Jason Schreier

Blizzard Nerfs Two Popular Hearthstone Cards

Sorry, Hunters and Rogues—Blizzard just announced plans to nerf two of the most powerful Hearthstone cards, which will likely force many of you to drastically change your strategies. Nerf #1 is Leeroy Jenkins, which is one of the most versatile cards in any deck but might be most useful for Miracle Rogues. Jenkins will now…

Destiny‘s Squads Are Too Small

Something feels off in Destiny—and it’s not just Peter Dinklage’s delivery. On Wednesday, I started playing Activision’s much-hyped new shooter for the first time alongside some co-workers (jazz aficionado Kirk Hamilton and middle-school dropout Sam Biddle). Though I don’t normally play a lot of shooters—as most of you know I’m more of a turn-based kinda…

‘Xenosaga HD Collection’ Is Actually A Thing That Could Happen

Today in Things I Never Thought Were Actually Possible, Bandai Namco producer Katsuhiro Harada proposed to fans that maybe, just maybe, a Xenosaga HD Collection could happen. That’d mean a whole new generation of gamers could play through the Xenosaga trilogy, which was released for PS2 earlier this decade as a spiritual successor to the…

Dubai Store Selling Gold Xbox Ones And PS4s For Just $13,700 Each

Black and white are so passé. The new hotness is $13,700 gold Xbox Ones and PS4s, now for sale in Dubai. Yep, these are actually real items that are currently for sale in the most ridiculous country on earth. Here’s the Xbox One: If you are interested in getting your hands on one of these…

PSA: Nintendo’s New 3DS Bundles Are Not The ‘New 3DS’

Nintendo just announced a whole bunch of new 3DS bundles for this fall. But they’re not New 3DS bundles. They’re just new 3DS bundles. Confused yet? Thanks to Nintendo’s baffling use of nomenclature, the next few years could be full of mixups like this. In Japan last month, Nintendo announced the New 3DS, a 3DS…

Watch Dogs Is Finally Coming To Wii U In November

Rejoice, Wii U owners—you, too, will get a third-party game this fall. Ubisoft just announced that their open-world hacking game Watch Dogs comes to Wii U on November 18 in North America. Watch Dogs was first released for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, and PC in May. It’s not great. But maybe the Wii…

Microsoft Says They’re Replacing Abnormally Noisy Xbox Ones

Is your Xbox One making too much noise? Send it to Microsoft and they’ll give you a new one. The folks behind the Xbox say they’re offering replacements for the “small number of customers” affected by a noise issue that seems to have grown more prevalentafter the Xbox One launched in a number of new…

EA Will Remove Ray Rice From Madden 15

EA will remove all presence of disgraced NFL running back Ray Rice from Madden 15 in this week’s update, stripping the former Ravens star from all roster lists in the latest edition of their annual football series. Fox’s Mike Garafolo reports that Rice, who was released by the Baltimore Ravensand indefinitely suspended from the NFL…

Moon Hunters, one of the neater Kickstarter projects I’ve seen in a while, is funded to the tune of $100k. Described as a mixture between Zelda and Starbound, Moon Hunters is one of the first participants in Square Enix’s Indie Collective program

Why Did Nobody Tell Me There’s A Suikoden Reference In Diablo III?

Kotaku, we need to talk. You all KNOW that Suikoden II is my favorite game of all time, yet in the six months since Diablo III‘s Reaper of Souls expansion came out, not ONE of you has told me about this incredible Luca Blight reference. Until this past weekend, when Kotaku reader/hero Phil Caron told…

The Final Fantasy XV Problem

On Sunday, when I asked Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi what he thinks of the current state of the franchise he built, his answer was short and blunt. “Final Fantasy XV is taking too long.” Is it? Well, when The Game Now Called Final Fantasy XV was first announced back in May 2006, the president…

Snarky New Xbox Ad Says They’re Not Allowed To Advertise Destiny [UPDATE]

You might have seen commercials for Destiny, the upcoming sci-fi shooter that will be out for multiple platforms next week. You might have noticed that all of these commercials talk about the PlayStation version of the game. This is because Activision and Sony are getting all buddy-buddy on the marketing campaign, with the folks behind…

World of Warcraft‘s Robin Williams Tribute Is Just Great

Meet Robin, the World of Warcraft tribute to legendary actor Robin Williams, who passed away last month. This re-creation of Williams’ iconic Aladdin genie is just one of the multiple tributes to the beloved actor that the folks at Wowhead have discovered in Blizzard’s popular MMORPG over the past few weeks. There are also references…

The Legal Battle Over Aliens: Colonial Marines Just Got Juicy

We’re still seeing fallout from one of the biggest video game flops in recent history, and some recent court documents reveal a number of juicy details that give us a behind-the-scenes look at the marketing of Aliens: Colonial Marines, including internal e-mails and some jargon-filled PR plans that are as insane as they are revealing.…

I Wish Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright Was Better

If Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright were a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, it’d be one of those sandwiches where the peanut butter is all shoved to one side and the jelly congeals on the other, so when you take a bite you can taste either peanut butter or jelly. Those occasional bites where the…

Early Access Game Pulled From Steam After Months Without Updates

The Stomping Land, an ambitious dinosaur game that launched on Steam in May, is no longer available for sale following months without updates or news from the developers behind it. The Steam page is still live, but you can no longer buy the game. It’s yet another case of a game in Early Access—the Steam…

Things Are Very Different For The Creator Of Final Fantasy

When you create one of the most treasured franchises in video game history, what do you do next? When you work on that franchise for 20 years, can you ever really move on? For Hironobu Sakaguchi, the man who created Final Fantasy back in 1987, these have been easy questions to answer. (1. Move to…

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Eight Big Final Fantasy Type-0 HD Questions, Answered

The first current-gen Final Fantasy will be out within the next year, it’ll serve as something of a stopgap before Final Fantasy XV, and, well, it’s got kind of a silly name. RPG fans have been waiting a very long time for Final Fantasy Type-0, which was released for PSP in Japan way back in…

Don’t Expect The New 3DS Outside of Japan This Year

News of a shiny new 3DS upgrade--along with a Xenoblade port—came as a pleasant surprise to many Nintendo fans this morning, but don’t expect to see the New 3DS in North America or Europe this holiday. In an English press release on their website today, Nintendo confirmed that yes, the New 3DS will likely make…