Jason Schreier

Lost Odyssey Is Free On Xbox Right Now

If you like free video games, and you want to play a killer RPG that’s worth playing if only for the fantastic short stories that come packaged in interludes throughout the game, go get Lost Odyssey for free on Xbox One and/or Xbox 360 right now. It’ll be free until December 31.

Final Fantasy XV‘s Trailers Gave Away Way Too Much

At E3 earlier this year, I asked Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata if he was worried that Square Enix had showed too much of the game. There had been two different demos and tons of footage, I pointed out, which was leading fans to worry that there were few surprises left. Here’s what he…

Torment: Tides of Numenera, the spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment, will be out on February 28, developer inXile announced today. It’ll be on PS4, PC, and Xbox One. I saw a bit at PAX and am pretty damn excited to play it.

Valkyria Revolution Is Coming West

If you’ve been jonesing for a new Valkyria Chronicles game, you’ll be able to get your fix pretty soon: Valkyria Revolution is coming to North America and Europe this spring. It’ll be on PS4, Xbox One, and—believe it or not—Vita. Valkyria Revolution, which comes out January in Japan, is more of a spinoff than a…

Destiny‘s Winter Update Is Slim, But Fun

Destiny, a video game in which players travel through the galaxy waiting for Destiny 2, got a new event today called The Dawning. Like so many live events before it, The Dawning is insubstantial, but fun. In addition to a bunch of new quality-of-life changes (like green engrams auto-dismantling, finally) that you can read in…

Why Yes, I Will Play Yooka-Laylee

This morning’s big news: the crowdfunded 3D platformer Yooka-Laylee will be out on April 11, which should be right in time for Nintendo Switch and a new 3D Mario game. Will 2017 be the Year Of 3D Platformers? No, probably not. But a man can dream. We’ll temper our excitement until Yooka-Laylee is in our…

Crytek Employees Say They’re Not Getting Paid — Again

The game company Crytek is again facing financial trouble and hasn’t paid many of its employees in months, according to a number of people who work there. Paychecks have been missing or late throughout most of 2016, Crytek employees say. Staff in Crytek’s main office in Frankfurt, Germany have not received checks in nearly three…

Twitch Releases New Tool To Fix Their Awful Chat

If there’s one thing that every single person who uses the Internet can agree on, it’s that the chat attached to huge events on Twitch is almost always awful. With a new moderating tool, released today, the people who run Twitch are taking another step to help fix that. This afternoon, the popular streaming site…

The State Of The 3DS And Vita In 2016

Dedicated handheld consoles have taken some beatings over the years—thanks, Steve Jobs—but as 2016 comes to a close, the 3DS is still thriving. And the Vita… well, uh, I love the Vita. This is part of our 2016 “State of” series, a look at how the major consoles, VR platforms, and PC are doing this…

Ubisoft Executives Fined $1.2 Million For Insider Trading

French stock market regulators have issued sanctions against five Ubisoft employees for insider trading, fining them a total of €1.2 million (around $1.26 million). Ubisoft is appealing the judgement. The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), a body that monitors and regulates the French stock market, had accused Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat and four other…

Bungie announced today that the New York-based studio Vicarious Visions is helping out with Destiny. Readers of this website may remember that we reported that back in September, alongside news that Destiny 2 is coming to PCand will likely involve a total level/gear reset.

Patches We’d Like To See In Old Final Fantasy Games

In the wake of yesterday’s news that Final Fantasy XV will get patches to add cutscenes and fill in some plot holes, we started thinking: What if older Final Fantasy games got patches, too? Surely there are some things about old Final Fantasy games we could go back and fix, George Lucas style? Let’s brainstorm.…

Dragon Quest Heroes II is coming to North America for PS4 on April 25, 2017, Square Enix said today. This is the sequel to last year’s Dragon Quest Heroes, which was an enjoyable, slime-filled take on Dynasty Warriors

Report: Nintendo Switch Will Get GameCube Games

Nintendo will bring GameCube games including Super Smash Bros. Melee and Luigi’s Mansion to the Switch via Virtual Console, Eurogamer reports today, citing anonymous sources. The report, by Tom Phillips, notes that those two games along with Super Mario Sunshine are already scheduled for Nintendo’s new system. Phillips also cites Animal Crossing as a game…

Final Fantasy XV Patch Will Add More Story, Improve Chapter 13

Why buy games on day one anymore? A newly planned set of updates for Final Fantasy XV won’t just fix bugs, they’ll add story cutscenes and improve the game’s slow-paced thirteenth chapter by adding more powers to Noctis’s repertoire. “We want you to enjoy Final Fantasy XV for a long time to come,” writes director…

Final Fantasy XV‘s Flying Car Can Do Some Incredible Things

Behold, my adventures with Final Fantasy XV’s flying car, the Regalia Type-F, which Noctis and crew can really have a good time using, as you’ll see in the video above.

Nintendo Offers Cash Bounties To People Who Find 3DS Exploits

You know all those stories about people who hack into tech companies in such impressive fashion that those companies immediately offer them jobs? Nintendo won’t do that. But they will offer you cash. Partnering with the HackerOne group, Nintendo is offering bounties ranging from $100 to $20,000 to anyone who can find security vulnerabilities in…

New Hotline Lets You Pay $3/Minute To Talk To Game Developers

If you have ever wanted to pay $3/minute to talk to game developers on the phone—and who hasn’t?—today is your lucky day, thanks to the launch of Callvention, a wild new website that will no doubt be used by many people. Over at Callvention, you can pay varying amounts of money to get some quality…

Even Dunkey Likes Final Fantasy XV

“All they do is kill shit and eat spaghetti” – perhaps the most fitting description of Final Fantasy XV, as described by YouTube funnyman videogamedunkey. The usually negative dunkey was charmed by Square Enix’s latest, mostly because of Gilgamesh. For another take:

Spanish Website Says Square Enix PR Cut Off Their Review Copies For Giving Out Low Scores

A Spanish gaming website says Square Enix will no longer send them review copies because they allegedly handed out lower than average review scores, including a 7.5/10 for the recently released Final Fantasy XV. AreaJugones, a website based in Spain that says it reaches around 700,000 people per month, said in a blog post last…