Mike Fahey

‘Shop Contest: Draw Me Like One Of Your Orlesian Qunari: The Winners!

From the sexiest scene in Dragon Age history comes the sexiest ‘Shop Contest in Kotaku history. This week’s winner? Mr. Sexy McSexerson the Third. That’s his real name, but on this website he goes by Greg the Mad. In this week’s contest that madness led him in the right direction, by which I mean amateur…

Let’s Swap Black Friday War Stories

Every year I tell myself I’m just going to sit at home and wait for online sales. Every year I’m at Walmart at three a.m., combing their electronics sections in case someone missed one of the cheap-ass televisions that sold out minutes after they opened. Surely I am not alone. What gaming goodies did you…

One Of The Greatest Rivalries In StarCraft History

You can’t talk about competitive StarCraft: Brood War without two names coming up: Jaedong the Tyrant and Flash, aka The God of StarCraft TodayRazer launched Team Razer: Great Games, a video series that aims to be the definitive eSports documentary, and no definitive eSports documentary would be complete without the story of how Lee “Jaedong”…

Warlords Of Draenor Is A Little Bit Better For The Horde

On the Alliance side World of Warcraft‘s fifth expansion is all about saving the world. On the Horde side it’s all that and more. Essentially the continuation of the Horde-based drama that led up to the expansion pack in the first place, Warlords of Draenor‘s narrative is much more intriguing on the orc/troll/undead/cow/sex-elf side of…

(Almost) Everybody Getting Dizzy In Super Smash Bros. Wii U

Go home, Ness — you’re drunk. The ever-productive MasterOfHyrule has a compilation compiling compulsion which has forced him to create a video featuring every single character in Super Smash Bros. Wii U getting dizzy after their shield breaks. And by “every single” I mean everyone but Jigglypuff, who dies when its shield breaks, as per…

Watch The First LEGO Trailer For Star Wars: The Force Awakens

As soon as the excitement over yesterday’s teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens died down, LEGO animator Snooperking went to work, recreating the entire thing brick-by-brick. It’s a bit sloppy, but he made the entire thing in under 24 hours, so he can have all the leeway he wants. From the YouTube description……

No, That Wasn’t A Gamergate Reference On Last Night’s Adventure Time

Or rather it was, just not the Gamergate concerned with video games. Remember kids, gamergate is also a type of ant. Twitter was abuzz following the airing of last night’s new episode of Adventure Time, in which Finn meets a character named Leftenant Gamergate during his trip to what passes for the dentist in the…

No Sale Price Is Worth Black Friday: The Movie

This Friday you could be sitting warm and safe in your homes watching a Christmas movie and drinking hot chocolate, or you could be an unintentional extra in Black Friday the movie — All Sales Final. From Nacho Punch, the creators of Daylight Saving Time the movie, comes a twisted tale of a society pushed…

LEGO Minifigures Series 13 Includes A Hot Dog, A Unicorn And Much Joy

A German ad for the next wave of LEGO Minifigures — and by extension the next set of playable characters for LEGO Minifigures Online — has surfaced, proving that really weird dreams do come true. Minifigure collectors around the world are rejoicing today, as the coolest figure in January’s upcoming set comes in a costume…

The New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Works Better As An 8-Bit Game

The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game for the NES was brutal. The 2014 movie reboot was horrible. CineFix‘s 8 Bit Cinema mixes together two bads to make a not bad at all. The 8 Bit Cinema version of the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie has me wondering if the movie and the NES…

“How Much Can You Eat?” And Other Mildly Frightening Food Facts

One of America’s biggest eating days is almost upon us, but before we eat all of the things, how much of the things can we really eat?Vsauce3‘s latest video has the answer to this and a smorgasbord of other eating inquiries. The average human stomach can hold between three to four liters of stuff, which…

Tiny Mass Effect Figures Protect Your Pockets From Reapers

Coming soon to a GameStop near you, the Mass Effect trilogy gets a series of Minimates figures to collect in the most annoying way possible. Diamond Select Toys has an entire line of Mass Effect figures coming out, with the first wave of seven tiny space commandos and friend arriving exclusively at GameStop. That’s not…

I Can’t Get Enough Video Game Banjo Music

Banjo Guy Ollie‘s quest to cover video game’s greatest music has only just now reached the “Still Alive” stage, but then his choice of instrument isn’t exactly cutting-edge. Don’t worry, he’s got a whole bunch of video game music under his banjo strap. I’m a huge fan of banjo music that goes beyond the “dueling”…

The Proudest Moment Of My World Of Warcraft Career

From lowly newbie Shaman to decorated General of the Alliance with his own castle stronghold in a little over a month. I could definitely get used to this. This was definitely my favorite moment of the World of Warcraft Warlords of Draenor expansion so far — when what was once just a rough assemblage of…

The world’s premiere avian dating simulator is coming to PlayStation in 2015. The English release ofHatoful Boyfriend, the visual novel that took the video game and bird-watching communities by storm a few years back arrives on PlayStation 4 and Vita in the 2nd quarter of 2015. This is the oddest, most wonderful news.

Thrustmaster T300 RS Force Feedback Racing Wheel: The Kotaku Review

Thrustmaster’s T300 RS force feedback racing wheel is the first officially licensed force feedback driving controller for the PlayStation 4. I am actively afraid of it for the best of reasons. Earlier this year I declared my newfound love of racing controllers. Put off by the herky-jerky force feedback of earlier years, my reintroduction via…

The Week In Games: Stocking Up For The Winter

There aren’t a lot of games coming out between now and the new year, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any good games left for 2014. One of this week’s releases has Persona in the title. That’s always a good thing, right? I won’t say it’s a really empty week — not yet. I’m saving…

Watch Amiibo Figures Come To Life In Super Smash Bros.

The Amiibo toys launched this week alongside Super Smash Bros. Wii U, the colorful pieces of plastic adding a new dimension to Nintendo’s brawler and several other titles. Want to see them in action? Utilizing my capture box and a precariously perched webcam, I put together a series of videos demonstrating exactly how the Amiibo…

Defective Samus Amiibo? More Like Perfected Samus Amiibo

The Amiibo Samus figure Redditor Adam “Adamantium126” Truesdale received from Best Buy might not be able to enjoy a cup of coffee or open manual doors, but who cares when you’ve got double the firepower? According to aGamespot interview with the lucky owner of no-hands Samus, he didn’t even realize the figure had two cannons…

Where Were You When World Of Warcraft Started Running?

If your answer is something along the lines of “sitting in front of my computer cursing”, you certainly weren’t thinking Blizzard’s MMORPG would make it ten years, yet here we are to the day. When World of Warcraft first launched back on November 23 of 2004, I was busy playing EverQuest 2, which had come…