Jason Schreier

Nintendo Turns 125 Today

Nintendo, best known as the creator of the dog from Duck Hunt, turns 125 today, and if that doesn’t seem very old, consider this: when Nintendo first started, the U.S. had 38 states, and the president was Benjamin Harrison. Yep, today we know Nintendo for iconic video games like Barker Bill’s Trick Shooting and Ken…

PlayStation TV Is Out In October

PlayStation TV, the set-top box that will play some Vita games, PS3 games, and PS4 games via Remote Play, comes to North America on October 14, Sony confirmed today. It’ll be $100 for the box, or $140 for a bundle with an 8GB memory card, the LEGO Movie video game, and a DualShock 3. The…

Rudy Giuliani Will Defend Activision In Call of Duty Lawsuit

In July, ex-military dictator Manuel Noriega filed a lawsuit against Activision over his depiction in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Today, Activision filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, calling it “absurd” in a press release issued this morning. Activision has recruited former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani’s law firm to handle the…

The Latest Final Fantasy Music Game Is Totally Rad

Above: some hands-on impressions of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call, the bizarrely-titled music game that Square Enix released for 3DS this week. If you don’t have the time or energy to watch the video, here’s the gist of it: Curtain Call, a sequel to 2012’s Theatrhythm, adds more songs, characters, and other goodies to an…

Square Enix’s New ‘Cloud’ Gaming Service Is Called ‘Shinra’

This is pretty much perfect. Last night Square Enix announced a cloud-gaming service called Shinra Technologies. They’re working with Avalanche Studios on the deal. The actual details of Shinra Technologies remain vague for now, though the tech seems pretty promising: Shinra Technologies, Inc. is a cloud gaming company whose business is based on its unique,…

Wow, Look At All The Final Fantasy Spinoffs

This week’s biggest Tokyo Game Show news was Final Fantasy XV—hey, it’s alive!—but while we were all gawking at bromantic road trips, Square Enix showed off a bunch of other Final Fantasy spinoffs that are worth at least a little attention. Let’s go through them all. Above: a new look at the Monster Hunter-ish Final…

Final Fantasy XV‘s Combat, Broken Down

Final Fantasy XV is actually a video game that is actually happening, and new footage released by Square Enix last night shows that it’s looking damn good, too. The one big question—other than “why is the steering wheel on the right?”—is “just how does that combat work?” We don’t have the answers to that question…

Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To PC

Remember back in the day when Square announced that Final Fantasy XIII would be coming to Xbox 360 and everyone freaked out? Hold onto your keyblades: now it’s coming to PC, too. Steam lists the RPG for release on October 9, at $16. Seems like a straight port. Square says they plan to release the…

Pretty GIFs From Final Fantasy Type-0 For PS4 And Xbox One

UPDATED POST: Looks like someone at IGN accidentally pulled the trigger early on publishing English gameplay footage from the HD version of Final Fantasy Type-0, which will be out on March 17, 2015 for PS4 and Xbox One. It looked great, so we pulled a few GIFs and will leave them for you here while…

What Starcraft Cards Would Look Like In Hearthstone

OK, this is pretty damn fantastic—Hearthstone player Fulla has dreamed up an entire Starcraft pack for Blizzard’s addictive collectible card game. In addition to Jim Raynor and Sarah Kerrigan heroes, Fulla put together a ton of Terran- and Zerg-themed cards that somehow feel both proper and… well, at least somewhat balanced. (That Broodlord…) Check’em out:

Final Fantasy IV, which has been released on every digital device known to man, is now on Steam, too. It’ll run you $16 for the PC version, which is a port of the three-dimensional DS remake of the fourth Final Fantasy that includes some stuff that wasn’t on the Super Nintendo, like voice acting and…

Destiny‘s First Raid Looks Insane

Yesterday, a group of six Destiny players beat the game’s first Raid. It took them ten hours. Ten hours! The Vault of Glass, which developer Bungie describes as the “most elaborate mission ever created by [them],” opened for the first time yesterday, and it sounds crazy. It’s a six-person adventure with Tomb Raider-ish puzzles, ambiguous…

This guy is compiling a digital book that will review over 280 computer RPGs—and when it’s done, you can get it for free. Developers like Obsidian’s Chris Avellone have already agreed to participate. “The book is going well, but I need some spotlight to travel into the far reaches of the internet and reach fans…

Here’s The Full Roster For Super Smash Bros

The new Super Smash Bros. is out for 3DS in Japan, which means that we now finally know the full roster of characters that will appear in the upcoming Nintendo mascot fighter, from Mario to [SPOILERS]. Well, really, we knew the full roster last month. When it leaked. But now we can definitively say that,…

Destiny Review Scores May Cost Bungie A $2.5 Million Bonus

Destiny is not getting great review scores. In fact, it’s getting resoundingly mediocre review scores—as of right now, Bungie’s ambitious shooter has a 76.29% on GameRankings and a 77 on Metacritic That’s certainly not the type of critical reception Activision was hoping for when they pumped half a billion (!) dollars into this franchise, and…

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The Xbox One NFL App Needs Serious Improvements

In May of last year, when Microsoft first unveiled the Xbox One, they made grand, lofty promises. Here was the console that would change the way we watch TV, revolutionizing all things NFL and enhancing our football Sundays forever and ever. Today… well, today we’re not quite there yet. Yesterday I used an Xbox One…

Why Microsoft Spent $2.5 Billion On The Makers Of Minecraft

When we first heard rumblings that Microsoft was looking to buy Minecraft studio Mojang for a swimming pool full of hundred-dollar-bills, the amount of cash sounded absurd to just about everyone. $2.5 billion! Not only is that an astronomical number, the type you’d expect to come signed on a giant novelty check, it seems like…

‘Speed Mario Bros.’ Is Mario, But Twice As Fast

Introduced today during Nintendo’s Treehouse livestream, this is Speed Mario Bros., a hyperactive take on the original Super Mario Bros. that will be included in Ultimate NES Remix, which is out for 3DS on December 5. It’s essentially Super Mario Bros. sped-up like you’re holding the frameskip button on an emulator, which will surely lead…

Watch Nintendo Stream The New Super Smash Bros. All Day

Super Smash Bros. 3DS comes out in Japan tomorrow, and to honor the occasion, Nintendo of America is livestreaming their new fighting game all day for our entertainment. They’re also going to talk about some upcoming Wii U games. Here’s the full schedule of events, which kicks off at 1pm Eastern: You can watch it…