Jason Schreier

Sony ‘Employee’ Review: ‘I Don’t Have A Lot Of Confidence That Orbis Will Sell Well’

Will the next PlayStation have more of a casual focus than its predecessor? One person claiming to be a former senior manager at Sony seems to think so, posting in a Glassdoor review of the company that he doesn’t think Sony’s next-gen system, codenamed Orbis, will do very well: Take this with a healthy grain…

Here’s The *Official* First Trailer For Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

aka Final Fantasy XIII-3 You might have seen this a couple of days ago, if you were lucky enough to see the leaked footage before Square Enix pulled it down, but if you weren’t, here it is! Enjoy.

Gameloft Says They Expelled Women From Their Holiday Party Who ‘Became Topless And Tried to Dance With Our Employees’

The body-painted topless women at Gameloft’s holiday party last weekend were never supposed to be topless, and they were kicked out of the party for trying to dance with employees, Gameloft says. I reached out to the mobile game publisher this morning, right before putting up our story about topless women at the holiday party,…

The Year In JRPGs

It’s been a strange year for JRPG fans. On one hand, the genre seems to be doing just fine: we finally got our hands on games like Xenoblade and The Last Story, the 3DS and Vita are full of JRPGs, and companies like XSEED and Atlus are cranking out niche Japanese games on a regular…

Partygoer: Topless Women at Gameloft’s Holiday Party Says a Lot About The Games Industry

Last weekend’s office holiday party at Gameloft Montreal featured one giant circus performance, complete with acrobats, stilts, and… topless women, according to a few sources. This made at least one attendee rather uncomfortable. I first heard about the party last week, after seeing a tweet by Montreal-based game designer Michel McBride-Charpentier: It seems that there…

Watch Us Play One Of The Silliest Party Games On iOS

This is Spaceteam, a new iOS game created by ex-Bioware developer Henry Smith. On one hand, it’s super fun. On the other hand, it crashed most of the times we tried to play it. Smith told me last week that there’s a patch planned, but for now, be warned that it might not work properly.…

Atlus’s Next Game Is A Co-Op Shooter

It’s called God Mode, and it’s a cooperative shooter developed by a New Jersey-based team called Old School Games (a branch of Saber Interactive). It’s also published by Atlus, the Japanese company behind Persona and Catherine God Mode will be out in early 2013 as a digital release for PC and consoles. It’ll cost $10,…

What The Hell Is Going On With Warhammer: 40,000: Dark Millenium?

It’s a strange thing, the video game industry. The people who publish big games will sometimes cancel, move, or overhaul them entirely. Nothing wrong with any of that, but one big problem is that along the way, some of those publishers will clam up. They’ll refuse to give straight answers or talk about their plans.…

The Steam Holiday Sale Is Now Live

Stockings ready? Wallets out? Steam’s winter holiday sale has begun Right now there are sales on a whole bunch of franchises, including Hitman, Prince of Persia, and many others. You can get Borderlands 2 for $30, for example. There are also some big publisher bundles: $90 gets you a whole bunch of Bethesda games, including…

Square Enix Will Bring Final Fantasy V ‘And More’ Games To iOS

At the end of this trailer for Final Fantasy IV—which is out today on iOS for the Square Enix-ish price of $16—there’s a Very Special Teaser. Final Fantasy V! And more! This is very cool, especially if they keep going through the years. While the first four Final Fantasy games have already been re-released seven…

Man Dressed As Super Mario Arrested For Groping Woman In Times Square

As a general rule, you probably shouldn’t grope people without their permission. But if you’re going to grope people without their permission, you really shouldn’t do it while wearing a Super Mario costume. Damon Torres, a 34-year-old street performer who solicits money by wearing costumes and posing for pictures in New York City’s Times Square,…

Some War Z Images Were Ripped From The Walking Dead

As promised, the strange saga of War Z just keeps getting stranger. Turns out this promo screen for zombie survival game, which was pulled from Steam earlier today, was plagiarized from The Walking Dead A Kotaku reader sent over the following image to show off just how much of this War Z title screen was…

Assassin’s Creed Creator’s Next Game Is Indeed 1666

THQ’s bankruptcy filing confirms what we already knew: the company is working on two new games titled or codenamed Evolve and 1666. The latter is under the helm of Patrice Désilets, best known as the creator of Assassin’s Creed You can check out a table of THQ’s upcoming releases at the end of this PDF.…

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THQ Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

The publisher behind games like Saints Row and Homefront has filed for bankruptcy. THQ is going to Chapter 11, the company said in a press release today. They’ll continue to operate as normal—in other words, all future games will continue as planned—as they go through the bankruptcy process. “The sale and filing are necessary next…

The War Z Removed From Steam [UPDATE: Valve Calls Release ‘A Mistake’]

Controversial zombie survival game The War Z has been removed from Steam. Although there’s still a listing for the game on Valve’s digital distribution service, you can no longer buy it. Fans have been clamoring for the game’s removal from Steam since it was released on Monday. Many gamers have criticized the game for its…

The War Z Mess: Every Crazy Detail We Know So Far [UPDATE]

This week’s wildest story is the story of The War Z, a new Steam game that has caused a great deal of controversy for numerous reasons. Update: This afternoon, The War Z was pulled from Steam Fans have come out criticizing the zombie survival game for misleading advertising, suspicious microtransactions, and forum censorship. Meanwhile, The…

Woodcutting Simulators Have Never Been Quite This Realistic

Numerous vehicles and cranes! Diverse tasks! You’ve never seen wood cutting simulated like this before. It’s Woodcutter Simulator 2013!!! Coming to Woodcutter Simulator stores near you.

The Case Of The Made-Up BioWare Interview

Sometimes people tell lies on the Internet. That’s no news if you’ve spent any time on a computer, where finding the truth is no simple task. Pranksters on the web make things up all the time. But last week, we saw something rather uncommon even for the Internet’s standards: an interview with BioWare that was…

Fans Rage Over War Z‘s Misleading Steam Description, But Devs Say ‘93% Of Our Customers Like The Game’

The pitchforks are out. Gamers are furious with the developers of The War Z, a game that seems to have made it to Steam without many of the features that developers have promised for it. Right now, an item on the front page of Reddit that accuses The War Z‘s developers of “blatantly [lying] about…