Mike Fahey

Lego Adventure Time Does Things Differently

For the past couple of years, Lego and Adventure Time have been dreaming of a marriage between the two properties. Those dreams generally involved standard Lego minifigures. The official Lego Adventure Time are not standard Lego minifigures. It makes sense that the television show that changed the entire flavor of children’s animation offer a new…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Everything Must Go

With Pokémon Go fever gripping the bits of the globe currently capable of playing, it’s only a matter of time before other major video game franchise get in on the action. Let’s beat them to the punch, shall we? Update 7.13 — Three days down, three days to go. It’s shaping up to be the…

World Of Warcraft‘s New Penalty Will Silence The Abusive And Obnoxious

Launching with the Legion expansion pre-update later this month, World of Warcraft’s new silence penalty is designed to let players engaging in abusive or inappropriate chat dig their own incredibly quiet, ever-expanding grave. Here’s how it works. A player is reported for abusive or inappropriate chat activity, be it in trade, area, party chat or…

The New Ghostbusters Game Plays It Safe

The idea of a video game tie-in arriving without much fanfare the week of a major movie release is scary, but Activision’s new Ghostbusters game is nothing more than a relatively basic, slow-paced twin-stick shooter. See for yourself. While the heroes of the new movie are off saving Washington D.C. from ghostly assassins, a new…

Ninja Coming To Black Desert Online Next Week

Black Desert Online, the striking massively multiplayer online role-playing game with a strong focus on martial arts, is finally scoring some ninja on July 20. Don’t they look amazing? Continuing its strange trend of assigning genders to classes, Black Desert Online’s ninja are both ninja, but only one is Ninja. Male masters of the hidden…

7th Dragon III Code: VFD: The Kotaku Review

The name might be a bit of a mess, but Sega’s new 3DS role-playing game is anything but. It makes a little more sense in context. 7th Dragon III Code: VFD is the first Western release for a Japanese RPG series that began with 2009’s more simply named 7th Dragon for the Nintendo DS. 7th…

Doom PC Adds Vulkan Support, Making A Fast Game Even Faster

Earlier this year Nvidia showed off its new GTX 1080 card by running Bethesda’s Doom with the super-speedy Vulkan API instead of OpenGL, resulting in frame rates approaching 200 with all the bells and whistles. Today Bethesda makes Doom Vulkan support official. Vulkanis basically the next-generation OpenGL application programming interface, boasting higher performance, better CPU…

Team Mystic Is The Pokémon Go Faction Of Choice

Over the weekend we asked Pokémon Go players which of the game’s three factions they were backing—Team Instinct, Team Mystic or Team Valor. With more than 100,000 responses recorded the big blue bird of Team Mystic reigns supreme. I’ve been watching results since the poll opened on Saturday evening, and the results have been pretty…

Being A Virtual Gravure Idol’s Personal Photographer Isn’t Easy

SoniComi: Communication with Sonico might seem like all fun and games, but once you’ve finished reading through tons of text, choosing Sonico’s outfit, setting the scene and shooting photographs while keeping her spirits up, there’s barely enough time to be a lewd jerk. But you can make time, if that’s your thing. Created in 2006…

The Week In Games: Somewhat Afraid Of The Ghostbusters Game

Early reviews for the new Ghostbusters movies are pretty good! Early reviews for the new Ghostbusters game are pretty much nonexistent, which is scary. Did you know there was a new Ghostbusters game coming out this week? You might have missed the announcement trailer from two months ago due to no one really caring all…

Robot Finishes Super Mario Bros. 3 In Two Seconds

Yesterday’s tool-assisted speedrun (TAS) block at Summer Games Done Quick ended with a Super Mario Bros. 3 run that lasted barely longer than a blink. The ridiculously rapid run is the result of a newfound glitch discovered by TAS speddrunner ais523, which basically involves pressing buttons at an extremely fast rate—some 6,000 times a second.…

A Smash Bros. Arcade Stick, Only Without The Stick

Custom peripheral maker Hit Box recently revealed the Smash Box, a custom-built Smash Bros. arcade controller that’s basically a GameCube controller with buttons instead of sticks. The folks at Hit Box believe that fingers on buttons grant more precise control over fighting games. They’ve already released a Hit Box controller for the Xbox One (with…

Dead Or Alive: Last Round Adds The Perfect King Of Fighters Character

Announced this weekend during the 2016Dead or Alive Festival in Japan, The King of Fighters’ Mai Shiranui will be joining the roster of Dead or Alive 5: Last Round for the PlayStation 4 in September. Nippon ichi! Years before Dead or Alive introduced breast physics to 3D fighters, SNK’s Mai was generating sympathetic back pain…

Sunday Comics: We Need A Tank

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published July 7. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich didn’t update this week. Here’s one from the archives, published August 2013. Read more…

With only hours left to go in the week-long charity speedrun marathon, a $20,000 donation from t-shirt company The Yetee pushed the total raised by Summer Games Done Quick for Doctors Without Borderspast the $1 million mark. Nice work, people.

Pokémon Go Players: Team Instinct, Mystic Or Valor? 

Upon reaching level five in Pokémon Go, the player must choose a faction to represent in the battle for Pokémon Gym domination. Are you a member of the calm and analytical Team Mystic, or did you choose one of the other two for some reason? Red, yellow or blue, your choice of Pokémon Go team…

Richard Garriott’s Blood Pulled From Ebay, Probably Because It Was Blood

Earlier this week famed Ultima developer Richard “Lord British” Garriott made a splash by putting an artful reliquary containing his actual blood up for sale on eBay. The listing is now gone, most likely due to Ebay’s strict “Don’t Sell Blood” policy. Promoting and raising money for his crowdfunded RPG Shroud of the Avatar, Garriott…

From PC to mobile and back again. Fallout Shelter, the hit iOS and Android game based on the popular post-apocalyptic setting, arrives on PC this Thursday, alongside update 1.6, which brings new locations, new characters and quests.

Innocent Pizzeria Besieged By Five Nights At Freddy’s Phone Calls

Freddie’s Restaurant and Pizzeria in Long Branch, New Jersey has a serious Five Nights at Freddy’s problem. Freddie’s is a family owned and operated Italian restaurant, opened in Long Branch by Fred Scialla, who is almost certainly no relation to the animatronic bear that stars in Scott Cawthon’s series of jump-scare heavy horror games. Unfortunately,…

Weird Al’s My Little Pony Figure Comes With A Tank

Just because it has the word “party” in front of it doesn’t make what the Weird Al Yankovic-voiced Cheese Sandwich is riding on any less of a tank. The upcoming Guardians of Harmony line of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic toys turns the normally immobile plastic statues into battle-ready articulated action figures. Hasbro is…