Mike Fahey

Kanye’s Making A Video Game About His Mom’s Journey Through Heaven

Fresh from his blockbuster performance at the Grammys, rapper, producer, songwriter, professional husband and game designer Kanye West has revealed that his next game project will allow players to guide his late mother to the highest gates of heaven. I say latest game project because Mr. West is no stranger to the rigors of game…

Sunday Comics: Alligator Vasectomy 

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 February 21. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published February 16. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

New Tricks Help Runners Shatter The Halo Legendary Speed Record

As of November of last year the world record time for completing Halo: Combat Evolved on Legendary difficulty was 1:29:59. In this video a group of four speedrunners demonstrate techniques that shave a full 22 minutes off of that time. A group effort by a group of Halo speedsters which includesformer Legendary record holder Andrew…

Dead Or Alive Is More Than Breasts

I fell in love with my favorite fighting game franchise for all the right reasons. It was fast, frantic, flashy and groundbreaking. Now, after nearly 20 years together, it’s time for me to face the truth—my favorite fighting game franchise is an exhibitionist, and I’m not okay with it. In the late ’90s I was…

I Just Took A Screenshot Directly From My Xbox One Dashboard

Members of Microsoft’s Xbox Dashboard Preview program are now enjoying the ability to tap a button twice or say “Xbox take a screenshot” and create a still image suitable for making your dashboard wallpaper—and not much else at the moment. The ability to actually share any of the screenshots taken via the Xbox One dashboard…

The FMV-tastic indie spinning limousine simulator Roundabout is now available on Xbox One. Stephen Totilo said it was “fun.” Luke Plunkett called it a “Masterclass in FMV.” Leo Wichtowski spoke about it at length in his soothing voice. Ringing endorsements all ’round!

The Studio Behind Smash Bros. And Kirby, HAL Laboratory Turns 35 Today

Who knew 35 years ago today that a small software company founded in Chiyoda-ku Japan to make personal computer games would one day be responsible for some of the most popular video game franchise on the planet? Happy 35th anniversary, HAL Laboratory. Founded on February 21, 1980, HAL Laboratory’s first works were simple games for…

Sixth Scale Tychus Findlay Is One Beautiful Bastard

Pieced together from some 525 individually engineered components and ringing up at a massive $525. Sideshow’s 16-inch version of StarCraft‘s biggest scoundrel is so gorgeous you just want to shoot it right in the face. While he’s essentially a retool/repaint of Sideshow’s Jim Raynor figure, Tychus always kept most of his personality in his armor…

The Triumphant Return Of Dungeons & Dragons‘ Most Famous Hamster

Whenever I think of BioWare’s Baldur’s Gate series, one line of dialogue springs immediately to mind: “Go for the eyes, Boo!” We might soon hear those words again, as Minsc and Boo will play a big role in Neverwinter‘s Elemental Evil expansion when it launches for PC March 17. Having proved so helpful to players…

An Epic Naruto Ninja Battle Comes To Life

Teased late last month, Epic Rivals‘ live-action battle between Naruto‘s Tenten and Neji is the sort of fight that forms a friendship that lasts as long at least one of them lives. Not being too familiar with the intricacies of Naruto‘s supporting cast, I’m going to just speculate here that this coming-of-age confrontation is a…

A Card-Based Role-Playing Game Like No Other

Take one part deck-building card game, add one part Choose Your Own Adventure novel, and shuffle with a little light action combat—that’s the deck composition of Hand of Fate, a unique twist on card-based role-playing now available on Steam, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. That Defiant Development’s2013 Kickstarter for Hand of Fate barely squeaked past…

I’m Getting Really Sick Of People Stealing My Stuff, King Of Thieves

From Zeptolab, makers of the adorable mobile puzzler Cut the Rope comes King of Thieves, an asynchronous multiplayer burglary competition to see can make me angry enough to burst a blood vessel. Like a bite-sized Clash of Clans, King of Thieves is a game in which players create a base, set up defenses, and then…

The Xbox One’s Upload Studio video editor just got a whole lot beefier. Videos can now be created with up to 15 segments with a maximum run-time of 30 minutes, and users now have access to transitions, title cards, green screen effects and other tools that separate a video hobbyist from a YouTube professional.

The Ultimate Up! Cosplayer Gets A Doghouse To Match

Steve Minty is such a huge fan of Disney’s Up! that he adopted a dog, named her Doug and fashioned an MP3-powered voice box so the pair could cosplay together. If these two don’t deserve a custom Up! dog house, I don’t know who does. This spectacular dog house is the latest creation from the…

Seven Reasons Fahrenheit Is One Of The Finest Adventure Games Ever

Recently remastered in HD for PC and iOS, Quantic Dream’s Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in the States) set the standard for cinematic adventure games years before Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls came along. Want to know why? With a twisted story, ordinary characters in strange circumstances and advanced cinematic storytelling, playing Fahrenheit back in 2005…

The Week In Games: A Large Order Of Kirby

Why wait until Friday for Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, when you can wait until Friday for Kirby and the Rainbow Curse and The Order: 1886 as well? No Sony. No, no no. Friday is Nintendo’s day. Why you gotta encroach? Tuesday, February 17 Dead or Alive 5: Last Round — PS3, PS4, Xbox 360,…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: They’ll Never Find Waldo

So science thinksit’s cracked the code for finding perennial hider Waldo every time? Oh we’ll see about that. It’s time to hide Waldo where they’ll never, ever find him. So they’ve found the optimal search algorithm for finding out where the bespeckled world traveler might be lurking on any given page. That just means we…

How To Create A Convincing Fake Smash Bros. Rayman Leak

A “leaked video” showing Ubisoft’s mascot character being selected in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U stirred rumors of suprise Nintendo DLC over the weekend, at least until YouTube’s Artsy Omni posted a clip showing how he faked the whole thing. With an odd Rayman trophy already present in the latest installments of Smash Bros.,…

Heroic Doom Mod Adds 37 Instagram Filters And A Selfie Stick

After almost 22 years Doom is finally finished thanks mod-maker Linguica’s “InstaDoom”, which adds 37 InstaGram filters to the game and swaps out the fabled BFG with a selfie stick. Available as a free download over at Doom World, “InstaDoom” gives players of the classic shooter a chance to take the battle to the next…

Sunday Comics: The Ocarina Of Time Management

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 February 9. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published February 9. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…