Mike Fahey

Razer And Lenovo Team Up To ‘Revolutionize Gaming Devices’

Razer’s been working on the whole “revolutionize gaming devices” thing for many years now, but lacked the reach of the big names in PC hardware. Teaming up with multi-national computer technology company Lenovo should do the trick. Announced yesterday during the Dreamhack 2015 computer festival in Sweden, the partnership between Razer and Lenovo gives each…

What Did Black Friday Make You Buy?

It’s okay. No one is blaming you. It was the day—that damnable day. Relax. We’re all friends here. Just tell us what the bad shopping deals made you buy. No one is going to be upset if you traded your old original PlayStation Vita for the GameStop exclusive Aqua Blue slim. And what’s that? You…

Amazing Wooden Transformers Change Instantly Into Small Chunks Of Tree

They’re robots. They’re vehicles. They’re kindling. I guess that makes Bamloff’s line of wooden transforming robots triple changers. Either way, WooBots are very cool. Using the same elastic technology that made those bend wooden figures kids used to play with in doctors’ office waiting rooms many decades ago, Bamloff’s WooBots marry old-school technology with newish-school…

The Latest Warhammer Game Is Turn-Based Tactics Gone Brutal

It’s all fun in games in the PC version of classic Warhammer tabletop game Mordheim until somebody loses a limb—or their life. In Mordheim: City of the Damned, players create a war band and then pray they stay alive through enough missions to grow powerful and prosperous. It’s not an easy task, maintaining a group…

Disney Infinity 3.0 Should Have Led With The Force Awakens

Today we get our first look at the Disney Infinity 3.0 Star Wars: The Force Awakens play set in action, and I’m finally excited about the combo. Not that I haven’t appreciated all of the Star Wars characters in Disney Infinity 3.0 and enjoyed the twoplay sets introduced so far. It’s just that we knew…

EA’s Other New Star Wars Game Has Nothing On Battlefront [Update–Launched Worldwide]

“The Star Wars game mobile gamers have been waiting for” has soft-launched in several countries, giving us lucky faux-Australians a taste of EA’s mobile card RPG. Not featured: gripping excitement. Update—now available worldwide! Originally posted on 10/17/15 You know those mobile “role-playing games” that are big right now? The ones where you summon random characters,…

Snacktaku Versus The Hostess Holiday Mint Snack Cakes

In a holiday season awash with pumpkin-flavoring spice, gingerbread and caramel apple, Hostess foregoes the dominant fall flavors in favor of a pair of special edition snack cakes colored and flavored like toothpaste. Mmmm, minty. Based on recent Twitter activity in which I discusslosing a small child’s worth of weight since October, many of our…

Our Favorite Toy Gifts That Won’t Just Sit On The Desk

Action figures and tiny vinyl statues are great for taking up work real estate and making employers question professionalism, but toys are meant to be played with. Here’s a selection of toy gifts that they won’t be able to keep their hands off. (Or something.) Fifteen years ago I bought my stepfather, a huge baseball…

Graphics Mod Makes New Star Wars Game Look Like A New Star Wars Movie

After wowing us with his gorgeous (and still unreleased)graphics mod for Grand Theft Auto V, Martin Bergman applies his Toddyhancer tweaks to Star Wars: Battlefront with ridiculous results. The Tatooine survival mission in Star Wars: Battlefront isn’t too hard on the eyes in its unaltered form. But once Bergman applies his signature mix of reshade…

Thanks Rock Band And Guitar Hero, I’m Playing A Real Guitar Now

Rock Band 4 got me ready to pick up an instrument again. Guitar Hero Live got my fingers moving back and forth. Together they convinced me to take the next step—buying the cheapest guitar possible and a copy of Rocksmith I got my first real six string. Bought it via Amazon Prime. Played it til…

Unofficial Remote Play App Brings PS4 Games To PC, But It’ll Cost You

Playing PlayStation 4 games on your Vita is nice. Playing them on your PC with mouse and keyboard would be even nicer. Independent developer Twisted plans to release an unofficial Remote Play app for PC this week, but it won’t be free. Several developers have had success developing Android apps that mimic the PlayStation Vita’s…

Five Teams Advance From Smite‘s Super Regionals To The World Championships

A week’s worth of competitive Smite play at Hi-Rez Studio’s in-house esports arena has come to an end, resulting in three European and two North American teams taking trips to Atlanta this January. The week began with 12 teams, six from each region, ready to do battle in the third-person, god-powered MOBA. They gathered in…

The Week In Games: It’s Like It’s Thanksgiving Week Or Something

More Fallout 4? Okay then. Tuesday, November 24 Dynasty Warriors 8 Empires— Vita Digital Teslagrad — Vita Eiyuu Senki: The World Conquest— PS3 Digital Beyond: Two Souls — PS4 Digital Brunswick Pro Bowling — PS4 Digital Miko Mole — PS4 Digital Minecraft Story Mode Episode 3 — PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC Coming…

Smite‘s New Thor Skin Pilots A Giant Mech

With the introduction of the Japanese pantheon to the god-based MOBA coming early next year, Smite wanted to do something special to make the incoming deities fell welcome. Ragnarok Force X Thor should do the trick. Shown off today during the Smite Super Regionals in Atlanta, in which the top European and American teams battle…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Cloud-Based Gaming: Winners!

The announcement ofFinal Fantasy VII’s Cloud for Super Smash Bros.got us thinking about which other games he could be in, which led to a Photoshop contest, which led to hilarity. Our image manipulating readers sure make judging contests like this difficult, especially when the people entering know my penchant for animated Persona dancing GIFs. In…

The Xbox 360 Is Ten Years Old Today

A decade ago today thousands of people stood outside electronics retailers in the bitter cold, waiting for their chance to sell an Xbox 360 on eBay. I blame those killer faceplates. I remember the Xbox 360 launch like it was yesterday, because in the grand scheme of things it was. I wasn’t going to get…

Lottie from Animal Crossing joins the Amiibo army today. She’s a Target exclusive in the States (Best Buy in Canada). I know this because I am a well-informed member of the gaming press, and not because I was at Target when they opened this morning,dammit.

Sunday Comics: Unlimited Power

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 November 17. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published November 16. Read more of Awkward Zombie The GaMERCaT by Samantha Whitten. Published…

When A New Game Could Cost $10 Less Than Its Console

Not just a Super Nintendo system, but a system bundled with Killer Instinct, as seen in this ancient Electronics Boutique ad from back in 1996 posted by Redditorsketchbreaker. Of course we were in the tail end of the Super Nintendo’s run by the time Donkey Kong Country 3 arrived in November of 1996. After a…

Animated Short Illustrates Several Strange Things About Heroes Of The Storm

Why can’t Johanna be killed? How can Illidan be blinded? Why can’t Raynor and Kerrigan just be happy? All of these questions and more arise from Carbot’s latest Heroes of the Storm short. Each of the heroes in Heroes of the Storm have been torn from their worlds and brought to the Nexus to do…