Jason Schreier

Blizzard Is Quietly Making Huge Changes To StarCraft II

Did you know that Blizzard is playing around with totally removing the major macro mechanics from StarCraft II? And that future multiplayer matches might no longer feature Chrono Boost, MULEs, or manual Larva Spawn? Since StarCraft II first came out way back in 2010, all three races have had specific macro abilities that players have…

Here Is What Happens Every Time I Try To Play The Witcher 3

Let me tell you a story in pictures. That’s essentially what’s happened every time I’ve tried to play The Witcher 3 over the past month. I start the game, all excited to continue hunting for Ciri, then I open up my list of quests and just freeze, scrolling down for a few minutes before I…

Check Out This Sweet Suikoden II Collage

I’m running Kotaku this weekend, which means there’s nobody around to stop me from posting only about Suikoden II for 48 hours straight. Heh heh heh. Back in January, Kotaku reader and artist Benjamin Schwarz sent me this collage of Suikoden II characters that he made a few years ago. This sluggish August weekend feels…

Metacritic Matters: How Review Scores Hurt Video Games

Bugs in Fallout: New Vegas might have eaten your save file. Maybe they took away a few hours of progress, or forced you to reset a couple of quests. Maybe game-crashing bugs pissed you off to the point where you wished you could get your $60 back. But they probably didn’t cost you a million…

Blizzard is streaming new stuff from Overwatch and StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void today. You can watch the stream on YouTube here. We’ll be keeping an eye out and will let you know if there are any cool announcements, as always.

The Best JRPG City

Here is a fact: There are a lot of incredible cities in Japanese role-playing games. From the simplicity of Pallet Town to the squalor of Midgar, JRPG cities are usually interesting, memorable, and full of dressers to crack open. But when we’re determining the BEST JRPG city—and determining THE BEST THINGS is what we do…

Hi Kotaku — I’m Jason Schreier and I’ll be your guest weekend editor, running this big ol’ ship while Fahey’s on sabbatical. You may recognize me from such websites as Kotaku.

The Story Behind Mighty No. 9‘s Shady Delay

Mighty No. 9, an upcoming video game about a blue robot who fights against evil robot masters and collects their powers, was recently delayed until next year. This would not be an issue—video games get delayed!—if everything around it wasn’t so damn shady. Take, for example, the timeline. On Thursday, July 23, retail listings for…

RIP VR (1968-2015)

Blizzard Announces World of Warcraft: Legion

The Burning Legion is back in the next expansion for World of Warcraft, which will raise the level cap to 110 and add a new hero class, Demon Hunter, to the longrunning MMORPG. It’s called World of Warcraft: Legion, and it’s packed full of Warcraft lore from obvious to archaic. At a live presentation at…

We’ll Be Lucky To See Final Fantasy XV Next Year

Today in Germany, Square Enix announced that the elusive Final Fantasy XV is totally on schedule and that they’ve even planned out a release date. Then, in traditional Square Enix fashion, they said they couldn’t tell it to us yet. In a bizarre, frustrating live presentation from Gamescom this afternoon, FFXV director Hajime Tabata teased…

A List Of Ways This Website Has Described Destiny

Destiny, a yearlong beta for a video game that will be released this September. Destiny, a psychostimulant cosplaying as a video game. Destiny, a video game named after a Calvin Klein fragrance. Destiny, a video game in which players must travel the galaxy fighting against powerful adversaries like the Fallen, the Vex, and Bungie. Destiny,…

Destiny: The Taken King Sounds Promising As Hell

I must confess, it’s hard not to be excited about the future of Destiny, a video game in which players must travel through space fighting enemies, getting loot, and beta-testing Destiny. On September 15, with the launch of the upcoming expansion The Taken King, Destiny is entering what Bungie’s calling Year Two. We first saw…

Bungie Is Erasing Peter Dinklage From Destiny

For a long time now, the world has laughed at Peter Dinklage’s voice acting in Destiny, a video game about the slow, inevitable progression of death. Soon, that voice acting is going to change. One might even say it’s going to become legend. Bungie is recasting the role of Ghost, replacing current voice actor Dinklage…

Our First Good Look At Scalebound 

Shown off at the Xbox press conference in Germany today, here’s a long look at Scalebound, the Monster Hunter-ish action game by Platinum Games that’ll be out on Xbox One next year.

Watch The Big Xbox Gamescom Conference Live, Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

Suffering from E3 withdrawal? We’ve got your fix right here, thanks to Gamescom, which kicks off this morning in Germany with a big ol’ Xbox press conference. Straight out of Cologne, the folks behind Xbox will be sharing news and trailers for games like Scalebound, Quantum Break, Crackdown, Halo 5, Rise of the Tomb Raider,…

Thorough Chrono Trigger Speedrun Is Impressive As Hell

You may have missed the Chrono Trigger speedrun at Summer Games Done Quick, mostly because it took place on a late Saturday night and we all have better things to do on late Saturday nights, like play Chrono Trigger If you did miss the run—which ran five hours and capped off the SGDQ marathon—you can…

Red Ash Kickstarter Falls Short By $280K

Thirty days after launching, one of the sloppiest professional campaigns in Kickstarter history has come to an end at $519,999, well short of its $800,000 goal. Red Ash, which was pitched by former Capcom producer Keiji Inafune and his company Comcept as a spiritual successor to Mega Man Legends, seemed destined to fail from the…

Final Fantasy Composers Tease FFXII Remake [UPDATE]

We might be one step closer to getting to see Vaan’s emaciated, whiny abs in glorious HD. At a Final Fantasy Distant Worlds concert in Pittsburgh Saturday night, composer Arnie Roth randomly announced that yes, Final Fantasy XII is getting a remake, much to fans’ surprise. Hitoshi Sakimoto, who scored FFXII, was also in attendance.…

Watch Us Go Flawless In Destiny‘s Trials of Osiris [UPDATE: Over]

This afternoon, we’re trying something new: we’re going to stream ourselves playing Destiny, a psychostimulant cosplaying as a video game. Gunning for Mercury in Trials of Osiris today will be me, Kotaku’s Kirk Hamilton, and our buddy Unstable, who is way better than any of us and will likely be carrying our team to 9-0.…