Mike Fahey

Frame Rate Stutters Make Racing My Least Favorite Part Of The New Need For Speed

There are several aspects of EA and Ghost Games’ dark and rainy Need for Speed reboot that I enjoy immensely. Due to regular gameplay hiccups, racing just doesn’t happen to be one of them. Releasing tomorrow on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 and later on for the PC, the new Need for Speed is a…

Anime and video game voice actress and singer Miyu Matsuki passed away on October 27 at the age of 38 following an extended battle with pneumonia. The beloved actress leaves behind a massive body of anime and game work, including the Japanese voice of Lailah in Tales of Zestiria.

The New Apple TV Is The Beginning Of A Nifty Little Game Machine

The fourth generation Apple TV went on sale Friday morning, finally giving Apple’s set-top box the ability to play video games. It’s no gaming revolution, but it’s off to a pretty good start. I’ve been an Apple TV owner for a couple years now, but when I say owner I mean it in the strictest…

Pokkén Tournament Evolves Mewtwo Into A Darker, More Powerful Form

Well, power is relative when it can be beaten by Gengar, but the new boss patched into arcade versions of the Pokémon fighting game is definitely a darker version of Mewtwo. (Update: the official name is Shadow Mewtwo.) Appearing in video footage onJapan’s NicoNico service (via NeoGAF), the boss fans have dubbed Dark Mewtwo looks…

The Week In Games: Something Something Call Of Duty

Is it Call of Duty week already? Man, I could really use a sandwich. If it weren’t readily evident from the release of the game’s official live-action trailer (starring the Human Torch until that memory gets scrubbed from my brain), Black Ops III comes out this week. Friday, for some godawful reason that I am…

Watch GoldenEye 007 Teach Teens The Joys Of Split-Screen Gaming

With the release of Halo 5 leaving at least one of our writers yearning for same screen multiplayer, Fine Bros.’ React channel uses an N64 classic to ensure six photogenic teenagers never forget its fractional majesty. Over the past decade and change we’ve moved from cramming as many players onto one screen as possible to…

Blade & Soul Is Going To Kill Me With Adorable

The Summoner class in Blade & Soul, NCsoft’s latest massively multiplayer Korean import, get to choose a feline companion to fight by their side for the rest of their days. There are other classes to play in the current closed beta, but they are not important. It bears noting that the cartoon of me doing…

Batman: Arkham Knight PC Refunds Offered Through 2015. Get One.

Following last week’s re-release of a game still broken for many players, Warner Bros. is now offering full refunds on Steam copies of Batman: Arkham Knight until the end of the year. Everyone who purchased a copy should take advantage. As the legend goes, Warner Bros. released a shoddy port of Batman: Arkham Knight for…

Sunday Comics: The Third Idiot

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 October 30. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 26. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Very Scare Bear Halloween: Winners!

I just cannot tell. I think this is the winner oflast week’s bear mask Photoshop contest, but I’ve seen such horrors. Such maddening horrors. The picture above wasn’t technically Ozimov’s main entry, but I feel as if his take on one of the strangest moments from The Shining is a great deal more horrifying that…

The Snacktaku Caramel Apple Halloween Spooktacular

As snackers around the world prepare for one of the most important holidays of the year—the day after Halloween—Snacktaku celebrates the only flavor combination powerful enough to knock pumpkin spice off the fall charts. While children and sexy versions of non-sexy things around the world may revel in pseudo=pagan ritual on October 31, snack aficionados…

While We Wait For Fallout 4, Here’s Fallout ’84

Passing some time before their November 10 trip to Boston, chiptune artists 8 Bit Weapon put together a art project to pay tribute to the upcoming sequel—a demo for Fallout ‘84 running on an Apple IIc. With a name like 8 Bit Weapon, what else could they do? The prominent chiptune group (who appear in…

Snacktaku Eats Dried Spam Snacks So You Don’t Have To

Not content with selling tins of meat/gelatin hybrid, Hormel is now rolling out new dried Spam Snacks to select U.S. markets, including the Southeast. Guess where I am? If you said oily hell, you’re pretty close. As much flack as I give the world’s most popular meat in a can, Spam and I developed a…

No One Should Have To Pay For Faster Loading Times

I put up with a lot of nonsense as a mobile gamer, from arbitrary timers and energy meters to pay-to-win in-app purchases. Selling faster load times might just be the worst. Last week Kyle Ward, founder and CEO of developer Step Revolution poked us about his company’s game ReRave Plus on Twitter. You guys cover…

Sniper X Is Deer Hunter With Humans. Also Jason Statham. 

I guess Human Hunter 2016 would have been too on the nose, even with the celebrity endorsement. That doesn’t stop Sniper X from being pretty much exactly that though. Oh they are bad humans doing bad things like patrolling camps filled with beige buildings and standing too close to trucks filled with explosive barrels, but…

Halo 5‘s Awesome New Multiplayer Mode Is Working Well On Launch Day 

Halo 5’s new Warzone multiplayer mode wouldn’t be nearly as exciting if it suffered from the sort of connection issues that plagued The Master Chief Collection months after launch. So far, so good. Earlier this week Stephen Totilo posted his early impressions of Halo 5: Guardians, subtitled “Mediocre Campaign, Promising Multiplayer.” The “promising multiplayer” bit…

The Park Is Two Hours Of Jump Scares And Sadness

The Park opens with a boat ride. The player travels a set path and is told a story they’ve probably heard before, interrupted by the odd jump scare. It’s excellent foreshadowing. I whimper quite a lot during my first 15 minutes or so with Funcom’s bite-sized horror adventure, but that’s because I am scared of…

Xbox Elite Wireless Controller: The Kotaku Review

The first thing you’ll see upon cracking open the box containing Microsoft’s new $150 premium modular Xbox One controller is a carrying case. You’re going to want to keep that. The care and handling of video game controllers in the Fahey household generally involves trying not to leave it on the floor. Packaging is torn…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Very Scare Bear Halloween

You thought you saw the last of scary bear face. You thought wrong. There is going to be so much more. Well I suppose that’s all up to you folks. What can you do with an animated GIF of me in a scary bear mask? Probably not much. Let’s do this instead. And just in…

The Week In Games: My Little Halo

No, that’s not a My Little Pony reference. Here: Anyway, Halo 5: Guardians comes out this week, along with a couple of other things you may be interested in. Check it out. Tuesday, October 27 Divinity: Original Si Enhanced Edition — PS4, Xbox One WRC 5 — PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One Halo 5:…