Mike Fahey

Blizzcon 2016 is taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center in California on November 4 and 5. The $199 tickets will be sold in two batches on April 20 and 23. If you get one, you’re made of magic.

Ant-Man Is Not The Star Of LEGO Avengers‘ Ant-Man DLC

Just like the movie, Michael Peña’s Luis completely steals the show in the currently PlayStation exclusive LEGO Marvel’s Avengers Ant-Man downloadable content. Let’s play! Normally I drop the gameplay audio level to barely audible when doing a Kotaku Plays video with commentary, but that went out the window the moment I realized Michael Peña was…

Toy Time Wields UltraSabers’ Renegade Combat Lightsaber

Plastic toy lightsabers are fine if you just want to goof around. Light FX models are great if you want something more ornamental. UltraSabers Renegade Combat Lightsaber is for serious fans who want their own version of Star Wars’ iconic weapon to take into battle. Ever since I saw the first Star Wars movie in…

Shhh, April’s Mythical Pokémon Is Sleeping

Now that we’ve finished celebi-ting the third month of the year-long celebration of 20 years of Pokémon, it’s time to kick back, relax and maybe sleep for a thousand years. Jirachi month is chill, yo. It’s a good year for Pokémon toy collectors, with The Pokémon Company and Tomy teaming up to deliver a different…

Team Ninja’s Samurai Dark Souls Is Getting A Week-Long PS4 Alpha Demo

Spirit sharks and Shiba Inu puppies aside, Team Ninja’s Nioh continues to give off strong Dark Souls vibes, right down to the more polite “Ready To Die?” tagline in the trailer. We’ll see if that vibe holds when the week-long PlayStation 4 alpha demo kicks off later this month. Nioh (or sometimes Ni-oh) has been…

The Force Awakens On Game Consoles

Like the Force, there is a light side and a dark side of purchasing a digital copy of Star Wars: The Force Awakens on your PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. The light side involves the iconic fanfare and a jovial BB-8 rolling across the screen. And the dark side is the PlayStation 4. No fun…

VR Talk Show Is Awkward And Amazing

The first episode of The Foo Show, a virtual reality-based talk show hosted by Tested’s Will Smith, begins with a trio of gawky avatars sitting around discussing the game Firewatch. Then they step inside, and it’s pretty magical. Smith and his guests, Campo Santo’s Jake Rodkin and Sean Vanaman, move jerkily about like old Thunderbird…

A 3D Legend Of Zelda Tribute You Can Play In Your Browser

Or at least while it lasts. A pair going by Scott and Mike are well on their way to creating a playable voxel-based The Legend of Zelda in honor of the game’s 30th anniversary. Hosted at Zelda30Tribute.com (via Nintendo Life), the fan recreation is built entirely in WebGL, mixing 3D voxels with the music, sound…

Snacktaku Eats Honey, Chili And Coffee Peanut M&Ms

This fall M&Ms is adding one of three new peanut flavors to its lineup. Much like the presidential race, they’re asking folks to eat each one and vote for which tastes best. Which one gets my vote? Originally published 4/3/2016 Now I may not know much about how the American political process works, but I…

Never Forget Your Horse Armor

Ten years ago today Bethesda defined bad downloadable content with two dollars and fifty cents’ worth of horse barding. Downloadable content was a relatively new thing back in 2006 whenmy favorite Elder Scrolls game was released, and players and publishers alike were still getting a feel for what worked and what did not work. Then…

The Week In Games: Still A Vive

Why did I Photoshop a PC virtual reality headset on a character on a game that makes absolutely no use of it? Consider it a quantum thing. I almost missed the fact that Quantum Break is coming to PC as well as Xbox One. I’m not used to seeing a major PC release not showing…

It took more than 130 hours of play time, but Twitch streamer Rudeism finally hit level 100 in World of Warcraft using only a dance pad. His final 12 hour session took him from level 95 to 100, after which he sat down and used mouse and keyboard like a normal person.

Widowmaker Aims To Kill In The Second Overwatch Animated Short

Thefirst bit of Pixar-quality Overwatch animation from Blizzard was touching. The second is downright chilling. Everybody’s favorite rear-end model co-stars in Widowmaker’s short story, attempting to stop the deadly assassin from taking out the metal face of the robot/human equality movement. It does not end the way I thought it would. Two down, two to…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ditto

Ditto is a Pokemon that can transform itself into a near-perfect copy of any opponent. With rudimentary image manipulation skill, anyone could be a Ditto. Anyone. Let me share with you all the inspiration behind this week’s ‘Shop Contest, mealypotatoes’ entry from the epic Pokken Vs. UFC battle. The only difference between a Ditto copy…

When Ratchet Met Clank . . . Again

The first meeting between the Lombax mechanic and defective Warbot is much more dramatic in the Ratchet & Clank movie than it was in the game. It had to be, really. As much as I love the PlayStation 2 classic, the coming together of its titular heroes wasn’t exactly a momentous occasion. It’s was pretty…

Sunday Comics: Sexual Virtuality

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 March 31. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published March 28. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Powerpuff Girls Flipped Out Is Two Different Games, Depending How You Look At It

Sugar, spice and an interesting game-shifting device is what Cartoon Network and developer Grumpyface put into Powerpuff Girls Flipped Out, the mobile side of this year’s big relaunch. In landscape mode Flipped Out is a tactical brawler. Players move Bubbles, Buttercup and Blossom about the screen by taping and swiping. They’ll auto-attack whichever monster they…

War Is Beautiful In EVE Online

The largest war in EVE Online history is brewing, and you don’t need to understand what’s going on to appreciate the gorgeous spectacle. The conflict is so exciting that it’s drawn EVE Online YouTuber Rooksandkings back into the fray, crafting a short video that’s one part documentary, one part recruitment propaganda. If I were versed…

I Ditched My Glasses For Virtual Reality

These are my eyes. Normally they are surrounded by thick frames with thicker glass. But now that virtual reality is a thing, I needed room on my face for other things. After nearly three decades I’m switching from eyeglasses to contacts. Note the lingering remnants of telltale red marks on the bridge of my nose.…

Angry Birds Makes For The Least Exciting LEGO Sets Ever

Which is stronger, my unrelenting excitement over new LEGO products, or my apathy towards the upcoming Angry Birds movie? After putting together the cheapest set released on Friday, apathy is triumphant. The Angry Birds Movie hits theaters on May 20, several years after Angry Birds had the sort of popularity that would support such a…