Mike Fahey

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s first batch of DLC, Sabotage, contains four multiplayer maps and a ‘90s-themed “Rave in the Redwoods” Zombies mode. It’ll be out January 31 for PlayStation 4, with PC and Xbox One following after.

Street Fighter V Winter Update Makes Rage Quitters Play Together

Street Fighter V’s holiday update is here, bringing with it festive holiday costumes, the debut of Akuma and tons of tweaks and balance changes, but the most entertaining change of them all is tweaking matchmaking to ensure frequent rage quitters wind up playing each other. Docking League Points and temporary bans have gone a long…

Plush Pokémon Should Not Be $80 And Make Me Cry

I offer a picture of me during happier times, before my new best friend Popplio and I took a trip to the Toys’R’Us price scanner. We first met at the toy store on Saturday evening, as I was hunting for Christmas gifts that could survive more than an hour of play with two five-year-olds without…

This is the DC Icons Blue Beetle and Booster Gold two pack. It’s hitting stores in June/July. It comes with leis, boat drinks, a wad of cash, Skeets and a pair of smiling heads. Everything about it is perfect.

The State Of The Wii U In 2016

The Wii U spent 2016 on life support, relying on a slow trickle of exclusives to keep owners from pulling the plug completely. As Nintendo prepares to release the Switch in March, the Wii U readies its dying breath. This is part of our 2016 “State of” series, a look at how the major consoles,…

What We Liked And Loved About Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

The Star Wars universe expanded in a whole new way with the release of Rogue One, the first in a series of live-action films exploring the bits between the main episodes. We assembled a ragtag band of Kotaku writers to talk about this very different sort of Star Wars movie. Set between the events of…

It’s Not Every Decade A New Surfing Video Game Is Announced

In honor of today’s announcement of Climax Studios’ Surf World Series, coming to the Xbox One, PC and PS4 next year, I decided to explore the history of surfing video games, starting with the nine listed on Wikipedia. This won’t take long. I suppose they’ll be adding Surf World Series to the list soon enough,…

Why Arby’s Twitter Is All Over Gaming Right Now

With many popular brands struggling to find a voice on social media, Arby’s spent 2016 charming an entirely new audience via gaming and pop culture papercraft creations. I spoke to Arby’s senior director of social and digital media about how they went from pictures of curly fries to cardboard chocobos. I follow a lot of…

Twitch Launches IRL, A Channel For Streaming Your Stupid Real Life

After five years of giving people a way to share their gaming with the masses, Twitch expands into the real world today with IRL, a channel dedicated to sharing everyday life experiences with strangers. IRL is the next step in Twitch’s evolution from game streaming service to everything streaming service, which began in 2015 with…

Toy Time’s 2016 Holiday Gift Spectacular

Welcome to the first annual Toy Time Holiday Gift Spectacular, with special guests Batman, Spike the Dragon, The Walking Dead, Transformers and more. These are the toys and collectibles that would have made my Christmas list, were they not already sitting right over there. Originally planned as an elaborate video, the inaugural Holiday Gift Spectacular…

Forza Horizon 3‘s Snow Driving Is Almost Too Real

During my first ten minutes in Forza Horizon 3‘s wintry Blizzard Mountain expansion pack, I found myself in a snowstorm so thick I pulled over to wait it out. It was only a few seconds before I remembered that I was an immortal super driver with an army of tree-devouring vehicles at my command, but…

It’s Christmas In Final Fantasy‘s Midgar, Atop The Plate At Least

The shadow of the Shinra Corporation Headquarters is much less oppressive now that Second Life’s long-running Final Fantasy VII role-playing sim is lit with holiday cheer. But do the residents of Midgar’s slums know it’s Christmas? One of the first places I visited in Second Life when I first logged in back in 2007 was…

How To Get To Forza Horizon 3’s New Blizzard Mountain

The first big expansion for Forza Horizon 3 is now live on PC and Xbox One, adding ice and snow to the game’s varied Australian terrain, just a plane ride away. Blizzard Mountain adds a rather expansive new area to the game, a wintry place that’s very friendly to trucks and snow tires. New physics,…

There’s No Reason For A Super Nintendo Computer Keyboard, But It Sure Is Pretty

I can’t imagine many rational reasons anyone would need a keyboard designed to coincide with the colors of the Super Nintendo, but I have to admit there’s something soothing about the rows of gray, lilac, purple and black keys of Hyperkin’s “retro-style” Hyper Clack keyboard. Recently unleashed upon the retail world, the SNES-styled Hyper Clack…

Trion Worlds’ voxel-based MMORPG Trove is now in free open beta on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. All progress from the beta will carry over when the game officially launches in early 2017. Check out theTrove website for more details.

Japanese developer Gust is bringing its games to Steam for the first time this February with a pair of role-playing games. The turn-based Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book and action RPG Nights of Azure make their PC debut on February 7, courtesy of Koei Tecmo.

Transformers: Forged To Fight Takes Kabam’s Fighting Game To The Next Level

When mobile developer Kabam announced robot battler Transformers: Forged To Fight earlier this month, I assumed it was little more than a reskin of popular mobile fighter Marvel: Contest of Champions. With features like ranged attacks and 3D movement, it’s more like an evolution. Following the Forged to Fight announcement I had a chance to…

Snacktaku Eats Oreo Candy Bars With Friends

Snackology is often referred to by completely real people as the loneliest of the sciences, but it doesn’t have to be. Join me and a host of Kotaku guest stars in our poorly-lit home office as we eat one of the best non-cookie Oreo products yet. Launched in North America as a limited release last…

The Best Dang Steep Stream On The Internet, No Regrets

On Friday, December 9, Nathan Grayson, Chris Person and I walked into the recording booth at Kotaku’s New York headquarters to stream Steep, Ubisoft’s extreme winter sports game. Aside from the faulty controller, horrible accents and Cronenbergian horrors, it went pretty well. We don’t all get a chance to get together in person very often,…

Yes, Final Fantasy XIV Really Was This Bad The First Time Around

Since its 2013 relaunch as A Realm Reborn, Final Fantasy XIV is one of the best massively multiplayer role-playing games going, but let’s not forget the poor performance, shoddy lighting effects and nightmarish copy-pasted landscapes from the original 2010 release that made the relaunch necessary in the first place. YouTube’sSpeakers Network has launched the first…