Jason Schreier

Someone Made That Giant xkcd Comic Into An Actual Game

Remember that giant, expansive, awesome xkcd comic that was packed full of video game references? A group of intrepid designers have turned it into an actual video game. You can stomp and fly around the huge comic panel, hovering atop trees and bouncing over cars to your heart’s content. You can even see who’s playing…

New Super Mario Bros. 2 Gets Three DLC Packs This Week For $2.50 Each

You can start buying downloadable content for New Super Mario Bros. 2 this Thursday. The first three DLC packs for the game, each including three courses, are the Gold Rush Pack, Coin Challenge Pack A, and Nerve-Wrack Pack. Here’s Nintendo’s description of each: Gold Rush Pack: Fun new courses that give novice players the best…

Buy One Of Five 3DS Games Online And You Get A Free Copy Of Donkey Kong: Original Edition

Here’s the official video announcement for a new promotion Nintendo is running this fall Buy Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone!, Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, Style Savvy: Trendsetters, or Crosswords Plus on Nintendo’s eShop by January 6 and you’ll get a copy of Donkey Kong: Original Edition, a special version…

Vote For This Game On Steam Or Its Publisher Won’t Give Money To Homeless Kittens

Game publishers and developers have spent a great deal of time dreaming up bizarre ways to get people to vote for their games on Steam’s crowdsourcing Greenlight program, but this might be the grossest. In a bizarre, misguided attempt to get people to vote for their game Edge of Space, publisher Reverb Publishing is promising…

Porn Site Declares They’re Now On The Xbox 360

The Xbox is now officially a pornography machine. Well, sort of. It’s now officially an Internet machine, which means it can be used to stream free pornography. The folks behind porn site YouPorn are taking advantage of the fact that the Xbox 360 will soon get Internet Explorer (currently available to beta participants) to pimp…

Gordon Freeman Comes To Life In This Great Half-Life Short Film

Headcrabs, crowbars, and HEV suits all make appearances in this great fanmade Half-Life short, directed by Ian James Duncan and shot for $3,000 at a cottage in Hollywood, according to the folks who made it. As they write on YouTube: Finally see Gordon Freeman in the flesh in this cinematic horror short based on the…

One Pokémon Was Almost Named Piploop, But It Sounded Too Much Like Poop

Piploop became Piplup because Piploop sounds too much like poop. Another Pokémon was almost called Doncrowleone, but… well that one’s pretty obvious. Siliconera’s got a great interview with Seth McMahill, an assistant project manager at Nintendo and one of the people who helps translates games like Pokémon from Japanese to English for release on U.S.…

Sony Was Surprised How Few People Wanted To Make Games For Vita

Why is the PlayStation Vita floundering? One reason is that people just weren’t interested in developing games for it. At least that’s what Sony boss Shuhei Yoshida believes. “One thing that was surprising and disappointing to us was the [lower] number of third parties to come out [in support] after launch,” Yoshida told Gamasutra in…

The Small Things in RPGs That Matter A Lot

Think about the last game you spent serious time playing. Visualize everything. Imagine how it looked, how it sounded, how the controls felt in your hands. Picture the last thing you did. Okay. You probably thought in broad strokes: maybe you remember going on a mission of some sort, like shooting a hive full of…

Some More Assassin’s Creed III Footage And Gameplay Details

Maybe you’re getting sick of Assassin’s Creed III footage. Maybe you just want to play the new stealth-action-adventure game, which comes out in a month or so. That’s okay. I don’t blame you. But if your appetite for footage from the next Assassin’s Creed game has not yet been sated, check out last night’s episode…

Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime Jousts With Geoff Keighley. This Is Your GTTV Preview.

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime will make an appearance on GTTV tonight on Spike (1am ET/PT) to talk all things Wii U with host Geoff Keighley. Here’s a promo for the segment. It’s kind of hilarious: Reggie Fils-Aime Promo Clip [GTTV]

Nintendo Japan will release a Nintendo Direct video tonight at 11pm ET. An English video will follow soon after.

A Bunch Of Neat Games Were Announced For Vita Today

You don’t see the words “Vita” and “games” next to one another very much these days without the words “doesn’t have any” between them. But a few new titles for Sony’s powerful handheld were quietly announced today. We already knew that the Vita game Dokuro was coming to the U.S., but newly formed publisher branch…

The Internet Unites To Talk About Video Games They Grew Up With

Twitter’s trending topics—subjects or phrases that the social network is buzzing about at any given moment—are sometimes based on big news headlines. Sometimes they spring from live events or tragic catastrophes, as everyone rushes to make the first supremely clever joke about Kim Kardashian. And sometimes they’re just awful memes. But for the past couple…

How You Earn 30,000 Coins In Two Minutes In New Super Mario Bros. 2

The road to one million coins in New Super Mario Bros. 2 can be daunting. Maybe you’ve given up by now. Well it’s time to get back on track, champ. Let Kotaku reader Slider show you how to earn 30,000 coins in two minutes all without leaving your couch. (Sorry about the video quality.)

Man Loses Xbox Account To Thief, Confronts Thief On Internet Forum

On Sunday night, Eric Graff put his son to bed. He flipped on his 360 and got ready for a session of Borderlands 2 with some friends. But when he tried to log onto his Xbox Live account, the password wouldn’t work. His account had been hacked. And then Graff did something usually reserved for…

This Wacky PS3 Game Is All About Paper Dolphins

This is Derrick the Deathfin, a new action-platformer that is hitting PS3 in a couple of weeks. It looks really interesting, sort of like Ecco the Dolphin meets Paper Mario. And as you can see in the trailer above, it was developed using some unusual techniques. The game will be on PSN October 9 for…

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, one of the PSP’s best RPGs, is getting an HD re-release on PS3 in Japan

Turns Out Kirby Is Not Very Good At Playing Piano

Kirby must not be very smart, either, or he would go inhale Elton John instead of just trying to slam his body against a keyboard. Poor Kirby. Other things Kirby is not good at: chores, modeling:

Mitt Romney’s Campaign Is Sort Of Like A Video Game Because Of Reset Buttons Or Something

Here’s Rachel Maddow with one of the most ham-fisted video game references so far this election season. Hopefully we’ll get more and more Atari references as we get closer to November. Something something Obama something something Commodore-64 something something health-care mandate.