Mike Fahey

Toy Time Plays With LEGO’s Take On A Gaming Classic

Back when I was a kid growing up in the outskirts of Philadelphia it seemed as if every house on the block had a copy of the classic wooden Labyrinth marble maze game. Now that I’m technically an adult I’ve got one of my own, only much cooler. You know the wooden marble maze games.…

Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 Review: Time For An Upgrade

After months of speculation and anticipation, Nvidia’s latest piece of hardware you put in your computer to make things look pretty is here. The GeForce GTX 1080 is much better than the pieces of hardware you put in your computer to make things look pretty that came before it. Which is great, because introducing a…

The Week In Games: Things Other Than Overwatch

No one concerned about Overwatch needs a reminder that Overwatch goes live Monday at 7 PM Eastern time. You may be pleasantly surprised, however, to know that the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game and Total Warhammer launch this week as well. After the relatively amazing Transformers: Devastation I’m looking quite forward to getting my…

Soldier: 76 Plays Hero In The Final Animated Overwatch Short Of The Season

With the game’s launch just a day away, Blizzard has released the fourth and final animated Overwatch short of the season, giving the vigilante known as Soldier: 76 a chance to atone for past transgressions The oldest Overwatch characterby far, Soldier: 76’s driving skills might be a little rusty, but his shooting is totally on…

As promised, Square Enix RPG Romancing Saga 2 arrives on iOS and Android this week. Never released outside of Japan, the remastered version of the Super Famicom classic will be available on May 26 for $17,99.

This Is More Like It, Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live’s take on Dead Poets Society is an instant classic.

Oculus Kills App That Let Vive Owners Play Rift Exclusives

Last month we reported on Revive, a proof-of-concept compatibility layer that allowed games exclusive to the Oculus Rift to be played using the HTC Vive headset. This week’s Oculus app update took steps to ensure that trick doesn’t work anymore. Revive basically bypassed code checks that tethered games like the delightful Lucky’s Tale to the…

Sunday Comics: The Hell Energy

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 May 20. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 16. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Kotaku Shop Contest: Kojima’s Body: The Winners

The helmeted skull logo of Kojima Productions may have an official body now, but the unofficial ones created by our readers for last week’s ‘Shop Contest are much, much cooler. The official look revealed by Hideo Kojima earlier this week is nice and all, if you’re into the puffy, Doctor Who Silence in the Library…

7-Year-Old Gaming Vid Briefly Pulled From YouTube Because Of Family Guy 

Last Sunday’s episode of Family Guy used an old YouTube clip of NES classic Double Dribble to simulate two characters playing the game. Shortly after the episode aired the original video was taken down by Fox on copyright grounds, because YouTube is stupid. Basically what happened, as documented by the folks over at TorrentFreak, was…

Melody’s Escape Turns Music Into A Platforming Adventure

This is what Flo Rida’s “Wild Ones” looks like when run through the advanced audio detection algorithms of Loïc Dansart’s Melody’s Escape I’ve been in love with music visualization since the early days of Winamp, and the only thing I enjoy more than watching the beats and melodies of my favorite tunes is playing them.…

Red Faction Started Blowing The Hell Out Of Everything 15 Years Ago Today

On May 21, 2001, developer Volition and publisher THQ took gamers to Mars and let them blow the living hell out of everything that moved and most things that didn’t. Red Faction is a game about a miner revolt on Mars in the year 2075. Earth’s resources have been depleted and a vile corporation has…

Five Nights At Freddy’s Follow-Up Goes Full-On Scary Clown

If you’re looking to give a bunch of kids nightmares, how do you escalate beyond terrifying animatronic animals? Five Nights At Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon’s first trailer for Sister Location takes us to clown town. No doubt Five Nights fans are busy tearing this latest trailer apart, searching for clues as to what’s going to…

Resident Evil 5 Now Playable On The Nvidia Shield

Joining the ranks of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Resident Evil 5 is the latest big-name game to land on Nvidia’s plucky Android console. How does the seven-year-old game run on the Tegra X1? Let’s take a look. Pointing out this is a seven-year-old game is important, as I have not played…

New League Of Legends Feature Puts A Stop To Awful 4 Versus 5 Games

Attempting to put a stop to unfortunately unbalanced matches of teams of five versus teams of four and a disconnected person, Riot is adding a new command to League of Legends that will allow the short-staffed team a chance to bow out gracefully. There’s no feeling quite like finding your team outnumbered in any MOBA…

Never Eating Corn Again

Maize is an upcoming adventure game from Finish Line Games that begins when government scientists misinterpret a memo and create sentient corn, a vegetable I am never eating again thanks to the first teaser trailer. I’m all for the cartoonish personification of corn as seen in Plants Vs. Zombies, but Maize isn’t going for cartoonish.…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Kojima’s Body [Update]

Earlier this week Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima revealed that the skull and helmet logo of Kojima Productions has a body to go with it. We’ll have to wait to see it officially, but unofficially . . . Update: Do not be swayed by thenewly-revealed official body. Update 5/18/2016: Now there’s an official body, but…

Heroes Of The Storm Finally Gets A Gnome, Sort Of

How can a game that celebrates the greatest characters across all Blizzard properties have three dwarves and not one gnome? It can’t, so Heroes of the Storm now has a gnome, though technically she’s a dragon. It’s complicated. Chromie is now available in Blizzard’s MOBA, bringing the measured adorability of the gnome race to the…

Battleborn: The Kotaku Review

If someone had told me at the beginning of the year that I’d be reviewing Battleborn in May, I would have asked them “Which one is Battleborn again?” Now that I’ve spent a couple dozen hours in Gearbox Software’s latest I think I’ve figured it out. It’s not Battleborn’s fault, really. Announced in July of…

Retail Game Kiosks Were Better Back In The Intellivision Days

This is one of the coolest things you could see at a K-Mart back in the late ‘70s. The kiosk, not vintage video game collector Jason Brassard, who shows off the beige beauty in Trade-in-Games’ video. He’s pretty cool too. Mattel’s Intellivsion was on the losing side of the first console war, but you couldn’t…