Jason Schreier

I Can’t Stop Laughing At Sega’s Sonic-Zelda Crossover

There is free Zelda-themed DLC coming out for Sonic: Lost World. It’s out tomorrow on the Wii U eShop, and IGN’s got one of their exclusive preview things right here. (The gist: Sonic gets to run around a zone filled with Zelda references.) More importantly, look at that screenshot. LOOK AT IT. Sonic the Hedgehog…

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Xbox One Is $50 Off On Microsoft’s Store

The Xbox One Titanfall bundle is now $450 on Microsoft’s store—joining retailers like Walmart and Target in offering a $50 discount on the newest Xbox—but don’t call it a price cut. Microsoft says the deal isn’t permanent. Here’s Microsoft’s official statement to news outlets including Kotaku: This is not a price drop on Xbox One.…

Crazy-Fast Zelda Player Keeps Breaking Majora’s Mask World Record

Here’s Swedish speedrunner EnNopp112 setting yet another Zelda: Majora’s Mask world record—this time clocking in at just under an hour and a half (without cheats) while completing the N64 game. EnNopp112 has been breaking this record once every few weeks since the beginning of 2014, and it’s always impressive. He’s also got the record for…

You Have Just ONE WEEK To Finish 24 On Netflix

THE CLOCK IS TICKING, BAUER. On April 1, Netflix is removing 24 from their instant streaming services. That means you have just one week to catch up on the high-octane show before it comes back for a 12-episode limited run in May. This is terrible news for those of us who have been rewatching the…

Disney has just purchased Maker Studios—the YouTube network that includes personalities like PewDiePie—for $500 million, with $450 million more possible via performance-based bonuses. Nice haul, YouTubers.

EA Loses ‘Worst Company In America’ Contest In First Round

Congratulations, Time Warner Cable. You’re so terrible that you’ve convinced the masses not just to knock out EA—two-time winner of the Worst Company in America award—but to knock them out in the first round EA took home Worst Company honors in 2012 and 2013 following controversies surrounding some of their video games, like Mass Effect…

PlayStation’s ‘Origin Story’ Is Today’s Funniest Video

If you thought you knew how Ken Kutaragi, onetime CEO of Sony, turned the PlayStation into a success, you were way wrong. This is the real story: Comedy group Mega64 have outdone themselves with this one. Don’t miss the top-secret Kutaragi cameo at the end. (Top gif via NeoGAF)

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes – PS4 vs. Xbox One vs. PS3 vs. 360

With every new cross-gen video game comes a new opportunity to compare technical performances across most of today’s big gaming consoles, and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is no exception. The super-technical folks at Digital Foundry have put together a great breakdown of the technical specs in the latest MGS game, complete with video…

Final Fantasy XIV… As A Super Nintendo Game

Square Enix made this video. It’s wonderful—like their 16-bit FFXIII video—and makes me wish they’d turn this into a real game. Here’s what that boss looks like in the real Final Fantasy XIV, by the way:

The Best Final Fantasy Music

Over the past couple of decades, Final Fantasy has done many things very well: stories, characters, art direction, chocobos, all that jazz. But one thing has always made Final Fantasy stand out among its peers: the music. Most of the credit for that music goes to Nobuo Uematsu, the tremendously talented composer responsible for the…

Ubisoft Confirms Assassin’s Creed Unity

Here we go. Two days after we showed you the next Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft’s confirming it. Video footage above. Assassin’s Creed Unity is out this holiday for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. It’s not coming to last-gen platforms, as we reported earlier this week. We’ve heard that Ubisoft is working on a different game to…

One Explanation Behind EA ‘Destroying’ Bullfrog

Over the past two decades, Electronic Arts has developed a reputation for buying and “killing” independent video game studios. Fair or not, there have been some high-profile EA acquisitions that never quite worked out. Game studios purchased and later shut down by the massive publisher include Westwood, the company behind the Command & Conquer strategy…

Obsidian’s Newest Game Isn’t Quite What You’d Expect

Last night at GDC in San Francisco, Obsidian Entertainment announced a new game. You might expect the company behind RPGs like Fallout: New Vegas and South Park: The Stick of Truth to have another massive adventure up their sleeve, but nope! It’s a free-to-play tank game. It’s called Armored Warfare, and it’s an online tank-battling…

Much has been made about Dark Souls II‘s graphical downgrade between E3 2013 and final release. Here’s Dark Souls II developer From Software addressing things in a statement to Kotaku: “Throughout the game development process, a game is constantly being balanced not only in game playability, but also in the realm of resource management. A…

Leaked Images Reveal One Of This Fall’s Two Assassin’s Creed Games

One of this fall’s big Assassin’s Creed games, called or code-named Unity, is set at least partly in 18th-century Paris, according to early leaked screenshots obtained by Kotaku These screenshots, sent to me by a source who requested anonymity, show Unity‘s new assassin roaming around what appears to be Paris. You can see Notre Dame,…

EA Is Again A Contender For ‘Worst Company In America’

Can EA take the title three years in a row? The Consumerist‘s Worst Company In America bracket is live once again, and again the video game publisher Electronic Arts is a contender. Microsoft is also on the bracket this year, along with some particularly nasty companies like Monsanto, Seaworld, and perhaps worst of all, Time…

13 Years Later, Final Fantasy X Is Still Great

I have spent ~20 hours playing the HD remake of Final Fantasy X—out today for PS3 and Vita. In short, it’s wonderful. Play it. To try to capture what my experience has been like, here are the notes I took while playing FFX on PS3, presented with no edits whatsoever: Wow this game looks great.…

Kickstarter Game ‘On Hold’ Two Years After Raising $53,000

In July of 2012, a man named Jay Pavlina raised $53,509 on Kickstarter for his game, Super Action Squad. Two years later, the game is “on hold”—and Pavlina is saying that his Kickstarter was “a bad idea in the first place.” It’s yet another cautionary tale for anyone who regularly backs Kickstarter projects in hopes…

SimCity Finally Gets An Offline Mode Today

One year later, SimCity will finally be playable without an Internet connection—a new update, live today, adds an offline single-player mode to the controversial city-building game. EA’s got a full FAQ clarifying what this mode will entail. You’ll be able to play the newest SimCity offline whenever you want—on both PC and Mac—and they’ve even…