Mike Fahey

The Bitter End Of The Great Autobot Decepticon War

In the first of four prelude videos leading to the Transformers: Combiner Wars animated series, Autobot leader Optimus Prime recalls how he ended the last great war. Here’s a hint: one stands, one falls. The Autobots and Decepticons are no more at the beginning of Machinima’s official animated Transformers series. Fearing the escalating power of…

Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Kotaku Review

After two Lego Star Wars games covering a movie trilogy each, can Star Wars: The Force Awakens carry an entire Lego game by itself? Not without a lot of help. For example, I launched the game halfway through downloading to my PlayStation 4. While most of the game was waiting for more data, I was…

The Adventure Time Folks Make A Lovely Hatsune Miku

Making it’s U.S. debut at Anime Expo this weekend, 1000toys’ 35 Mechatro WeGo & Hatsune Miku figure is Frederator Studios’ take on Japan’s popular virtual idol. So of course, celery stick-wielding mech. Frederator’s signature blend of sweet and innocent with a side of lurking crazy shines through in this design. On one hand, aww she’s…

Untold Star Wars Stories Are The Best Part Of Lego: The Force Awakens

Star Wars Episode VII’s main story is great and all, but have you heard about how dashing Resistance pilot Poe Dameron and C3PO saved rescued Admiral Ackbar from a First Order Star Destroyer? Let me tell you all about it. The prequel-based Lego Star Wars made three so-so to horrible films endearing. Lego Star Wars…

Street Fighter V’s June Story Update Arrives July 1 With Extra Balrog

Street Fighter V’s long-awaitedstory mode arrives this Friday on PlayStation 4 and PC. In case you need more incentive stay offline to play an extended single-player mode, Capcom’s releasing Balrog as well. As detailed in Patrick’s lovely what to expect when you’re expecting Street Fighter V story DLC article from earlier this month, all of…

The Week In Games: A Real Time Dilemma

I’ve got to figure out a way to play LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness and Zero Time Dilemma all at once without betraying my other duties. Unless they vote ally, in which case I betray them for the extra points. This is so hard. Thankfully we’ve got the Fourth…

The Life And Death Of A Daredevil Video Game

In the early 2000s a small developer named 5000ft Inc. started work on a modest PlayStation 2 game based on Marvel Comics’ Daredevil. Unseen64 historian Liam Robertson explores how that modest project blossomed into something much bigger, before being unceremoniously canned. Comic book movies were on the rise and pre-movie making Marvel needed money, so…

Wrestling’s Top Gamers Throw Down At CEO 2016

In one corner, playing Birdie, we have the WWE’s ultimate gamer, Xavier Woods. His opponent, controlling Alex, is New Japan Pro Wrestling superstar, Kenny Omega. The pair faced off yesterday at CEO 2016 to determine, once and for all, who would win this particular exhibition match. Both Woods and Omega are known for their gaming…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Death Cuddling: The Winners!

Suuuuuu-paaaaaahh-maaaaaaaaan. And we have a winner. Last week I tasked our readers with giving Norman Reedus something to cry over. Using a still from the E3 trailer for Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding, all they had to do was put something worth crying over into naked Norman Reedus’ loving embrace. First off, special thanks to Damien…

Sunday Comics: A Castle Made Of Hands

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Last week marked the final update for Action Trip, a comic we’ve featured here since well before I started curating the weekly post. No comic could ever truly replace it, but if…

Not The Best Server Restart Message

Reader LouTheVI points out that Smite’s been having some server problems this weekend. Also a slight tact problem. Servers should be up and running now, bitches.

What Would Get You Excited About A New Sonic The Hedgehog Game? 

There’s a brand-new Sonic the Hedgehog game coming in 2017, with a reveal planned at a special event in San Diego next month. What could Sega show on July 22 that would get you excited about Sonic’s next outing? I’m not here to bash the Sonic the Hedgehog series. The past two and a half…

Steelbooks As Art

Redditor theblen used somemagnetic adhesive sheets to turn 28 special edition steelboxes into a masterpiece. Definitely beats gluing them to the ceiling over spiders.

Machinima’s Transformers Animated Series Is Looking Hot

This is what the first official Transformers animated series for adults looks like. So far, so good. I’ve been a Transformers fan since the original series back in the ‘80s, and while Hasbro has gone lengths to ensure there are plenty of toys to please adult fans, the animated offerings have been skewing younger and…

The Shadow Link Collection Takes The Legend Of Zelda To A Dark Place

Spencer’s and Nintendo have teamed up to plunge The Legend of Zelda series into darkness. The first official Shadow Link action figure leads an army of red and black merchandise to the mall retailer’s shelves next month, with a brief stop-off at the increasingly crowded Toy Time desk. Originally published 6/23/2016 I found it hard…

Pokemon Meets DC Comics In Teeny Titans

Released this week for Android and iOS, Teeny Titans combines Cartoon Networks’ second-best Teen Titans show with the collect-and-battle mechanics of Pokemon to create something wonderful. A new toy sensation is sweeping Teen Titans Go’s animated nation. Heroes, villains, talking dogs and random annoying children are buying up Teeny Titans action figures and pitting them…

Burger King Thinks Mac N’ Cheetos Is Something You Might Eat

Burger King is out of control and doesn’t care who it hurts. Being tested in select markets and soon rolling out nationwide, Mac N’ Cheetos are deep-fried macaroni and cheese sticks with Cheetos breading. To put it in old, worn-out meme terms, they heard you liked cheese, so they put cheese in their cheese. Also…

Mighty No. 9 Tries Real Hard, But No

I’m at a convention, and across the hall I see a guy in a blue robot suit. It’s Mega Man! I make my way over to get a picture, but as I approach I see that the color’s not quite right, the helmet is rough-cut cardboard and he’s wearing blue jeans. Awkward. Well, since I’m…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Death Cuddling

If you hadn’t already figured that this week’s ‘Shop Contest would somehow involve naked Norman Reedus from Hideo Kojima’s newly-announced Death Stranding, welcome to Kotaku. Update 6/22/16 — We’ve still got three days left to tuck things into Norman’s loving arms. It was really this or Dad Kratos, and we used Dad Kratos for our…

Remember that ambitious multi-vehicle extreme sports game EA showed a video for at E3 2014? The publisher tells Gamespot the project is dead, with Burnout developer Criterion shifting gears from creating its biggest game ever to helping out on Star Wars titles.