Mike Fahey

The LEGOification Of Overwatch Continues

Yesssss. Bring us more Overwatch LEGO characters, Tim Schwalfenberg. Between your glorious Tracer, last week’s D.Va and Dead Frog Inc.’s Zenyatta, we’re well on our way to collecting the whole set. Our friends over at The Brothers Brickare slowly catching Overwatch fever. It’s too late for Omar, and Jennifer will break soon. Who can blame…

Creators Of Star Wars: Battlefront 3 Fan Remake Say It’s Getting A Steam Release

For years fans of the Star Wars: Battlefront series have been bemoaningthe loss of the rumored canceled third installment of the game. Mod team turned full-fledged developerFrontwire Studios is creating their own version of the game, and they say Valve is prepared to distribute it for free on Steam. Galaxy in Turmoil began as a…

Virtual Reality Arachnophobia Therapy Is A Definite Nope

Virtual reality experience Arachnophobia is an application aimed at helping people overcome “irrational fears” of extremely venomous and aggressive spiders. After playing for five minutes, I’ve decided to hang on to my fear a bit longer. I am not fond of spiders. As I’ve explained previously, this is partly because spiders are the bite-sized living…

Skylanders Imaginators Proves It Can Do Plunder Fist

Earlier this week Activision introduced Skylanders Imaginators, a game where players can make any character they wish, with a child’s drawing of a character named Plunder Fist. Some commenters were concerned that they did not include an in-game image of Plunder Fist, so I asked them to make one. It really was kind of a…

AMD’s New Radeon RX 480 Is VR-Ready For $200

The price of entry to PC-based virtual reality just got a lot lower. The first graphics card based on AMD’s Polaris architecture arrives at the end of June, promising VR performance of a $500 GPU for less than half the price. Where Nvidia aimed high with its first two next-generation graphics cards, the GTX 1070…

Toy Time Plays With Victorion, Transformers’ First Female Combiner

Last year Transformers fans from around the world voted the first all-female combiner team into existence. Now Toy Time finally gets the chance to combine six robots into on giant robot woman. Rust Renegades, combine to form Victorion! My enthusiasm for the Combiner Wars Transformers line has waned a bit since I started covering it…

Skylanders Imaginators Lets Players Bring Custom Characters To Life

Fans of Activision’s toys-to-life franchise have been dreaming up their own Skylands champions since the first game arrived back in 2011. This year’s Imaginators finally harnesses that creativity, giving players the ability to piece together the Skylander of their dreams. The first thing Activision’s Lou “Zoo Lou” Studdard showed me during a meeting earlier this…

Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 Review: The New Sweet Spot

The Geforce GTX 1080 tops the performance of the $1,000 Titan X card for $700. The Geforce GTX 1070 basically matches it for under $400. That’s just nuts. Easily living up to the label of themost powerful graphics card yet, the Pascal powered Geforce GTX 1080 has been getting the lion’s share of attention since…

Pokémon‘s 20th Anniversary Continues With A Mythical Month Of Manaphy

Now that Darkrai’s had its May, it’s time for something a little cheerier. June’s mythical Pokémon is the ridiculously adorable Manaphy. The Pokémon Company and Tomy are showcasing a different mythical Pokémoneach month in 2016 in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the beloved video game franchise. Pikachu kicked things off in January, followed by…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Tetris The Movie: The Winners

There is no way in hell the official Tetris movie will surpass the greatness of the mock-ups out readers put together in our second most-recent Photoshop contest. First off I’d like to thank occasional ‘Shop Contest winner Ben “GiantBoyDetective” Bertoli for slipping in a quick contest while I was off over the long weekend, even…

Just Cause 3‘s Mech Land Assault DLC arrives June 3 for season pass owners, June 10 for folks that would rather pay piecemeal. The barrage of videos depicting gravity gun-based carnage will follow immediately after.

A Compelling Argument For Official Overwatch LEGO Sets

I’m not playing much Overwatch, but I am fascinated by the characters and setting enough to drop cash on some toys, especially if they’re as cool as LEGO builder Taylor’s version of D.Va. Not all of Overwatch’s characters are as large and in-charge as D.Va, but that’s fine. Taylor’s version of the dynamic duo (via…

The New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game Is Best Played With Other People

Yesterday I played through Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan’s story mode by myself. Today I went online and played the game the right way. It makes complete sense. The TMNT franchise has always been about four brothers working together. In the movies Raphael was always getting angry and running off to do his…

Hyper Light Drifter’s Retro Collector’s Edition Is So Hot

Most digital download only games don’t get a fancy collector’s edition release. Hyper Light Drifter is not most download only games, and its collectors edition, up for presale tomorrow from iam8bit, is very fancy indeed. I used to be all about collector’s editions, but then my house collapsed under a load of useless plastic crap…

What Game Could Possibly Make A Kid This Sad?

Look at this little boy’s face. He is the saddest little gamer who ever gamed. What sort of video game does this to a child? Over the course I trying to find a way for my children to entertain themselves this summer that doesn’t involve iPads or leaving the freezer open all night, I performed…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Tetris The Movie

After years of near-misses, classic puzzle game Tetris is threatening to become a movie. Maybe if we show them how badly Tetris works with existing movies they will stop. Update 5/25: Thanks to the long weekend and a trip to Momcon in Atlanta for the contest judge, entries are open until Tuesday, May 31. Good…

The New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game Feels A Lot Like Transformers: Devastation 

There’s a lot of Transformers: Devastation lingering in Platinum Games’ latest cartoon-based beat-em up, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan. Watch us play through the game’s first mission and see for yourself. We’ve got the same cel-shaded art style that first popped up in Platinum’s poorly-received Legend of Korra game. A small number of…

Dead Or Alive‘s Gust Costumes Are Almost Good Enough To Buy

Koei Tecmo has teamed up with one of my favorite Japanese RPG developers to create a set of Dead or Alive 5: Last Round costumes based on the delightful costume designs from the Atelier series and other Gust games. I’d almost pay $32 for them. Almost. Kasumi and friends decked out in outfits from the…

LEGO Marvel’s Avengers adds a complimentary six-pack of spiders today. Now that Peter Parker is established in the Marvel cinematic universe, he gets to be in the game based on it. The Spider-Man Character Pack is available for free starting today across all versions of the game.

Skylanders Enters The Trading Card Game

While the competition bows out of the toys-to-life genre, Skylanders is finding new things for fans to buy. Today’s worldwide launch of Skylanders Battlecast adds physical trading cards to the mix. Finally folks have something to do with those Battlecast cards Activision bundled in Skylanders Superchargers last fall. Available today on iTunes, Google Play and…