Mike Fahey

Motorcycle Murdered By Raging, Xbox-Deprived Stepson

A 19-year-old man from St. George, Utah, faces felony domestic abuse criminal mischief charges after allegedly beating the living hell out a custom Harley-Davidson after his stepfather turned the Xbox off. According to a report filed by St. George Police Officer David McDaniel, Alec Young’s stepfather arrived at his home earlier this week to find…

Thirteen Years Of Halo Nostalgia In Six Perfect Posters

Deviant Artist and Halo fan Scourge07 combined his penchant for art with his passion for Bungie shooters to create a series of wonderful minimalist posters, one for each game in the series. Well, each core game at least. I do not see a Halo Wars entry, nor do I see one for Spartan Assault, the…

Try The Chalupanator And Other Horrible Fast Food Mash-Ups

Are you craving a bacon-pregnant burger from Wendy’s, or one of Taco Bell’s countless variations of the same couple of ingredients? Why not have both? It’s so easy to lose sight of the bigger picture when determining which terrible yet cheap-and-tasty fast food to put in your mouth. We look at each individual restaurant as…

The Saturday Morning Stream Plays Infamous: Second Son (Stream Over)

You’ve read the review. You’ve seen the tips. You may have even see us stream this very game live earlier this week, but this is the Saturday Morning Stream, and we play what we like — and that’s Infamous: Second Son. Okay, so maybe I wasn’t paying attention to Kotaku on Thursday and missed the…

You’ll Never Guess Who’s Lending His Voice To Kinect Sports Rivals

Making his video game voiceover debut next month in Kinect Sports Rivals, the Tenth Doctor and the grumpy dying detective from Broadchurch, Mr. David Tennant. Isn’t he dreamy? Is it wrong that I suddenly want to give Kinect Sports Rivals more of a chance than I did before learning Tennant was providing his voice to…

Sacred 3 Is Coming August 26. This Is What It Looks Like.

My favorite series of Diablo-clones continues on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC this summer. To celebrate, here’s out first look at Deep Silver’s Sacred 3 in action. The Sacred series has always come across as a bit more fun than Diablo proper, an impression that springs from the fact that it doesn’t have to…

Galactic Strongholds Adds Player Housing To The Old Republic In June

Teased earlier this month, Galactic Strongholds is the next major free expansion pack for Star Wars: The Old Republic, allowing players of the MMORPG to set up swanky digs across the galaxy. Every massively multiplayer online role-playing game needs player housing, if only to keep players from having cybersex in public (sorry, EverQuest players on…

Titanfall For The Xbox 360 Pushed Back Two Weeks

Originally scheduled for release next week, the Xbox 360 version of Respawn Entertainment’s mech shooter has been pushed back to April 8 (April 11 in Europe) to give port developer Bluepoint Games time to make it better. The Titanfall 360 delay news comes from a post on EA.com from EA Studios executive vice president Patrick…

Let’s Roll One Up For The 10th Anniversary Of Katamari Damacy

One of the happiest gaming days of my life was the first time I played Katamari Damacy for the PlayStation 2. Released by Namco in Japan on March 18, 2004, Katamari Damacy was the sort of strange, Japanese-flavored game that normally wouldn’t make its was to the West. With its brilliantly simple design, bizarre humor,…

The Hottest Ground Zeroes Review Involves A Ghost Pepper

It’s been awhile since we’ve checked in with the folks at Hot Pepper Gaming, where every game review is accompanied by self-inflicted torture. Let’s watch Arin “Egoraptor” Hanson review Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes while eating one of the world’s hottest peppers. I believe the Ghost Pepper, or Bhut Jolokia, is currently the world’s third…

Everyone Who Was Upset About Deus Ex: The Fall Can Play It On PC Now

Remember the outcry over Deus Ex: The Fall, the mobile side story to Square Enix’s hit Deus Ex: Human Revolution? The game just hit Steam, so everyone can be happy now. Yay! Well, except for console gamers, who’ll have to wait until someone turns it into a digital download for PSN or Xbox Live Arcade.…

Bumblebee Takes Command In The Next Transformers Animated Series

Arise, Bumblebee Prime? The tiny yellow Volkswagen that cost like $3 back in 1984 finally nabs a show-runner spot, as The Hub Network announces he’ll lead a fresh team of Autobots in a new Transformers animated series, in production for 2015. Picking up years after the Transformers: Prime series and the special Transformers Prime Beast…

The Sequel To The Best Solitaire/Golf Crossover Is Coming April 3

Big Fish Games’ Fairway Solitaire — an odd mix of the classic card game and golf — took us by surprise back in 2012. We won’t make the same mistake with the sequel, Fairway Solitaire Blast, coming to iOS and Android April 3. I can feel those eye rolls, you know. I realize presenting you…

Forget Titanfall, Garden Warfare Is Getting Free DLC Tomorrow

You’re really pretty, Titanfall, and you know I’ll be coming back to you eventually. It’s just I’ve got this date with a free new map and game mode for a game where I don’t feel like a complete ass for getting a low kill count. I’m still playing Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare weeks after…

How The Turn-Based Angry Birds RPG Works

Last week’s oddest announcement, Angry Birds Epic has now soft launched in Australia and Canada, giving players pretending to be in those countries a chance to find out just what the hell is going on. Let’s take a look. If they wouldn’t have been sued out of existence, Rovio should have called this game Angry…

The Week in Games: Second Son Of A Second Son

Every week video game publishers release video games into the retail and digital marketplace. What makes this week different? Nothing, really. Oh look, it’s Infamous: Second Son! Nice. TUESDAY, MARCH 18 Deus Ex: The Fall (PC) Final Fantasy X-X2 HD (Vita, PS3) Luftrausers (PC, Mac, PS3) Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (PS4, Xbox One,…

Anyone Who’s Ever Loved A Pet Should Watch This

I posted this week’s special Brawl in the Family video comic in today’s edition of Sunday Comics, but I felt it needed a place of its own. As a friend put it, this is the tragedy of pet ownership spoken in the vernacular of video games. And that’s why I spent half the day reading…

This weekend also marks the 5th birthday of one of the most popular titles in mobile gaming history. Lima Sky’s Doodle Jump has been downloaded more than 150 million times since its 2009 launch, appearing on Android, iOS, Windows Phone 7 and 8, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360 and Symbian. Such gleeful hopping.

Happy 15th Anniversary, EverQuest

On March 16, 1999, Sony invited players to venture into the world of Norrath for the first time. EverQuest has been changing lives ever since, including mine. I’m not just talking about my bout of addiction, which I chronicled on Kotaku years ago. The original EverQuest changed the way I interacted with people. By giving…

Pi Ain’t Nothing Special

As Kotaku‘s new weekend editor I am now off Thursday and Friday, so I missed the celebration of Pi Day on 3/14. I felt bad about it. Then I saw Vihart‘s latest anti-Pi rant. Now I feel much better, thanks to colored markers rapidly sketching out Pi’s overwhelming plainness. I think the whole affair is…