Mike Fahey

The Latest LEGO Minifigures Are Video Game Characters Too

Adding a new dimension to collecting LEGO’s iconic action figure series, starting with this month’s Series 12, every physical figure comes with a code to unlock them for play in LEGO Minifigures Online — and they’re so cool. Funcom’s Minifig-powered MMO has been in beta for several months, during which players have been limited to…

“What you’re seeing is Advanced Warfare,” says Kevin Spacey’s Jonathan Irons at the start of this official gameplay launch trailer for November 3’s installment of the Call of Duty series. Well, there you go then.

Watch An Artist Bring Twilight Princess‘ Midna To Watercolor Life

One of The Legend of Zelda‘s most enigmatic figures, the impish Midna has captured the imaginations of countless artists in the early eight years since its release. Watch as watercolor artistAdam Scythegives us his interpretation. A good piece of art is a wonderful thing, but being privy to the process adds so much depth to…

The Female Thor Is Already A Playable Video Game Character

The all-new, all-female Thor is so new in the comic books that we still don’t know who she actually is, but that hasn’t stopped her from snagging a starring role in D3Publisher’s ongoing Marvel Puzzle Quest. It’s hardly fair calling firsties when your game only requires a few bits of art and the definition of…

You’ve Got To Really Love The Evil Within To Spend $300 On This Guy

I can understand a Skyrim statue, and those Doom plushies were about the cutest thing ever, but the latest fruit of Bethesda’s partnership with collectible maker Gaming Heads is a $300 statue of a man with a barbwire-wrapped safe spouting tentacles for a head. That’s not okay. Now I have not played The Evil Within…

The Best Thing About The New Vita Themes Is The Menu Music

For more than two and a half years we’ve been dealing with the same PlayStation Vita menu music. The last thing I wanted from the PlayStation TV was that same damn piece playing on my television set. Thanks to the recently-released Vita themes, I don’t have to hear it anymore. It seems like such a…

Poor Man Endlessly Assaulted By Street Fighter Quotes

An innocent man’s work life is wracked with terror, thanks to his coworker’s fiendish use of startling Street Fighter quotes. I’m so glad I work from home. Not because I think any of my coworkers would do something like this to me — they don’t have the stones. No, it would be me on the…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: What Should Really Anger Gamers? • Ani-TAY Summer 2014 Seasonal Overview • Why I’m Looking Forward to Persona 5 • Game of The Week-Glory to Arstotska • The disappointment of Dragon Age Keep TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Angry Birds Transformers Is Out Today. Fans Should Grab It.

And by “you” I mean old-school Transformers fans, for while the game is a bit of a free-to-play time-sink, it’s got the touch and power of a project put together by 1980s-era fans. Rovio’s birds and pigs are disguised as robots in disguise, but this isn’t a game about Autobirds Vs. Deceptihogs, nor is it…

What’s Changed In World Of Warcraft‘s Pre-Expansion Patch

The Dark Portal as we know it has closed, as Blizzard’s decade-old MMORPG prepares for next month’s fifth expansion pack. The world has changed. Your characters may have changed. Here’s what’s new before the new-new. There’s an Iron Horde Incursion world event going on, bridging the gap between the current story and the time-travelling tale…

We Streamed The Duck Dynasty Game, Because Why Not

Why is there a Duck Dynasty game on Steam right now? Good question. Let’s find out together. Update: Stream over, and the game was surprisingly not bad. I’ve always been fascinated by games that just suddenly appear with little or no fanfare. I’ve seen nothing but screenshots of this Activision-published title. In a moment I’m…

The Pokémon Remakes Grant Players The Power Of Flight

Because there’s no better time to drop fresh Pokémon news than minutes after a major preview embargo lifts, The Pokémon Company gives us “Soar” a new ability that allows players of Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire the ability to fly through the air on the backs of Mega Latias and Latios. Securing Latios…

The Best Reason To Pick Up A PlayStation TV At Launch

I’ve had the opening cinematic to Persona 4 Golden for the PlayStation Vita playing endlessly on the 46-inch television in my office all night long. If you find that exciting, the Sony’s PlayStation TV just might be for you. The PlayStation TV can play television shows and movies from a small number of streaming services.…

PlayStation TV’s Video App Selection Is Rather Sparse Right Now

Those looking to pick up a PlayStation TV micro-console tomorrow with an eye on streaming television shows and movies might be a little disappointed. Right now it’s got Sony’s streaming service, Crunchyroll, Crackle, and that’s it. Surely there will be more streaming apps coming to the PlayStation TV in the near future, but as of…

The PlayStation TV Does A Decent Job Of Streaming PS4 Games

Look at me, streaming Diablo III Ultimate Evil Edition to a tiny black box from a game console in an entirely different room. Truly we live in magical times. The PlayStation TV arrives in U.S. and Canada tomorrow, bringing with nearly all the powers of a PlayStation Vita. And while I’m in it for playing…

Getting Started With The PlayStation TV

Sony’s PlayStation Vita in-a-set-top-box arrives in stores in North America tomorrow. Here’s what to expect while setting up the tiny PlayStation TV in your home. The PlayStation TV is a micro-console that attaches via HDMI cable to your television set or computer monitor. Inside the small black unit are the guts of a PlayStation Vita…

Shiny Gengar haunts U.S. GameStop locations today.Today through October 26, trainers with a copy of Pokémon X or Pokémon Y can receive a special code card containing Shiny Gengar holding a Gengarite Mega Stone at participating GameStop locations. Don’t miss out, as I doubtlessly will.

South Park Pinball Seems Like Just The Right Amount Of South Park

Zen Studios upgrades its various pinball platforms this week with a tables based on the animated Christmas card that refused to die: South Park: Super-Sweet Pinball and Butters’ Very Own Pinball Game. Awww, Butters. The recent turn-based role-playing game was a bit too much South Park for me to digest in one sitting. A pair…

Now RuneScape Is Getting A Collectible Card Game Spin-Off

Coming in 2015 to PC, Mac, iOS and Android, Chronicle: RuneScape Legends is a collectible card game based on a long-running massively multiplayer role-playing game. Crazy, right? The Hearthstone vibe is strong, sure, but the game’s concept sounds quite different than Blizzard’s highly successful dueling card game. Chronicles will be a quest-building game, where players…

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