Mike Fahey

Rain World Broke Me

Every time I think I’m getting close to overcoming the brutal learning curve of Rain World, I die. Initially I blamed myself. I decided to spend my first 30 minutes with Videocult’s long-awaited 2D survival gamestreaming over Facebook. Between my lack of familiarity with the game and Rain World’s aversion to hand-holding of any sort,…

Stunning Widowmaker Statue Kicks Off Blizzard’s Collectibles Line

After years of licensing third parties to create expensive statues and replicas based on its hit video game properties, Blizzard’s taking high-end collectibles in house.Blizzard Collectibles kicks off with an array of existing pieces, joined by one hell of a rendition of Overwatch’s spidery sniper. While I wait patiently for an overpriced Reinhardt statue, Widowmaker…

Method Man does CoD multiplayer. Two new voice packs for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare dropped today for PS4 and Xbox One (with PC coming soon.) $3.99 gets you the dulcet tones of rapper/producer/actor Method Man, while the UK Special Forces pack featuring the voice of Ghost from Modern Warfare 2 is free.

Report: The Next Call Of Duty Is Call Of Duty: WWII

Eurogamer sources have confirmed that a series of images leaked last week via YouTube are referencing this year’s entry in the long-running series, Call of Duty: WWII. YouTube channel TheFamilyVideoGamers received the images from an anonymous source last week. Both the email received and the images it contained were shown on a video on the…

GTA Online Glitch Locks Cops Out Of Their Cars

For brief period over the weekend, Grand Theft Auto Online players were robbed of one of the game’s basic joys—they couldn’t steal police cars. Fortunately for them, the police couldn’t access them either. The issue arose on March 24, when players across all platforms discovered that standard police vehicles were being flagged as personal vehicles…

You Can Do A Lot Of Role-Playing In The PS4’s Latest Baseball Game

When Sony says MLB The Show 17 includes a third-person baseball role-playing game, they aren’t exaggerating. I’m not just playing baseball. I’m role-playing a character who’s playing baseball, and he’ll be damned if he’s drafted by the Florida Marlins. It’s not just about playing games, building stats, unlocking perks and making your mark on Major…

What To Expect In World Of Warcraft‘s Big Tomb Of Sargeras Update

World of Warcraft gets one of its biggest updates yet on Tuesday, as the Legion expansion’s demon war reaches a fever pitch. Update 7.2 gives players a chance to take the battle directly to the demons’ front door, when they aren’t busy learning to fly, battling through the pet dungeon or engaging in new PVP…

Show Us Your Keyboard

While all of us at Kotaku are big fans of typing, a handful of us have started taking our love of keyboards to the next level. There’s nothing like a good mechanical keyboard, especially when you take extra steps to make it your very own. I’ll show you what I’m typing on if you show…

The Battle.net Launcher Is Just The Blizzard Launcher Now

Last year Blizzard announced it was doing away with the name Battle.net. The latest game launcher update puts that plan into effect, replacing the Battle.net branding and asking players to “Log in to Blizzard.” While the Battle.net website is still functioning (don’t want to lose that sweet domain name), the game launcher from which players…

Nier: Automata’s Most Human Character Is An Alien Machine

Nier: Automata is a game that explores the meaning and consequence of being human, despite not featuring a single actual human in its primary narrative. In a world populated by machines, one mechanical being, village leader Pascal, strides closest to humanity, and pays a steep price. Automata takes place on a future Earth where a…

The New Power Rangers Game Isn’t Half Bad

With a new chapter in the Power Rangers saga unfolding in theaters across the country this weekend, Saban and Lionsgate have teamed with mobile developer nWay to release Power Rangers: Legacy Wars, a real-time mobile fighting game featuring heroes and villains from throughout series history. Legacy Wars is a little bit Marvel: Contest of Champions…

Hyperkin X91 Retro Controller Review: Past Imperfect

Over the past three decades console game controllers have evolved from utilitarian rectangles to sleek works of ergonomic engineering art. Hyperkin’s retro-styled X91 wired controller for Xbox One and PC is what would have happened if that evolution had taken a less comfortable turn. What It Is The X91 marries the wide, short and shallow…

PC Building Simulator Is Much Less Nerve-Wracking Than The Real Thing

Last week Kotaku’s Nathan Graysontold us about PC Building Simulator, an indie game in which the nightmare of putting together a gaming PC follows us into the virtual world. This week I played the demo release, and it’s not nearly as difficult as it is in real life. Having recently assembled, disassembled, then rebuilt with…

Revival of Dead MMO’s Lead Character Is Bittersweet

As ifkilling off City of Heroes back in 2012wasn’t bad enough, now NCsoft takes one of the dead superhero MMO’s most beloved characters, Statesman, and pits him against characters from more successful games, less cancelled games as the latest champion in PC MOBA Master X Master. Homage is nice. A nod now and then would…

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Returns With An Even Longer Name

The best Digimon game in ages is getting a follow-up, because that’s how successful games work. Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory is coming to PlayStation 4 and Vita in Japan later this year, with a Western release in early 2018. Not quite a sequel, Hacker’s Memory is asaid to follow the events of…

World Of Warcraft Demon Knows Damn Well Who Summoned It

World of Warcraft Redditor LawsuitEsq has crafted an eloquent answer to the question Felguard demons have been asking their Warlock masters over and over again since 2007. “Oh, I don’t know Zhevdarr. Take a wild fucking guess who summoned you. Again.”  I didn’t dabble much in the Warlock class until last year’s Legion expansion pack,…

Deadpool Shows Off What Hasbro Can Do With 12 Inches

My photoshoot of Hasbro’s Marvel Legends 12-inch Deadpool figure might have gotten away from me, but the point stands—Hasbro has really gotten a handle on 12-inch figures. During the heyday of my Marvel action figure collecting it wasn’t Hasbro making Wolverine, Iron Man and Thor action figures, but rather ToyBiz, progenitors of the Marvel Legends…

Tips For Playing Bit City

Tiny Tower creator Nimblebit released its latest game last week, town-building clickfest Bit City. Its simple-yet-satisfying tap-to-build action has already earned it a spot on iTunes’ Top Free Apps list. Here are some tips to help your tiny city planning sessions go smoothly. Bit City is a clicker game masquerading as a city simulator. Players…

Monopoly Trades Three Classic Game Tokens For A Penguin, Ducky And T-Rex

The results of January’s Monopoly Token Madness fan vote are in. Three new game pieces will be included in the next generation of the classic board game this fall, at the cost of a trio of tokens that have been with the game since the very beginning. According to Hasbro, fans across 146 countries cast…

Apple’s is showcasing a ton of cool indie games in iTunes. Outstanding new releases like Ticket to Earth, Euclidean Lands, Oxenfree and Beglitched are on sale, along with an army of $.99 classics. There are far worse ways to spend a couple of dollars.