Mike Fahey

Warcraft Movie Actor Tells Conan O’Brien How World Of Warcraft Saved His Life

Orgrim Doomhammer actor Robert Kazinsky was on Conan O’Brien earlier this week, where he told the story of how World of Warcraft made him fat, lazy and happier than he’s ever been. Following a three-year stint playing a tough guy character on Britain’s long-running soap EastEnders, the charming Kazinsky found himself in a bad place.…

Blade & Soul MMO Log One: I Know Kung Fu

Technically I know advanced assassination techniques, but it’s all a sort of Kung Fu as far as NCsoft’s latest Korean import is concerned. Check out my impressions after one week of that sort of fighting—you know, the one everyone is doing. As with any massively multiplayer online role-playing game, we like to put between two…

LEGO Marvel’s Avengers: The Kotaku Review

As a movie-based LEGO game, LEGO Marvel’s Avengers doesn’t go far off script. As a Marvel Comics fan service vehicle it’s absolutely nuts. If you’re new to licensed LEGO action-adventure games both movie-based and otherwise, then congratulations—you’ve somehow managed not to play any of the 17 games released prior to LEGO Marvel’s Avengers. These include:…

Def Leppard’s latest music video makes its debut in Guitar Hero Live, because there just aren’t many places to debut a music video anymore. “Dangerous” joins “Let’s Go” and “Rock of Ages” as part of the “Def Leppard: Through The Ages” premium show.

The New LEGO Marvel Game Does Ridiculous Things To The Avengers

The first LEGO game based on Marvel’s cinematic universe is here, and wait until you see the wonderful ways the folks at TT Games have twisted the first Avengers film for comedic effect. LEGO Marvel Superheroes is an excellent game, but it’s an original game. That means the developers got to develop their own story,…

Samurai Vader And Ronin Boba Fett Realize Star Wars’ Japanese Influence Beautifully

Would the original Star Wars trilogy have been better if George Lucas had steered closer to its samurai movie inspiration? It certainly would have looked cooler, as demonstrated by Bandai’s Tamashii Nations Meisho Movie Realization Boba Fett and Darth Vader figures. We’ve been drooling over the sculpture work of Japan’s Takayuki Takeya for ages. He’s…

If you understand this reference, you should probably play LEGO Marvel’s Avengers. I’m currently battling the urge to collect all the bits while playing through the game for review, but in terms of pure Marvel cinematic universe fan service it’s a magical place.

Acer Predator 17 Gaming Laptop: The Kotaku Review

The 17-inch Predator gaming laptop is one of several new black-and-red gaming-focused products aimed at getting gamers to utter the words “Acer” and “badass” in the same breath. Let’s see if that trick works. Acer is not a brand I normally associate with gaming, which is strange considering I’ve been staring at an Acer monitor…

The Week In Games: Avengers Assembled

Looks like my week is going to be spent with LEGO Avengers in one hand, Final Fantasy Explorers in the other. Luckily I’ve gotten good enough at Blade & Soul to play with my feet. After weeks of whining about there not being any good games coming out, suddenly I’m backpedaling—slow it down, you guys.…

Lost In Harmony Is One Of The Sweetest Rhythm Games I’ve Played

This carefree scene of teens sharing a skateboard ride is actually part of the touching tale of two friends coping when one is diagnosed with a severe disease. Who said rhythm games couldn’t tell important stories? Certainly not games like Elite Beat Agents and Deemo, a pair of emotionally-charged rhythm games that come to mind…

More Like D’awww-out

Eight-day-old Charlotte already has a favorite Fallout 4 companion. You’ll have to check out photographer Lauren Petersen’s website for more from the shoot, as we pretty much just blew our cute budget for the year. Okay one more. I’m sure Charlotte will grow up to do great things for the Commonwealth. Whichever parent survives will…

Sunday Comics: Shudder And Howl

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 January23. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published January 18. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Final Fashiony: The Winners!

Last week I asked our Photoshop-savvy readers to give us a video game fashion model who could give Final Fantasy’s Lightning a run for her money. Our winner gives her a run for her monkey. I am so sorry. Let me make it up for you by establishing a school to teach children to collect…

Mystery Of The Assassin’s Creed Unity Cake Easter Egg Finally Solved

One would think an easter egg that involves eating delicious-looking cake would have been uncovered within the first few days of Assassin’s Creed Unity’s release, but no. It took a year and change for this Unity secret to be revealed, and the payoff is quite delicious. Players have been eating Unity’s cake since its November…

Streamers rejoice: Skype now hides your IP address by default The move should cut down on game streamers being harassed and DDOSed by folks resolving their Skype address into an IP.

A Brief Tour Of The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD

While most of us have to wait until March to play The Twilight Princess HD on Wii U, Nintendo Minute’s Kit and Krysta have been there, done that and posted nearly 10 minutes of gameplay. Did the world really need HD Oocca? The game’s nightmare-fuel human-faced birds have never looked so crisp and clear, which…

One Day These Will Be Some Of The Rarest PlayStation Games

With digital game sales slowly overtaking physical releases, there could come a day when game collectors have nothing to collect but data. Publisher Limited Run Games is attempting to prolong the magic with small print runs of formerly digital-only games. Mighty Rabbit Studios’ nostalgia-crammed Saturday Morning RPG is getting a digital release on PlayStation 4…

Isabelle Has Some Revolutionary Ideas For Running Your Animal Crossing Town

Leaving Isabelle in charge during an extended visit to another game entirely, the Villager returns to find his Animal Crossing town in a slightly more socialist state than he left it. Oh that Isabelle. YouTube animatorMax Gilardiimagines an Isabella whose ideas on social equality leave a real marx on the town of Animal Crossing. Why…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Final Fashiony

Inspired by both Louis Vuitton’s choice of virtual model and Venture Beat’s excellent response, this week’s ‘Shop Contest is too sexy for your games. The objective is simple. Take a video game character, turn them into a fashion model. It doesn’t have to be something high concept and high price like Louis Vuitton or Venture…

LEGO Dimensions Does The First Ghostbusters Movie In 30 Minutes

The Ghostbusters Level Pack for LEGO Dimensions dropped this week, compressing the classic comedy down to about a half hour while still hitting all the beats. So I took that half hour of gameplay and condensed it down to under seven minutes. Every plot point is there—just imagine some standard LEGO-style fighting and driving and…