Mike Fahey

Watch The Heroes Of The Storm Americas Championship Live, Right Here

The top eight Heroes of the Storm team in the Americas are in Las Vegas today, competing for a $100,000 prize pool and two spots in the world championship battle at BlizzCon 2015. Who will win, other than Murky? Kicking off at 1 PM Eastern and running until one team has $40,000 and a trip…

Fire Emblem And Xenoblade Heroes Join Project X Zone 2‘s Crazy 

Namco Bandai’s tactics RPG cavalcade of cross-company characters is exclusive to a Nintendo handheld, so how about some Nintendo-owned heroes? Fire Emblem: Awakening’s Chrom and Lucina are a great start, and they’ve picked a perfect partner for Xenosaga’s KOS-MOS. Namco Bandai promised new character announcements for Project X Zone 2 when Richard Eisenbeis played the…

Celebrate Fifty Years Of Yuji Naka With Five Minutes Of Sonic

One of the key creators of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, programmer extraordinaire and former long-term head of Sonic Team, Yuji Naka turns 50 on September 17. One minute for each ten years seems fair. While right now Yuji Naka is preparing for the North American release of his Rodea the Sky Soldier on Wii…

Five Video Games That Put My Children Right To Sleep

For some parents all it takes is a cuddle or a short story to send their little darlings into dreamland. Not me. I have to play video games to get the kids to go down. Poor me. Welcome to the second installment of BRB, Kids Are Screaming. It’s been three months since my last confession,…

The First Five Minutes Of Kitten Squad, PETA’s First Console Game

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been using web-based Flash games to spread its anti-animal cruelty messagefor years. Probably should have stuck with that. Directed by Mecho Wars and Pocket God vs Desert Ashes director Luc Bernard, Kitten Squad is a game that I should have immediately fallen in love with based…

Forza 6 Puddles Will Ruin Your Day In The Best Way

I fell in love with Forza Motorsport 6 the first time I hit a dynamic puddle at high speed and my BMW went apeshit. Originally published on 9/9/15. Having spent the better part of a year enjoying the freedom of Forza Horizon 2, I wasn’t sure I was ready to return to the structured races…

There’s A Free-To-Play Match-Three Game Out On Consoles Today

From Facebook to mobile to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Disney’s Frozen Free Fall: Snowball Fight is the first free-to-play match-three game on consoles. It probably won;t be the last. Despite being plagued by the genre on our social networks and phones for years, console gamers have largely dodged the colorful and likely delicious Candy…

Logitech G29 Driving Force Racing Wheel For PS4: The Kotaku Review

Since I started on my racing wheel kick back in October of last year, aficionados have been urging me to give Logitech’s popular G27 wheel for PS3 and PC a spin. Instead, I jumped forward a generation. WHAT IT IS The Logitech G29 Driving Force Racing Wheel is essentially an upgraded version of the G27…

The First Five Incredibly Relaxing Minutes Of Lumini

Violence and tension will always have a place in video gaming, but sometimes you just need to go on a journey of discovery in some crystal-filled caves. Let’s chill. Developed by Speelbaars, Lumini is a casual adventure game that likely got greenlit on Steam because it’s so incredibly calming. From the visuals to the sound…

LEGO Dimensions‘ Voice Cast Is Just Nuts

Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd from Back to the Future, Stephen Merchant and Ellen McLain from Portal, Gary Oldman as the game’s big bad and two different Chris Pratt performances—LEGO Dimensions’ definitely got talent. Not only is the game, which hits stores in a little under two weeks, a massive gathering of entertainment properties,…

More Mass Effect Minimates, less blind groping at GameStop. Following up on itsblind bag GameStop exclusives from earlier this year, Diamond Select is wide-releasing a four-pack of ME figures early next year, including a Shepard with swappable John and Jane heads.

The Week In Games Is Very Important. They’re Going To Take Your King.

They are going to take your king. Stay focused, baby. This is key. You will have five, maybe ten seconds. Very important seconds. Leave the phone on the floor. Concentrate. Shout out everything you see about them. Hair color, eye color, tall, short, scars. Anything you see. You understand? They’re there. I can hear them.…

All The Enemies And Items In Super Mario Maker In One Video

Tireless Nintendo game chronicler MasterofHyrule started off creating a video of all of the enemies and items in Super Mario Maker that could come out of a canon or pipe. Then he upped it to all the enemies and items in the game. Then… …he decided to demonstrate what happens to each enemy or item…

Let’s Watch Ten Minutes Of Star Wars: Battlefront Gameplay 

Because it’s there, and it’s beautiful. A calming sensation wafted over me as I watched this video, recorded during the closed alpha test on PC and uploaded to YouTube by Jake McNeill (via Gamespot). I’ve been worrying over the new movies lately—probably due to the toys hitting stores—and this clip helped me come to terms…

StarCraft II: Legacy Of The Void Launches November 10

The second expansion pack for StarCraft II will officially launch on November 10, Blizzard revealed today during the World Championship Series season three finalslive on Twitch. The release date announcement was accompanied by a cinematic trailer for Legacy of the Void StarCraft II’s initial installment, subtitled Wings of Liberty, launched over five years ago in…

No Jimmy Kimmel Live, I Will Not Preorder The Taken King At GameStop

Despite your deliberately ham-fisted GameStop commercial starring the ever-charming Guillermo, I will not preorder The Taken King, because preordering is bad. And also I already preordered it on PSN. It’s not my fault! I mean, it is my fault, but there was a good reason. I’d lost my Destiny disk, and the only way to…

Kotaku’ Shop Contest: Pumpkin Spice Armageddon

To my knowledge Pumpkin Spice Spam is not a real product, but it very well could be. Nothing is safe. No one is safe. Especially not for this week’s ‘Shop Contest. Early fall, which is the term I use to describe the bits of the year between when the fall products hit store shelves and…

Super Mario Bros. Turns 30 Today — When Did You First Play?

On September 13, 1985, Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. for the Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan. My first encounter with the heroic plumber came a year later at a local bar. The game that many credit with resurrecting North America’s video game industry after the Atari/Coleco era crash arrived in the states at a point…

Sunday Comics: Embrace The Future

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your pretty much weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published September 13. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 7. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: It’s Loopin’ Chewie’s Fault: Winners!

Oh Chewbacca, we can’t stay mad at you. Halfway through our frustration-fueled Photoshop attack on Loopin’ Chewie the love shined through. And what better love to signify this than the love for a complete breakfast, including a heaping helping of lharm’s ‘Shop Contest entry, Froot Loopin’ Chewie. Even with its strange language and lack of…