Mike Fahey

Tips For Playing Injustice 2 

The battle between good and formerly-good comes to a head in Injustice 2, but there’s much more to the game than the kicking and the punching. Here are some tips to help you get the most out of Netherrealm Studios’ DC Comics dress-up battle simulator. If you haven’t played the first Injustice, at least watch…

Star Ocean: Til the End of Time arrives on North American PS4 on May 23. It’s the same game as the 2004 original, only the jaggies have been cleaned up through the PS4’s HD emulator and it’s got trophy support. It’ll be available to download via the PlayStation Store for $20.99.

Charming mobile rhythm game Deemo is out for PlayStation Vita today. $14.99 scores players the basic game, with nearly $100 worth of downloadable contentrounding out the music library. Or you can just watch other people play on YouTube, because damn that’s a lot.

Injustice 2‘s Facial Animation Is So Good It’s Uncanny

Injustice 2‘sstory mode features a strong script voiced by top voice talent, but the real stunner is the way the in-game faces move when acting out the dialogue. Can you make out what Harley Quinn is saying in the animated GIF above? Hint: she’s talking about Gorilla Grodd. Each new snippet of video shown during…

Injustice 2: The Kotaku Review

The fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us gave us a world torn apart by conflict between between two of comics’ greatest heroes. Now brutal murderer Superman and “I don’t want to fight you” Batman are back, joining forces against the most diabolical foe the DC Universe has ever faced—loot boxes. When we last left our…

Topre Realforce RGB Keyboard Review: Life Beyond The Rubber Dome

If rubber dome keyboards are at the bottom of the keyboard hierarchy and mechanicals near the top, where does that leave Topre’s electrostatic capacitive switches, which combine a rubber dome and a spring? While the mechanical keyboard community launches into a massive debate, let me tell you about Topre’s Realforce RGB. Nothing sparks heated debate…

Project Rap Rabbit Is A Rhythm Game With RPG-Style Rap Battles

Traditional rhythm games give players a series of set songs to tap along to. In Project Rap Rabbit, the newly-announced collaboration between Parappa the Rapper’s Masaya Matsuura and Gitaroo Man’s Keiichi Yano, players participate in rap battles powered by RPG-style dialogue trees. According to the Kickstarter video for Project Rap Rabbit, the battle system in…

Elgato’s Stream Deck Is Fancy Tool For Fancy Streamers

Streamers seeking more control over their broadcasts often use external keypads to do things like switching scenes and controlling chat. Elgato’s $150 Stream Deckaims to replace those makeshift solutions with 15 dedicated LCD buttons capable of handling up to 210 different actions. It’s quite fancy. The Stream Deck, launched today and available at Elgato’s website,…

Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 is coming. A teaser trailer for the latest all-star Lego Marvel game popped upon Facebook, giving us a brief glimpse of baby Groot and Doctor Strange, suggesting another game rooted in the cinematic universe. Look for more come May 23.

Modder Adds Sonic To Mario Kart 8

Between his inclusion in Smash Bros. and his own kart racing title, Sonic fits into Mario Kart 8 like a puffy white glove. Modder CorBond57 makes it happen by swapping the hedgehog’s model with Mario’s. He looks like Sonic, he drives like Sonic, but he sounds like Metal Mario. That’s because CorBond57’s work-in-progress mod overlay’s…

Parappa And Ouendan Creators Join Forces For Project Rap Rabbit

Parappa the Rapper creator Masaya Matsuura and Keiichi Yano of Gitaroo Man and the Ouendan are teaming up for a new story-driven rhythm adventure. Remember when rhythm games had stories? These two do. While we have little information about Project Rap Rabbit—just ateaser website (viaGematsu) and trailer, the simple fact that Matsuura and Yano and…

Snacktaku Eats Firework Oreos, Does Not Explode

In the hierarchy of things you don’t put in your mouth, fireworks are right up there with razor blades and hobos, but nothing will stand in the way of Nabisco’s relentless quest to keep Snacktaku from eating things that aren’t Oreos. Firework Oreos, in stores now alongside something called Waffle and Syrup Oreos (which we…

Don’t Know Much About Heroes Of Shadow Guard, But It’s Got A Lovely Keyboard

Until Wednesday afternoon I was completely unaware of Heroes of Shadow Guard, a free-to-play dungeon crawler/designer game from Louisiana-based indie studio Iron 27. Then the limited edition keyboard was released. Video game themed keyboards aren’t a new thing, but generally they come from large gaming keyboard operations and tie-in to big games like Call of…

 Snacktaku Eats Something Healthy For A Change

Every time Snacktaku posts a review of some hideous food monster, people always ask, “How are you still alive?” They also ask, “When will you eat something healthy?” Why, right now, as I eat my way through two boxes of healthy snacks from LevelUp Foods’ subscription gamer treats service The gaming community is often stereotyped…

Lego Dimensions Goonies Is Good Enough For Me, Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

Here we are, hanging onto strains of greed and blues. Break the chain then we break down. Oh it’s not real if you don’t feel it. Unspoken expectations, ideals you used to play with—they’ve finally taken shape for us. What’s good enough for you is good enough for me. It’s good enough. Good enough for…

Forza Horizon 3’s Hot Wheels Expansion Is Pure Joy

Miles of bright orange track winding through the sky, speed boost pads flanked by gigantic toy engines, loop-de-loops and dinosaurs—I can’t stop smiling when I’m speeding through Forza Horizon 3‘s Hot Wheels expansion. Released yesterday alongside a substantial PC performance update for Forza Horizon 3, the Hot Wheels expansion is everything I wanted and more.…

Ghost Games says there’ll be a new Need for Speed game before 2017 ends, and it’ll be playable offline, addressing one of the major issues fans had with the 2015 reboot. It’ll have an open world, cops to flee and plenty of car customization. Look for more details at the EA Play event in June.

Match Land Is A More Lovable Sort Of Puzzle Adventure Game

Popularized by games like Puzzles & Dragons, mobile match-three puzzles games usually contain overly-complex mechanics, obnoxious microtransactions and a constant stream of ads for the amazing heroes you could get if you just spent enough cash. Take away those things and you get Match Land. Developed by Race Cat and available as a free download…

Eleven-Year-Old Gets Used Copy Of GTA V, Finds Bag Of Meth [Update]

According to Havana, Florida mom Kayla McAllister, her 11-year-old son was flipping through the manual of a used game purchased from GameStop on Sunday when he came across a plastic bag containing a white substance. They called the police and yep, it’s meth. According to McAllister, who wrote about the incident in a Facebook post…

The Secret World’s Bizarro Free-To-Play Relaunch Arrives June 26

Funcom’s pay-to-play, modern-day paranormal MMO The Secret World relaunches on June 26 as the free-to-play Secret World Legends, delivering the same exact content in a slightly different way. As a player of the original game, the whole thing is downright weird. I spent a couple of months playing through The Secret World back when it…