Jason Schreier

Yep, Twitch is playing everything these days—even Suikoden II, one of the best RPGs ever made. Not quite as hilarious as Twitch Plays Pokémon, but hey. Check it out right here

Warner Bros Is Working On A Minecraft Movie

Warner Bros. is turning Minecraft into a movie, creator Markus Persson said today on Twitter. The tweet speaks for itself: This might explain why Persson took action against the fanmade Minecraft film. Worth noting: movies enter development hell all the time, and “working with” does not immediately equate to “this is going to happen.” (Top…

Top-down shooter Dead Nation will be out on PS4 next week. It’s free for PS Plus members in March, and the PS4 version has a couple of new features, like a broadcast mode in which viewers can affect the difficulty of your game.

The first Shin Megami Tensei comes to iOS next month. It’ll be out on March 18 for $8, Atlus says. Here’s hoping you don’t have to pay real money to negotiate with demons. That’d be kind of evil.

Barack Obama: ‘We’re Building Iron Man’

Is the United States government really building Iron Man? Is the president trying to disarm us with one of those “jokes” he loves so much? If I were president of the United States, and I had a secret plan to build Iron Man, this is exactly what I’d do: joke about building Iron Man and…

Here’s a list of some of the indie developers participating in Microsoft’s ID@Xbox program to make games for Xbox One. Bonus points if you recognize them all.

An RPG That Teaches You Japanese

Here’s a fascinating new Kickstarter project: an RPG that sets out to teach Japanese to English speakers. It’s called Koe, and it’s a “traditional” turn-based RPG designed to teach you how to read and understand Japanese The concept, via Kickstarter: Essentially, what I want to do in the game is give you an introduction to…

The 3DS Is Three Today. It’s Still The Best Gaming Machine Out There.

Last year, at around this time, I declared that the 3DS is the best dedicated gaming system you can buy. Today, the 3DS turns three. It’s still the best gaming system you can buy. DECLARATION SUCCESSFUL. Yep, four months after the launch of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the best gaming experiences you can…

3DS platformer Fractured Soul has been ported to PC, and it’s out today. You can get it on GOG, Desura, or the official website

Deus Ex: The Fall, the mobile game released last year, is coming to PC on March 25. It’ll be $10, and if you preorder it on Steam, you get a free copy of the original Deus Ex

Candy Crush Makers Don’t Want to Trademark ‘Candy’ Anymore [UPDATE]

The company behind Candy Crush Saga has withdrawn their trademark application for ‘Candy’ in the United States, according to documents they filed with the U.S. Trademark Office yesterday. King, the company behind Candy Crush, filed for a trademark on the word ‘Candy’ last year, which caused a bit of a stir in the world of…

Four (!) New Persona Games Are Coming To North America

Here’s an afternoon bombshell courtesy Atlus: Four new Persona games are coming to North America over the next two years, including the game we’ve all been waiting years to play: Persona 5 Persona 5 will be out in 2015 for PS3—yes, PS3!—as will a Vita spinoff called Persona 4: Dancing All Night. Both the dungeon-crawler…

See The New Xbox One Dashboard In Action

Get a good look at the Xbox One’s new dashboard update in this video released by Microsoft’s Major Nelson today. The update—which includes improvements to party chat and the friends list on Xbox One—will go live in March, just in time for Titanfall. Looks good!

South Park: The Stick of Truth Is Censored Outside Of North America

Some players of South Park: The Stick of Truth won’t get to see the game in its entirety—a handful of 20-second scenes are censored in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) version of the upcoming RPG on consoles. Warning: minor spoilers for Stick of Truth follow. A review guide leaked by European press—via NeoGAF—reveals that…

The Ten Best South Park Episodes

In preparation for South Park: The Stick of Truth, which comes out next week for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, here are the ten best episodes of South Park, presented in no particular order. (Note: this was a hard list to make. There are too many great South Park episodes, so some couldn’t make the…

Sid Meier Turns 60 Today

Happy 60th birthday to Sid Meier, the legendary game designer best known for Civilization, Pirates!, and many other strategy games. Celebrate by checking out our profile of Meier’s life, career, and history. “While you were playing, I memorized the algorithms.”

Lego Grand Theft Auto V Needs To Happen

Lego City Undercover was great and all, but there’s just something about the contrast between GTA’s gritty world and adorable Lego figures that makes me wish a game like this were really happening. One day. One day. (via Dorkly)

Watch Grounded: The Making of The Last of Us Right Here

This is Grounded: Making The Last of Us, an 85-minute documentary that gives us a backstage look at Naughty Dog’s critically-acclaimed PS3 game. (And Kotaku‘s 2013 Game of the Year!) Via Sony, and the film-makers at Area-5, you can watch the whole thing above.

Hey music/JRPG geeks: Hiroki Kikuta, the composer for Secret of Mana, is doing an AMA over on Reddit right now. “I wanted the song of whales to be almost like a crying voice for the undying mana tree.”

Microsoft Teases JRPG Fans [UPDATE]

That’s Phil Spencer, one of Microsoft’s top gaming executives. Sakaguchi, of course, is Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Final Fantasy, now at Mistwalker, where he has released a few Xbox-exclusive JRPGs like Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon. Hope Phil isn’t just messing with us, because the Xbox One sure could use some JRPGs. (I’ve reached out…