Mike Fahey

E3 Skylander Imaginator Reveals Begin With This Hot Little Number

While Skylanders Imaginators is all about creating your own custom characters, they’d be nothing with Sensei characters to show them the way and give Activision new figures to sell. We’ll be seeing a lot of new faces during E3 this week, including Ember, the fire-based Sensei of the Sentinel class. Creating a character in Skylanders…

Counterpoint: The Warcraft Movie Is Good

Years of hollow hype and months of flashy trailers aimed at getting non-World of Warcraft players into theater seats left me with little hope that I would enjoy Duncan Jones’ Warcraft movie. Well, surprise. I’ve seen Warcraft twice now, the second time to ensure my enjoyment wasn’t a fluke of the Not Your Dad’s Root…

Watch Zygarde Achieve Its Final Form In Pokémon Sun and Moon

The digital snake-thing that made its debut in Pokémon X and Y was just the tip of the five-form Zygarde, and while we’ve seen the doglike 10 percent form and Digimon-ish complete forms in side games and the anime, we’ve yet to see them in a proper Pokémon game. Now we have. Zygarde starts life…

CD Projekt Files Trademark For Gwent: The Witcher Card Game

Is Witcher III card game Gwent strong enough to stand on its own? A trademark application filed with the European Union Intellectual Property Office indicates that developer CD Projekt Red thinks so. That, or they just wanted to protect the keen logo they came up with. While the trademark application (discovered by NerdLeaks) doesn’t specifically…

Mankind Divided‘s Breach Mode Brings Arcade Action To Deus Ex

During today’s Deus Ex stream Square Enix showed off Breach, the fast-paced puzzle shooter game mode included with Mankind Divided. Players take control of Ripper, a hacker in the year 2029 who breaks into corporate servers to steal secure data. Completing missions in Breach will award the player with experience points, credits and booster packs…

Deus Ex GO Coming To Mobile Phones And Tablets This Summer

Adam Jensen joins Agent 47 and Lara Croft in Square Enix’s mobile lineup when Deus Ex GO arrives on cellphones and tablets this summer. Using the same turn-based board game format of Lara Croft GO and Hitman Go, Deus Ex GO sees Jensen using hacking, augmentations and combat to unravel a terrorist conspiracy.

A Custom PlayStation 4 Controller Designed By A Five-Year-Old

Every couple of years I like to stop by The Controller Shop and design work of gamepad art. During my most recent visit I found myself overwhelmed by available options, so I turned design duties over to my son, Seamus. He’s really into red right now. The Controller Shop is an online store where customers…

DC Comics Characters Armor Up For Injustice 2

Yesterday’s retail leak becomes today’s confirmation, as Warner Bros. officially announces Injustice 2. coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in 2017. The second installment of the DC brawler picks up where the first left off. Batman and his super friends are trying to rebuild society in the wake of Superman’s madness, while others attempt…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The E3 2016 Decorating Committee 

Sneaks up on you, doesn’t it? As we did in 2014 and 2015, it’s time to dress up the Los Angeles Convention Center in it’s E3 clothes, or at least the E3 clothes we’d like to see it wear. Originally posted 6/5/2016 — We’re halfway there, living on a prayer and all that. Winners will…

Hey, It’s A . . . Oh, It’s Just A Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Trailer

Aqua demonstrates exactly how I feel when I see “Kingdom Hearts” from Square Enix in my inbox and it’s not about Kingdom Hearts III Not that I don’t mind getting a preview of the very-long-awaited third installment of the series via Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep–A Fragmentary Passage. Aqua looks pretty amazing in the…

Paragon‘s Essentials Edition Is Paid Early Access In A Box

Having to purchase a special founder’s pack to gain exclusive beta access and special content for a free-to-play game like Paragon is quickly becoming the norm. Releasing a $60 physical copy of a free-to-play downloadable game that scores players the same sort of benefits is a bit odd. The Unreal Engine 4 (because what else…

Final Fantasy XIV Finally Gets An Optimize Equipment Button, And It’s Great

Final Fantasy XIV update 3.3 went live today, bringing the Dragonsong War story to an end and adding new raids, dungeons, trials and more. My favorite part of the update is that little Recommended Gear button up there. Call it Optimum, Best Equip, Optimize or Optimal, the ability to automatically assign the best equipment for…

The New Guilty Gear Makes Learning Fun

Pitting the player against a docile computer-controlled character is a fine tutorial mechanic, but it’s not very exciting. Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator has a bit more fun with fighting fundamentals. The latest game in Arc System Works’ fighting game franchise, available today on PlayStation 4 and PS3, replaces the boring old basic tutorial with a…

Odin Sphere’s HD Remake Runs Like A Dream

Odin Sphere for the PlayStation 2 is a gorgeous 2D masterpiece of an action role-playing game with a big slowdown problem. The high-definition remake, out today for the PlayStation 3, 4 and Vita, does away with the game’s one glaring flaw. Originally published 6/1/2016, updated for release day. I’ve been playing an awful lot of…

Razer Blade 2016 Review: It Keeps Getting Better Every Time We Review It

Eschewing the unpopular and largely non-existent practice of releasing new versions of products that are worse than the previous ones, the latest version of Razer’s wafer-thin gaming laptop is better than the ones that came before it. Good call. I’ve been playing around with Razer’s gaming laptops since the first Blade arrived back in 2012.…

Snacktaku Eats A&W Root Beer And Orange Crush Pop-Tarts

When Kellogg’s and the Dr. Pepper Snapple company announced they would be collaborating on a pair of soda-flavored Pop-Tarts, we here at Snacktaku scoffed. You should have heard the scoffing. It was Olympic-level scoffing. Now, having eaten them, we feel a little bad about it. Before we begin, a couple of items we must address.…

X-Men: Apocalypse‘s Finest Moment Recreated In Fallout 4

Between Days of Future Past and Apocalypse, Evan Peters’ Quicksilver has swiftly established himself as a cornerstone of the X-Men movie universe. YouTuber Ez pays tribute to the speedster by recreating his latest heroic music video in Fallout 4 Mild spoilers for the movie ahead, though really nothing we’ve not seen in the trailers. First…

P.T. spiritual successor Allison Road has been canceled, according to a post on the game’s official Twitter account. Thefan project ended its Kickstarter campaign early last September to partner with Worms developer Team 17. A statement regarding the cancellation is expected in the next few days.

Someone Turned A Burger King Toy Into A Game Boy Color Nano

Back in 2000 Burger King made these cute little plastic Game Boy Color toys with analog games built-in. Now someone’s taken one of those toys, crammed a Raspberry Pi Zero into it and turned it into a working Game Boy Color (and more) emulator. Redditor ChaseLambethhad been working on a similar project for months when…

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