Jason Schreier

Gabe Newell Says He’ll Do A Reddit AMA If Charity Reaches $500k

When Valve head honcho Gabe Newell posted on Reddit yesterday, the community freaked out. And although some people were interested in the racing link Newell submitted, most Redditors want to ask questions about Valve that have been on their mind for years, like “Where’s Left 4 Dead 3?” and “How long did it take you…

Oh No, Square Enix, What Have You Done To Final Fantasy VI?

When we first saw screens of Final Fantasy VI on mobile, I was a little worried. The sprites looked faded, as if they’d been accidentally thrown in a washing machine, and like the FFV port before it, the game had an amateur, RPG Makerish feel. But who knew it would get this bad? Today Square…

Finally, Gone Home Becomes A Real Video Game

Want to play Gone Home but don’t want to deal with nonsense like “exploring” and “reading” and “emotional resonance”? Try Gun Home, the downloadable content devised by the fine folks at Dorkly. Because a video game isn’t a video game unless you’re killing Hitler.

Soul Fjord, the Ouya exclusive by Portal creator Kim Swift and her team at Airtight Games (Quantum Conundrum), will be out on January 28. It’s free-to-play (with in-app purchases, of course, because nothing is ever really free).

If PlayStation All-Stars Had Every Good PlayStation Character…

…It’d probably look like this fan art, drawn by talented Kotaku reader Max and his brother Leonardo. Lots of old PlayStation characters to spot in there. BONUS FUN FAN ART—also by Max and Leonardo, here’s Breaking Bad, Mario Kart style:

The Creator Of Final Fantasy Tactics Wants To Make Another One

Yasumi Matsuno is asking for $600,000 to make a spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics, and if that sentence doesn’t make you giddy, you haven’t played Final Fantasy Tactics. For those of us who have played the legendary strategy-RPG… Pause. Breathe in. This is actually happening. Matsuno, the creator of Vagrant Story, Tactics Ogre, and…

EA Says It Took Over Six Months To Make SimCity Work Offline

In the wake of yesterday’s news that SimCity will be getting an offline version, EA has come out with a blog post explaining just how they made it happen—and how much effort that took. “The original creative vision for SimCity was to make a game where every action had an effect on other cities in…

It Took Three Months To Find An Assassin’s Creed IV Easter Egg

In November, Assassin’s Creed IV writer Darby McDevitt put out a challenge on Twitter: Three months later, someone’s finally done it. YouTuber Kosappi Uni found the hidden message buried in the sound files of Ubisoft’s pirate game, and posted it in a video (embedded above). It’s strange, and meta, and kind of funny, especially if…

Creepy Xbox One Ad Says It’s So Real You’ll Bleed

As a video game aficionado, I often find myself staring at my consoles and wondering, “Why isn’t this more real? Why isn’t this more immersive? Why am I not bleeding right now?” Fortunately for Real Gamers, Microsoft’s latest Xbox One advertisement promises the features we really want, like sweat, blood, and terrifying hallucinations. Because if…

Shenmue Fans Sure Are Crazy

We all know that video game fans can be a little… passionate. Fans of the adventure series Shenmue, though? They’re straight-up insane. I say that with nothing but love, of course. Fan insanity makes the world go round. Without crazy fans we wouldn’t have Mother 3, or Project Eternity, or Kotaku.com. If not for rabid…

Part one of Broken Age, Double Fine’s crowdfunded adventure game, will launch on Tuesday for their Kickstarter backers, bossman Tim Schafer says. They’ll announce the public release date then, too.

Random Encounters comes back next week—for now, talk about all things JRPG right here. Have you played the Bravely Default demo yet? What do you think?

‘Fallout 4 E-Mail’ Is A Hoax, Bethesda Says

Did you get an e-mail from someone claiming to be the Bethesda Store? Bad news, my friend: you’ve been pranked. The above image is fake. Like last year’s massive “Fallout 4 ARG,” this is yet another hoax designed to get all of our hopes up only to punch us in the face. A number of…

Watch Super People Play Super Games Super Fast

If you haven’t been tuning into this year’s Awesome Games Done Quick, you are missing out on some serious rapid-fire video gaming. All week the fine folks at AGDQ have been speedrunning their way through new games like Metal Gear Rising, classics like Super Mario World, and exercises in self-destruction like Battletoads The marathon ends…

How A Team Of Two People Is Bringing Us 2014’s Largest JRPG

There are a lot of big, highly-anticipated games coming out next year: Watch Dogs, Titanfall, Dragon Age Inquisition. But in certain circles, there’s only one game worth counting down the days for: The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC. That oddly-titled game is the second of a trilogy and the sequel to the…

Desperate for news on Dragon Age: Inquisition? BioWare’s got a new blog postup today with some cool screenshots and a few details about their progress on the game, still slated for fall 2014. It’s a good read for Dragon Age fans.

You might not want to preorder the Diablo III expansion pack just yet—especially if you’re in the beta. Some players who preordered Reaper of Souls are reporting restriction issues connected to their current Diablo III accounts, and Blizzard is taking down the beta for some “urgent maintenance.”

The Steam Holiday Sale Starts Now

That sound you just heard was millions of credit cards simultaneously maxing out: Steam’s annual winter sale has just begun, and you can see all the deals right here Today’s Daily Deal highlights include Dishonored for $11.24 and BioShock Infinite for $9. You can also get Metal Gear Rising for $20 and Arkham Origins for…

Jason’s Top 10 Games Of 2013

The year is almost over, and the time of List-Making has begun. Read on for my ten favorite games of 2013, presented in no particular order. These might not be the best, or the most definitive, or the most impressive games of the year, but they’re the ones that stuck with me. In a strong…

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Is Out March 25, 2014

Diablo III‘s first (only?) expansion pack will be out on March 25, Blizzard just announced. It’ll be $40. The expansion pack itself gives you a new hero—the Paladin-y Crusader—a new act, and new features: an NPC artisan called the Mystic; a new mode in which you can ignore the story and start new games with…