Jason Schreier

Your Survival Guide To The Biggest Gaming Month We’ve Seen In Years

Get ready to never leave your house again. For some reason, every video game maker in the world has decided to release their products in March 2013. From Tomb Raider to BioShock Infinite to SimCity, next month is stuffed with games. Games games games. You’re probably a bit intimidated. We definitely are. So in order…

Everyone’s Favorite Reverse Tower-Defense Game Gets A Real Sequel

Anomaly: Korea wasn’t really a sequel to Anomaly: Warzone Earth, a “reverse tower-defense” game released in 2011 in which you maneuver tanks and convoys around a battlefield and direct them to blow away alien towers. (Lots of people loved it.) This one really is a sequel. The folks at development studio 11 Bit have just…

EA Is Hosting A Conference Next Week To Talk About Gay Rights And Gaming

While Electronic Arts certainly doesn’t have the best reputation among hardcore gamers, they do have a good track record for supporting gay rights. And next week, the giant video game publisher is holding a conference to talk about all sorts of LGBT issues. Kotaku just got an invite today. Here’s the whole thing: You Are…

The Creator Of The Original SimCity Talks About Playing The New One

The new SimCity comes out on Tuesday, and to celebrate the occasion, publisher EA has just released a very cool video of Will Wright—creator of the original SimCity (and The Sims, and Spore)—talking about how he prefers to play. Above, you can hear Wright chat with current SimCity designer Stone Librande. Also, as EA notes,…

A Halo Easter Egg That Took Years To Discover

The people at Bungie are famous for putting obscure Easter Eggs into their games. Halo‘s creators have packed the massive sci-fi shooter franchise with all sorts of references and secrets, and fans love finding them But sometimes, Halo‘s little secrets are so obscure, nobody ever sees them. A tipster—who asked that we not use his…

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment Is Out On PSN Today

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, the second-second game in Atlus’s twisted demonic series, is out on the PlayStation Network today. A brief explanation: Persona 2 is actually two games: Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment. Both were released on PlayStation, then re-released for the PSP. While the PSP remake of Innocent Sin was brought to North America,…

Etrian Odyssey IV Is Beating The Crap Out Of Me, And I Love It

Sometimes the pain just hurts so good. Etrian Odyssey IV, I love to hate you. The fourth game in the Etrian Odyssey series is much like all of the rest: intricate, challenging, and unabashedly hardcore. It hits you really hard, but that’s okay, because you know you love it. I’ve spent the weekend with Etrian…

Here’s The Fantastic Launch Trailer For StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm

Oh man. StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is coming out in two weeks. The sequel to 2010’s Wings of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm promises to continue the story of marine Jim Raynor, alien-human-crazy beast Sarah Kerrigan, and all of the other fascinating characters that inhabit the StarCraft universe. Blizzard—the folks behind StarCraft—have always…

Assassin’s Creed IV Is All About Pirates, According To This Poster

Is the next Assassin’s Creed all about pirates? A tipster just sent over marketing materials for something called Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Ubisoft hasn’t announced anything about the next Assassin’s Creed just yet, other than the fact that it will star a new character and a new setting, and it will be out next…

Natural Selection 2 is getting some free new DLC on February 28. That’s right: free DLC.

From Dream To Disaster: The Story Of Aliens: Colonial Marines

On December 11, 2006, Sega announced that they had snagged the rights to the much-beloved sci-fi franchise Aliens. Eager to get people excited, Sega quickly announced that they had two big games in the works: a role-playing game and a first-person shooter. In the coming years, one would be cancelled. And the other probably should…

The Kingdom Hearts ‘Remix’ Is Coming To North America This Fall As A PS3 Exclusive

For PlayStation 3 only, Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix—yes, that’s the full name—will be coming to the U.S. this fall, Square Enix said today. From Square: Fully remastered in HD, KINGDOM HEARTS HD 1.5 ReMIX is a compilation of the critically acclaimed KINGDOM HEARTS FINAL MIX, previously exclusive to the Japanese market, and KINGDOM HEARTS…

Nintendo’s Commercial For Luigi’s Mansion 2 Is Straight-Up 90s

Grab your Gushers, kids. This new commercial for the second Luigi’s Mansion—out March 24 for 3DS—feels straight out of 1995. That’s not a bad thing, of course. Nothing like some good old 90s nostalgia to brighten up your Friday afternoon.

If You Like JRPGs, It’s Time To Start Speaking Up

I spent my Wednesday night sitting in Kotaku‘s office, gulping down coffee and furiously typing as I watched Sony announce their new PlayStation, a revolutionary device that will let you play games where you shoot people with guns. And as they banged out one announcement after the other, my mind kept roaming to a single…

If PS4 Games Only Cost $60, They’re Actually Cheaper Than PS3 Games

On CNBC last night, Sony CEO Jack Tretton implied that games for the company’s newly-announced PlayStation 4 won’t retail for more than $60. “We’re gonna welcome free-to-play models, games from 99 cents up to those 60 dollar games,” he said. Later, he added: “We’ll justify that $60 price point.” That might come as welcome news…

Sony And Nintendo, Best Friends Forever

Two decades ago, Sony and Nintendo were prepared to partner on a CD-ROM drive for the SNES. Things went sour. The deal fell apart. And Sony went their own way, eventually launching the PlayStation and paving their own path to success. Today, the two companies almost seem like best friends. BFFs! And as a dedicated…

EA Lays Off Staff, May Have Shut Down Army of Two Developer Visceral Montreal

Electronic Arts has laid off a number of development staff in both Los Angeles and Montreal, the publisher confirmed today. We’re hearing from multiple sources that they’ve shut down Visceral Montreal, the studio behind upcoming shooter Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel, but EA wouldn’t confirm or deny that news. However, in a statement to…

No plans for a Vita price cut in North America, Sony said at a PS4 roundtable this morning.

Zelda: Oracle of Seasons And Ages Are Coming To 3DS Virtual Console Outside Of Japan… Eventually

Last night, Nintendo announced that Game Boy favorites The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons would come to the 3DS’s Virtual Console in Japan. Today on the Wii U’s social network, Miiverse, Zelda designer Eiji Aonuma confirmed that they’ll be out in other regions too… eventually. Here’s…

The PS4 will be able to output visuals at a 4k resolution for media, but not games, Sony said during a roundtable today.