Mike Fahey, Author at Kotaku

Oreo Trick Shots Are An Impressive Waste Of Cookies

How many Oreo cookies have to die before this man’s thirst for tricksy rebounds is sated? The man in the video is YouTuber Peter Bamforth, who will go down in history as one of snacking’s greatest monsters. His skills are impressive, but this is a video, and videos are edited to keep people from seeing…

By Mike Fahey Published April 22, 2015

The Metroidvania stylings of Tom Happ’s Axiom Verge arrive on Steam May 14. The downloadable PlayStation 4 hit adds Steam cloud saves and trading cards to its already impressive arsenal. Check out the announce trailer above, and read our review of the PS4 version here.

By Mike Fahey Published April 22, 2015

The First Sci-Fi MMO Just Got Its Biggest Update In Years

A new starting area, tweaked visuals, sweeping profession balance changes—today the fourteen-year-old Anarchy Online received the biggest update its seen in ages, as well as the first $15 from me since I stopped playing in 2005. I didn’t just play Funcom’s Anarchy Online, I was in love with it. While its rocky 2001 launch turned…

By Mike Fahey Published April 21, 2015

Tragedy Strikes In The First Five Minutes Of Westerado

Of course tragedy strikes in the early moments of Ostrich Banditos’ homage to Spaghetti Westerns. You don’t start off a gritty tale of revenge with the best birthday party ever. Originally released as an Adult Swim browser game back in 2013, Westerado was far too good of a game to be embedded in a website.…

By Mike Fahey Published April 21, 2015

Forging Loki’s Staff Is A Fittingly Convoluted Process

Trust a trickster god to wield one of the most complicated weapons the folks at Man At Arms: Reforged have ever had to recreate. Loki likely didn’t create the Chitauri scepter he carried in the first Avengers movie, but he’s the one who stuffed an Infinity Gem inside of it, so we’ll call it his.…

By Mike Fahey Published April 20, 2015

The First Five Minutes Of Insomniac’s First-Ever PC Game

The creators of Ratchet and Clank and Sunset Overdrive finally take the PC plunge with Slow Down, Bull, a delightfully simple game about a bull and his art. My how Insomniac’s grown over the past few years. In 2012 the 21-year-old development studio released its first non-PlayStation game with Facebook’s Outernauts. In 2013 came Fuse,…

By Mike Fahey Published April 20, 2015

PSA: Update Your Rockstar Social Club Password To Avoid Hijacking

Since late last week the Rockstar support Twitter account has been hammered with reports of Social Club account hijackings keeping folks from playing games like Grand Theft Auto V. There’s a simple way to ensure this doesn’t happen to you—change your password. Judging by the volume of tweets the support team is fielding andc the…

By Mike Fahey Published April 20, 2015

Scientifically Accurate My Little Pony Is Not Magical At All

Hear that? It’s the sound of magic being sucked out of the world as colorful ponies break their spines falling from cliffs and die from horrible hoof diseases. This is not going to be pretty. Real ponies are not fun. They are not your colorful friends. They do not have marks on their flanks denoting…

By Mike Fahey Published April 20, 2015

Welcome To Survival Horror, Mobile Gamers

If you’ve never played a serious survival horror game before, Human Head Studios’ Lost Within with frighten you. If you have, at least you’re on familiar ground. Despite being a terrified kitten in the face of most of the survival horror genre, I’ve played enough that a run-down mental health facility just doesn’t do it…