Mike Fahey

There’s Already An Excellent VR Rhythm Game

Riding imaginary roller coasters and losing one’s self in immersive 360 degree environments is all well and good, but for me to truly appreciate virtual reality I needed an experience that spoke to my gaming tastes. Vive rhythm game Audioshield did the trick. I love rhythm games, and I hold a particular fondness for games…

Yo-Kai Watch 2 Comes Stateside September 30

Pulling a Pokemon for the second installment of Level-5’s kid-friendly ghost-hunting series, Yo-Kai Watch 2: Fleshy Souls and Yo-Kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits come to the U.S. 3DS this fall, along with a ton of corresponding merchandise. Already a massive hit in Japan (where they’re currently ramping up for Yo-Kai Watch 3‘s July release), Yo-Kai…

Uncharted 4‘s Stunning Photo Mode Art

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is a beautiful game on its own. Add an extensive Photo Mode and a creative player base and it becomes an art engine, generating an endless array of eye candy. Here are some of our favorites. With plenty of filters, tools and even the avility to remove characters from scenes…

The Week In Games: Make America Free Again

Is it time to liberate the country from foreign invaders already? Man, 2016 is going by so fast I completely forgot Homefront: The Revolution was a thing. It’s totally a thing, you guys. A thing that I for some reason know absolutely nothing about. Apparently the city of Philadelphia, four years into occupation, has become…

Toy Time Plays With He-Men, The Most Powerful Men In The Universe

If you’re a He-Man fan that likes to keep their MattyCollector.com figures pristine in their packaging then look away. It’s about to get really sad up in here. Originally published 5/12/16 MattyCollector is a special place where Mattel can supply fans of classic properties that might not have the mass market appeal they once did…

Bejeweled Is So Over Candy Crush Saga‘s Bullshit

The official description for Bejeweled Stars does not read “You like Candy Crush Saga? Fine. Here’s your damn Candy Crush Saga,” but it really should. PopCap’s Bejeweled wasn’t the first match-three puzzler, but it was the game that put the sub-genre on the map. The wonderfully simple, wildly addictive gem-matching game grew so popular there…

Sunday Comics: Still Unsquished

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 13. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 9. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

The Official World Of Warcraft Cookbook Calls For Hungry Players, Canned Haggis

Coming this October from the author of the official Game of Thrones cookbook, World of Warcraft: The Official Cookbook will have you searching “where can I buy canned haggis” in Google more often than you already do. The fine folks at Simon & Schuster (via Destructoid) are bringing Chelsea Monroe-Cassel’s interpretation of classic Azerothian food…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Civil Skirmish: The Winners!

“Pick a side, and then make it better than the other side.”Those were the instructions I gave in our Civil War-themed Photoshop contest. These are the results. Originally published 5/11/16 Earlier this week I mentioned postponing these results to the weekend due to sickness, but I made it back in time to run them on…

Let’s Check The Battlefield 1 Trailer For Historical Accuracy

With the recently-announced Battlefield 1 sparking renewed interest in its WWI setting, historians are poring over the launch trailer to see how closely it sticks the details. The Great War’s Indy Neidell takes us through the good, the bad and the okay then. I attempted to go through the trailer myself and look for any…

Greg Ellis (Jonny Rees), voice actor for Dragon Age’s Cullen and many others, went missing from his North Hollywood home on May 11. Information surrounding his disappearance and contact info for the LAPD missing persons unit can be found at the Bioware forums. Update 5/15 4 AM: Ellis’ friend Jeff Rosenthal reports the actor has…

That’s Just Cold, Walmart

Days after the end of Disney Infinity was announced, my local Walmart’s once overflowing shelves were stripped bare. While the three or four ragtag Thors still lingered in the electronic section’s neglected clearance aisle (set it and forget it!) and a few figures lingered in the toy section where they were never supposed to be,…

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Now With Hard Bits

The internet is abuzz with the news that, come July, Reese’s is putting out Peanut Butter Cups with tiny Reese’s Pieces inside. Corn-looking yellow candy piece aside, this doesn’t seem like that great of an idea. After a week of teasing imagery much more compelling than the end product, Reese’s has revealed its latest Peanut…

Disney Infinity Died Just As It Was Getting Good

Disney Infinity was an excellent showcase for company’s vast stable of beloved characters, from Pixar to Marvel Comics to Star Wars, as well as an excellent creative outlet for kids of all ages. The one thing the series never got right was gameplay, and with yesterday’s cancellation it never will. The toys-to-life genre is a…

The First Leg Of Our LEGO Dimensions Journey Is Complete

With yesterday’s release of the three figures comprising the fifth and final wave of announced toys our first trip around the LEGO Dimensions is complete. Let’s take a look at the massive cross-property army and what it cost to assemble them. LEGO Dimensions has had a great first year in the toys-to-life category, delivering signature…

Battleborn‘s Toughest Mission Is The Game At Its Best And Worst

Battleborn has eight story missions available to play either alone or with a group online. I have completed six. The Saboteur is the seventh, and I’m having a hell of a time with it. I am not alone. This piece originally appeared 5/7/16. Many of the story missions in Battleborn require players defend a point…

The results post for last week’s Kotaku ‘Shop Contest has been pushed to next weekend, while I deal with a very high fever and other fun medical things. Sorry for the inconvenience!

The Week In Games: Stellaris And Antibiotics

After spending the weekend battling the most horrific strep-induced fever I’ve experienced in ages, there’s nothing I’d love more than to settle in with some deep space strategy. Doom would have been the logical choice to top this week’s TWIG, but right now the thought of running about in first-person watching people explode makes me…

Sunday Comics: Might As Well Let It Kill Me

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 6. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 2. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Sony Has Come A Long Way In 70 Years

On May 7, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications Laboratory), a company dedicated to reconstructing and elevating post-war Japan’s culture through technological advancement. In 1958 the company changed its name to Sony. With a staff of 20, little cash, little scientific equipment and scarce supplies, the company that would…