Jason Schreier

It’s Time For Japanese Developers To Stop Hoarding Their RPGs

When I think about all the role-playing games released in Japan that never make their way to U.S. shores, I like to picture a snarling dragon sitting atop a pile of game cartridges, spitting fire at anyone who comes within breathing distance. Hey Japan. Time to stop hoarding your gold. This is not a new…

‘We Never Really Felt The Need For Boss Monsters’ In Dishonored, Designer Says

There are no boss battles in Dishonored, no massive, drawn-out fights where the doors suddenly close and you have to take down a really tough enemy to get to the next level. There are some difficult encounters—like the Tallboys, pictured above—but there are no bosses. It’s an interesting design choice, something that might have improved…

New XCOM Trailer Is Filled With Explosions And Green Goo

Don’t worry: despite the theme and appearance of this launch trailer for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the game isn’t a shooter. It’s a strategy game. Which makes it kind of hard to sell, but hey.

New Paper Mario Trailers Never Fail To Make Me Happy

We’ve already seen some of the footage in this new trailer for Paper Mario: Sticker Star, but that doesn’t make it any less awesome. I love me some Paper Mario. Can’t wait for this one. For more on Sticker Star, go check out Patricia’s preview

Skyrim: Hearthfire is now available on Steam on PC. You can download it for $4.99.

Obama Might Have Lost The First Debate, But The Xbox Did Even Worse

General consensus is that Mitt Romney won the presidential debate last night. President Barack Obama came in second. Jim Lehrer’s moderating skills were a distant third. But Microsoft’s Xbox Elections 2012, a platform that promised to let viewers watch the debate on their 360s and witness as audiences react in real time, might have performed…

Maine Democrat is Supposedly Unfit For Office Because She Loves ‘Poisoning and Stabbing’ in World of Warcraft

Colleen Lachowicz is running for state senate in Waterville, Maine. She also plays a lot of World of Warcraft. According to Maine Republicans, this means that she is unfit for office. The Maine Republican Party has set up an entire website dedicated to digging up old forum posts made by Lachowicz on Blizzard’s online role-playing…

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria sold 2.7 million copies, Blizzard announced this morning. Total WoW subs: 10 mil.

Confessions Of A Teenage Xbox Hacker

In some ways Juvi is just an average eighteen-year-old. He speaks in short, brusque sentences. He works as an artist at a tattoo parlor. He was born in the U.K., but he now shares a loft with his girlfriend in Spain. He spends a lot of time on the Internet, and he sometimes says mean…

U.S. readers: the presidential debate starts tonight at 9pm ET. Remember, you can watch on Xbox Live

Cliff Bleszinski Leaves Epic Games

The creator of Gears of War has left his position at development studio Epic Games. Epic announced the news in a blog post today, saying that designer Cliff Bleszinski has left to “chart the next stage of his career.” Bleszinski, who worked at Epic for 20 years, was often the face of the company and…

Bethesda Snags The Former Executive Producer of Star Wars: The Old Republic

Rich Vogel, a longtime game designer who most recently served as executive producer on BioWare’s online RPG The Old Republic, is joining Bethesda, the publisher behind games like Skyrim and the upcoming Dishonored Bethesda’s press release says Vogel and his new team will be working on “an unannounced project,” but Bethesda is also currently working…

Watch The Designer Of XCOM Try To Sell It At A Game Store, Fail

Watch XCOM designer Jake Solomon try to sell his new strategy game to customers at a game store. It is not an easy sell. Even to people with Xboxes in their cars.

The Games You’ve Played Most On Steam

Have you spent an embarrassing number of hours playing Team Fortress 2? Wasted way too much of your life on late-night Civ marathons? Let’s see some proof. We want you to come show off your most ridiculous Steam stats. We’ll start with a few of our own. Above you can get a peek at Luke’s…

The defunct NBA Live 13 was supposed to be out today on Xbox Live, says Microsoft’s Major Nelson

If You Buy Resident Evil 6 On PSN, Don’t Download The Patch

By most accounts, Resident Evil 6 isn’t very good. But if you are playing it—and if you plan to buy it digitally on the PS3’s PlayStation Network—don’t download the day-one patch. A few gamers in Europe contacted IGN yesterday to report issues with their copies of Capcom’s new survival-horror game. In a statement, Capcom confirmed…

You Can Try Out The Sequel To 2010’s Best Adventure Game On Vita Today

Have you played Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors? If not, you really should. It’s a wonderful visual novel-slash-point-and-click adventure with a tendency to make your brain explode, and I recommend that everyone take the time to experience it. If you have played 999, you’ll be delighted to know that there’s a sequel—Zero Escape: Virtue’s…

Steam Gives You Achievements For Creating Bugs In GameMaker

Steam is now selling non-game software, which means that, yes, non-game software can now get achievements. This has the potential to be hilarious, and GameMaker: Studio is taking advantage of that. The game-making software offers 24 achievements, allowing you to earn virtual medals for racking up compiler errors and getting your game to run on…

Non-Game Software Is Now Available On Steam

Programs like GameMaker and 3DMark are now available on Steam. Valve sent over a press release today to announce the news. Here’s what they have to offer: ArtRage Studio Pro CameraBag 2 GameMaker: Studio 3D-Coat 3DMark Vantage 3DMark 11 Valve adds: Many of the launch titles will take advantage of popular Steamworks features, such as…

Nintendo Shouldn’t Treat ‘Gamer’ Like a Dirty Word

Just when we start thinking that the world has accepted that gaming is a widespread, diverse hobby on the same level as any other form of media, an awful marketing campaign comes along to remind us that, oh yes, some people still believe that “gamer” is a dirty word. “I am not a gamer,” proclaims…