Jason Schreier

Titanfall Was Almost Destroyed By Lawsuits

Before Titanfall was Titanfall, the mech-heavy shooter went through years of development hell. Crippled by a complicated lawsuit back in 2010, the folks behind the newly-formed studio Respawn Entertainment worried for a long time that they might never actually make a game. This afternoon, games reporter and TV host Geoff Keighley released The Final Hours…

Hyper Light Drifter Is Like A Surreal, Indie Zelda

Hyper Light Drifter, a game we’ve been psyched about since we first saw it on Kickstarter last year, continues to look great. Here’s some new hands-on video, straight out of PAX East 2014.

Mass Effect 3 ‘Expiration’ Raises Questions About Our Digital Future

Two years ago, BioWare released Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut, a free alternative ending for the controversial sci-fi role-playing game. Last Saturday, that offer technically expired. According to the fine print on the Extended Cut press release back in 2012, the offer of free content was to expire three days ago, on April 12, 2014.…

It’s Like Secret of Mana… As A Dungeon Crawler

Sometimes, you’re wandering around PAX East and you find a sweet game that looks like Secret of Mana, so you’ve gotta check it out. This is Wayward Souls, the next game from the folks at Rocketcat (Mage Gauntlet, Punch Quest). It’s out for iOS on April 24, and it looks legit. Hands-on impressions above.

We’ve Already Found The Best Video Game Mod Of 2014 [UPDATE]

UPDATE (3:30pm): What we first thought was a bug is actually an intentional fan project, according to Telltale, the company behind The Wolf Among Us. “This is actually a fan made modification using existing game animation assets from a previous episode,” a Telltale rep tells us. (The episode in question.) Kotaku‘s headline has been changed…

Evolve Is One Of The Best Games We Saw At PAX

At PAX East last weekend, Team Kotaku went and played Evolve, the upcoming co-op shooter that pits a group of four hunters against one vicious monster. Yesterday, we talked about it. Here’s that conversation. Jason S. Hello, Team Kotaku. We are here to talk about Evolve, the upcoming game from Turtle Rock Studios (the Left…

A Video Game About People Who Pretend To Be Airplanes

Sometimes a headline and a video are really all you need. You can check out Cult of the Wind on Steam Greenlight

New JRPGs For Vita Make Me Unreasonably Happy

Between PS1 Classics and newer games like Persona 4 Golden, the unheralded PlayStation Vita has become an essential beast for JRPG fans and today brings news of more cool Japanese stuff for western gamers. In addition to Freedom Wars, which we talked about earlier, Sony has just announced plans to localize the Soul Sacrifice remake…

Indie RPG Channels Old-School Ys

Meet Chasm, an upcoming indie 2D dungeon-crawler inspired by the likes of Ys III: Wanderers From Ys and other old-school RPG-slash-platformers from the 16-bit days. Chasm is out for PC this fall. We played it at PAX East this past weekend. Hands-on video impressions above.

Child of Light continues to look gorgeous as heck. Ubisoft’s new RPG will be out April 30 for PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Wii U. New trailer above.

A Closer Look At One Of The Prettiest Dungeon Crawlers Out There

Straight out of PAX East 2014, here’s Below, a serene dungeon crawler from Capy, the company behind Clash of Heroes and Sword & Sworcery. It’s hard to capture just how pretty this game really is, but we did what we could.

The Ten Plagues, Ranked

1. Slaying of the firstborn 2. Boils 3. Locusts 4. Water turned into blood 5. Diseased livestock 6. Darkness 7. Lice 8. Flies 9. Thunder/hail 10. Frogs Happy Passover, friends Top image via Wiki Commons

The Vita Gets A Sweet-Looking New Action Game

Freedom Wars, announced for Japan last year, is coming to North America at some point in 2014. Sony announced the news on their YouTube channel alongside this new trailer (above) for the upcoming Vita game, which lets you team up with other players to take down monsters and shoot your way through prison colonies Looks…

We’re Getting A Sci-Fi Civilization, And It Sounds Fantastic

Civilization is going to space. The next game in Sid Meier’s iconic turn-based strategy series will take place on an alien planet, where you’ll explore, colonize, and fight other factions as you attempt to navigate uncharted sci-fi territory. Sound familiar? Civilization: Beyond Earth, as it’s called, seems very much like a spiritual successor to Alpha…

If Telltale Made A Mario Game, It’d Be Hilarious

Today feels like a good day for violent Mario parodies. First there was Pete Holmes’ silly “realistic Mario” sketch, and now here’s Dorkly crossing the Mushroom Kingdom with Telltale’s The Walking Dead. The results are kind of amazing. Watch the whole video (embedded below) for a fun, twisted look at what would happen if Telltale…

Amazon Buys Comixology, The World’s Biggest Digital Comics Store

Amazon just snagged the biggest comics resource on the web. Today the online retailer announced that it’s purchased Comixology, the digital storefront for all things comic and graphic novel. No terms were disclosed, but now they’re totally superfriends. “Comixology’s mission is to spread the love of comics and graphic novels in all forms,” Comixology boss…

Hitman Go will be out on April 17 for iOS. Square Enix’s newest Hitman game is not like its predecessors; this one’s a turn-based strategy game, and it’ll cost you $5. Android version coming later.

Transistor, The Next Game From Bastion‘s Creators, Is Out Next Month

Transistor—the pretty new game from the folks behind Bastion—will be out for PS4 and PC on May 20. Killer. It’ll be playable at PAX East this weekend, too. Other cool news for anyone who’s into behind-the-scenes game development: last night at an NYU Game Center event, GiantBomb’s Jeff Gerstmann said the folks at Supergiant Games…

Realistic Mario Would Be A Tragedy

The newest Pete Holmes comedy video poses a question we’ve all thought about: what if Mario were more realistic? The answer is gruesome and tragic. R.I.P.

Nintendo’s New 3DS Game Is Like Animal Crossing On Acid

With a dash of The Sims, a chunk of Animal Crossing, and a liberal injection of Robot Chicken, this might be the weirdest 3DS game we’ve seen in North America so far. It’s called Tomodachi Life, and it’s out on June 6 for 3DS. Here’s Nintendo describing the game: Everyone you know, and everyone you…