Mike Fahey

Quantum Break‘s Microsoft Product Placement Is Killing Me

Recently released for Xbox One and Windows PC, Quantum Break combines a video game and a live-action television series to create an entirely new way to advertise Microsoft Surface Tablets and Windows Phones. Intrigued by Totilo’s reviewand finding myself with some spare time and the PC version of Remedy Entertainment’s mixed media adventure, I started…

Smite Caster Resigns Following Insensitive Suicide Comments 

Pro Smite streamer and commentator Brandon “DM Brandon” Nance is resigning from his position with developer Hi-Rez Studios after reacting to a viewer’s donation message with a acerbic rant about suicide and depression. Brandon Nance has been a tournament caster for Hi-Rez Studios since March of 2013, regularly streaming the game via Twitch. He’s built…

Puzzle Game About Cooking Sausages Is Way Harder Than It Looks

During my first 30 minutes with Stephen “Increpare” Lavelle’s latest puzzle game, Stephen’s Sausage Roll, I felt like a complete idiot. Ten minutes later I felt like one of the smartest people on the planet. I am neither of those things (I hope), but that’s the ride Stephen’s Sausage Roll has been taking me on…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Lighten Up, Dark Souls

I know that fans of From Software’s brutal action role-playing games love their darkness, but with the third game hitting shelves last week I am getting sick and tired of dreary screenshots. Let’s brighten ‘em up a bit, shall we? Update Tuesday 4/19: Four days left! Let’s make it light and fluffy, people! In this…

How To Collect Every Ending In Stories: The Path Of Destinies

With 24 different alternate endings based on four major decisions made during each play through, collecting all of the conclusions to Stories: The Path of Destinies is a daunting task. Here’s a spoiler-free guide on filling up the game’s ending board. As I mentioned over the weekend, I’ve been obsessing over gathering each of Stories’…

Snacktaku Drinks Pepsi’s Time-Jumping 1893 Cola Flavors

In a last-ditch effort to turn the tide of the decade-spanning cola wars, Pepsi travels back in time 123 years to recover a pair of flavors fancy enough to secure a space in the premium section of the convenience store cooler. Hitting store shelves across the nation this month, 1893 is a pair of Pepsi…

Razer’s First Capture Box Is Excellent, But Nothing New

When my review unit of Razer’s newly-launched Ripsaw game capture box arrived I eagerly unboxed it, set it atop the AverMedia Live Gamer Extreme I’d been using since last summer, and swapped the cords from the old one into the exact same ports in the new one. Hmm. That was sort of odd, not having…

Mario And Sonic At The Fast Food Drive-In

Not nearly as healthy as Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games but slightly more edible, Nintendo has teamed up with exactly the right American fast food restaurant to distribute Mario & Luigi Paper Jam toys. There are several Sonic Drive-In restaurants near my home. Every time I pass one and catch a glimpse of…

The Week In Games: Do An Aileron Roll!

I was going to say that this was a rather quiet week in terms of big-name games, but then I got to Friday, and got excited in aeronautically accurate fashion. It’s not every decade you get a new Star Fox game. I would have added “let alone two” to that last bit, but you’re not…

The Band Game Crash Saved Us From A Guitar Hero MMO

After the release of some 20 games and spin-offs between 2005 and 2010 made everybody completely sick of games with “Hero” at the end, Activisionkilled the series in 2011. Game historianLiam Robertson gives us a look at the massively multiplayer online Hero World that died with it. According to Roberton’s Unseen 64 video (via Gamasutra),…

Watching an estimated 70-hour Animal Crossing 100 percent “speedrun” is hard. I keep popping into rolfkon’s stream to try and follow his attempt, but then start getting sympathetic feelings of drowsiness. Even too sleepy to ask why it says “cum” in the bottom left.

Watch A Three-Hour Supercut Of Every Mortal Kombat Fatality Ever

Youtube’s Deathmule squeezes just a little under three hours of brutal murder from Mortal Kombat’s 24 year history, from 1992’s arcade debut to the latest update to Mortal Kombat X. Does that include Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero? Yes it does. What about the relatively tame fatalities from Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe? They’re in there…

Kubros Pop Culture Construction Figures Are Fun Until The Parts Run Out

A construction toy take on the vinyl pop culture figure craze, Mega Bloks new Kubros sets are great, unless your kit is missing bricks. I got my first look at Mega Bloks’ Kubros during the Mattel party at Toy Fair 2016, and I couldn’t wait to get my oversized paws on them. Like the popular…

Collecting All The Stories: The Path Of Destinies Endings Is An Obsession

I’ve played through Stories: The Path of Destinies a dozen times over the past few days, and I won’t stop until I’ve explored every narrative branch of this choose your own action-adventure. The power of choice compels me. Evan covered the basics in his review of Spearhead Games’ colorful action role-playing game. My plan was…

Sunday Comics: By The Balls Of Jor-El

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 April 13. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 11. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

The Perfect Way To Play Original PlayStation Games

You can keep your crisp clear emulators or your PlayStation 2 backward compatibility. The best way to enjoy original PlayStation classics is with the tiny PSone and Sony’s plucky little LCD attachment. I was cleaning one of my cable drawers the other day, pulling out the massive tangle of wires and sighing sadly before stuffing…

It Took 20 Pounds Of LEGO To Make Doom‘s BFG 9000

The gloriously-namedZaziNombies YouTube channel creates LEGO versions of video game weapons, among other things. Somehow they’ve gone five years without building Doom’s famous BFG 9000. Maybe it just took them a while to gather the 5,000+ bricks. With the multiplayer beta for the latest Doom in full swing, ZaziNombies (almost as fun to type as…

New Official Transformers Album Gathers Music From The Strangest Places

On Thursday Hasbro and Sony released Transformers Roll Out, an album featuring transforming robot inspired tracks from ten very different artists, including Danish alt rock band Mew and Gavin Rossdale’s Bush. Let’s give it a listen! While it will never supplant the soundtrack to 1986’s Transformers: The Movie as the official album of fandom’s collective…

Sailor Moon And The Curse Of The Candy Crush Saga

Released this week for iOS and Android, Sailor Moon Drops is everything you every wanted in a Sailor Moon game, as long as everything you wanted was a Candy Crush Saga clone. Sailor Moon holds a special place in my heart, having been one of the things my wife and I bonded over when we…

The Village Is The Biggest Official LEGO Minecraft Set Going

Coming June 1, the LEGO Minecraft Village is a $199 box containing 1,600 pieces used to create something an 11-year-old could create on their computer in an hour. Plus it comes with an enderman, which is somehow scarier in LEGO form. Look at this beautiful box filled with fabulous prizes. It’s the sort of box…