Jason Schreier

Nintendo Investor: ‘I Do Not Understand Video Games’

Here’s an excerpt from Nintendo’s annual investors Q&A, which was posted online in English this morning: I do not understand video games and I even feel angry because, at Nintendo’s shareholders’ meetings, the shareholders always discuss things relating to video games or such childish topics as “what the future of video games should be,” while…

Male-Only Video Game Tournament Sets Off Controversy

Women aren’t allowed to play Hearthstone in one upcoming multi-national tournament, and the gender discrimination has triggered a great deal of controversy this morning. The South Korea-based International eSports Federation holds competitions in various video games, split up by gender. This year’s games for men are Dota 2, StarCraft II, Hearthstone, and Ultra Street Fighter…

EA Can No Longer Call Dungeon Keeper ‘Free’ In The UK

British regulators have ruled that an advertisement calling EA’s controversial mobile reboot of Dungeon Keeper “free” is misleading and must be pulled. The game, which is free to download on iTunes and the Android store, requires players to make progress either by waiting lengthy amounts of time or buying in-game gems using real money. Like…

24 Recap: Get Ready For World War III

PREVIOUSLY ON 24: The president’s dead… no wait, he’s alive, because this show has no balls; Chief of Staff Mark Fuckface betrays Jack to the Russians; Chloe betrays Jack to run off with her BFF Adrian Snowden; CIA agent Navarro betrays everyone; there’s an override device that can control every weapon in the world; Jack…

Community Revived For Sixth Season By Yahoo

Greendale lives on. The folks behind Community announced today that they’ll be making a sixth season with Yahoo, following their TV cancellation earlier this year. No word when the nerdy cult classic will come back or where we’ll be able to watch it, but at least “six seasons and a movie” is still a very…

Six Insane Zelda Speedruns

Summer Games Done Quick is over, but the crazy speedruns and insane moves will live on forever. I haven’t watched all the runs yet, but some of my absolute favorites are the Zelda games, which take some serious skill and precision to master like this. It’s amazing how these speedrunners know every single trick and…

These Guys Re-Created A GTA V Trailer In Real Life

A group of Spanish filmmakers called Zapruder Films put together this sweet live-action re-creation of the original GTA V teaser trailer from way back in 2011. Also, they set it in Madrid. The whole thing is pretty great, and they put the original trailer in the bottom left corner for reference, so you can see…

‘Moms Against Gaming’ Is My New Favorite Twitter Account

Meet @MomsAgainstGam, a noble crusader in the fight to keep our children away from the menace that is video gaming. With powerful tweets like “disease and poverty are a direct result of Gaming,” @MomsAgainstGam is helping expose the painful truth that video games must be stopped. Well, not really. This is a parody account, masterfully…

Time For A Final Fantasy VI Speedrun

This is it: Summer Games Done Quick is nearly complete. It’s time for the final (and hopefully most exciting) run: Final Fantasy VI I’m gonna (try to) stay up all night watching—join me, will you? I’ll be chatting in the comments below, and you can watch the stream live right here: (And check out the…

Let’s Watch Insane Speedruns All Night

Good evening, Kotaku! Are you watching Summer Games Done Quick? If not, time to fix that. We’re nearing the end of the marathon—which has been running strong for the past week—and the folks behind it have raised over half a million dollars for Doctors Without Borders so far. Right now they’re doing Zelda: Link to…

Summer Games Done Quick: Watch It All Right Here

If you’re not spending this entire week watching people play video games really fast, what are you even doing with your life? Summer Games Done Quick, the annual speedrunning marathon that raises money for charity, started yesterday, and the streaming continues all week, finishing off with a late-night Final Fantasy VI speedrun that will end…

Watch The Folks Behind Sunset Overdrive Make A New Game

If people can livestream playing games, why can’t they livestream making games? Insomniac, the independent studio behind Sunset Overdrive and the Resistance series, among other games, just launched a new Twitch experiment: live video game development. They’ll be working on a small game called Slow Down, Bull and streaming every Friday afternoon, starting today at…

Soul Blazer, An RPG Where You Play God’s Servant

Welcome to the Summer of Old JRPGs, where we’re playing classic role-playing games and talking about them every week. Check out the full schedule here Earlier this month I spent a whole bunch of time playing Soul Blazer, a video game about mermaids and talking plants. Hopefully you did too. Soul Blazer is the first…

Pacific Rim 2 Announced For 2017

Guillermo del Toro is getting his kaiju on once again, and we’ll see the results in a few years—Pacific Rim 2 is coming in 2017. April 7, 2017, to be specific. Del Toro is also working on an animated Pacific Rim series to be released before then. “The characters I love will return,” del Toro…

There Are Few Things As Impressive As Mega Man Speedruns

I’ve been watching Summer Games Done Quick all week, and though there have been a whole lot of great moments—Zelda: Oracle of Seasons was awesome!—my favorite runs so far are the Mega Mans. Between the crazy strategies and the tight little tricks that help these guys shave a few seconds off their final times, all…

Shovel Knight: The Kotaku Review

Shovel Knight is a video game about a knight who carries a shovel. It’s an NES game released 25 years too late. It’s the type of platformer that a whole lot of people have been craving for a very long time. There is no way to talk about Shovel Knight without talking about the games…

Star Wars: Episode VII’s Cast, Now In Lego Form

We’ve already seen the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. Here’s the LEGO version. (via LEGO’s Twitter)

Oculus Fires Back At ‘Silly, Money-Grabbing’ ZeniMax Lawsuit

Last month, ZeniMax officially dropped the lawsuit hammer on Oculus, accusing the virtual reality company of “illegally misappropriating” their trade secrets in an extensive legal complaint. In the suit, ZeniMax alleged that Oculus had infringed upon their copyrights and trademarks, and that id Software co-founder John Carmack had provided technology to Oculus before he joined…

It’s kind of like XCOM, starring figures from the Revolutionary War. Upcoming sci-fi indie strategy game Outland 17 looks pretty interesting. The folks behind it are targeting a Q1 2015 release. More info on their website

Attention: 24 fans—No recap this week because I’m really angry at the show after what they pulled last night. (There will be spoilers in the comments here.) We’ll return next week. Maybe.