Mike Fahey

The Unlikely Future Of Ordering At Pizza Hut

The first thing this concept video for a fully interactive tabletop Pizza Hut touch ordering system gets wrong is imagining a future where people still dine in at Pizza Hut. I have not sat down at a Pizza Hut in more than a decade, back when I worked out of an office in Alpharetta, Georgia,…

Sour Watermelon Marshmallow Peeps: The Snacktaku Review

I considered Marshmallow Peeps the pinnacle of the pure sugar delivery snack pack, a pure and simple delight that could not be improved upon. Sour Watermelon Peeps have proven me wrong — there is another. Flavored marshmallows don’t normally do anything for me. That’s because marshmallow is lousy at flavor transport, capable at best of…

What Happens When Your Limbs Fall Asleep

Having risen from countless couch (or bathroom) gaming sensations to find my arms or legs assaulted by a million pins and needles, I am very interested in knowing what the hell is going on when my body parts fall asleep. Here’s DNews with the sweet science. Nerves and I don’t get along. Having suffered from…

The More-Or-Less Completely Inaccurate Origin Of Sonic The Hedgehog

“A hedgehog.” “Really?” “Yeah, yeah, a hedgehog.” “But hedgehogs are really slow.” “They don’t have to be.” “I’m listening…” Beasts Comedy‘s hilarious reenactment of the birth of Sonic the Hedgehog seems pretty spot-on to me. I mean sure, Naoto Oshima and Yuji Naka are Japanese, as likely was any overseer they might have had. Other…

Zynga Boosts Its Mobile Lineup With New FarmVille, Words With Friends

In a special note today to players thanking them for six years of support, Zynga chief operating officer Clive Downie revealed three new mobile titles soon to be released worldwide, including a FarmVille 2 game that’s completely different from its Facebook counterpart. Zynga first attempts at porting its ‘Ville series of web-based social titles to…

Kids Discover Rotary Phones, Everyone Else Feels Really Old

There was a time when we didn’t need games on our phones, because every phone came with a built-in game of roundabouts. Kids today have no idea what they missed, and don’t seem too impressed when they find out. For my children’s first birthdays, my sister got them a pair of those classic Fisher Price…

The 3DS XL Yoshi fans have been waiting for. Already announced for Europe, the limited edition Yoshi Edition 3DS XL will be available in North America on March 14 for $199.99, just in time for the release of Yoshi’s New Island, sold separately.

The Greatest X-Men Story Ever Told Is Getting A Video Game

Today Marvel Comics announced Uncanny X-Men: Days Of Future Past, a mobile game based on the dark future storyline from The Uncanny X-Men issues 141 and 142. Yes, it is a mobile game, but it’s a 2D side-scrolling mobile game from Glitchsoft, the folks behind He-Man: The Most Powerful Game in the Universe andDestructopus, so…

Blink And You’ll Miss The First Shot Of TV’s New Flash In Costume

I’ve been waiting for this moment since Grant Gustin first showed up as Barry Allen in CW’s Arrow earlier this season — our first peek at the latest TV iteration of DC Comics’ scarlet speedster, the Flash. Spoilers follow. Last we saw Gustin he was being splashed with chemicals and struck by lightning at the…

Civilization Revolution and Dungeon Defenders are the March offerings from the Xbox 360 Games with Gold program. Xbox 360 owners will be able to snag these games free from March 1-15 and 16-31 respectively.

Meet The First Exclusive Bots To Battle In Transformers Universe

Massively online tactical action game Transformers Universe is coming this summer, so it’s about time developer Jagex started rolling out some exclusive robots for the Transformers Prime-inspired game. Say hello to Duststorm and Meltdown. Now that we know the once-MMORPG is now a squad-based tactics action game, we’re going to need some fresh squad leaders.…

An HDMI Mod For The Nintendo 64? That’s A Good Start.

The more television technology advances, the harder it is to keep our classic consoles hooked up. Modder Marshall over at Retroactive is working on a device to bring the last cartridge-based Nintendo console into the HDMI age. Anyone know how to solder? Tentatively scheduled for a Q1 2014 release, the N64 HDMI Coverter is a…

Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare: The Kotaku Review

The most rabid player of PopCap’s Plants Vs. Zombies series I know sat down next to me as I loaded up Garden Warfare for the Xbox One. After watching me play for five minutes, she stood up, said “I’d be so lost playing this”, and wandered off. The rabid player in question is my wife-creature,…

The Walking Dead Season Two Continues Next Week. Until Then, Trailer.

Tuesday, March 4 marks the continuation of Clementine’s undead-tainted coming-of-age tale on the PlayStation 3 in “A House Divided”, as teased by this star-studded trailer. I really need to catch up. I’m still on the final episode of the first season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead series, having been sidetracked by all sorts of far…

Criterion Games is giving away free ECTO-1’s in Burnout Paradise in honor of the legendary Harold Ramis. Owners of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game in North America can download the TV and movie themed “Legendary Cars” DLC for free today.

Ex-Pixeljunk Devs Mix Turn-Based And Real-Time In Nova-111

Taking turns is lovely. Twitchy action is lovely as well. Funktronic Labs’ upcoming PC adventure Nova-111 combines turn-based and real-time gameplay into an incredibly intriguing, double-lovely thing. Once upon a spacetime, there existed a team of intelligent scientists, who were living in a turn-based world. They were interested in expediting their scientific research, and thus…

Facepalm Games’ atmospheric PC space adventure The Swapper is coming to all things PlayStation in May. According to the PlayStation Blog, innovative cloning puzzles will grace the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Vita this spring, with Cross-Buy goodness so folks can play on whatever’s handy.

Call Of Duty: Elite Shuts Down On Friday. It’s Okay To Cry.

Remember back in 2011 when Activision’s ambitious online service dedicated to the Call of Duty franchise and its players was going to be thebest thing ever? It’s shutting down forever on February 28. That’s skull logo has never been more appropriate. Clans and stat-tracking and advanced matchmaking and original comedy programming! All of these were…

Taco Bell’s Waffle Taco Is Going Nationwide. Prepare Yourselves.

Last year I traveled the countryside far longer than I needed to in order to acquire an early taste of the Waffle Taco, the linchpin of Taco Bell’s new breakfast menu — a menu launching nationwide next month. As the LA Times reports, Taco Bell will be rolling out the Waffle Taco and it’s tastier…

Tips For Playing Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare has arrived on the Xbox One and Xbox 360, with gameplay unlike anything the series has ever seen. It’s so wildly different, I thought you folks could use a few tips. Since Garden Warfare is an online multiplayer game, we’re giving our review an extra day to see how servers…