Mike Fahey

Razer’s Most Popular Gaming Keyboard Gets A Wrist Rest And Fancy New Switches

If you’re into keyboard switches, you’ll appreciate news that the latest version of Razer’s BlackWidow gaming keyboard adds a third option—the silent, low-travel Razer Yellow switch. Me, I’m just excited about the magnetic wrist rest. Riding on the success of the dual mechanical/membrane Razer Ornata, the new BlackWidow V2 is sporting a padded wrist rest…

Released in Japan last year as Pokémon Co-Master, free-to-play strategy board game Pokémon Duel is now available on iOS and Android, though servers are under maintenance until 4 PM Eastern. Check out our impressions of the Japanese release while we wait.

Tales Of Berseria: The Kotaku Review

Bandai Namco’s Tales action role-playing series is normally pretty formulaic—a plucky group of colorful heroes joins together to save the world from some dire threat. Tales of Berseria’s protagonist just really wants to murder a guy, and her companions are happy to help. The 16th main Tales game begins innocently enough. Velvet Crowe and her…

Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Gives Us A Taste of Kingdom Hearts III, And It’s Good

While the Dream Drop Distance HD remake is nice, and the extended cutscene for Kingdom Hearts χ is something you can watch, the real reason to pick up Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue is the three hours we get to spend playing a big teaser for Kingdom Hearts III Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8…

Dark Souls III takes players to the end of the world with The Ringed City DLC, arriving March 28 on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC. Players will chase after Slave Knight Gael as he seeks the Dark Soul of Humanity. Sounds like a picnic!

Released in 2015 in Japanese arcades, Tekken 7 finally arrives on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC on June 2. Here’s a new trailer to celebrate knowing when we can play.

Snacktaku Makes Everything Better With Chocolate Strawberry Oreos

After spending 2016 eating strange and horrible things, Snacktaku is kicking off the year on a high note. Let January 20, 2017 be forever known as the day Snacktaku ate Chocolate Strawberry Oreos, one of the best limited edition flavors in ages. Combining chocolate and strawberry flavors in a cookie may seem like an easy…

Meanwhile, At The Second Life Trump Inauguration Party . . .

Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States was an appropriately staid and stately affair. The inauguration party in virtual world Second Life was much more colorful. The biggest inauguration party in Second Life took place in the London City sim, oddly enough, where avatars of all sizes and shapes from around…

The Injustice 2 Prequel Comic Launches April 11, And It’s Gonna Be Great

One of thebest evil Superman stories ever told continues on April 11, when DC Comics reunites writer Tom Taylor and lead artist Bruno Redondo to explore what happened between Injustice: Gods Among Us and Injustice 2. Normally a prequel comic book wouldn’t be big news, but the three-year run of DC’s original Injustice comic was…

How To Get Ariana Grande in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, Because You Can Do That Now

As promised earlier this month, singer Ariana Grande is now a playable character in Final Fantasy mobile game Brave Exvius. Here’s how to add the bunny-eared performer to your pixel party. First off, you have to have a copy of the free-to-play game installed on your iOS or Android device. Just search the store for…

Battleborn’s Big Winter Update Might Get A Couple Dozen More People Playing

Battleborn’s massive winter update drops today, bringing massive changes to Gearbox’s game, including full access to the game’s 25 launch characters, new training modes, and enhanced UI and 4K support for PS4 Pro. All that, plus the game’s third story DLC and fifth free character. Before we get to the big changes, let’s meet Beatrix,…

Meitu Transforms Video Game Heroes Into Beautiful Waifus

Meitu, the free Chinese photo app filling your Facebook and Twitter feeds with big-eyed, rosy-cheeked alien creatures, isn’t just for actual human beings. Witness the horrifically cute things it does to your favorite video game characters. While I’ve been actively trying to avoid the avalanche of uncanny hand-painted selfies being dumped onto the internet in…

Thrustmaster T.16000M FCS Flight Pack Review: PC Aviation Essentials

Nothing makes a flight or space sim really sing like a hands-on throttle and stick (HOTAS) setup. Thrustmaster’s $200 T.1600M FCS Flight Pack combines joystick, throttle and rudder pedals in one lovely entry-level package. Between the rise of virtual reality and an expanding audience of people with incredibly good taste in game genres, space sims…

In case you were worried about another Fire Emblem game coming out for the Switch this year, worry not. The next console installment of the tactics RPG series is coming in 2018.

Fire Emblem: Heroes Is A Collectible Character Strategy Game For iOS And Android [UPDATE]

Arriving on Google Play and iOS on February 2, Fire Emblem: Heroes is a mobile turn-based tactics role-playing game in which players gather an army of iconic characters from across series history. It sounds like any number of collectible hero mobile RPGs. Players use orbs won in combat or purchased via in-app transaction to attempt…

Steam’s Latest Hit Is Tactical Madness From The Makers of Castle Crashers

Pit People, the latest game from Castle Crashers developer The Behemoth, begins with a planet-sized bear crashing into a planet-sized planet, transforming it into a wasteland plagued by storms of green bear blood rain. Then things get weird. Launched last week into Steam Early Access and the Xbox One’s game preview program, Pit People is…

Atlus Brings Two Utawarerumono Games West In 2017

Uta-wa-re-ru-mono. The name of the adult tactical role-playing visual novel series is a bit tricky to pronounce, but I’m sure we’ll have it down by the time Atlus is done releasing Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception and Mask of Truth for North American and European PS4 and Vita this year. Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception and Mask…

Bubsy Is The Perfect Addition To Streets Of Rage 2

If any video game character has the right to be angry, it’s oft-maligned platformer hero Bubsy. Thanks to the power of ROM hacking, the bobcat mascot finally has an appropriate outlet for his righteous rage. Before his first game, Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, came out for the Super Nintendo and Sega…

Brainiac Makes Everything Worse In Injustice 2

As if having DC Comics’ most powerful heroes at each other’s throats wasn’t bad enough, now alien android mastermind Brainiac wants a piece of the action in the story trailer for Injustice 2. Following the events of Netherrealm’s first Injustice game, Batman and friends struggle to repair the damage done to society by the grief-crazed…

Titanfall Mobile Game Dies Before It Truly Lived 

Remember the mobile collectible card game Titanfall spin-off we told you about back in September? Well, forget it. It’s dead. Titanfall: Frontline is cancelled, it’s closed beta shutting down next week. Why? Seems like it just didn’t have that Titanfall zest. Or at least that’s what it sounds like what is being said in the…