Jason Schreier

Surprise! Earthbound Is Out On The Wii U Today

Surprise! Nintendo has just announced that Earthbound is out on the Wii U’s Virtual Console today. It’ll cost you $10. Earthbound‘s strategy guide is also available on the official website, and optimized for the Wii U’s GamePad. Originally released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo, Earthbound has gained status as a cult classic over the…

Firefly Is Getting A Video Game, But Not The One You Want

The thought of a Firefly online game is undeniably appealing: who wouldn’t want to man a ship and fight across Joss Whedon’s rich universe, meeting Browncoats and fighting off Blue Sun? Even Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski drools at the thought of an action/role-playing game based on the cult classic sci-fi series. This is…

Jailed League Player Will Try To Get Case Dismissed Next Month

Justin Carter, the 19-year-old who was imprisoned earlier this year for a Facebook comment interpreted as a terrorist threat, will file a motion for dismissal on August 12, his lawyer says. Lawyer Don Flanary, who is representing Carter, says they’re hoping the Comal County, Texas court will dismiss their case during the hearing, and if…

The Next Phoenix Wright Is Rated M (For Murder?)

Is Phoenix Wright going all Law & Order on us? Capcom’s next lawyer game will be rated M—presumably not for Maya Fey—and people are totally freaking out about it. Phoenix Wright games are always about bloody murder, and you always investigate crime scenes full of grisly-albeit-cartoonish evidence, but until now, every game in the series…

How To Recover From Post-Comic Con Stress Disorder

Are you already feeling the effects of Post-Comic Con Stress Disorder? Let comedian Nick Kroll help you get over it.

Hands-On With The PS4’s First Big Platformer

I got to spend some time playing Knack, the PlayStation 4-exclusive platformer announced back in February. It’s neat! And, like every next-gen game we’ve seen so far, it looks pretty damn good. Video above.

Crashing Cars On Race Tracks, Next-Gen Style

Here’s a speedy look at Driveclub, the PS4 launch game that lets you go all vroom vroom into the next generation of consoles. Enjoy watching me fail to steer around curves.

Watch Me Shoot Things On The PS4

Killzone: Shadow Fall sure is pretty. Out for the PlayStation 4 this fall, whenever the system launches, the latest Killzone game lets you shoot people in all sorts of ways, as you can see in this video we shot yesterday. Enjoy.

Unbelievable Skyrim Mod Lets You Use Dishonored‘s Powers

Have you ever, while playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, thought, “This is great, but what it really needs is Blink from Dishonored?” If so, you are probably me. Or maybe you are Madrilous, the clever person behind a new Skyrim mod called Gifts of the Outsider Gifts of the Outsider adds six new abilities…

Nine Minutes With One Of The PS3’s Most Interesting New Games

This is Puppeteer, out for the PS3 on September 10 (September 11 in Europe). It’s really neat. Watch me play it alongside creative director Gavin Moore.

Now that Dota 2 is officially out in the wild, check out our report from last year’s Dota 2 International, where people gathered from around the world to compete over $1.6 million.

You can play a demo of the roguelike Dungeonmans—designed by games industry vet Jim Shepard—whether or not you choose to back it on Kickstarter. Shepard’s looking for $35,000 to make it happen.

Happy 30th Birthday, Famicom

Your carefree 20s are over, Famicom. No more gallivanting. It’s time to settle down—find a nice wife, get a stable job, maybe put a down payment on a house. You’re 30 now. The Famicom—or Family Computer—first hit Japanese stores on July 15, 1983, and although it took a couple more years for it to make…

Do you have a Konami ID account? Change your password! They’ve been hacked

Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Has Some Rockin’ Violin

Pretty CGI? Check. Awesome music? Check. No idea what’s going on? Check. Yep, this is Final Fantasy I’m digging what I’ve seen so far from the third FFXIII game, and this new trailer is pretty neat too. For more on Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (which is out this February for PS3 and Xbox 360),…

Jeopardy Contestants Answer ‘Zelda,’ Get Robbed

Come on, Trebek. I mean, I know the specific technical details of Jeopardy answers are important and all, but really? REALLY? Zelda is perfectly fine. Nobody actually calls the game The Legend of Zelda. As Stephen Totilo just said out loud in the office, “THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!” (Thanks, Alfred!)

It’s Time For Konami To Bring Suikoden II To PSN

How much do you think a copy of Suikoden II costs on Amazon? $60? $150? $300? If you guessed $699.99, congratulations: you win the prize for Ability To Guess Obscene Internet Price Gouging. The prize is sadness. Suikoden II, a PS1 role-playing game developed and published by Konami, is generally considered to be one of…

The Kickstarted game Wasteland 2 now has a publisher—Deep Silver, who will distribute the game but concede all creative control to the developers at inXile, according to inXile

Anonymous Person Posts $500k Bail For Jailed League of Legends Player

An “anonymous good Samaritan” has donated $500,000 to the family of jailed League of Legends player Justin Carter in order to help them post bail, reports MSNBC Carter, who was arrested for a Facebook comment in which he said he would “shoot up a kindergarten,” has been in jail for almost four months. “Oh yeah,…

Today Is Suikoden Day

Really, every day should be Suikoden day, but this is the actual one. Allow me to explain: the wonderful Suikoden Revival Movement, a group dedicated to trying to revive Konami’s equally-wonderful RPG series, has declared today “Suikoden Day”—a festive occasion created to celebrate all things Suikoden Fans are posting all sorts of neat stuff on…