Jason Schreier

JRPG That Mocks Boring JRPG Tropes Turns Out To Be Pretty Boring

For as long as there have been RPGs, there have been people making fun of RPG tropes. The Internet is sprinkled with jokes about level grinding and home invasion, to the point where Jokes About RPGs deserve their own slot on the Grand List Of RPG Clichés So if you’re going to do RPG humor,…

So What Did You Think Of Bravely Default‘s Second Half?

This post contains spoilers for Bravely Default It’s been two weeks since the wonderful 3DS RPG Bravely Default came out in America, so I think it’s fair to start talking about that horrible second half. As many of you must have realized by now, the first four chapters of Bravely Default ask you to go…

Watch People Play As Adam Sessler

Forget Twitch plays Pokemon. Watch Twitch play Adam Sessler. It’s almost as silly.

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All The New Features In Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD

HD visuals, new dress-spheres, a crazy new tower dungeon in which every action is turn-based… these are the new features in the upcoming remakes of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2, which are out on March 18 for PS3 and Vita. Really, the only thing not to be excited about here is that you…

Someone Made It So All The Cars In GTA V Try To Kill You

The only thing better than Grand Theft Auto V is Grand Theft Auto V with cars that go crazy and try to murder everyone on the streets. The GTA V Carmageddon mod has been around for a while, and this new video by taltigolt does an awesome job of showing it off. Watch and enjoy:…

Valve’s Movie Comes Out In March

Free To Play, the ominously-titled documentary about professional Dota 2 players, will be out on March 19, Valve just announced. It’ll be Free To Watch on Steam. The movie follows three professional Dota players—one in Asia, one in North America, and one in Europe—and documents their challenges, sacrifices, etc. Free To Playwas totally produced and…

Ken Levine’s New Game Could Be Really Fascinating

It really sucks that Irrational Games is shutting down, and I hope that everyone who was laid off finds new employment soon. It’s a bad situation, yes, but for gamers, there’s something to be optimistic about—a new digital game by Ken Levine. Levine, an undeniably talented writer best known for his work on BioShock, also…

BioShock Studio Irrational Games Is Shutting Down

Irrational Games, the studio that makes BioShock, is shutting down. BioShock creator Ken Levine said today that he plans to move on to smaller, narrative-heavy games that will be released digitally. Levine, who ran Irrational, announced the news on the Irrational Games website today, noting that he’ll be starting “a smaller, more entrepreneurial endeavor at…

Miyamoto: The Year of Luigi Will End On March 18

Remember when we thought the Year of Luigi was over? We were wrong. Shigeru Miyamoto has just declared that it is still, in fact, the Year of Luigi, up until March 18, when we will enter the next Year, whatever that may be. The Year of Luigi began on February 14, 2013, and it will…

Cliff Bleszinski: ‘I’ll Never Make Another Disc-Based Game’

Interesting words from the man who designed Gears of War: “The whole ‘old guard,’ where you get a Game Informer cover and an E3 reveal, is dead… I’ll never make another disc-based game for the rest of my career, and [at E3] they’re trying to woo buyers from Target and Walmart?” At this point it’s…

‘Final Fantasy Has Arrived’

Via Steve Lin, a Nintendo employee newsletter from June of 1990. “Oddly enough, this first-of-its-kind blockbuster is called Final Fantasy, but you can bet that it won’t be the last.”

The official English release of the beloved visual novel Steins;Gate will be out on April 30. You can get either a physical or digital copy from publisher Jast USA

Do Final Fantasy Fans Really Want More Lightning?

Square Enix believes that Lightning, the main character of the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy, has a lot of fans. In fact, according to FFXIII director Motomu Toriyama, Lightning is so beloved that she might start getting Square Enix Cameo Treatment. “We know that Lightning is an extremely popular character, even when compared to other Final…

Fans Fight To Bring Virtue’s Last Reward Back To Life

Last week, in a heartbreaking series of tweets, game director Kotaro Uchikoshi wrote that he hasn’t been able to greenlight the third planned game in his Zero Escape series. The numbers just haven’t worked out. Those words might mean nothing to you, but Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward, released in 2012 for the 3DS and…

Want to buy Bravely Default, but embarrassed about the “sexy teenage butterfly” cover art? Check out these (hilarious) tips from Dorkly. My favorite: the ol’ Cool Game sandwich.

The GTA V Of JRPGs?

I’ve been playing a lot of Threes lately—to the point where every time I close my eyes I just see numbers sliding together—and all I can think is that it’d make for the perfect JRPG mini-game. Can’t you picture it? You’re roaming around the map, saving the world or whatever, when suddenly this sketchy dude…

13 Minutes Of Hilarious Gameplay From South Park: The Stick of Truth

Oh my goodness. Here I am, sitting in the Gawker Media offices on another Friday morning, just trying to get through the day, when suddenly Ubisoft releases 13 minutes of footage from South Park: The Stick of Truth and now I can’t stop giggling at my desk and this is all quite embarrassing. Stick of…

The Veronica Mars movie is actually happening—which is still kind of hard to believe. It’ll be out on March 14, and tickets go on sale today, so don’t forget to snag them, because Veronica Mars is pretty much the best show ever.

Here’s A New Look At Bayonetta 2

The sequel to Bayonetta got a new trailer today. Still cool, still chaotic, still stylish. Check it out here. No word on a release date just yet, but Bayonetta 2 will be out on Wii U later this year.