Jason Schreier

The Case Of The Disappearing Kickstarter

It’s the biggest fear of anyone who spends $10 or $50 to help fund a new game. You see a cool-looking game on Kickstarter or some other website where creative people can ask fans to help pay for their projects. You think it sounds awesome. You give them your money, maybe in exchange for some…

Report: Police Want To Know If Sandy Hook Shooter Was ‘Emulating’ A Video Game

The Hartford Courant has published a long profile of Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who shot and killed 27 people at Sandy Hook Elementary last December. One particularly interesting tidbit: Lanza owned “thousands of dollars worth” of violent video games (no word on which ones), and police are looking into whether the shooter was “emulating” a…

You Play As The Niece Of Mega-Man Co-Creator Keiji Inafune In This Ridiculous Game

Hot off the heels of Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward, my favorite game of 2012, niche publisher Aksys has just announced Sweet Fuse: At Your Side, another Japanese visual novel. Here’s a brief description for the upcoming PSP game, which Aksys will release this summer: Saki Inafune, niece to legendary game developer Keiji Inafune, can’t…

Ten Modern JRPGs Worth Playing

Let’s make something clear. Japanese RPGs are not dead. They have never been dead. They will not be dead any time soon. I’ve written about this subject before, but every day it seems like there’s a new screed, a new attention-grabbing editorial or essay. “Are JRPGs Obsolete?” “Do JRPGs No Longer Matter?” “Has The Age…

I Have No Idea What’s Happening In This iOS Game, But I Like It

A lot of mobile games don’t make sense. Why are pigs and birds enemies? How many times do you need to keep running through that temple? What’s a science lab doing with so many electrical zappers? Jool, a new iOS game by a German developer named ROSTLAUB, makes the least sense of any mobile game…

Watch Dogs Will Be Out This Holiday For ‘All Home Consoles,’ Leaked Poster Says [UPDATE]

Watch Dogs, the impressive-looking game that stole the show at last year’s E3, will be out this holiday for “all home consoles,” according to leaked marketing materials received by Kotaku today. Check the images below to see both the front and back of the marketing materials, which mention a quote from G4 about the game…

One Redditor writes an interesting—and funny—post about what it’s like to develop for consoles

This 3DS RPG Looks Weird And Trippy And Awesome

This is Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, an Atlus-developed role-playing game for 3DS that’s part of the Shin Megami Tensei series. It’s a first-person dungeon crawler set, like most SMT games, in a demon-filled version of Japan. Above is the “story trailer” for Soul Hackers, which was originally released for Sega Saturn and then PS1 in…

Don’t Look Now, But The 3DS Has Become The Best Gaming Machine Out There

Two years ago, Nintendo was in trouble. The House of Mario had just released a brand new handheld system with impressive 3D graphics, but nobody seemed to care. Sales were sluggish and reception wasn’t great. So they did something drastic: just six months after releasing the 3DS, Nintendo slashed the system’s price from $250 to…

Animal Crossing: New Leaf Gets A Relaxing New Trailer

Ain’t no dubstep here! The new trailer for Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which will be out on 3DS June 9, is calm and relaxing, just like the popular game series.

Watch This Morning’s Entire Nintendo Direct Right Here

This morning’s Nintendo Direct presentation was packed with announcements and trailers for new games on the 3DS and Wii U. You can watch all 37 minutes right here.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf will be out for 3DS on June 9, Nintendo said today.

New Mario & Luigi RPG Will Take Place In Luigi’s Dreams

Nintendo just announced a new installment in the Mario & Luigi role-playing game series, and it looks absolutely insane. The new game is set in Luigi’s dreams, and it lets you rub Luigi’s face on the bottom screen as you adventure with both plumbers on the top screen. This is the fourth entry in the…

New Nintendo Direct coming your way at 9am Eastern. Watch it live here, or check Kotaku for news as it happens.

How Aliens: Colonial Marines Fell Apart

Aliens: Colonial Marines is a bad game, by most accounts. Reviewers have almost all trashed it, fans don’t seem to like it, and the final product looks nothing like the impressive demo that developer Gearbox showed last year So how did it happen? Although the full picture isn’t quite clear yet, over the past few…

Planescape: Torment Designer Chris Avellone Plays Old RPGs For Our Amusement

The latest update for development studio Obsidian Entertainment’s Kickstartered RPG Project Eternity isn’t about Project Eternity at all. Instead, it’s a solid 57 minutes of veteran game designer Chris Avellone playing the old role-playing game Arcanum, which is both entertaining and fascinating, even if you haven’t played the game. Avellone simultaneously plays the roles of…

Insane Kickstarter Promises A Video Game You Can Play With Your Mind

In the world of zany Kickstarter projects, this is one of the zaniest. Give these guys $40,000 and they’ll let you blow things up with your mind. The aptly-named Throw Trucks With Your Mind is a video game that promises to let you use your mind to move things around in-game. You use a regular…

New Nintendo Direct coming tomorrow at 9am Eastern. This one’s all about upcoming 3DS and Wii U games, Nintendo says.

GameStop Says 60% Of Surveyed Gamers Wouldn’t Buy A Console If It Blocks Used Games

Hard times could be getting harder for GameStop, the massive store chain that buys and sells video games all across North America. Already challenged by gaming’s increasingly digital future, GameStop now has to face the prospect of a new Xbox that will block used games, if recent reports are true. But what about us? According…

Man Arrested For Trying To Walk Out Of Kmart With 19 Video Games In His Pants

I don’t know how you fit 19 video games in your pants, but at least one guy does. (Allegedly.) Police have charged 34-year-old William Gooden with a felony for trying to walk out of a Kmart without paying for the 19 games that were stuffed in his pants, according to a report by St. Louis’s…