Jason Schreier, Author at Kotaku

Watch The Newest Team Fortress 2 Short

Following a lengthy countdown teaser, Valve unveiled this new Team Fortress 2 short today, along with news that the free-to-play game is getting some new taunts like conga dancing and flipping. This is their longest short yet. Fifteen minutes! Watch it all here:

By Jason Schreier Published June 17, 2014

Are you a Final Fantasy V fan? Want to support charity? The annual Final Fantasy V Job Fiesta—in which players are assigned random jobs for each of the game’s four characters and play for charity—started this week. Check out the website to join or donate

By Jason Schreier Published June 17, 2014

Esports

‘Cheating’ Scandal Hits $10,000 Hearthstone Tournament

Yesterday, competitive Hearthstone player Radu “RDU” Dima won the DreamHack tournament for Blizzard’s digital card game, going home with $10,000. But the big win comes with an asterisk: during the second match of the finals, observers saw Dima’s in-game Hearthstone friends sending him in-game messages that included information about the cards in his opponent’s hand.…

By Jason Schreier Published June 17, 2014

Zelda Boss Promises To Stop Overdoing Tutorials

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was, by most accounts, a very good game. It was also, by most accounts, excruciating until you could actually play it. See, the Wii’s second Zelda game is packed with introductions and tutorials, to the point where it takes four to five hours before you can actually start playing.…

By Jason Schreier Published June 17, 2014

Zelda Producer Dances Like A Chicken

I could watch this gif of Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma all day. Via this Facebook video (We’ll have more… substantial stories about Zelda and Aonuma later this afternoon.)

By Jason Schreier Published June 17, 2014

24 Recap: Holy Crap, They Just Did That

PREVIOUSLY ON 24: Simone gets hit by a bus; her mom tries to blow her up; Jack outruns a drone in a car; Steve Navarro tries to get one of his analysts killed; Heller’s chief-of-staff talks to a Russian guy with ridiculous facial hair; Heller agrees to surrender himself to Lady Stark; Jason goes to…

By Jason Schreier Published June 17, 2014

Infamous YouTuber PewDiePie netted $4 million last year, “most of which is pure profit,” according to a new Wall Street Journal profile. He wishes he wasn’t so famous. “I’m so central to YouTube now, and that puts me in the spotlight and raises a lot of questions like ‘Why is he so big?'” PewDiePie said…

By Jason Schreier Published June 16, 2014

The One Thing Nintendo Left Out At E3

It has long been a silly and antiquated tradition for video game fans to pledge allegiances to companies, or to declare that any one of those companies has “won” E3. Yet it’s also inevitable that every single year at the Video Game Extravaganza in Los Angeles, one or two companies will have a stronger show…

By Jason Schreier Published June 16, 2014

The New Zelda Might Not Have The Puzzles You Expect

Are you hoping for something different from the new Zelda, which blew everyone away when it was announced earlier this week during Nintendo’s E3 show? Series producer Eiji Aonuma has promised that this one will shake things up, with an open-world focus that calls back to the days of Zelda on the NES. He’s also…

By Jason Schreier Published June 13, 2014

Vita Fans Are Pissed About Final Fantasy Type-0

Earlier this week, just after press conference day, Square Enix dropped one of E3’s biggest bombshells—that they’re remaking the PSP game Final Fantasy Type-0 and bringing it to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One here in North America. This was exciting news for fans desperate to play one of the few Final Fantasy games that never…

By Jason Schreier Published June 13, 2014

Zelda Boss On Majora’s Mask Remake: ‘I Hear The Fans’

Ah, Majora’s Mask. For years now, Zelda fans have been praying for and speculating about a sequel or remake to the beloved Nintendo 64 game, and Nintendo has teased us constantly about the possibility. But we haven’t seen anything yet. I just sat down with Eiji Aonuma, the man in charge of all things Zelda…

By Jason Schreier Published June 12, 2014

This Is The Intro To Kingdom Hearts III

Last week, when Square Enix published their E3 trailer for Kingdom Hearts 2.5, they added a little teaser for Kingdom Hearts III. We knew that already. What we didn’t know is that according to Kingdom Hearts III co-director Tai Yasue, who spoke to me this morning in an E3 interview, this is actually the first…

By Jason Schreier Published June 11, 2014

Nintendo’s E3 announcements aren’t over yet: they’ve got a Smash Bros. Q&A/discussion planned for tonight at 7pm Pacific, and a 90-minute Q&A/discussion for “an unannounced 3DS game” planned for tomorrow night at 6pm Pacific. We’ll be at both, covering the news as it happens. Here’s hoping for a new 3DS Metroid or Zelda.