Jason Schreier

Super Smash Bros. Screenshots Are Just The Best

Video game screenshots, as a general rule, are not very interesting. They’re dull, full of guns, and usually so dolled up in photoshop that they’re more works of fiction than genuine marketing tools. Super Smash Bros. is an exception to this rule. The folks behind Nintendo’s upcoming fighting game—out for 3DS this summer, and Wii…

Super Smash Bros. Gets Another Newcomer: Charizard

Surprise! Charizard will be a full playable fighter in the new Smash games. The high-powered fire Pokémon made a surprise appearance at the end of today’s Nintendo Direct, and he’ll be joining the roster on both 3DS and Wii U. Here’s video footage of the reveal: The 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. will be…

Yoshi’s Back In The New Smash Bros.

Some fans were worried that Mario’s green lizard buddy wouldn’t be back for the newest Smash Bros.—out for 3DS this summer and Wii U this winter—but don’t fret: Nintendo just announced that Yoshi is indeed back, and he’ll stand upright this time. Game-changer.

Zero Suit Samus Is A Separate Character In Super Smash Bros.

Samus will be back in the newest Smash games, both in armored and zero-suit forms. This time, Zero Suit Samus will be a separate character. The new Super Smash Bros. is out on 3DS this summer and Wii U this winter.

Smash Bros. 3DS Out This Summer, Wii U This Winter

This year’s two Smash Bros. games will have separate release windows, Nintendo just announced. 3DS this summer; Wii U this winter. No specific release dates just yet.

Nintendo’s running a Smash Bros.-themed Nintendo Direct at 6pm Eastern. You can watch it live right here, or keep up with Kotaku for all the news as it happens.

Titanfall On Xbox 360 Seems To Run Pretty Darn Well

I’ll admit it: I assumed that the Xbox 360 version of Titanfall would be hot garbage, especially once we found out that Respawn—the studio behind the PC and Xbox One versions—hadn’t actually made it. And now I’m happy to admit I was wrong: Digital Foundry did one of their in-depth performance analyses on last-gen Titanfall,…

Borderlands 2 comes to Vita on May 13, Sony just announced. Starting May 6, you can also get a bundle with the game, a Vita Slim, and an 8 GB memory card for $200. (Not that 8 GB is enough; if you really want to take advantage of the Vita—which is a great system!—you’ll need…

Now This Is How You Troll Clueless Marketers

Say you’re a video game developer. You get one of those annoying e-mail blasts from some corporate marketing firm that wants you to pay them for their vague services. You could ignore it. You could delete it. You could report it for spam. Or, if you’re Davey Wreden, creator of The Stanley Parable, you could…

The Most EXTREME Moments In Game of Thrones

So extreme. Spoilers for seasons 1-3, I guess. (via Sascha Stanton-Craven)

The Crew Is Out This Fall

Ubisoft’s big open-world racing game—announced at E3 last year—will be out for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC this fall, the company said today. Set in the relatively mean streets of North America, The Crew requires an internet connection to play. New gameplay footage above.

“Wherever we may stand today as an industry, I am confident that we will stand somewhere far better tomorrow.” Watch BioWare designer Manveer Heir’s great GDC talk about racism, misogyny, and homophobia in the video game industry. The audience gave him a standing ovation.

Episode three of The Wolf Among Us is out this week, developer Telltale says—it releases today on PS3, PC, and Mac; and it’s out tomorrow on Xbox 360 (and on PSN in Europe). iOS comes later this week.

Watch Final Fantasy‘s Brilliant Artist At Work

The folks at Ubisoft Montreal asked Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano to draw them some pretty pictures for their upcoming RPG, Child of Light. Watch him in action here.

Watch The Simpsons‘ Minecraft Intro Here

Tonight’s episode of The Simpsons—Luca$, featuring Zach Galifianakis—aired with this silly Minecraft-themed intro. It’s cute, if not exactly the best thing they’ve ever done. At least Moe makes for a good Creeper. Watch the whole thing here: You can watch the full episode over on Fox’s website when it goes live.

Nobuo Uematsu loves indies—the famed composer best known for his work on the Final Fantasy series is going to work on the upcoming strategy game Defender’s Quest 2. Cool!

Japan’s Big RPG Bubble

Earlier this week, Square Enix boss Yosuke Matsuda said some things that left a whole lot of RPG fans scratching their heads. “Due to having split [the development mindset] according to regions around the world, we weren’t able to see this clearly up until now, but fans of JRPGs are really spread around the world,”…

Every Death In Game of Thrones So Far [SPOILERS]

In case you needed a reminder that nobody will ever, ever be happy on Game of Thrones, here’s a three-minute catch-up on every death we’ve seen on-screen so far, courtesy of Digg. Thanks, George RR Martin. Game of Thrones season 4 starts on Sunday. Expect lots of sex, blood, and sweet house insignias.

Five-Year-Old Boy Exposes Xbox Security Flaw

Meet Microsoft’s newest security researcher: Kristoffer Von Hassel. He lives in San Diego. He loves video games. And he’s five years old. He’s also a better hacker than any of us. Von Hassel cracked into his dad’s Xbox One account by finding a backdoor in the password verification screen, as ABC 10 reports. He entered…

Here’s A Sweet Short Film For The Elder Scrolls Online

This five-minute short, released by Bethesda today, tells you absolutely nothing about The Elder Scrolls Online, which is officially out today for PC and Mac. But hey, it’s a pretty snazzy film and a solid way to start your Friday morning. Very Return of the Kingish. Enjoy.