Mike Fahey

A Guided Tour Of The Pricey Xbox One Elite Controller

This fall’s Xbox One Elite Wireless Controller ispacked with killer controller tech, but $150? Perhaps a live walkthrough with Xbox senior marketing manager Navin Kumar can shed some light on the hefty price tag. Mind you most of the light being shed in this video is blue, thanks to the venue’s bad decisions, but the…

20th Anniversary Accessories To Go With The PS4 You Didn’t Get

If you were lucky enough to acquire one of the 12,300 limited edition 20th Anniversary PlayStation 4 consoles, then has Sony got the accessories for you! Otherwise, here’s some gray stuff. Tweeted last night after Sony’s exciting 2015 E3 press conference, the $64.99 20th Anniversary DualShock 4 and the $99.99 20th Anniversary Gold Wireless Headset…

Meet Fiesta, The Undead Skylander With His Own Mariachi Band

With attacks that spawn adorable skeletal bandmates and a ride that was once his coffin-shaped kids bed, Skylanders: Superchargers Fiesta is an unliving, unbreathing example of why I love this stupid series. The creativity of the toy designs is one of the key reasons I keep coming back to Skylanders year after year, and second-greatest…

Oh, And There’s Also This Other Final Fantasy Game

The game forever known as the one they announced right before the Final Fantasy VII remake. Cute! Did you guys see the Final Fantasy VII remake trailer yet?

Yay, another fucking mobile Star Wars card game. Coming later this year, EA believes “this is the Star Wars game mobile players have been waiting for.” Unlike Star Wars Assault Team or Star Wars: Force Collection. Great.

Garden Warfare 2 Finally Puts Plants On The Offensive

Plants Vs. Zombies has always been about innocent flora defending against ravenous undead. In Garden Warfare 2the tables have finally turned—and we can finally play solo. One of my main issues with the original game, which to this day islovingly affixed to my ceiling, was that players on the plant side were always on the…

Brother battles brother in Star Wars: The Old Republic—Knights of the Fallen Empire, a free expansion pack coming later this year that promises a return to BioWare-style storytelling. Expect epic adventures, a new companion character and a website that says all of this and has since it accidentally leaked over the weekend.

Platinum Shows Off Its Fancy New Transformers Game

Leaked this weekend via website and retail listing, Platinum Games’ Transformers: Devastation is officially a real thing, and it looks just prime. A single-player beat-em up featuring five first generation Autobots versus some 30-plus Decepticon enemies, including the game’s massive namesake, Devastation will be coming to Xboxes, PlayStations and PCs later this year. It’s no…

Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Is The Good Kind Of Crazy, Costs $150

Much more than just a stereo headphone jack, Microsoft’s newly-revealed Xbox Elite Wireless Controller is a modular, remap-able and tweak-able work of engineering art. We knew there was a new Xbox One controller coming, but this is much more than wse expected. Bits come off and move around. Steering wheel controller-style paddles in the back…

Xbox One users get Fallout 3 free with Fallout 4 Suppose that’s one of the benefits of backwards compatibility. From the official press release: “All purchases of Fallout 4 on Xbox One will include a token for Fallout 3 through the first 90 days after Fallout 4’s release.”

Ant-Man games big. LEGO set 76039, Ant-Man Final Battle, is highly recommended to anyone who enjoys photographic tiny people doing big things.

Metroid-Looking Mech Game Blastball Debuts At Nintendo Worlds

Two teams of three players attempt to shoot a ball through a shrinking goal in Blastball, a 3DS game with a Metroid-vibe making its debut during competition at the 2015 Nintendo World Championships. While the graphical style, the HUD and the single-weapon arm are giving off a real Metroid vibe, all we know about Blastball…

Watch The 2015 Nintendo World Championships Live, Right Here

The greatest Nintendo players in the country have converged on Los Angeles to compete in the 25th Anniversary Nintendo World Championships. Come watch history in the making. Well, first watch a brief pre-show from the Nintendo Treehouse, and then watch history in the making at around 3 p.m. Pacific, as the eight top Nintendo gamers…

The Week In Games: Look At This Chipmunk

I was trying to imagine the nicest way possible to say “There ain’t shit coming out this week.” I think I went a bit too far afield. But it’s a nice bit of field. With chipmunks. At least we’re not skipping a Payday for E3. Plus an open week gives the big publishers plenty of…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The E3 2015 Decorating Committee: Winners!

Last week I asked our readers to decorate the LA Convention Center for E3 2015. One person captured the feeling of attending and covering the massive video game trade show better than the others. I’m not even in LA for this week’s show and the pressure is already starting to build, like some sort of…

How Street Fighter‘s Ryu Works In Smash Bros.

Ryu’s a Smash combatant now, but players familiar with the source material will have a distinct advantage over their Super Smash Bros. foes. Oh, and he’s the only fighter in the series with two Final Smashes. So…he’s new. For starters, Ryu’s attacks vary based on the legnth of time a button is hit. Tap for…

Seven More Super Smash Bros. Amiibo Due In September

See anyone you fancy? But wait, there’s more. In this morning’s Super Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS Twitch stream, Nintendo showed off colorful plastic figures for four established fighters, as well as a trio of warriors for those who prefer making their own figures. R.O.B., Duck Hunt Dog and Duck, Mr. Game & Watch…

There’s probably still some unleaked info in Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. live stream this morning. Maybe. Hopefully? Watch the information blossom live on Twitch at 10:40 a.m. Eastern, damn early Pacific.

Sunday Comics: You Monster!

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 June 13. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published June 8. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…