Jason Schreier

These Guys Want The White House To Ban Console Region-Locking

NeoGAF frequenter and helpful Japanese translator Cheesemeister has started a petition to ask the White House to ban region-locking Region-locking, the practice of restricting game consoles to one specific country or region and only that specific country or region, has been criticized by gamers for decades now. If a console is region-locked, you can’t use…

DayZ Creator: ‘I Am Angry About The War Z‘

DayZ creator Dean Hall says he’s pissed about The War Z, the controversial zombie game that seems have cloned a ton of DayZ‘s elements, including theme, genre, and title. Writing on Reddit yesterday, Hall said the accused clone “hasn’t made [his] life very pleasant”: I am angry about the WarZ. I’m very angry. I’m quite…

Diablo III Director Jay Wilson Steps Down, Staying At Blizzard

Jay Wilson, longtime Blizzard employee and the director of Diablo III, has stepped down after seven years on the game. Wilson will move to another project at Blizzard. Diablo III, a game that triggered a great deal controversy upon release thanks to several technical errors, has been criticized by many fans for its online-only gameplay…

From Halo To Hot Sauce: What 25 Years Of Violent Video Game Research Looks Like

Early last year, seventy French university students sat down in a room. A group of scientists told the students they would be participating in a study to measure the effects of video game brightness on visual perception, and that they would each be paid 10 euros a day for their efforts. The students split up…

Pandora’s Tower, The Third Operation Rainfall Game, Is Coming To America

Wow! Pandora’s Tower is coming to the U.S. this spring, courtesy Xseed Games, the small publisher that brings all sorts of niche Japanese games to North America Pandora’s Tower is an action-RPG for Wii, and the third member of the three games requested by Operation Rainfall, a fan campaign designed to get Japanese Wii RPGs…

Someone Made A Game In Which You Shoot The Head Of The NRA

A member of the Encyclopedia Dramatica forums has created a game called Bullet to the Head of the NRA, a rudimentary first-person shooter that lets you shoot NRA boss Wayne LaPierre. Released yesterday, Bullet to the Head of the NRA seems to have been designed just to piss people off. “Share this everywhere, especially gun-nut…

Guild Wars 2‘s director shares plans for the MMORPG—which has sold 3 million copies so far—in 2013 and beyond.

Dead Island Shouldn’t Be The Only Game That Comes With A Severed Torso Statue

By now you’ve probably seen the ridiculous bikini-clad severed torso that publisher Deep Silver is packaging with the European/Australian special edition of zombie action-RPG Dead Island: Riptide It is gross and awful—to the point where Deep Silver just issued an apology for the statue—but hey, why let them have all the fun? We’ve put together…

Deep Silver Is ‘Deeply Sorry’ About Trying to Sell Their Game With A Statue Of A Severed Woman

Following today’s firestorm of negative reactions, game publisher Deep Silver has apologized for the ridiculously tasteless zombie torso statue that they planned to include in one of the collector’s editions for Dead Island Riptide Deep Silver posted the apology on Twitter: A statement on the Zombie Bait Edition: We deeply apologize for any offense caused…

Square Enix Will Probably Announce A New, Original Final Fantasy Game For iOS On Thursday

So Square Enix has a new teaser up for a game that they’ll announce on Thursday. The most plausible theory: it’s a totally new, original iOS game called Final Fantasy: All The Bravest Some have theorized that this is a remake or mobile port of Final Fantasy V or Final Fantasy VI, but the sprite…

The sequel to Corpse Party, Book of Shadows, is out today on PSN in North America. $20 to download on your PSP or Vita.

Stephen Colbert Shows How Absurd It Is To Blame Video Games For Violence

Stephen Colbert adds some much-needed levity to the conversation about violent video games, which has gone national in a big way following U.S. vice president Joe Biden’s meeting with the games industry last week And really, who among us doesn’t look back and sigh when we think back to the good old days, when we…

The Latest Batch Of Steam Greenlight Games Includes Leisure Suit Larry

Lewd adventure game Leisure Suit Larry and the funny parody DLC Quest are among the latest batch of Steam Greenlight games, announced by Valve today. These are games (and non-games!) voted by the community to receive coveted spots on Valve’s digital distribution service. Here’s Valve in a press release: Valve today revealed the fourth set…

Superhero fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us is out April 16, Warner Brothers just announced. 360, PS3, Wii U.

This Game’s Special Edition Comes With A Statue Of A Bikini-Clad, Severed Female Torso

If you are a severed torso fetishist or serial killer, you will undoubtedly be ecstatic to know that one special edition of Dead Island: Riptide comes with the above statue. Fans of bloody female torsos clad in UK flag bikinis can go out and pre-order the “Zombie Bait” edition of Deep Silver’s upcoming open-world action…

The NRA’s New Shooting Game Is For Ages Four And Up

This is NRA: Practice Range. It’s a new iOS game released apparently by the fine folks at the National Rifle Association, who have graciously decided to make it both free and available to kids aged 4+ so that anyone, no matter how old they are, can practice using guns to shoot things. There are three…

On Friday, Joe Biden Asked The Video Game Industry To Improve Its Image

On Friday, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden met at the White House with video game industry leaders and researchers to talk about school shootings, violent video games, and Blastman III Today we spoke to attendee Chris Ferguson, a professor at Texas A&M and a leading researcher on violent video games, in order to find out…

My Experience With The Walking Dead Was Ruined By A Bug

Zombie adventure and critically-acclaimed GOTY candidate The Walking Dead has made waves all year for its top-notch writing and ability to make people feel feelings. One of the game’s feelingest feelings, by all reports, comes during the last few minutes of Episode Five (out of five—the game is structured episodically). Psyched to feel those feelings,…

Sick Of Game-Crashing Walking Dead Bugs, Some Fans Want Their Money Back

The Walking Dead is a very buggy game, and despite the critical acclaim (and non-stop Game of the Year awards), some fans who bought it haven’t even had the chance to play the whole thing. A number of Walking Dead PC and Mac players are flocking to the forums of developer Telltale Games to complain…

Joe Biden Sat Down With Gaming’s Leaders Today, And One Of Them Brought A Copy of Blastman III

This afternoon, U.S. vice president Joe Biden met with video game representatives to talk about the Sandy Hook shooting. Here’s a picture of the meeting in action. Hopefully it went well. Wondering who’s who? The AP’s caption: Vice President Joe Biden, center, speaks during a meeting with representatives from the video game industry in the…