Jason Schreier

An early Xbox Live listing confirms Kotaku’s report from last week on Destiny 2’s first DLC, which is called Curse of Osiris. It will be out in December and come with a patrol zone on Mercury.

Via Bungie’s blog last night, here’s what the next month looks like for Destiny 2. Anyone want to take some guesses about what Trials of the Nine or Faction Rally will look like?

Final Fantasy XV‘s Wild Secret Dungeon Was Designed By One Man

If, like me, your favorite part of Final Fantasy XV was the mind-boggling Pitioss Ruins, here is a fun fact: It was designed by one person, according to director Hajime Tabata. Speaking with me in Seattle at PAX West last weekend, Tabata said he was surprised when I told him that I loved the Pitioss…

Destiny 2 Players Fume Over One-Time-Use Shaders (And Microtransactions) [UPDATE]

Destiny 2, a video game apology for all the time we wasted in Destiny 1, is excellent in many ways. But the game has one new quirk that’s infuriated players across the world: Shaders can now only be used once. Shaders, in Destiny parlance, are special items that change the coloring of your gear. In…

Rockstar Announces L.A. Noire For Switch, PS4, Xbox One, VR

The detective game L.A. Noire is coming to Switch, Rockstar said today, blowing the minds of Nintendo fans everywhere. Also, it’s coming to PS4, Xbox One, and HTC Vive. This new version of the game will be out on November 14. The HTC Vive version will feature only seven of the game’s cases, while the…

Straight From PAX, It’s The First Ever Kotaku Splitscreen Live

At PAX West last week, we recorded the first-ever LIVE episode of Kotaku Splitscreen. And now you can listen to it, even if you weren’t there. On this show we’ve got games, live music, impressions of Reggie Fils-Aime, IRL Q&A, and of course, explanations for why you can’t change your name on the PlayStation Network.…

10 Hours With Destiny 2: So Far, So Good

Over the past two days I’ve played roughly 10 hours of Destiny 2, a video game in which players travel through space, marveling at how things can feel so familiar and yet so new. In some ways it’s just more Destiny. Here we are again, shooting aliens and watching the numbers go up. Yet Destiny…

Is Squall Really Dead? Final Fantasy Producer Addresses The Series’ Biggest Fan Theories

Was Aeris ever going to come back to life? Are Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy VII set in the same world? Is Gogo actually Daryl? Thanks to Yoshinori Kitase, we now have the answers to all of these questions. And they’re mostly “No.” Kitase, whose résumé is far too long to list in one…

I Wrote A Book About How Video Games Are Made, And It’s Out Today

If you are interested in hearing the stories behind games like Uncharted 4, Star Wars 1313, Shovel Knight, and Dragon Age: Inquisition, then I sure do have the book for you! Starting today, you can get your hands on Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, which is available in physical, digital, and audiobook forms. It’s a book…

Podcast: What It’s Like To Play Classic Games For The First Time

Whether or not you caught our 12-hour video game marathon on Tuesday, join us to talk about some great classic games on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen First, a reminder: At PAX in Seattle on Friday, September 1, we’ll be holding the first-ever Kotaku Splitscreen Live. It’ll be in the Sasquatch Theater at 8pm, so come join…

Hey PAX-goers: don’t miss Kotaku Splitscreen Live, tonight at 8pm in the Sasquatch Theater (Sheraton Hotel, second floor). We’ll be taking questions, giving away signed copies of my book, and generally having a good ol’ time. If you’re not at PAX, look for the episode on iTunes next week!

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Sources: Destiny 2‘s First DLC Will Star Osiris, Add New Patrol Zone On Mercury

Three years ago, Bungie disappointed fans with a thin first piece of downloadable content for Destiny 1. For the sequel, the studio is aiming higher. Destiny 2‘s first DLC will center on the space wizard Osiris, sources say, and it will come with a patrol zone and new social space, making it significantly bigger than…

We’re Making Each Other Play Video Games For 12 Hours

Today on a very special MARATHON LIVE STREAM of Kotaku Splitscreen, Kirk and I will be playing video games for 12 hours. Here’s the catch: they’ll all be video games that we picked for one another—games we’ve never played before. From Splatoon to Suikoden, this will be a packed day full of us playing video…

Catch Up On Destiny‘s Entire Story With This 90-Minute Video

As we bid farewell to Destiny, a video game renowned for its storytelling prowess, let’s take the time to catch up on the plot so far. This feature-length video, by YouTuber My Name Is Byf, is possibly the best Destiny lore explainer you’ll ever watch. Even if you’ve paid attention to Destiny’s lore over the…

Podcast: The Great SNES Classic Pre-Order Disaster

Were you able to pre-order an SNES Classic this week? Don’t worry: neither were we. Let’s all cry together on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen Two important announcements before we get to the main show: 1) Kirk and I will be doing a 12-hour streaming marathon on Tuesday August 29 called “KIRK AND JASON FORCE EACH OTHER…

An Assassin’s Creed logo has been hiding in a Final Fantasy XV trailer since last October, hinting at the collaboration that Ubisoft and Square Enix announced yesterday. Ubisoft says there are also Final Fantasy easter eggs in the AC Origins announcement trailer and in this week’s Gamescom CGI trailer. Well done, video game publishers.

Why We Love Secret of Mana

Today’s announcement of a Secret of Mana remake (out February 15, 2018 for PS4, Vita, and Steam) was welcome news to at least two of us here at Kotaku. To explain why Square’s classic action-role-playing game is so special, we had an impromptu VGCHAT. Jason Schreier: This morning Square Enix announced a brand new, pipin’…

Final Fantasy XV Gets DLC From, Uh, Assassin’s Creed 

In what’s as natural a combination as chocolate and french fries, Final Fantasy XV and Assassin’s Creed Origins will have a crossover that Ubisoft says “will result in the two franchises paying homage to each other’s gaming universes.” It’ll start next week with a festival inside FFXV Here’s Ubisoft: The collaboration kicks off on August…

A recommended specs list for the upcoming PC version of Final Fantasy XV had indicated that the game would be 170GB, but Square Enix says that’s an error. “The specs listed were not final as the game is still in development,” the company told Kotaku. “We will officially publish both minimum and recommended specs for…