Mike Fahey

‘Trump Has Successfully Eliminated All Life On Earth’

According to a tweet from developer Ndemic Creations (via Reddit), Trump is currently one of the most popular names for players to give their humanity-ending pathogen in the strategy game Plague Inc. Another win! Plague, Inc. is a game in which players create a deadly pathogen and attempt to encourage its spread across the globe,…

Killer Instinct season three launches March 29, bringing Killer Instinct 2‘s immortal barbarian into the updated fray. You can see the new Tusk in action over on the Killer Instinct Youtube channel.

Black Desert Lays Out Horrible Pre-Launch Problems In Convenient ‘Shitstorm Matrix’

Still in head start access until tomorrow, Black Desert Online’s North American launch has already encountered enough serious issues to fill a chart. The devs are calling it the “Shitstorm Matrix.” I appreciate giving a list of serious problems a less than serious name, but it doesn’t lessen the impact of the problems players have…

Blade & Soul Finally Gets Some Damn Warlocks

Finally something to do with the Warlock-only equipment that’s been dropping since NCsoft’s martial arts MMO launched in North America back in January. Fans knew the Warlock, a ranged spellcaster released further down the line in the earlier Asian versions of Blade & Soul, wouldn’t be making it into the game in time for launch.…

Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2: The Kotaku Review

Remember the early days of online multiplayer shooters, when most players were too busy having fun to worry about things like stats or other players’ performance or who your mother may or may not have slept with? Garden Warfare 2 remembers. In 2014 EA and Popcap games made a competitive online shooter for consoles and…

Canceled Sci-Fi TV Show Continues Today In Video Game Form

Fans of SyFy’s Defiance were disappointed when the show was canceled late last year after three seasons of Earth-based alien conflict. But the TV show was only half of the battle. In the video game half of Defiance, season four just went live. Three years ago SyFy and game developer Trion Worlds launched Defiance, a…

No Big Disney Infinity Release This Year But Plenty Of New Stuff

Rather than release a fourth core game in as many years, the Disney Infinity team is focusing on expanding version 3.0 in 2016, with fresh content coming from all corners of the Disney universe including Star Wars, Marvel, Zootopia and The Jungle Book The new approach, detailed today in a Disney Infinity Next online presentation,…

We Have Entered The Black Desert

The official North American launch for the Korean PC MMORPG with the magical character creator of magic and creation is two days away, but we’ve got a little head start in Black Desert Online. Honestly I’ve no real idea what to expect in the game, which apparently goes beyond sculpting your character to perfection. There’s…

Would You Like The Stench Of Fry Grease With Your VR?

Nightmare children of the future, courtesy of McDonald’s Happy Goggles, a Happy Meal box that transforms into a cardboard VR headset for your phone. Currently being tested in Sweden, where everything folds into something else.

The Mechanics Behind Satisfying 2D Jumping

The simple act of jumping can make or break a 2D platformer. In the first episode of Mechanically Speaking, Game Array explores how developers balance responsiveness and fairness to the player to make these movements magical. It’s much more than simply having the on screen character go up and come down. That worked for the…

Meet The Latest Big-Headed Pokémon Figure And His Powerful Friend

Back in December 2014 I took a look at the first melding of two of my favorite toy properties, Pokemon and Good Smile Company’s big-headed Nendoroid line. Today we get to play with the latest addition to the line, the N Nendoroid, which is not easy to say at all. The misguided but well-meaning leader…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: An Unfortunate Acronym

They probably should have gone with “Bright Sun” and “Dark Moon” or something to that effect for the next two Pokemon games, but they didn’t. Pokemon S&M it is. All we need now is a Pokemon wearing a gimp mask and . . . ah yes, Banette. Close enough. Let’s do this. Those of you…

The Week In Games: Twilight Sparkle

In case you weren’t excited enough about The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess the first time around, now’s your chance to make up for lost enthusiasm. I’m plenty excited here, as the Wii version of the game didn’t do much for me other than make me regret the decision to trade in my Gamecube towards…

Over 50,000 People Are Watching Pokemon Movies On Twitch Together Right Now, And It’s Wonderful

Forget watching people play games. Between Bob Ross and this weekend’s Pokemon marathon, Twitch is quickly becoming the premiere destination for communal event programming. Come watch!

Look Away, Dark Souls Fans. Just Look Away. 

GameStop and Bandai Namco would really like you to preorder Dark Souls III. They made a mobile game about it called Slashy Souls. Want to play it? I wouldn’t bother. Despite the gif above being pulled from Polygon’s direct feed video of Slashy Souls in action, I did bother to download the free GameStop published…

Disgaea PC Isn’t So Bad Once You Work Through All The Broken Bits

One of my favorite PlayStation 2 games of all time arrived on PC last week, and the transition was far from painless. Still, nothing a few settings tweaks, opting out of Steam betas and possibly buying a game pad can’t fix. Beneath several bugs and bad style choices the game that launched Nippon Ichi’s successful…

Sunday Comics: A Tawdry History

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 February 27. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published February 21. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Cheer Up, Baby Batman: Winners! 

Last week wetasked our Photoshop-savvy readers with cheering up an incredibly sad Damian Wayne. Most were not good at cheering up a baby superhero, but they failed in such entertaining ways it hardly mattered. The idea was that we’d place Bruce Wayne’s son, despondent over the fact that his father no longer remembers him, in…

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Being A Bear Is Much More Complicated Than We Thought

Eat, sleep, kill the odd adventurer, repeat—that was my notion of what bear life was like before playing Bear Simulator. Now I know the truth: there’s also bunny killing and wearing ball caps. Two years ago developer John Farjayasked Kickstarter backers for $29,500 to make a first-person bear simulation game. He wound out with over…