Jason Schreier

Here’s The Chilling Teaser For Game of Thrones Season 3

If you have read the books, you might recognize this song as “The Rains of Castamere.” You might also know what’s coming this season (which starts March 31). Please don’t spoil anything for people who don’t know what’s coming. Get ready.

It’s Too Bad This Awesome Fire Emblem-Themed 3DS Isn’t An XL

On one hand, this Fire Emblem-themed 3DS (already out in Japan, and coming to North America soon) is gorgeous and classy as hell. On the other hand, there’s a significantly better model available Seriously, if this baby was a 3DS XL, I’d pre-order it right now. Come on, Nintendo!

JRPG Combat Is The Best Kind Of Combat

“Oh, I don’t really like battles. I just play JRPGs for the story.” You’ve probably heard something like that before, or wrote it, or thought it. There seems to be a general consensus, for better or for worse, that a Japanese RPG’s merits, if they exist at all, lie in its story and characters and…

Survey: 75% Of Parents Think Violent Video Games Contribute To Actual Violence

Sure, there have been no scientific studies that connect violent video games to violence, but why let nonsense like science reflect the way you think? In a new survey released by Common Sense Media, a whopping 75% of polled parents say they think violent video games contribute to violence. Just ’cause. 1,050 people were surveyed,…

This Alarm Clock Turns Waking Up Into A Multiplayer Video Game

This is it, video games. You’ve hit your peak. Things aren’t getting much better than Wake-up Club, a free game that comes out Tuesday for Sony’s PlayStation Vita handheld. Wake-up Club, you see, is a social alarm clock. Let me repeat that. Wake-up Club is a social alarm clock. “What does that mean?” you might…

I Bet You Didn’t Think You’d See An 18-Minute Sonic the Hedgehog Fan Film Today

This is… well, it’s certainly something. It’s an eighteen-and-a-half minute Sonic fan film, created by the folks at Blue Core Studios It’s… amazing. (via NeoGAF)

Afternoon reading: this fantastic profile of BioShock creator Ken Levine, written by Polygon’s Chris Plante.

Passionate Suikoden Fans Are Swarming Konami’s Facebook Page

A whole bunch of people who really love Suikoden are spamming Konami’s Facebook page to show how much they care. It’s an organized campaign started by the ever-growing Suikoden Revival Movement, a Facebook group started to unite fans of the classic RPG series, which Konami seems to have abandoned in North America and Europe. The…

Xbox Support Staff Say They Were Fired After Posting About Their Jobs On Kotaku

If you do customer support for Microsoft, don’t post about it on this website. You’ll probably lose your job. Over the past week, I’ve been in touch with two former Xbox support staff. Both people, who asked that we not use their names, say they were fired for writing comments about their jobs on Kotaku.…

Kickstarter Backers Pledged $83,144,565 To Games In 2012

Ready for some math? 1,378,143 Kickstarter users pledged $83,144,565 to game projects in 2012. There were 2,796 game Kickstarters launched. Of those, 911 were successful. (Note that “games” in this context refers to both video and tabletop games. Kickstarter doesn’t separate them.) That dose of insanity comes via Kickstarter’s cool “The Best of 2012” feature.…

Corpse Party‘s Sequel Hits PSN Next Week

The sequel to horrifying-slash-hilarious visual novel Corpse Party will be out on PSP—yes, PSP!—next week, publisher Xseed says. January 15, $19.99, PlayStation Network. You can read more about Corpse of Party: Book of Shadows over at the PlayStation Blog. Or check out the trailer above.

Valve Says ‘Piston’ Is Just One Of Multiple Steam Hardware Prototypes

Project Piston isn’t the only one: Valve is showing off a number of hardware prototypes behind closed doors at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, according to a new report. Yesterday, a company called Xi3 announced that it will release a Valve-backed computer built to play Steam games in your living room. Details are still…

Meet One Of The Bosses In Capcom’s Futuristic Action Game Remember Me

Here’s the official video description, via Capcom: Journey with Nilin in a brand new Remember Me gameplay video through Neo-Paris’ St Michel district before she comes face to face with one of the game’s unique bosses, Kid Xmas. He isn’t interested if Nilin has been naughty or nice as Kid Xmas is only here to…

When It Comes To The Wii U’s Online Store, Nintendo Is Dropping The Ball

When you log into the Wii U’s eShop today, here is what you’ll see on the front page: New Super Mario Bros. U, Batman: Arkham City, Ninja Gaiden 3, and Mighty Switch Force: Hyper Drive Edition In other words: the same launch games you saw a month and a half ago. When the Wii U…

Here We Go: Valve-Backed PC Hardware Will Be Shown Off This Week [Update: it’s Code-Named Piston]

Let the Steam Box speculation begin. Valve is investing in computer hardware, and they’re showing it off this week. A company called Xi3Corporation is developing the hardware (whose chassis you can see above), which they say is designed to play Steam games on big-screen TVs. They say they’ve received an investment from Valve, and that…

American McGee Defends His Kickstarter Game, Says It’s ‘100% Finished’

Last week, I wrote about Akaneiro, a game designed by American McGee (Alice) and announced back in 2011. McGee and his team went to Kickstarter to ask for $200,000 “to finish what [they’ve] started.” McGee took issue with my coverage, writing Kotaku a note to say that the game is actually finished. “The game is…

Here’s A Detailed Look At Nvidia’s New Gaming Console In Action

Here’s the full walkthrough of Nvidia’s ridiculous-looking Shield, revealed at CES last night. (And streamed via Twitch.) The Shield, which Nvidia says will be available in the second quarter of this year (so April through June), is an Android-helmed gaming device with a Tegra 4 graphics chip and a 5″ touchscreen. You can use it…

DayZ Stand-Alone Release Rescheduled, ‘Closed Testing’ To Begin Soon

The folks behind DayZ say they want to rebuild the game’s whole engine before releasing a stand-alone version. Writing in a blog post published this morning, DayZ creator Dean Hall says he’s delayed a stand-alone release of the Arma 2 mod—which was originally slated to be turned into a stand-alone game by the end of…

Wii U Sales Are ‘Not Bad,’ Nintendo Chief Says

Hey Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, how’s the Wii U selling? Good? Great? Awesome? Fantastic? “At the end of the Christmas season, it wasn’t as though stores in the U.S. had no Wii U left in stock, as it was when Wii was first sold in that popular boom,” Iwata told Reuters. “But sales are…

Get ready to wake up early, Pokémon fans. Pokémon news coming in a Nintendo Direct tomorrow at 6am ET