Mike Fahey

PlayStations Get Free Civil War And Ant-Man DLC For LEGO Avengers

LEGO Marvel Avengers is a massive game packed with iconic comic book characters. It’ll just be a bit more massive on PlayStation 3 and 4 when it launches later this month. And with Ant-Man involved, a bit smaller as well. As announced over at the PlayStation Blog, gamers that grab LEGO Marvel Avengers for PlayStation…

Two Star Wars: The Force Awakens digital pinball tables launch this week in Pinball FX 2, Zen Pinball 2 and Star Wars Pinball across all of the platforms. Except the Nintendo ones. Otherwise yeah, all of them. Here’s a quick look at both tables in action.

Heroes of the Storm’s latest playable character might be a wolf, but only sometimes.Greymane, Lord of the Worgen can swap between a ranged human assassin and a melee werewolf, with abilities that take advantage of his dual nature. Also, he would like a keg of beer.

Smite‘s Amaterasu Might Not Be A Wolf, But She Sure Fights Like One

The first god in the Japanese pantheon launched in deity-powered MOBA Smite today, and while she might not be the Amaterasu many gamers are familiar with, she’s just as fierce. She’s definitely not the white wolf of Capcom’s outstanding action adventure game, but then Amaterasu traditionally isn’t. She’s the daughter of the great god Izanagi,…

The LEGO Classic TV Series Batcave Has All The ’60s Batman

Slide-able Batpoles! A Batmobile with a clearly labeled “Emergency Bat-Turn Lever!” Cesar Romero’s Joker, complete with makeup’d over ‘stache! An official “DICK” LEGO piece! Kapow! Whamm! Zooomm! The classic Batman television series hit the airwaves on January 12, 1966, so LEGO has put together a 2,526 piece tribute to that monument to campiness in the…

Watch Mortal Kombat X‘s Four New Kombatants Get Their Fight On

How I’ve missed you, Bo’ Rai Cho. Alien, Leatherface, Triborg—those guys want to kill me. You just want to get drunk, throw up on me and maybe fart in my face. It’s like they made my older brother a Mortal Kombat character. Good old Bo’ Rai Cho is one of the four new fighters coming…

DC Universe Online Celebrates Five Years With An Xbox One Version

Released five years ago today on the PC and PlayStation 3, DC Universe Online is gearing up to invite Xbox One owners to dress up as their favorite superhero and make whooshing noises this spring. DC Universe Online, the massively multiplayer online game that gives players the ability to fight side-by-side with characters from my…

The Video Game That Changed How I Saw David Bowie

I was familiar with the work of David Bowie from a young age, but I didn’t fall in love with the man and his work until 1999. That was when I played Omikron: The Nomad Soul, a video game that changed the way I felt about David Bowie entirely. David Bowie succumbed to cancer on…

The Ugliest Thing Snacktaku Has Ever Eaten

Earlier this week I encountered a food creation so hideous that I set up my camera in the noisy press room at the 2016 Smite World Championship and recorded a Snacktaku video so I could get it over with. Originally published 1/9/16 The main source of sustenance at the Cobb Energy Center in Atlanta, which…

Smite Devs’ First Mobile Game Is A Quick Bit Of Fun

The idea behind Jetpack Fighter, the first mobile game from the makers of Smite, might be a hard to grasp. See, you’re this fighter, and you’ve got a jetpack. Still following? Launched last week on iOS and coming as soon as humanly possible to Android, Jetpack Fighter is a game in which a variety of…

Monday Comics: That’s A Lot Of Blood

Welcome to Kotaku’s Monday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics one day later than usual. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Guest comic published January 8, with gorgeous work by Pseudonym from Cassiopeia Quinn. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie…

Your 2016 Smite World Champions Are Not These Guys

These five gentlemen, collectively known as team Enemy, clawed their way into the 2016 Smite World Championship grand finals only to lose three straight games to Europe’s Epsilon, letting all of North America down. As punishment, they only get $230,000. I blame myself. Enemy (spelled all cleverly on their fancy shirts) were my favorite to…

Watch The Grand Finals Of The 2016 Smite World Championship Right Here

It’s Europe’s Epsilon versus North America’s evil Enemy in a best of five fight to the finish, with the winner getting more money than the loser. Let’s watch people play Smite in front of a live audience! The whirlwind four-day eventall comes down to this. Will Enemy beat Epsilon by a whole lot, or will…

It’s Europe Versus North America In The 2016 Smite World Championship Grand Finals

After North America’s Enemy secured a spotin the Smite grand finals over Europe’s Paradigm, all eyes went to returning champions Cloud9. Then those eyes got really sad. My own personal set of eyes were actually rather happy, as the increasingly evil, decreasingly underdog North American team—my pick to win the whole shebang—achieved victory over Europe’s…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Rift In Your Bank Account

The future of looking at fake things is upon us, and it costs $600. Many people are upset over the official price tag for the Oculus Rift, but as the image manipulators in our community will no doubt prove, it could be worse. I mean really, that $600 only takes into account the basic version…

A Lot Of Work Goes Into Making Skylanders The Most Story-Focused Toys-To-Life Game

Where Disney Infinity delivers a series of small self-contained stories and LEGO Dimensions is just getting started, the Skylanders series has spent the past five years building an original fictional universe—and tearing it apart. With toys from all three series littering my desk at any given moment, I think about the blossoming toys-to-life genre a…

North American underdogs Enemy, a team that didn’t technically exist until halfway through the competitive season, just defeated European champions Paradigm three games to one to advance to tomorrow’s grand finals of the 2016 Smite World Championships.

Watch The Final Day Of The Weeklong Awesome Games Done Quick Charity Marathon

Just when you thought the holidays were ending, along comes an entire week of super-speedy runs through your favorite games for an excellent cause. It’s time for Awesome Games Done Quick. Let’s watch together! Along with its summer variant, the Awesome Games Done Quick marathon has quickly become one of my favorite gaming events of…

Day Two Of The 2016 Smite World Championship Packed With Good, Evil And Mild Pouting

The quarterfinals of the 2016 Smite World Championship passed in a flash of four swept best-of-three matches, including the brutal but not unexpected elimination of both Chinese teams and the boys from Brazil. There’s not much I can say about the first match of the semifinals between European first seed Paradigm and China champions OMG,…

The 2016 Smite World Championship Kicked Off With A Complete Shutout

The goal in a Smite Conquest match is to kill enemy players, destroy their fortifications and eventually take down the titan guarding their base. In the first match of the 2016 Smite World Championship, one team accomplished none of those things. Thursday marked the first day of the annual competition, a series of best of…