Jason Schreier

YouTube Finally Supports 60FPS, And It Looks Awesome

Earlier this year, YouTube announced plans to support videos running at 60 frames-per-second—plans that would make a huge difference for footage of video games. Today, the video network has finally started rolling out the new service, and you can already tell that this is going to be wonderful. You need Google Chrome to watch YouTube…

Destiny‘s New DLC Kinda Screws Over Xbox Players

On December 9, Bungie will release The Dark Below, a new expansion pack for Destiny. For $20, you’ll get some new story missions, some multiplayer maps, a raid, and two new strikes. Unless you’re on Xbox. Yep, Sony’s snagged themselves yet another Destiny exclusive: one of The Dark Below‘s strike missions—you know, the ones where…

They Weren’t Kidding When They Said Final Fantasy Type-0 Was Dark

A couple months ago at PAX Prime, Final Fantasy Type-0 director Hajime Tabata told reporters that this game was dark. Really dark. “It’s a much more mature game than what you’ve seen before,” he said. It seemed very much like a PR talking point—we’re mature, and gritty!—but damn if this new Type-0 HD trailer doesn’t…

Expect EA to release Star Wars: Battlefront late next year—the publisher just announced that DICE’s Star Wars game will be out in “holiday 2015.” Battlefield 5 (yes, 5!) will be out holiday of 2016, EA said.

Blizzard Bans Thousands Of Bots From Hearthstone

If you are a robot, and you play Hearthstone, I’ve got bad news for you: you’re probably banned. (Also, thanks for reading Kotaku. Please consider keeping us employed when you enslave humanity.) Humans who use bots are out of luck too; Blizzard announced today that they’ve just finished banningthousands of accountsthat have been linked to…

Battlefield Hardline will be out on March 17, 2015 in the United States, EA just announced. March 19 for Europe.

Judge Dismisses Ex-Dictator Manuel Noriega’s Call of Duty Lawsuit

A California judge ruled today to dismiss former dictator Manuel Noriega’s lawsuit against publisher Activision for including his likeness in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. The suit, filed in July, alleged that Black Ops II’s depiction of Noriega was “blatant misuse, unlawful exploitation and misappropriation for economic gain.” Activision fought back hard, recruiting former…

Three Weeks Later, DriveClub Still Doesn’t Work Properly

On October 7, Sony released the racing game Driveclub for PlayStation 4. Today, October 28, the game still doesn’t work as intended—and Sony still hasn’t said a word about refunding the folks who paid $60 for it. Driveclub‘s server problems have been well-documented. For the past three weeks, players have found themselves unable to access…

The upcoming PS4/Xbox One/PC version of Grand Theft Auto V will come with new cars, new guns, and a “Murder Mystery” mode that sounds a lot like that one noir game that was set in L.A. Rockstar’s got more details here

Fantasy Life Is The Best To-Do List I’ve Ever Played

Fantasy Life, released today by Nintendo for 3DS, is not so much a video game as it is a to-do list. Playing this game is akin to performing a series of increasingly difficult household chores. Some games ask you to slay demons or explore the frontiers of space; Fantasy Life asks you to go find…

53 Things We Just Learned About Super Smash Bros. Wii U

So Nintendo held a big Nintendo Direct tonight for Super Smash Bros. Wii U, and it basically laid out what we all suspected: this is going to be the definitive version. In fact, the video spends a lot of time crapping all over the 3DS version—which was pretty good!—in favor of the upcoming HD Smash,…

Wow, Super Smash Bros. Wii U Will Have Eight-Player Battles

If you and your seven friends have always wished you could play Smash on the same television, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE. The Wii U version of Super Smash Bros. will let groups of up to eight people play together, Nintendo just announced during their live event. You can have five-player battles, six-player battles, and—crazily—eight-player battles…

Watch The Smash Bros. Wii U Event Live, Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

What’s Nintendo got in store for Smash Bros. on Wii U? New features? DLC? Ridley? We’ll find out at least some of what will be different in the home-console version of Nintendo’s mascot fighter tonight at 6pm Eastern, in a special Nintendo Direct that the folks behind Smash say will reveal 50 new things about…

Uncharted‘s Opening Scene, In Real Life

OK, this is impressive—a group of Scandinavian filmmakers (headed up by director Martin Sofiedal) put together this live-action re-creation of Uncharted‘s intro scene that’s just about as good a fan film as I’ve ever seen. Not gonna lie: Norwegian Nathan Drake seems like a cool dude. Maybe these guys should make the Uncharted film. Here’s…

Dragon Age: Inquisition‘s Sex Talk Sounds Hilarious

BioWare, the veteran RPG studio today best known for making Mass Effect and Dragon Age, has long been the king of awkward video game sex scenes. As writer Tom Bissell put it back in 2012 after Mass Effect 3 came out: “BioWare’s talented storytellers desperately need to rethink their curious devotion to the video-game sex…

The New Simpsons World App Has Some Issues

If you’re a cable subscriber, you can now stream and watch every single episode of The Simpsons on your computer, tablet, or Xbox, so long as your provider supports the FXX Now app. Every single episode! In theory, this is phenomenal. Unlimited digital access to the greatest television show ever made? A chance to watch…

What The Great War In Fallout Is All About

It’s October 23, which means we’re now exactly 63 years away from Fallout‘sGreat War, the Very Special Saturday in which every nuclear nation in the world fired all of their missiles at once. Good times all around. To celebrate this pre-anniversary, the funny people at Dorkly shot this neat video containing some brief history on…

EA’s Corporate Speak Is Meaningless, Court Agrees

Today a federal court ruled to dismiss a class-action lawsuit filed against EA for lying about Battlefield 4, a video game that came out and didn’t really work for some people. The plaintiffs can appeal—though it doesn’t seem like they’ll eke much more out of this. What’s really interesting about the lawsuit, though, is how…

Indie Dev Resigns After Saying He’d Kill Gabe Newell

Yesterday, Valve took the indie game Paranautical Activity off Steam following a tweet in which the game’s developer Mike Maulbeck said he would “kill Gabe Newell.” Today, Maulbeck has resigned. The tweet, which Maulbeck said was written in jest, followed a string of complaints about the game being incorrectly labeled as “Early Access” on Steam.…

The fighting game community is uniting on Reddit to help out the family of gamer Terrance “PushaTee88” Moore, who passed away during a tournament in California last week. You can check out the thread here.