Jason Schreier

Here Is A Montage Of People Pretending To Be Into VR At The PlayStation Conference

Edited by Kotaku’s Chris Person, here is a supercut of VR faces from today’s PlayStation 4 conference at Paris Games Week. These shots were part of a handful of gameplay trailers and sizzle reels released by Sony today. We took out the gameplay, of course. Enjoy.

Tekken 7, previously announced for arcades in Japan, is coming to PS4, the folks at Bandai Namco said today during the PlayStation conference in Paris. No word on a release date yet, but there is a new trailer!

Watch Sony’s Paris Games Week Conference Right Here [UPDATE: Over] 

It’s PlayStation Day in Paris, where Sony’s about to put on a press conference full of new games and announcements. We’re expecting to see some Uncharted 4 news, appearances from Sony’s other first-party studios, and maybe even David Cage’s next game. Fun drinking game for anyone who wants to stay sober this afternoon: Take a…

Mario Maker Is Getting A Big New Update

Nintendo’s sending a big new patch down Mario Maker alley next week, adding checkpoints and more complicated power-ups among other features. On November 4, when the patch goes live for Nintendo’s wonderful new level creator, you’ll be able to add checkpoint flags to your level (by shaking the arrow sign in the editor). You’ll also…

Want to ask two Kotaku editors anything you’d like? We’re taking reader questions for this week’s episode of Kotaku Splitscreen, so if you want to ask us anything about life, video games, and what it’s like to work at this ridiculous website, e-mail [email protected]. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes here or on…

The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes: The Kotaku Review

You might suspect that The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes is skippable, an inessential spinoff that is more time-killer than legendary adventure. You would be… correct. The newest Zelda, out now for 3DS, is an unnecessary, forgettable installment in a series that usually maintains way higher standards. Even compared to other weak Zeldas like…

Destiny‘s Halloween Celebration Is Incredible

Just when people were starting to get burned out on Destiny, a video game about the endless hunt for a decent ghost shell, along comes a set of Halloween festivities that made me giggle way too hard. Today in the world of Bungie’s space opera, you can go collect candy, buy masks, and use real…

South Park Wants Your Best Gay Fan Art

Are you an aspiring yaoi artist with dreams of seeing your work on national television? Now’s your chance. South Park’s doing an episode called “Tweek X Craig” this week, so naturally, they want drawings of the two titular characters (pictured above) going full yaoi. Just send your best work to the show’s producers by 9pm…

A Guide To The New Zelda‘s Confusing Multiplayer Options

The multiplayer options Zelda: Tri Force Heroes, which is out today for 3DS, can be a little confusing. We’re here to help. I’ve played around ten hours of the game so far, and it’s pretty safe to say Tri Force Heroes can be fun—especially with other people—but it’s totally skippable. As you might expect from…

Holy Crap, Trails in the Sky: SC Comes Out Next Week

Yesterday, the publisher XSEED tweeted a picture of pigs flying. Today it’s clear why: Trails in the Sky SC is actually coming out. NEXT WEEK. On October 29. XSEED announced the news in a press release this afternoon, specifying that the game will cost $30 on both PC and PSP. Also: “A release on the…

Hey, Making Video Games Is Really Friggin’ Hard

This week, we learned the whole messy story of what really happened to Destiny. But how often does that sort of thing happen in the games industry? Let’s discuss. Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, we’re joined by Amazon Game Studios’ Kim Swift, best known as the lead designer of games like Portal and Quantum Conundrum. Kirk…

Harmonix Employees Caught Posting Amazon Reviews For Rock Band 4

In the cut-throat music industry, you’ve gotta do anything you can to stay ahead of the curve. So it is with the plastic music industry, too. Perhaps that’s why Harmonix employees have been posting a whole bunch of positive Amazon reviews for their own game, Rock Band 4, as discovered by Redditors last night. “Loving…

YouTube Is Getting Paid Subscriptions

Today, YouTube announced a premium subscription service that will allow users to pay a fee—$10/month—to watch videos without ads. They’ve titled it YouTube Red—which may remind people of a certain not-safe-for-work website with a similar name—and they say the service will launch this month across the United States. In addition to stripping out ads, the…

Play This Clever Adventure Game Entirely On Twitter

If you have a spare ten minutes today, you should hop onto Twitter and play this adventure game. It’s smart, clever, and legitimately funny, which is a major step up from pretty much everything else on Twitter. Twitter powerhouse and talented artist @leyawn has built an entire choose-your-own-adventure game on the Social Media Platform, and…

Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds, has laid off 213 staff. Before this they had around 700 employees, according to the company’s website. Rough times for the studio that created a cultural phenomenon.

Now Here’s A Kickstarter That Does Things Right

We tell a lot of stories about Kickstarters that gohorribly wrong. For a change of pace, here’s one that’s doing just about everything right. Last November, Monkey Island designer Ron Gilbert launched a Kickstarter for an old-school point-n-click adventure called Thimbleweed Park. He set a realistic funding goal—$375,000—as well as a reasonable estimated delivery date—June…

Destiny gets a patch today that will fix the infamous Shadowshot glitch—by temporarily disabling the Hunter’s Quiver ability. Bungie’s also boosting Nightfall rewards. Full patch notes here. For more on Destiny, read this

The Messy, True Story Behind The Making Of Destiny

In the summer of 2013, months before they were supposed to ship their next video game, the game developers at Bungie went into panic mode. The storied studio, best known for creating the multi-million-selling Halo series, had spent the previous three years working on something they hoped would be revolutionary. Destiny, as they called it,…

Zelda: Tri Force Heroes Lets You ‘Blacklist’ Internet Jerks

Did you know that there’s a new Zelda coming out next week? And that it’s totally adorable? Now you know. Tri Force Heroes, which is out on October 23 for 3DS, is a multiplayer Zelda game that looks and feels like 2013’s Link Between Worlds, but plays more like Four Swords. You and a party…

Mario Maker Gets A Rivalry For The Ages

This week, a part of Patrick Klepek’s soul died. RIP. You see, Klepek has spent the past few days slamming his head against a devious Mario Maker level created by Giant Bomb’s Dan Ryckert. On Tuesday night, just after 2am, he beat it. But we’ll never truly understand how much he lost along the way.…