Jason Schreier

GTA V Hits 29 Million Sales In Six Weeks. TWENTY-NINE MILLION.

Grand Theft Auto V has officially hit “preposterous” levels of financial success: Rockstar has sold-in close to 29 million copies of their latest open-world monstrosity, the corporate overlords at Take-Two announced today. 29 million. Twenty-nine million. I’ll let you stop and pick your jaw up off the floor now. (Note: “sold-in” means they sold the…

EA Cancels Command & Conquer

And another Command & Conquer game bites the dust: EA has just axed the latest in the longrunning strategy series, the company announced today. “Your feedback from the alpha trial is clear: We are not making the game you want to play,” a rep for developer Victory Games wrote in a blog post published this…

Rumored Xbox One Launch Issues Lead To Lots Of Questions

As we inch closer and closer to the release of next-gen consoles, we’re starting to learn more and more about their features—and some of what we’re hearing might not be great news for anyone who expected a totally stable experience at launch. Over the past few days, the Internet has exploded with drama surrounding the…

Old Nintendo Products Turned Into Insane Statue

NeoGAF user Khrno says he spotted this beast at the British department store Peter Jones. It’s simultaneously wonderful and horrifying. That’s all Nintendo hardware. The bulk of the body appears to be made out of Wii Fit balance boards and Wii U GamePads. The legs are made out of the Wii steering wheel accessories. And…

Miyamoto: Online Multiplayer Isn’t Nintendo’s Focus This Time Around

The upcoming Wii U platformer Super Mario 3D World, like many other Nintendo games, won’t have online multiplayer. If you want to play with other people, you’ll have to do it in the same room. Well, I guess one person could grab the Wii U GamePad and move to another room, but you see what…

The Art Of The Plot Twist

A few years ago, I spent a weekend cranking through season 1 of 24. I don’t regret this. Binge-watching is a beautiful experience. 24, by the way, is a show about a dude named Jack Bauer who uses cheat codes to save the world once every 24 hours or so. The show is well-known not…

PS4 Day-One Patch Is 300 MB, Enables Online Multiplayer And More

The PlayStation 4 will get a day-one patch when it launches on November 15, Sony announced today. The patch is 300 megabytes, and it turns on a lot of features: Remote Play, sharing, broadcasting, and so forth. Without the patch, you won’t able to use any of that. You won’t be able to play games…

Nintendo 2DS: A Video Guide

Meet the Nintendo 2DS, the 3DS’s kid-friendly little brother. It plays 3DS games, but it looks and feels totally different. Check out our video guide for a closer look at the latest member of the DS family, which is surprisingly comfortable, although I do wish it kept the clam-shell design. You can also see how…

OBJECTION! Here’s the official launch trailer for Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies, out today on the 3DS eShop. Whether you’re a series veteran or a newcomer, this game is well worth your time. (Read my full review.)

Rockstar Made The Best Trailers Of The Last Gaming Era

The video game trailer is an interesting phenomenon. It is, at its core, a marketing device—a series of sounds and images, carefully arranged to make you want to buy something. But even the most cynical of gamers would have to admit that trailers can be works of art in their own right. Even after the…

The Next Great Mario Game

The people who make Super Mario 3D World want you to know that it’s pretty great. Well, of course they do. They created it. Their job is to get us playing and enjoying it. Their thoughts on the latest Mario game are about as objective as a soccer mom’s evaluation of her kid’s athletic performance.…

Video Game Tries To Be Cute, Is Instead Horrifying

This is My Little Baby 3D. It came out for the 3DS today. It’s… well… let’s just say it’s a work of art. The press release, via the developers at Treva Entertainment, might be as creepy as the photos: Hamburg, 24th October 2013 – In “My Little Baby 3D” players find themselves lovingly caring for…

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies: The Kotaku Review

A shout. “Hold it!” The camera cuts between stunned faces as everyone waits, sweating, wondering what sort of interjection will shake things up next. This happens so often, you’d think they would be used to it by now. But no. Shock. Disbelief. Someone barges into the courtroom—someone new, someone unexpected. Maybe someone shouts a new…

Get your clicking fingers ready: registration for PAX East 2014 starts tomorrow afternoon. It’s safe to say that tickets will be sold out within the first few hours, so keep an eye out!

Apple Exec Accidentally Calls Batman ‘The Black Knight’

Today at Apple’s big presser, marketing VP Phil Schiller accidentally called Batman the Black Knight. What he meant, of course, was the Dark Knight. Unless he was referring to Martin Lawrence.

Titanfall Comes Out March 11, 2014

One of next year’s biggest games will be out sooner than you think: Titanfall hits Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC on March 11, 2014 in North America. (March 13 in Europe.) Titanfall is the first game from Respawn, the studio founded by Call of Duty creators Jason West and Vince Zampella when they were…

Source: The Next Aliens Game Stars Ellen Ripley’s Daughter

The next video game in the world of Aliens will star the daughter of superstar space officer Ellen Ripley, according to a Kotaku source. The game is called Alien: Isolation, and we hear it will be on both current- and next-gen consoles next year. Isolation is developed by the British studio Creative Assembly (Total War);…

Obama Compares Health Insurance To Buying A PlayStation

Earlier this month, president Barack Obama mentioned Microsoft’s Xbox as a way to frame the government shutdown. Today, it’s PlayStation’s turn: this time, Obama’s comparing health insurance to Black Friday sales. Clearly the president of the United States understands how important it is to stay neutral in this high-stakes next-gen console war. If you’re the…

Next-Gen Football Looks Like This

I’m not really sure what to make of this new next-gen Madden 25 footage, released by EA today. It looks OK, but this isn’t exactly how I imagined “next-gen” gameplay would look. And it’s not nearly as mind-blowing as next-gen NBA 2k14. Doesn’t help that they’re just focusing on linemen, and we can’t actually see…

Why I Can’t Get Into Pokémon

I’ve tried. Oh believe me, I’ve tried. I’ve tried my hardest to get into the rhythm of Pokémon, to fall into the groove of critter collecting and trainer battling and all the other activities that Pokémon fans love so much. But I just can’t do it. It’s been 15 years since Pokémon Red/Blue—the only one…