Mike Fahey

Who’s Excited About The Return Of Bomberman?

A new Zelda at launch is nice, but I’m much more excited about the idea of going online with my Nintendo Switch and blowing the hell out of seven other players on a grid-based playfield. It’s so good to see you again, Bomberman.  Launching with the Nintendo Switch on March 3, Super Bomberman R is…

DC Collectibles’ Latest Puts Gotham City PD’s Plight In Perspective

Along with new Batman and Zatana statues and a pair of Teen Titan-ic plushes, DC Collectibles coolest upcoming release is the Batman Animated GCPD Rogues Gallery five-pack, which demonstrates how screwed Gotham’s police force would be without Batman. Ignore the turtle. The figures are outstanding, as is the norm with DC Collectibles Batman: The Animated…

Mighty No. 9 Is Better When You’re Watching Someone Else Play

Mighty No. 9 was less Mega Man revival and more colorful train wreck, but in the skillful hands of speedrunner GreenZSaber, playing the game during theAwesome Games Done Quick charity marathon Wednesday evening, it’s a much more entertaining train wreck. While my attempt to play through Keiji Inafune’s Kickstarted embarrassment took hours on normal difficulty,…

Lay’s Wants Your Stupid Potato Chip Flavors Again

The Lay’s Do Us A Flavor contest returns for a fourth year, once more offering budding snackologists who come up with a halfway edible new potato chip flavor a million dollars. Previous winners include the obvious choice, thebad one andI wasn’t paying attention. After skipping a year to perform a Flavor Swap operation, Do Us…

Sony is now accepting signups for the PlayStation 4 system software 4.5 beta. PS4 owners interested in getting a sneak peek at what’s coming in the next big revision can sign up between now and the beta’s early February launch.

This Wooden Box Is A Gaming PC

The Volta V is the first commercially-produced, handcrafted wooden computer, and if you’ve got the green, it can pack some serious gaming power. Back when I was a kid, most of the electronics in our home featured a large amount of wood. Our television was 22 inches of screen in a 50 inch wooden box,…

We’ve Two Weeks To Prepare For Taco Bell’s Fried Chicken Taco Shell

January 26 shall be known as the day the taco shell changed forever, or at least the day Taco Bell started folding up fried chicken patties and calling it a Naked Chicken Chalupa. Realizing that we’re almost two weeks into 2017 and there hasn’t been a Snacktaku video, Taco Bell has lept into action, readying…

74-Year-Old Grandpa Says Goodbye To MMO He’s Played Since 1999

This man has been playing massively multiplayer online role-playing game Asheron’s Call since it launched in 1999, sharing adventures with friends from around the world. But Asheron’s Call is closing at the end of the month, and it’s time to say goodbye. While I don’t know the name of the man in the video, uploaded…

One Of Mass Effect‘s Best Moments Is An Amazon Echo Easter Egg

Amazon’s Echo and Echo Dot devices are good for more than shopping, listening to music and home automation. Just try asking it one of the most important questions in the Mass Effect universe. “Does this unit have a soul?” Folks over at theMass Effect Reddit (via Eurogamer) discovered the easter egg while playing around with…

Real Surgeons Are Just As Bad At Surgeon Simulator As You Are

In case you wondering if years of formal surgical training would help up your Surgeon Simulator 2013 game, three actual surgeons’ flailing attempts at performing a virtual heart transplant should put that notion to eternal rest. YouTube channel Facts takes a break from forcing Irish people to do non-Irish-person things to give a trio of…

The New Red Xbox One Controller Looks Like Candy And I Want To Eat It

Today Microsoft introduces two new official colors to the Xbox One Wireless Controller line. There’s green and orange, which looks like an escapee from a Halo bundle, and sweet, delicious red, with its colorful candy buttons and delicious gummi analog sticks. It makes my teeth ache. Available exclusively from the Microsoft Store and GameStop, the…

Majora’s Mask Kicks Off First 4 Figures’ Life-Size Replica Line

Collectible statue makers First 4 Figures are branching off into the gaming replica business, starting with a stunning 25-inch replica of The Legend of Zelda’s Majora’s Mask, complete with conveniently removable horns. First 4 Figures has been doing Zelda statues for ages, so it makes sense Nintendo’s RPG series be the focus of the company’s…

The Tales of Berseria demo is now live on PlayStation 4 in North America and Europe. Get a taste of the dark and gritty 16th main entry in the Tales series ahead of its January 24 release. The PC version of the demo should be on Steam today as well.

Shout Factory Plans To Reboot ’80s Game Show Starcade

Running for three seasons in the early ‘80s,Starcade was a game show in which players with excellent hair competed on arcade machines while the host tried to keep up. Now the pop culture preservationists at Shout Factory have the rights to Starcade, and they plan to bring it back. Airing on WTBS in 1982 and…

Monopoly Opens Up Voting For The Next Generation Of Tokens, And None Are Safe

In 2013, fansvoted to replace Monopoly’s classic iron token with a cat. Now Hasbro is prepared to replace the entire token lineup based on the whims of internet voters. What hope do wheelbarrow and thimble have in the face of computer, t-rex and helicopter? Monopoly tokens have come and gone since the classic board game…

Roblox Gets Into The Toy Business

After more than a decade of online creative play, massively multiplayer online game Roblox is expanding its user-created content into the real world, partnering with Jazwares for a line of collectible and customizable toys hitting stores in February. Boasting more than 40 million monthly players in December alone, imagination-powered online community Roblox is at the…

Triple-Screen Laptops Stolen From Razer’s CES Booth

Last week Razer debuted Project Valerie, a cutting-edge laptop concept that switches automatically between one and three displays. On Sunday, two prototype models were stolen from the Razer booth at CES 2017. The company is offering $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. The news of the theft was posted…

Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone: The Kotaku Review

Now that the Western world’s had a couple of years to get used to games starring Japan’s premiere virtual idol, Sega drops the Hatsune Miku bomb. With over 220 songs to master, Project Diva Future Tone for the PlayStation 4 is one heaping helping of rhythm game goodness. In 2009, Sega brought the breakout star…

Diablo‘s Killer Cows Are All Our Fault

Diablo III’s anniversary update delivers some good, clean old-school fun, but one of its reward pets, the Royal Calf, suggests our trip to Old Tristram may have been the reason the series’ bovines have been so damn angry for the past two decades. One of several secrets hidden within the Darkening of Tristram event in…

Resident Evil 7 USB Doll Finger Looks Like A Burnt Penis

If you’re going to make a finger-shaped souvenir for a horror video game, you’ve really got to sell the body part—a well-defined nail area, proper coloration and the like. The more you obscure a fake finger prop with unnecessary details, the more it looks like a horrifying dick. The key to one of the biggest…