Mike Fahey

The Next Avengers Game Takes On Turn-Based Tactics

We may never get a proper, big budget action/adventure game based on the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, but the success of turn-based social RPG Marvel: Avengers Alliance suggests fans are willing to accept substitutes. Well, here comes Marvel: Avengers Alliance Tactics. A continuation of Avengers Alliance, Disney Interactive’s Avengers Alliance Tactics for Facebook looks to follow…

It’s Hard To Believe Students Made These Clever Borderlands Short Films

The Academy of Art University in San Francisco got together with the folks at 2K to give students a chance to create animated short films set in the Borderlands universe. The result is three funny little bits of animation, suitable for stealth marketing. In the first short, Claptrap attempts to interrogate a psycho bandit using…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: A Farewell to Pokemon One a Day + Thank You Note for TAY • TAYnami – Ultimate Cliché Edition • Talk Time: A Show and a Game (How I Was Changed by Media) • NotGoodForReview – Brutal Doom TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…

You Can Now Play Portal And Half-Life 2 On The Go

Last month Nvidia teased the upcoming release of the original Portal for its Tegra 4-powered Shield gaming portable. Good news — Portal is available on Google Play today. Better news — so is Half-Life 2. While the Shield is capable of streaming from a Nvidia-powered PC to the handheld screen, that’s not what these releases…

What An Odd Wolfenstein: The New Order Fan Film

Clinton Jones, AKA YouTube’s Pwnisher, spent five months putting together the Wolfenstein: The New Order fan film “The Liberation of London.” As shown in the image above, the film takes several very strange turns. From the teaser trailer released back on May 8, I was expecting some sort of gritty espionage thriller. The film’s description…

I’m Completely Smitten By This Simple Little Physics Puzzler

I’d never heard of the game Kiwanuka prior to my regular Thursday afternoon App Store shopping spree this past week. Now I can’t stop talking about it. That I even dropped the $1.99 asking price on CMA Megacorp’s physics puzzler is strange — normally I pick up the games I’ve heard of, download anything new…

The Week In Games: Platform Jumping

Between tomorrow’s launch of the absolutely charming The Last Tinker: City of Colors and several eagerly-awaited re-ish releases for the Vita and PC, it’s definitely a platform jumping sort of week. While The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 3 keeps the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gamers busy, PC and Vita owners play with past…

The Games My Mother Played

(Originally published May 11, 2008) May 1st 1980 I came home from school to find my mother waiting there for me, a giddy smile on her lips. She always loved birthdays. Back then we were living in an apartment, my younger sister and I sharing one room, my older brother and sister sometimes sharing another,…

Far Cry 3 Cat Cosplay Is The Definition Of Insanity

Russian photographer and artist Nikol Lisova (via Reddit) discovered the one way to make Far Cry 3’s insane antagonist Vaas even more sinister. Just look at that poor stuffed animal, buried up to its neck in crystal cat litter. You can almost see cat model Masya soaking up its terror. I’d daresay it’s a Vaas…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Under The Sea

After a month spent exploring some of the world’s most wondrous places, Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo returns to work tomorrow. I can think of no greater homecoming present than to have his memories forever preserved in slightly bastardized form by our army of Photoshop savvy readers. Since I’ve taken up the mantle of weekend editor,…

Sunday Comics: Gastric Juices

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 May 9. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published May 5. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

Here’s The First Footage Of Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

The long-awaited remakes of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire were announced earlier this week, and now we have our first, incredibly brief look at the games in action. Fans from around the world packed themselves into YouTube livestreams of this week’s episode of TV Tokyo’s Pokémon Get TV for a chance to catch the first gameplay…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Star Wars The Next Generation: The Winners!

Seven days ago on a website right about here somewhere, our Photoshop-savvy readers were tasked with bringing together new Star Wars actors and classic Star Wars settings (more or less). While the brave waxinmyhead claims the prize, there are about 20 others. This was a really close one, folks. I spent a couple of hours…

See What The New Harmonix Mobile Game Does To Your Music

Developed by the music game masters at Harmonix and SuperVillain Studios, Record Run takes the music on your iDevice and turns it into a quirky little running game. Here are two choice selections from my MP3 library, gamified. First up is that modern classic, “Space Unicorn” by Nerf Herder front man Parry Gripp. This is…

If You’re A Geek In Atlanta, You Should Visit Battle & Brew

On no less than two separate occasions have I ventured to the Atlanta’s Battle & Brew game bar, with the intention of writing a feature on the popular hangout for fans of video games, e-sports, anime and everything else under the brilliant geek sun. Now that they’ve made their own promotional video, I don’t have…

Cats Playing Candy Crush Saga, Ladies And Gentlemen

If we take away one positive thing from the world’s once fiery-hot obsession with Candy Crush Saga, let it be this compilation of feline feet flailing against expensive electronics. YouTube’s Fabulous Mr. Pug (via Tastefully Offensive) compiled this collection of gaming cat videos from around the world, and while some of them may be playing…

I Designed The Most Hideous Xbox One Controller

The custom controller masters over at The Controller Shop have built a photo-realistic lab for their website, where customers can create and save their dream creations. As you can see, this is not always the best idea. Blue sparkly directional pad? Check. Candy red buttons? Check. Pink and black metallic tiger striped face? Yup. Green…

The Ultimate Version Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme Song

Every Saturday, Scott Bradlee and his slow jam crew deliver a sexy slow jam version of a classic cartoon theme. This week they’ve completely outdone themselves. Pokemon, Duck Tales and Chip and Dale — those were just warm-ups for the main event. Every time I see a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle on a screen of…

The Return Of The Worst Pokémon Trainer Ever

After more than a year on standby, Dorkly recently returned to continuing saga of Rusty, the Pokémon trainer who kept a dozen Bidoofs in a single ball, killed Snorlax with a Toyota Camry and drowned his Zubat trying to teach it Surf. As Rusty enters a Ghost Pokémon tower, past mistakes return to haunt him.

The Saturday Morning Stream: Bound By Flame (All Done!)

In this week’s exciting episode of The Saturday Morning Stream, I play a challenging fantasy action-adventure game that just sort of showed up this week — Bound by Flame. I love it when a game sneaks up on me. It hardly ever happens in my line of work. When it does, it generally means one…