Jason Schreier

Final Fantasy Tactics Wasn’t Supposed To Have Casting Times

You know how in Final Fantasy Tactics—the wonderful strategy-RPG released for the PlayStation in 1998—your wizards and summoners all had to deal with charging times? And how if you wanted to cast a spell, you’d have to wait X number of turns before it went through? Here’s a bombshell for you: creator Yasumi Matsuno says…

Watch Dogs Delayed On Wii U

Following rumors, the Wii U version of Watch Dogs has been delayed, Ubisoft announced during their earnings call today. Watch Dogs will be out for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC this spring—between April and June, Ubisoft says. The Wii U version will come “at a later date.” A few weeks ago, the…

Happy Valentine’s Day Week—here is a beautiful new romantic trailer for Final Fantasy X, a video game about an athlete’s illicit love affair with a woman who’s just trying to save the world. The HD remakes of FFX/FFX-2 are out on PS3 and Vita next month.

Tips For Playing Bravely Default

Bravely Default is out in North America today, and if you’ve just picked it up, we’ve got a whole bunch of tips to make your experience better. (Read our review of the new 3DS RPG right here.) Do all of the sidequests—at least in Chapters 1-4. Every time you see a blue exclamation point on…

Bravely Default: The Kotaku Review

There’s an old saying: if it looks like a Final Fantasy, feels like a Final Fantasy, and sounds like a Final Fantasy, it’s probably Bravely Default Yes, Square Enix’s latest sojourn in the well-trod world of medieval fantasy and magical crystals will feel familiar to anyone who has played old Final Fantasy games and other…

If You Have A Vita, You Must Check Out Danganronpa

If you’ve ever wanted to play a game that could genuinely be described as a cross between Persona, Phoenix Wright, and Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward, you’ve gotta look into Danganronpa Out for the Vita on Tuesday (February 11), Danganronpa is a visual novel in which 15 students are trapped in a high school and…

Flappy Bird Is Making $50,000 A Day With Mario-Like Art [UPDATE 3]

UPDATE (2/10/14): Following the Feb 8 update to this piece, we’ve now published an apology to Flappy Bird‘s creator and a full accounting of what I believe was going on with reaction to the game. Please find that here. -Stephen Totilo, Editor-in-Chief, Kotaku.com UPDATE (2/8/14): This article was originally titled “Flappy Bird Is Making $50,000…

Ubisoft’s JRPG-inspired Child of Light is out April 30. It’ll be $15, and available digitally just about everywhere—PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and even Wii U.

Final Fantasy VI Is Out On iOS Today

One of the greatest RPGs ever made is out on iOS today. It’ll cost you $15.99, and it’s got touchscreen-adapted controls and a brand new coat of paint. Check it out on iTunes if you’re interested, and pick a side: Team Cool Remake or Team This Shit Is Gross. Or, if you’ve never played FFVI…

Watch This Rock Band Play A Killer Final Fantasy Medley

Good morning. Here is a rock band covering Final Fantasy IV music as a crowd nerds out at Magfest in Maryland. It is awesome. Enjoy. (via On Being Human)

Meet The Man Who Hacked Jeopardy

When Arthur Chu got the call saying he’d been selected to go on Jeopardy, his first move was thorough and decisive: He went to Google and typed in “jeopardy strategy.” “I knew that just like in terms of my natural knowledge base, I wasn’t ready to go on Jeopardy,” Chu told me on the phone…

How Bravely Default Became A Classic ‘Old-School’ JRPG

On Friday, Americans will finally get to start experiencing Bravely Default, a new role-playing game by Square Enix that’s really quite great. (Look out for my review of the game by the end of the week.) Last week I hopped on the phone for a chat with producer Tomoya Asano and assistant producer Shinji Takahashi.…

You Can Cosplay As Lara Croft In Lightning Returns

Tomb Raider DLC for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII? Sure.

Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes Is Short. Really Short.

The prologue to Metal Gear Solid V comes out next month, and if you’re expecting a nice chunk of Snake’s story to keep you occupied until the full game is done, you should probably know that it’s short. Really short. Game Informer got their hands on a near-final build of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes…

Murdered: Soul Suspect will be out in June of 2014, Square Enix just announced. PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, PC. It’s like L.A. Noire with ghosts

A Look Behind The Scenes Of Final Fantasy

The world of Japanese video game development can often feel mysterious to those of us in the Western Hemisphere, so it’s always cool to get these behind-the-scenes peeks at studios like Square Enix. Granted, this is a fluff video for the upcoming Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (out next Tuesday for 360/PS3), so it doesn’t…

Report: Disney Will Lay Off Hundreds This Week

Disney plans to lay off hundreds of people in their interactive-media department this week, the Wall Street Journal reports today Disney Interactive has 3,000 people, and includes the social game developer Playdom, which will reportedly be part of these layoffs. In January of 2013, Disney shut down Epic Mickey developer Junction Point, and that April,…

The Closest You Can Get To Actually Being In Skyrim

The Cyberith Virtualizer sounds like something out of a crappy sci-fi novel—until you watch this video and see what it can do. With the Virtualizer, a motion-tracking device that isn’t commercially available just yet, an Oculus Rift, and a Wii remote, this guy is basically inhabiting Skyrim. It’s… incredible. Also incredibly dorky, but still—you’re lying…

‘A Cancer That’s Eroding The Market’: Reactions To EA’s Dungeon Keeper

EA’s new mobile Dungeon Keeper is free-to-play in the worst possible way, offering up a twisted cartoonish world in which you can progress through the game either by waiting or paying, and people aren’t too pleased about it. “A cynically motivated skeleton of a non-game, a scam that will take your cash and offer nothing…

Murdered: Soul Suspect is headed to next-gen—Airtight just confirmed an Xbox One version of their upcoming detective game. It’ll also be on 360, PS3, and PC. No word on PS4 yet (but that’s likely coming, or else Microsoft would be touting the exclusivity).