Jason Schreier

The NES Classic will get a re-issue on June 29, Nintendo said tonight. The SNES Classic should also be around throughout the year. Still no word on an N64 Classic.

Some Reasons Why The Games Industry Is So Secretive (And Why Maybe It Shouldn’t Be)

What’re the pros and cons behind the video game industry’s obsession with secrecy and surprises? Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, let’s discuss. First, the Splitscreen Gang talks about Westworld, escape rooms, and news on Nintendo, Rage 2, and Trump’s connections to Everquest (14:16). Then Polygon executive editor Chris Plante comes on to talk about video game…

Destiny 2 Puzzle Leads Players To Actual Treasure In New York

A brand new Destiny 2 puzzle, discovered this week by players and solved early this morning, led not to an exotic weapon or a secret quest, but a real-life treasure cache in upstate New York, containing gold coins and a spear based on Warmind’s Valkyrie. The puzzle, which started off as a symbol within the…

Destiny 2 Players Think They’ve Found An Elaborate Puzzle [UPDATE: Solved]

There may be a complicated puzzle hidden inside Destiny 2‘s newest expansion, Warmind. Or maybe excited fans just want there to be. Either way, it’s been fun to watch. UPDATE (5/12, 9:33am): It’s solved. Read more here The madness started when Destiny 2 players found an elaborate symbol on a wall in the bunker of…

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider Cost $75-$100 Million To Make, Eidos Says

Video game budgets are higher than they’ve ever been, and the new Tomb Raider is yet another example of that inflation, helping illustrate why big publishers are so desperate to get players to spend more than $60 on their games. “Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and other different AAA single-player games, cost $75 million to…

I Really Wish I Could Bring My Destiny 2 Character To PC

On Tuesday, Bungie released Warmind, the newest expansion to Destiny, a video game in which you travel through space, [Sorry, the rest of this paragraph is PlayStation exclusive]. For those of us who were once Destiny obsessives but have since fallen off the wagon, this might have been a good excuse to jump back in.…

Nintendo Fans Campaign For Switch Backup Saves 

If you want to back up your saves on the PlayStation 4, all you need is a USB stick. On the Xbox, you can just use online storage without paying extra. But if you’re a Switch owner who just wants some comfort over the 200 hours you’ve spent saving Hyrule, you only have one option—wait…

Square Enix Will Hold An E3 Conference This Year

After skipping 2016 and 2017, Square Enix is again holding its own press conference this year, the publisher said today. Is it time for Final Fantasy XVI? Square’s presser will take place on Monday morning at 10am PT, just before Ubisoft’s at 1pm PT. It’s safe to say we’ll see Kingdom Hearts III, Shadow of…

Virtual Console Is Not Coming To Switch, Nintendo Says

In the wake of news that the Nintendo Switch’s online subscription service will include a Netflix-like library of NES games, fans have been wondering: Is the Virtual Console coming back? The answer to that question is no, according to Nintendo. “There are currently no plans to bring classic games together under the Virtual Console banner…

Nintendo Switch’s Online Service Will Finally Let You Back Up Your Saves

Cloud saving will finally come to the Nintendo Switch with the upcoming online service, which launches in September, Nintendo said today. Finally, you won’t have to worry about losing all 200 hours you’ve sunk into Zelda—as long as you’re willing to pay. “Details about this feature will be available before the paid service launches in…

How Avengers: Infinity War‘s Ending Can Actually Matter

It’s time for a spoilerific Avengers: Infinity War chat on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen First, Kirk and I talk about D&D, CEO salaries, and games as a service. Then we bring on io9‘s Evan Narcisse to talk about the latest Marvel movie’s thrills, how it’s basically part one of a TV season finale, and what we…

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Is Delightfully Difficult

It is incredibly fun to die in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, a game that assaults your senses with enough cute animals, wonderful animations, and lovely music to make you forget that it’s beating the hell out of you. Tropical Freeze, which came out for Wii U in 2014 and launches again for Switch today,…

Activision’s CEO Made $28.6 Million Last Year, 306 Times The Median Activision Employee

Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick’s compensation for 2017 was $28,698,375, according to filings the video game publisher submitted earlier this week to the U.S. Security and Exchanges Commission. Don’t be too jealous, though—that’s actually a pay cut. But it’s still over 300 times what the median Activision employee made. Kotick, who has long been one of…

Here’s Our Best Look Yet At Red Dead Redemption 2

Here’s the new trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2, a video game about cowboys that I think a couple of people might be anticipating. It’s our best look yet at the upcoming Rockstar western. Among other things, the trailer reveals that the next Red Dead Redemption is set in 1899 and that Dutch Van der…

Bungie Says It Will Release Destiny‘s Music of the Spheres, To Composer’s Surprise

Music of the Spheres, an eight-part musical compilation that was originally meant to release alongside Destiny in 2014, may get an official release soon, although its composer says he had no idea that was the plan. The album, composed by Bungie’s well-known former audio director Marty O’Donnell, his partner Michael Salvatori, and former Beatle Paul…

God of War Has An Avengers: Infinity War Easter Egg

Kratos has an obvious connection to the Avengers, but there’s a more subtle one lurking in the new God of War: Turns out the game has its own Infinity Gauntlet. Play through Sindri’s Family Business quest and you’ll get your hands on an accessory called the Shattered Gauntlet of Ages. It has three sockets and…

Game Critic Totalbiscuit Says He’s Retiring: ‘I Don’t Have Long Left’

YouTube personality John “Totalbiscuit” Bain is retiring as a game critic, he said today, citing his failing health and telling fans that he believes he will die soon. “When I went into hospital a week or so ago, it was accompanied by the news that conventional chemotherapy’s effectiveness had been exhausted,” Bain wrote in a…

Destiny 2‘s upcoming Warmind DLC has a cute throwback to the first game’s most infamous line. Watch above. (via Fuzzle_HC)

Why God of War Took Five Years To Make

On today’s special bonus episode of Kotaku Splitscreen, God of War director Cory Barlog joins the show to talk about JRPGs, text size, and what the future looks like for Kratos and fam. Warning: This chat is extremely spoilery!!! You can listen to the whole thing with our fancy embedded player, get an MP3 right…