Jason Schreier

Sources: Bruce Straley Not Directing The Last of Us 2 [UPDATE: Sony Confirms]

Bruce Straley, who co-directed The Last of Us and Uncharted 4, will not have the same role on The Last of Us 2, sources tell Kotaku. His longtime creative partner Neil Druckmann is directing the game. Official word at the studio, sources say, is that Straley is on a yearlong sabbatical. Sony and Naughty Dog…

Hell Yes, Ni no Kuni II

Announced last year at PSX, here it is again: Ni no Kuni II, one of the most gorgeous video games we’ve ever seen. It’ll be out in 2017 for PS4.

Destiny’s Sparrow Racing League returns this winter with The Dawning, an event that will likely be full of microtransactions. Most importantly: Icebreaker is coming back!

Mario Maker 3DS Would Be Great If You Could Actually Upload Levels

Super Mario Maker, one of the Wii U’s best games, comes to 3DS today, which would be great if it wasn’t missing a pivotal feature: The ability to upload your courses online. Although you can still build courses in Mario Maker 3DS, you can only share them via local wireless or StreetPass. You can also…

New Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Footage Is Triggering Some Interesting Theories

Is that Zelda? FEMALE LINK? Is she playable in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Are people reading too much into this? Tonight at The Game Awards, Nintendo showed off some brand new footage from Breath of the Wild, which will be out this spring for Wii U and Switch. First they showed…

The 2016 Game Awards start at 9pm ET tonight. There are lots of places to watch: YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, etc. Should be a fun one!

Final Fantasy XV‘s Scripted Prologue Probably Should’ve Been In The Game

Final Fantasy XV, a video game about four men who just love hanging out and wearing black, has a few glaring issues. For example: The plot is a complete mess. The emotional beats are all there—by the end of the journey it’s hard not to care deeply about Noctis and his crew—but the story is…

What To Expect From The 2016 Game Awards

Tonight in Los Angeles is the annual Geoff Keighley Extravaganza, a lavish celebration of all things Video Game that should have plenty of announcements and new gameplay footage. Also, there might be awards. The 2016 Game Awards, which starts at 9pm ET and can be watched on pretty much anything, will feature: New footage from…

Podcast: Final Fantasy Never Left

Lots of people are saying Final Fantasy is back. Those people should go play Final Fantasy XIV. Still, FFXV is pretty good, and we’re talking about it on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen On today’s show, we dig deep into the adventures of Noctis, Prompto, Ignis, and Richard. We talk about what we like about Final Fantasy…

Final Fantasy XV‘s Secret Dungeon Is One Of The Coolest Things I’ve Ever Played

Hidden deep in the world of Final Fantasy XV, there’s a dungeon unlike anything else in the game. Let me tell you how to find it—and why it’s so cool. (One tip: You can’t get there until you’ve finished the game.) Warning: We’re not going to spoil the dungeon’s features and surprises, but we will…

Someone Leaked Final Fantasy XV‘s Ending Six Months Ago

Back in May, an anonymous poster on 4chan wrote up a bunch of plot points that he said were story spoilers for Final Fantasy XV. Nobody believed him. Well, about that… (Don’t stress: We’ll keep the spoilers out of this article.) As it turns out, this 4chan poster had leaked FFXV’s actual ending, complete with…

How To Get The Airship (Flying Car) In Final Fantasy XV

You may be wondering, when driving along the open roads of Final Fantasy XV, how to transform your boring old car into the Regalia Type-F and fly around the world. The good news: It’s easy to do. The bad news: You have to finish the game first. Final Fantasy XV doesn’t make the process super…

Tips For Playing Final Fantasy XV

So you’re joining Noctis and crew for the road trip to end all road trips. Now what kind of food should you bring? And how do you convince them to let you be in charge of the music? Final Fantasy XV, which comes out today for PS4 and Xbox One, is full of things to…

Final Fantasy VI Once Had A Character Named Angela (And Other Little-Known Facts)

It’s Final Fantasy XV week, which means that it’s the perfect time to talk about Final Fantasy VI—especially in the wake of a bunch of fun trivia that’s been unearthed thanks to old interviews. Did you know, for example, that Cyan was meant to have an older “sister”-type role model named Angela? Over the weekend, the…

Final Fantasy XV: The Kotaku Review

You’re four years old, maybe five. Your parents got one of those Nintendos that everyone’s been raving about, along with a brand new game. A role-playing game. Other Nintendo games are good, sure, but this one’s on another level, transporting you to a world full of mages, ogres, and all sorts of incredible sights and…

No Man’s Sky Gets Big Update Including Survival Mode, Base-Building

No Man’s Sky changed a great deal this morning, getting new modes and a ton of gameplay tweaks thanks to update 1.1, the largest one yet. With this patch, No Man’s Sky is now broken up into three modes: Normal (the original No Man’s Sky), Creative (base-building mode), and Survival (which the developers describe as…

The Assassin’s Creed Ezio Collection isn’t quite the disaster that a recent viral video made it seem. A new video, by SupJamChan, points out that the broken animations in the remastered version of Assassin’s Creed II are caused by a glitch that was also in the original. And that deformed NPC was the product of…

Video Games Also Have A Fake News Problem

In the wake of the 2016 election, one of this month’s biggest stories is the rise of fake news, as passed from uncle to uncle via Facebook and Google. And while fake video game articles may not be as dangerous as stories about Hillary Clinton assassinating her aides, it’s still worth noting: Video games have…

Final Fantasy XV Is Leaking Everywhere

Final Fantasy XV won’t be out for another eight days, but video game stores across the world are selling copies to anyone who asks. In other words, it’s time to watch out for spoilers. Over the weekend, various gamers reported buying early copies of FFXV from stores breaking street date in Peru, Saudi Arabia, and…

The Double Fine Kickstarter Gets One Final Update

“This, at long last, is the FINAL UPDATE for this thing we have called the Double Fine Adventure,” designer Tim Schafer wrote last night. It marks the end of one hell of a journey for the Kickstarter, which broke crowdfunding records and raised over $3 million when it launched in early 2012. Four and a…