Jason Schreier

Meet The Man Who Keeps Making Up Fallout 4 Rumors

There’s this interesting Bethesda memo floating around. Maybe you’ve seen it on a fan-run gaming site or your favorite message board. It’s all very exciting. In the memo, which started circulating last week, a reputed Bethesda executive writes to employees about exciting upcoming games like “Fallout 4” and “Elder Scrolls VI.” The executive also drops…

With Two Days To Go, Beloved Game Is Still Struggling On Kickstarter

Maybe it’s skepticism. Maybe it’s Kickstarter malaise. Maybe people just don’t care. Whatever the reason, Harmonix’s Kickstarter for Amplitude, an attempt at reviving the niche PlayStation 2 game of the same name, is not doing very well. As of this writing, it’s sitting at around $643,000 of its $775,000 goal, with just about two days…

ZeniMax Sues Oculus [UPDATE: Oculus Responds]

The folks who publish Doom are suing the new employer of the man who helped create it. Following a number of verbal barbs swapped between both companies over the past few weeks, the game publisher ZeniMax announced today that they’ve filed suit against VR company Oculus for “illegally misappropriating ZeniMax trade secrets relating to virtual…

Steam In-Home Streaming Now Live For Everyone

Steam’s In-Home Streaming feature is now out of beta, allowing any users on Valve’s PC distribution service to stream games between two computers on the same network. This means you can plop a high-end gaming PC in one room and let it handle all the heavy-duty work while you stream games to your laptop. Or,…

Valve’s Big Dota 2 Tournament Will Hand Out Over $6 Million

The prize pool for Valve’s Dota 2 International has already exceeded $6 million—$6 million!—officially making it the largest tournament in gaming history. Well, really, it’s been the largest tournament in gaming history for a while now. Last year’s Dota 2 International was worth $2.8 million, which until now was the biggest prize pool ever doled…

The Great Gawker Mario Kart 8 Tournament

If you’ve ever wanted to watch 24 Gawker Media employees scream at a game of Mario Kart, today is your lucky day. Earlier this month, we gathered a whole bunch of our colleagues, including writers from Gizmodo, Deadspin, and our other sister sites, for what can only be described as the greatest Mario Kart tournament…

Wolfenstein’s Cool Easter Egg Is A 90s Throwback

It’s 2014, and there’s a new Wolfenstein game out today, which is weird and surreal and kind of hilarious for longtime gamers. Wolfenstein, after all, is one of the longest-running franchises in video game history, spanning all the way back to Castle Wolfenstein on the Commodore 64. Mike’s cranking through the game today, so expect…

There’s Finally A Woman Jack Bauer

JACK BAUER HAS FINALLY MET HIS MATCH. Meet Kate Morgan, a steely CIA agent who has almost immediately elevated herself to the role of co-star on 24: Live Another Day, bringing the type of raw energy and all-around skills that her colleagues seriously lack. She’s smart and ruthless—”She’s good,” Jack confesses to Chloe at one…

Say Goodbye To Online Services On Your Wii And DS Games

Hope you’ve already gotten all your Dragon Quest IX treasure maps and downloaded all those daily Professor Layton puzzles. If not, now’s your last chance. At some point in the next 24 hours, Nintendo is turning off online functionality for Wii and DS games including Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart, and Pokémon. You’ll no longer…

Master Chief Looks So Much Cuter In Minecraft

Further confirming the adage that if something exists, it will eventually be in Minecraft, here’s a newly-announced Halo skin pack. It’ll include a bunch of character skins and music tracks from Microsoft’s sci-fi shooter series. More details to come

Nintendo Characters Celebrate Gay Marriage

Mario and Link are pretty psyched about Nintendo’s promise to be more “inclusive” in future games. Last night’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver discussed Nintendo’s recent apology for not including gay marriage in the upcoming 3DS game Tomodachi Life. “We pledge that if we create a next installment in the Tomodachi series,” Nintendo wrote,…

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Nintendo just invited us to two big evening Q&As during E3, one for Super Smash Bros. and the other for… “a new game for 3DS.” What could it be?

The Best JRPGs For Beginners

Okay. You’ve never played a JRPG before. You have no idea what a chocobo is. You’ve always thought Final Fantasy was the name of a metal band. This is going to be the place for you. As Kotaku‘s JRPG columnist, I get a lot of messages from people who are kind of interested in the…

Transistor Is Oh So Hot

The next game from the people behind Bastion comes out on Tuesday for PC and PlayStation 4. Here’s the launch trailer. Unsurprisingly, it’s totally rad. We’ll have a review of the game up for you next week.

Oblivion, Remade In Skyrim

You’ve probably seen Skywind, the ambitious fan project to re-create all of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind in Skyrim. Here’s a new trailer for Skyblivion, which, as you might have guessed, is the ambitious fan project to re-create all of Oblivion in Skyrim This is a totally different beast than the Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil project…

Video Magic Turns Little Kid Into Mario Kart Hero

DreamWorks animator Daniel Hashimoto has outdone himself again with the latest installment in his Action Movie Kid series, in which he enhances his kid’s life with professional-quality special effects. This one’s Mario Kart-themed. It’s tough to watch without bursting out laughing.

Someone Fixed The Far Cry 4 Box Art

This is just so much better. Thanks, Brian Altano

The Funniest Voice In Gaming Comes To Dota 2

Even if you don’t play Dota 2, you’ll probably enjoy this video of The Stanley Parable‘s droll British narrator doing his best to play eSports announcer. These clips all come from a new Dota 2 announcer pack—released today for $10—that lets you play with commentary from the critically-acclaimed indie game. Watch and enjoy.

Far Cry 4 Announced For November Release

Far Cry is going to the mountains—the next game in Ubisoft’s open-world shooter series will be set in the Himalayas, and it’ll be out this fall for current- and last-gen platforms (minus Wii U). Far Cry 4, a sequel to 2012’s successful Far Cry 3, had been rumored for quite some time now. Today it’s…