarious

Leave it to Duck Hunt, the goofiest goddamn character in Super Smash Bros, to have the goofiest goddamn intro video of them all. We’ve known about Duck Hunt for months now, but today during a Nintendo Direct, the folks behind Smash officially revealed the lovable dog and his bird sidekick. Their intro video is just…

Xenoblade Chronicles X Looks Like… Um… Grand Theft Auto V?

Just what on earth is going on in this new trailer for Xenoblade Chronicles X? Did they wander into Grand Theft Auto? That’s New Los Angeles, the homebase area in Monolith’s upcoming RPG, which will be out for Wii U next year. And the game looks great. Really. The Wii U desperately needs a massive…

Zelda: Majora’s Mask Coming To 3DS This Spring

After years of teases, it’s finally official: The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is coming to the 3DS this spring. Nintendo announced the news this afternoon during a Nintendo Direct presentation, promising an upcoming remake of the surreal Zelda game in the style of Ocarina of Time 3DS. This comes in the wake of many,…

Watch Today’s Nintendo Direct Right Here [UPDATE]

UPDATE (5:36pm): Today’s big announcement was Majora’s Mask 3D, which will be out for 3DS this spring. We also saw new footage from Splatoon, Xenoblade Chronicles X, and the upcoming DLC for Mario Kart 8. You can watch the full 33-minute Nintendo Direct above. Original post follows: It’s just about time for the first real…

PSA: ‘Fallout: Shadow of Boston’ Is A Fake

This morning, a NeoGAF member discovered that Bethesda had trademarked something called Fallout: Shadow of Boston, and of course, a host of gaming sitesrushed to echo that “news,” to the point where “Shadow of Boston” was trending on Twitter this afternoon. It’s gotten pretty widespread, so we feel like we have to debunk this. Don’t…

Today’s PS4 Update Makes Rest Mode Work Again

That sound you just heard is millions of PlayStation 4s finally waking up from Rest Mode, where they’ve been hibernating for the past week. Yep, Sony’s finally released an update to last week’s faulty v2.00 firmware. It’s called v2.01, it’s live today, and it’s 200+ megabytes of nothing but fixes for what v2.00 broke. The…

You Can Play Grand Theft Auto V In First-Person On PC/PS4/Xbox One

It was rumored before, but this is still sort of surreal to write: the upcoming current-gen remake of Grand Theft Auto V will have a first-person mode. Yep, if you decide to purchase Rockstar’s massive open-world gameagain, you can experience it all in first-person, from bank robbery to bike stunts to airplane theft. Rockstar tells…

Six Days Later, PS4’s v2.00 Update Is Still Causing Problems

It’s been almost a week since the rocky 2.00 firmware update went live on PS4, and although Sony has acknowledged all of the issues it’s caused, there’s still no ETA on when things will be fixed. PS4 v2.00, which came out last Tuesday, has triggered a number of widespread problems over the past few days,…

Let’s Talk About JRPGs

Here at Kotaku, we don’t spend nearly enough time talking about JRPGs. I mean, sure, we have a column every week dedicated to JRPGs, and we’re usually pretty good about covering RPG news from Japan, and I do my best to cover JRPGs as much as humanly possible. But, still. There’s just so much to…

Faulty New PS4 Update Forces Evolve Alpha Delay

The PS4’s new update—version 2.00—is really screwing things up, huh? First there was the whole Rest Mode thing, and now we’ve got news from publisher 2K Games that they’re delaying the PS4 version of the upcoming Evolve alpha. Why? Because the PS4’s new update is something of a disaster, and 2K’s running into problems getting…

If You Got The New PS4 Update, Don’t Use Rest Mode [UPDATE]

UPDATE (11/5/14): The new v2.01 update appears to fix the widespread Rest Mode issue, so if you’ve downloaded that, it should be safe to put your system in hibernation again. Original story follows: Earlier this week, Sony released a new patch for the PlayStation 4, and if you’ve downloaded it, here’s my advice: be very,…

Bungie (Sorta) Explains Why Some Of Destiny‘s DLC Is On The Disc

For weeks now, Destiny players have been glitching into walls and finding secrets that they weren’t meant to see. Buried in the game’s files are all sorts of hidden zones that you can’t access normally, some of which will be used for Destiny‘s upcoming downloadable content. That’s right—Destiny has committed one of gaming’s cardinal sins:…

“Until we can ensure that everyone can enjoy the full social connected online experience, we will be postponing the release of [Driveclub’s] PS Plus Edition until further notice.” – Shuhei Yoshida posts on Driveclub’s Facebook pageabout the racing game’s ongoing issues

Destiny‘s Atheon Is Still A Big Dumb Idiot

Bungie may have patched out that one technique that let you push Atheon off the back of the stage, but intrepid Destiny players are still finding ways to cheese their way through the final boss of the Vault of Glass raid. This one’s particularly hilarious. I won’t spoil anything, but skip to 1:30 for the…