Mike Fahey

The Honest Game Trailer For Candy Crush Saga Is Justly Brutal

Smosh Games gives everyone’s second-favorite bathroom game the Honest Trailers treatment, brutalizing Kings’ innocent candy-swapping game, which never did nothing to no one. Or maybe it’s a well-deserved thrashing. After all, what kind of sick bastard of a video game makes a person angry about receiving chocolate?

Inane Internet Quiz Asks “What Kind Of Video Game Is Your Life?”

It’s about time, stupidly inaccurate Facebook-shared personality quizzes. While I do not care which Supernatural character I should date and am only mildly curious as to which My Little Pony I am , I very much want to know what kind of video game my life is. Let’s find out! Brand publisher WD Ventito crafted…

There’s Something Special About Atlanta Cosplay

Atlanta cosplayers are just the best, and they proved it at last weekend’s MomoCon. Man Tifa? Done. Kingdom Hearts Batman? No problem. Solid Snake sneaking behind Mega Man? How many would you like? I might be a little bit biased, having lived in Atlanta for the past 30 years, but I prefer to think of…

The Saturday Morning Stream: WildStar Is Go [Complete!]

The head start for Carbine Studio’s new science fiction MMO WildStar kicked off early this morning, giving birth to thousands of weird little animal people with giant eyes. We’re going to follow one of them into the wilds of the legendary Planet Nexus. The little mouse critter is my new character, Rande, an Aurin Spellslinger…

Tips For Playing Mario Kart 8

The latest installment of Nintendo’s popular kart racing franchise is upon us, and the urge to dive right in and start taking home trophies is strong, but first… …here are some general tips to get you started. Race Against The Machine I know, it’s rare that we get a Nintendo game with such a robust…

Mario Kart 8: The Kotaku Review

“Everyone has fond memories of the Mario Kart series” reads a blurb in the review materials for the eighth game in the series. Up until now, I really didn’t. Mario Kart was never my game. When Super Mario Kart was released for North American Super Nintendo systems in 1992, I was already in love with…

There’s A Great Game Beneath Monster Monpiece‘s Awkward Anime Stroking

Update 5/28/2014: Monster Monpiece is finally out in North America (Europe gets it next week), and the sentiment in this Japanese preview still holds: It’s a great game, but damn that embarrassing girl-stroking mechanic. In PlayStation Vita game Monster Monpiece, players increase the powers of collectible cards by vigorously rubbing pictures of young women until…

14,000 People Are Watching Meat Cook Right Now

And now so are you. Arby’s never-ending crusade to get people to accept mayonnaise on a smoked brisket sandwich has culminated in this — a 13 hour live stream of a piece of seasoned meat inside of a smoker. While it took a visit to Arby’s test kitchen in Atlanta to convince me of the…

What Today’s Biggest Mobile Games Need Is Ugly ’80s Box Art

Back in the ’80s, hardcore gamers loved the sort of simplistic fare that mobile gamers thrive on today. So why can’t the hardcore embrace popular mobile games? I’m guessing it’s the lack of almost completely unrelated painted cover art. Gaming humor palace Dorkly imagines a world where mobile games get the half-assed fantasy art they…

Nvidia Launches Its Most Powerful (And Expensive) Video Card Yet

Packed with the power of two GK110 GTX Titan Black graphics processing units and all the all the CUDA cores a CUDA core lover could ever want, Nvidia’s 4K Ultra HD-killing Titan Z is ready to upgrade your computer to the tune of $3,000. It’s been a couple of months since Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang…

Angry Birds Star Wars II invaded by clones. The iOS version of Rovio’s second Star Wars themed bird-flinger just updated with 40 free new levels, taking us even deeper into the second trilogy than we wanted to go. Other platforms shall update soon. Over at the Angry Birds blogthey’ve posted some awesome macro Telepod toy…

8-Bit Donnie Darko Is Every Bit As Twisted As The Film

I remember my first viewing of Richard Kelly’s cult classic, Donnie Darko, as if it were late last night in a quiet, somewhat creepy house, silence pierced only by faint wwhistle of a rapidly descending jet engine. It went’s something like this (spoilers!). The 8-bit movie translators over at CineFix did an amazing job with…

Everything WildStar Has To Offer In One Final Pre-Launch Trailer

Carbide Studios’ massively multiplayer online science fiction role-playing game launches a week from today, with early start kicking off Saturday morning at 12:01 am Pacific. That makes this final features trailer the big pre-launch push for WildStar — if you don’t see something you like here, just keep on playing whatever you were playing. I’m…

Final Fantasy III is now available on Steam. The first legitimate PC version of the game is a port of the relatively recent 3D remake, and will set you back $15.99. Be sure to give your Warriors of Light distinctive names, so they aren’t confused with all of the other nameless, world-saving orphans.

Watch 15 Minutes Of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

Not only does this video contain more than 15 minutes of footage from the upcoming last-gen-only Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, it also includes more than 15 minutes of narration in both regular and Australian flavors. What a bargain! If this gameplay footage seems familiar to you, then perhaps you attended the PAX East presentation which it…

Track: Cool Baby | Album: Amplitude Original Game Audio | Artist: DJ HMX & Plural Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

The Week In Games: Canine Consideration

Nothing really important is coming out this week. You should all just go outside and play. Maybe build a go-kart, or visit a dog park. Tuesday, May 27 Watch Dogs (PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One) Mind Zero (Vita) Sly Cooper Collection (Vita) Ace Combat Infinity (PS3) Monster Monpiece (Vita) Final Fantasy III (PC/Steam)…

Kids Reacting To Old Computers Hurts My Heart So Much

Kids today, with their graphical user interfaces and high DPI mice. Why, when I was their age I was getting kicked out of Radio Shack for making the computers spew out endless streams of curse words. 10 Print “Sadness”; 20 Goto 10. If anything, this latest “Kids React” video from The Fine Bros makes me…

Relive Your Mass Effect Romance With 21 Inches Of Hot Garrus Statue

Garrus Vakarian was a humble C-Sec investigator until you set him free. In turn, he set your heart free with his gentle, somewhat chitinous touch. Now Gaming Heads is offering you a chance to hold him in your arms once more, with the first in its new line of 1/4 scale Mass Effect statues. There’s…

Here’s What Comes Inside Pokemon X & Y Happy Meals

After a seemingly never-ending run of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 junk, the promised Pokemon X & Y toys have finally arrived in Happy Meals at U.S. McDonald’s locations. I purchased a couple of Happy Meals for my children and stole their toys, just for you folks. So what is all of this junk? First off,…