Jason Schreier

You’ve Never Heard A Master Chief This Creepy

On November 21, close to seven years after it launched in America, the Xbox 360 will come to Israel for the first time. To celebrate the occasion, Master Chief came out to greet Israelis and introduce the system. Check out this video, shot by YNet reporter Shahar Shushan, for what might be the best Master…

PlayStation: The Official Magazine Is Shutting Down

Magazine publisher Future US will end circulation of PlayStation: The Official Magazine this year. As first reported by Game Informer, P:TOM will shut its doors alongside Nintendo Power this holiday “Future US can confirm it will end production of PlayStation: The Official Magazine with the last issue slated for the Holiday 2012 issue,” a Future…

Paper Mario: Sticker Star: The Kotaku Review

Have you ever played a video game that you had trouble describing as either “good” or “bad”? Have you ever played something so simultaneously delightful yet frustrating that for every smile it put on your face, it made you want to ram a fist through the wall? Have you ever thought “holy crap, this is…

Someone Made Mario Out Of Nintendo Games

Redditor Mikeshiny made this one Full picture here (click to expand): Pretty damn impressive, though I see some dupes (two Super Mario Bros. 3s!). So can you name all of the games in there?

South Park, Metro: Last Light, Company of Heroes 2 All Delayed

THQ has delayed the much-anticipated South Park RPG as well as shooter Metro: Last Light and the real-time strategy game Company of Heroes 2 South Park: Stick of Truth, originally slated for March 2013, will now be released in early fiscal year 2014, THQ says. In English, that means April, May, or June 2013. Metro:…

Professor Layton And The Fantastic Verbal Smackdown

Capped from the recent Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, this screengrab shows just how badass the good professor really is. Would you play a video game that was just Hershel Layton yelling at people? I totally would. (via TinyCartridge)

Skyrim‘s ‘Dragonborn’ DLC Is Official. Here’s The Trailer.

It was hinted before, but now it’s official: this is Dragonborn, the third piece of DLC for Bethesda’s open-world RPG Skyrim. Looks like there are some trippy new areas, though I can’t tell if any of them are from Morrowind, as a previous patch had suggested. Sure looks like they are! Dragonborn is out on…

Here’s Shigeru Miyamoto Doing Gangnam Style

Via TinyCartridge. Head over there for a few more gifs from Miyamoto’s trip to Spain.

Assassin’s Creed? Halo? Screw’em, I’m Playing Persona

“Oh no!” you are almost certainly thinking. “Gawker Media is underwater, desperately clinging to Tumblr like that guy in that movie where the cruise ship sank. But it is Friday! It’s 3pm Kotaku Time! What will I do without my favorite weekly JRPG/sex-advice column Random Encounters?” You are too sweet. But don’t worry! I am…

Games Reporter Matt Hughes Dies In Apparent Suicide

Matt Hughes, a freelancer who wrote about gaming for outlets like GamesRadar, Joystiq, and Mac|Life, passed away Tuesday in Commerce, Michigan. On Tuesday, Hughes sent out an e-mail to several of the editors he had worked with at those sites. He said he would no longer be able to contribute or take on more freelance…

Here’s The First U.S. Wii U Commercial

And it’s not bad! Lots of diversity. Some people making faces that people don’t normally make while playing video games. Weird dubsteppy music. But at least nobody’s saying things like “I’m not a gamer, but…”

There Are 145 People Playing Competitive Halo 4 Multiplayer Right Now

Call it the calm before the storm. (And the calm after the Superstorm.) Only 145 people are playing competitive games of Halo 4 online right now-a fraction of the number that will be playing next week. Microsoft’s sci-fi shooter leaked on the Internet a while ago. A great deal of people have pirated and started…

One Does Not Simply Frequent-Fly Into Mordor

Created by Air New Zealand and WETA Workshop, the folks who do all sorts of production design for The Hobbit, which comes out in just a month (!), this might be the best air safety video I’ve ever seen. Watch out for a Peter Jackson appearance, too.

Watch The Halloween Trailer For Sony’s Puppeteer

Interesting, no? Reminds me of Nightmare Before Christmas. For more on this PS3 game, head over to the PlayStation Blog

This Halo iPhone Game Feels Like A Parody Of Itself

There are tacky advertisements. And then there’s Halo 4: King of the Hill Fueled by Mountain Dew (actual name), a new promotional iOS game that asks you to go to the store and scan in bags of Doritos and bottles of Mountain Dew in order to play. Let me repeat that. You have to scan…

A White Mage Pumpkin Casting ‘Blind’

Carved and sent in by Kotaku reader Cletus, who lost power last night and needed something to do with all of his knives. From Cletus: Probably should have done a black mage casting fire, but, i had this white mage casting blind as I carved a pumpkin in the dark (to be fair: by faint…

Disney Buys LucasFilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Coming In 2015

This is not a joke. Multiple news outlets are reporting that Disney has bought LucasFilm, and will release Star Wars Episode 7 in 2015 Will it star Luke? Anakin? Jar-Jar? We have no clue. All we know is THAT SHIT CRAY. On top of that? Disney “plans to release a new Star Wars feature film…

Have a look at Call of Duty: Bayonet Ops, created by Kotaku reader Jason Tedeschi

If you can’t slam with the best, would you kindly jam with the rest?

This Is What Clans Will Look Like In StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm

Launching this week as part of a patch for the Heart of the Swarm beta, the new StarCraft II clan system supports group chat, news/announcement sections, officer promotions, and all the other things you might expect a clan system to have. Anyone can make a clan, Blizzard says, and fill it out however he/she would…