Mike Fahey, Author at Kotaku

The Doctor Who LEGO Set: What Took You So Long, Old Man?

It feels like it took forever for the LEGO Ideas Doctor Who set to arrive in stores, but—in this case especially—time is relative. It’s here now at least, and it’s fantastic. Thanks goodness for senior video game artist Andrew Clark, who combined his love for both LEGO bricks and Time Lords into one wonderful pitch…

By Mike Fahey Published December 23, 2015

An Avengers Video Game Worth Posing As An Australian To Play

The first Marvel: Avengers Alliance is one of my favourite comic book based mobile games of all-time, so when I heard the 3D sequel to the 2D turn-based RPG was soft-launched down under, I got real Australian, real fast. With more than 70 million players worldwide, plain old 2D Avenger’s Alliance is the most successful…

By Mike Fahey Published December 23, 2015

On The Case With Aviary Attorney

When you’re an innocent anthropomorphic animal accused of murder in 1840s France it doesn’t matter if your defense attorney has an insatiable hunger for worms, as long as he also has a thirst . . . for justice. Developer Sketchy Logic’s successful Aviary Attorney Kickstarter proved that what adventure game fans craved was something like…

By Mike Fahey Published December 23, 2015

Nyko’s Lovely Xbox One Data Hump Arrives Just In The Nick Of Too Late

Nyko’s elegant console-mounted solution to adding cheap 3.5 inch hard drives to the Xbox One is finally available for purchase, one month after I cracked and added a terabyte via the ‘hang a 2.5 inch drive off the back of the console via USB cable’ method. Once I envisioned my Xbox One decked out in…

By Mike Fahey Published December 22, 2015

Taking Smite‘s New Mecha Thor For A Test Drive

The ultimate unlock in Smite’s 2016 World Championship-funding Odyssey is finally live, and I get a chance to put Ragnarok Force X Thor through his paces. Religion would be a lot more entertaining if each different god across all the many and varied pantheons had a mecha form. Alas we’re going to have to settle…

By Mike Fahey Published December 21, 2015

The First Five Minutes Of Bubsy Is All The Bubsy We Need

Retro game publisher Retroism recently dug up an unfortunate remnant from the 90s mascot craze and dropped two of his games on Steam in an attempt to drum up interest in a full-blown Bubsy the Bobcat revival. No thanks, we’re good! Riding a wave of twisted nostalgia, Retroism managed to get Bubsy Two-Fur—a bundle of…

By Mike Fahey Published December 21, 2015

How Stars Wars Mobile Games Are Celebrating The Force Awakens

Battlefront has its Jakku maps, Disney Infinity 3.0 has its movie adventure, but about the platform with more current Star Wars games than any other? Here’s how the mobile side of Star Wars gaming is celebrating the release of Episode VII Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes EA’s collectible character role-playing game was custom-built for quickly…

By Mike Fahey Published December 21, 2015

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Bayonetta Everywhere

Nintendo thought it was a good idea to add Platinum’s M-rated action heroine to the Super Smash Bros. roster. I agree with this decision. In fact, I think she should be in every game. Let’s put her there! Why shouldn’t Bayonetta, the witch who is technically naked most of the time, be in every game…