Mike Fahey

What The Hell Is Going On In The First Five Minutes Of InsanZ?

The screenshots for “retro-survival-horror” InsanZ show off creepy creatures and awesome weapons. In the first five minutes I got toilets, cake-headed skeletons and really cheap deaths. It’s got that “psychological horror” tag, so it has permission to be batshit insane. Still, I went in eager for this: Instead I wandered maroon corridors with my head…

Halo: MCC eSports Event Canceled Because The Game Wouldn’t Work

Holding an online tournament requiring teams form parties to play against each other only works if the teams can form parties, and so the first round of ESL’s Halo Championship Series Open bracket was canceled over the weekend. Excitement was high for Saturday’s tournament, in which Halo: The Master Chief Collection teams from across North…

The Magical First Five Minutes Of Pony World 3

I know what you’re thinking. “I completely missed Pony World 2!” Hopefully the first five minutes of the threequel can get you up to speed. According to the Steam description for Pony World 3, the first two installments of Rhema Press’ colorful baby horse sim have sold over two million copies worldwide, so there’s a…

Forget  CGI. Transformers Toys Have The Most Exciting Battles

Who needs CGI animated cartoons and movies when stop-motion Transformers battles can be this good? It’s a relatively ordinary day in the mixed-continuity of animator Harris Loureiro. Bumblebee and Wheeljack are on a routine patrol when they encounter some Decepticon resistance. They call for backup, and for a while it looks like the Autobots are…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: The Bling Side Of The Force

Last week a Tokyo jeweler covered a Darth Vader helmet in gold, leading to at least two obvious questions—why just the helmet, and why only Vader? Surely the entire extended Star Wars cast is deserving a shiny metal makeover. Ginza Tanaka may have had good intentions, but he fell way short of his completely assumed…

Now It’s Naoto’s Turn To Dance. Dance. Dance.

Every time I post a GIF from Persona 4: Dancing All Night, the comments are always the same: where’s Naoto Shirogane? Here’s Naoto Shirogane. No longer a backup dancer, Persona 4’s young detective shows off some killer moves on the dance floor, as well as a penchant for cosplay that goes beyond masking her gender…

The Week In Games: Everything I Ever Wanted

A turn-based role-playing game for the PlayStation 4 featuring a group of female warriors that can be dressed up and choreographed in custom dance numbers? What is it, my birthday? While others are playing the rest of Broken Age or drilling the PC version of WWE 2K15 for horrific glitches, I’ll be spending the week…

Sounds Like Silent Hills Really Is Cancelled

Following yesterday’s news that Konami would be pulling Silent Hills teaser P.T from the PlayStation Store next week, director Guillermo del Toro told the audience at a San Francisco Film Society event that his collaboration with Hideo Kojima is no longer a going concern. The news came by way of a tweet from photojournalist Matt…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Game And Apple Watch: The Winners!

Last week we asked our image manipulating community to show us what sorts of games they’d like to see on the minty-fresh Apple Watch. As it turns out, most of them are insane. Oops. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, mind you. Just an observation, really. They probably think I’m insane as well, since I…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Who’s Gonna Splatoon With Me? • Why Doesn’t This Video Game Exist: SPACESHIP RACING • Qwilfish – Wedding Delay Autopost Edition Just in Case • Sunday Quick-Draw: Bunnies! TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

GTA V PC Mod Lets Players Explore Snowy North Yankton

Not satisfied with the short trips taken to Grand Theft Auto V’s version of North Dakota during story mode, PC modders have created a way to make every day a North Yankton day. There’s a nice little chunk of frozen North nestled in Grand Theft Auto V’s files, as evidenced by a since patched glitch…

Sunday Comics: Not Even Worth Killing

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 April 25. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 20. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Gabe Newell Optimistic Paid Mods Will Be A Win For Everybody

Addressing the ongoing furorsurrounding the monetization of mods on Steam, Valve boss Gabe Newell took to Reddit earlier today to defend his company’s controversial new initiative. Following a day of travel and another dealing with medical issues, Newell spent a couple of hours today on a laptop in a coffee shop tohost a Reddit AMA.…

A Tale Of Two Megatrons

Once upon a time there were two Decepticon leaders. One was officially Megatron, or as close to Megatron as Hasbro could get these days. The other was Apollyon, the third-party creation from X-Transbots. The $44.99 Hasbro Combiner Wars Megatron tried very hard to be the best Megatron he could be. He had a very Megatron-like…

What Mario’s Nightmares Sound Like

Nothing gets a Staturday night party going like every sound effect in the original Super Mario Bros. all at once. Looped. For 12 hours. I’ve been listening to YouTuber crysknife007’s “composition” for about 20 minutes now, and I can feel my brain scrambling about in my head trying to catch every last drop of it.…

The First Five Billable Minutes Of Car Mechanic Simulator 2015

While this is only the first five minutes of the newly-released Car Mechanic Simulator 2015, we’re going to have to charge you for a whole hour. When one of our family vehicles breaks down I can often be found standing in front of it with the hood open. This is not because I know anything…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Let’s share: Our Desktops! • Kotaku Gold vs NeoGAF Gold: The Comparison We Had To Make • First Time Classics: The End Of Evangelion -Complete • Shinmai Maou no Testament: Exile’s Ani-TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

The Elder Scrolls Online Runs Pretty Well On Consoles

After a year and change as a PC exclusive, The Elder Scrolls Online is coming to consoles on June 9. Here’s some footage from the console beta showing us what exactly that looks like. Jane Douglas of Outside Xboxtakes her Khajiit sorcerer on a little tour of massively multiplayer Xbox One Tamriel, which looks perfectly…

Ten Games I Want To Play On The Apple Watch

The first batch of Apple Watches arrive in users hands on Friday, with a whole batch of tiny little gaming apps waiting to be locked and loaded. Let’s see what might be good in micro-gaming. As of this writing I am not sure if my watch will arrive by Friday or not. I ordered within…

Final Fantasy XIV The Fake Fighting Game

Lacking anything better to do until the expansion pack arrives in June, the Final Fantasy XIV dev team transformed one of the game’s biggest boss battles into a fighting game I’d play in a heartbeat. It’s Yda’s fists of fury versus Livia Sas Junius of the Garlean Empire, complete with her custom white Magitek armor.…