Mike Fahey

Blade & Soul’s First Expansion Arrives Just Two Months After Launch

It’s really hard to find a stopping point to review Blade & Soul when new content keeps coming out. Today Ncsoft announced the first expansion pack for its massively multiplayer martial arts role-playing game is launching in two days. Sheesh. I guess with Blade & Soul having been active in Asia since 2012 means Ncsoft…

Syfy’s Face Off Does World Of Warcraft This Week

On Wednesday’s episode of Face Off a group of special effect artists attempt to do something World of Warcraft cosplayers have been nailing for over a decade. To be fair, cosplayers have plenty of time how to work out things like troll skin tones and hair styles, while the challengers on Syfy’s competitive effects makeup…

The grand finals of the 2016 Halo World Championship between teams CLG and Allegiance kick off at 7 PM Eastern. One team will win $1 million. The other team only wins $500,000. The tension should be mildly palpable. Watch it live over on Twitch.

The Week In Games: Further Fallout 

Just when I thought I was completely done with Fallout 4, along comerobot battles to drag me right back in. Lots of cool smaller games coming out this week, perfect for filling the gaps between whatever sort of mechanical hijinks we’ll be getting into in the Automatron DLC for Fallout 4. Monday, March 21 Hyperdimension…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Bring Back The Beard

I promised myself I would never give our readers my picture to play around with, but the reaction to my recent beard loss was too much to ignore. The facial hair is gone but you can rebuild it. Make it strong. Faster. You have the technology. I’ve been a beard man for several decades, having…

Xbox Survey Wonders If You’d Trade In Your Digital Games For Store Credit

Refunds notwithstanding, digital video game purchases are normally a one-way street, but what if they weren’t? A question from a recent Xbox survey asks gamers if they’d part with their digital acquisitions for 10 percent store credit. The image belowpopped up on Reddit yesterday, and the hypothetical it presents is interesting. Trading in a $60…

The Canceled Superman Game That Killed A Beloved Game Studio

In 2008, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron developer Factor 5 teamed with up-and-coming publisher Brash Entertainment to create an ambitious open-world game based on DC Comics’ Man of Steel. By May of 2009 Factor 5 was no more. Thanks, Superman. In the latest video from the folks atDidYouKnowGaming, Unseen64 video game historian Liam Robertson explores development…

Happy 10th Birthday To My Favorite Elder Scrolls Game 

“These are the closing days of the third era, and the final hours of my life.” So spoke Sir Patrick Stewart as King Uriel Septim VII in the opening moments of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, foretelling the end of his adventure and the beginning of a million others. That powerful opening monologue, with its…

Sunday Comics: Another Planet Doomed

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 18. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published March 14. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Darth Vader In Fallout 4 Is More Powerful Than You Could Possibly Imagine

Apologies to Obi-Wan Kenobi, who famously uttered the phrase in the first Star Wars film, but becoming a translucent blue bit of heroic motivation has nothing on what Vader does to the rebel forces in this modded Fallout battle. Not content to simply recreate everyone’s favorite little podracer in Fallout 4, YouTube’s Cosmic Contrarian staged…

Is anyone else hearing the Final Fantasy victory tune in this trailer for Disney Crossy Road, which is a real thing that’s happening? Just checking.

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Pokken In The UFC: The Winners! 

And so a last-minute idea results in one of the best Kotaku ‘Shop Contests ever, with so many excellent entries there was no way I could pick one for the top. So I picked three. Is it a cop-out? Yes, yes it is. But it’s really the fault of our Photoshop-savvy readers, so blame them.…

Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice will be out for the 3DS on September 27. The release date was revealed at the SXSW 25th Anniversary Sonic the Hedgehog panel along with a special Sonic Live event in San Diego on July 22, where it’s likely a new game will be announced.

LEGO Dimensions‘ Final Adventure World Is An Arcade Wonderland

LEGO Dimensions is a glorious mashup of entertainment properties, from cartoons to comic books to movies. The final free-roaming Adventure World for the game is an equally glorious mashup of classic arcade games. This past Tuesday saw the release of the next-to-last wave of LEGO Dimensions toys. We got Fun Packs (one character, one accessory)…

Marvel Heroes Is A Great Place To Work Out Your Post-Daredevil Season Two Frustrations

Season two of Netflix’s Daredevil is here, and oh now it’s gone. Those 13 episodes went fast. If you need a little more Matt Murdock in your life, free-to-play action MMO Marvel Heroes is giving out free Murdock all weekend long. Gazillion’s Diablo-meets-Marvel Comics joint has been one of my favorite download, play, delete, repeat…

Pokken Tournament: The Kotaku Review

If you’ve ever wished your Pokemon battles could be more exciting than a pair of Pokemon taking turns making battle animations at each other, Pokken Tournament is your game. This post originally appeared 3/15/16. Basic Pokemon battles haven’t evolved much over the past two decades. The combatants have gotten prettier, the attack animations more elaborate,…

Razer’s Notebook-Boosting Graphics Card Box Arrives In April

Revealeda couple months back at CES 2016, Razer’s Core is a plug and play way to add an external graphics card to the company’s line of skinny notebooks. Now it has a $499 price tag, and April release date and both major GPU makers’ blessing. Similar to products like Alienware’s Graphics Amplifier, the Core houses…

Adult Swim Has Issues

Seriously, what the hell Adult Swim? What. The. Hell?

Hot Toys’ New Ant-Man Figure Comes With A Giant Hawkeye

Though it seems as if Hot Toys is straying a bit from their normally excellent attention to detail and articulation with the Captain America: Civil War Ant-Man figure, they’re really stepped in up in terms of accessories. I guess when you’re working at such a tiny scale some compromises have to be made. Then again,…

Disney Infinity’s Marvel Battlegrounds Set Changes The Game Entirely

Where previous Disney Infinity expansions have worked within the rules and tools of the core game, the new Marvel Battlegrounds set breaks those rules, creating a Power Stone-esque competitive brawler that’s almost worthy of a standalone release. Instead of working with the movesets the Disney Infinity team’s established for its Marvel Comics characters over the…