Mike Fahey

Snacktaku Special Report: Coca-Cola Life Surely Tastes Like Something

While vacationing in Buenos Aires, Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo sampled Coca-Cola Life, a special green-canned version of America’s favorite sugar water developed specifically for Argentina and Chile. How does it taste? Not a clue. Stephen was so grateful the beverage inside the can was not green, he neglected to tell us how it tastes. This…

Luke Hates Funko’s Game Of Thrones Vinyl Figures

Excitedly I pasted this picture of Funko’s Game of Thrones vinyl figures into our site chat, eager to share what I thought was absolutely adorable with my fellow editors. “Yuck” said Luke Plunkett, breaking my heart. It’s not only the cute factor that draws me to these vinyl figures, which go on sale at retail…

All The Cool Pokémon Tournaments Are Using X & Y Now

You might as well just throw away your copy of Pokémon Black or White 2 — they won’t get you anywhere in life. The Pokémon Video Game and Trading Card Game Winter Regional Championships are upon us, and they’re strictly X & Y. The series of competitive events marks the first time the next generation…

Razer’s Making A Smartband. How Strange.

Over the past couple of years, gaming accessory maker Razer has made big splashes at CES with ambitious projects aimed at changing the the way we game. The Nabu smartband is out to change the way we live. I’ve come to depend on Razer for splashy game-related reveals at CES, projects that lead to products…

Skylanders: Swap Force Finally Gets The Toys Needed To Finish The Game

This morning Toys’R’Us locations across the U.S. start selling Rubble Rouser and Stink Bomb, the two Skylanders toys needed to 100% complete levels in a game released three months ago. What? First, a little background for those who’ve not played Skylanders: Swap Force, the latest entry in Activision’s incredibly lucrative marriage of toys and video…

Sony’s Cloud-Based Video Service Will Stream Live TV Everywhere

Not content to just stream its games all over the place, Sony also plans to expand its Sony Entertainment Network streaming video service to deliver live television and DVR functions across multiple devices later this year. Who needs an HDMI pass-through? According to Sony Computer Entertainment president Andrew House, who took the stage during the…

Coming to PlayStation 3 on February 11, Far Cry Compilation is all the Far Cry games for $39.99. That’s Far Cry, Far Cry 2, Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. All the cries, four times as far.

It’s About Time We Got A New RoboCop Video Game

If you ask me they should have just re-released the amazing 1989 arcade RoboCop arcade game with character sprites from the new movie, but I’ll take a free-to-play mobile shooter from Glu Mobile in a pinch. It doesn’t look too shabby, as mobile movie tie-ins go. A bit of cover shooting never hurt anyone. Well,…

Valve Unveils 13 Steam Machines, With Specs And Prices

During Valve’s CES 2014 event last night, the company released a brochure featuring images, prices, and specificiations for 13 third-party Steam Machines. Let’s take a look-see! Update: And here’s the 14th, Maingear’s tiny little Spark. Aside from Alienware, the party pooper, each of the 13 machines at the very least comes with some basic specs,…

There Are Four Ways To Mount A Motherboard In This PC Case

Origin PC is calling the new PC enclosure they’ve created “the most advanced and customizable desktop case in the world.” I think they might just have something here. Origin PC calls the feature, rolling out now exclusively to the company’s Genesis and Millennium lines, “Variable Mounting.” The case allows for the motherboard to be inserted…

There Are Mountain Dew Cheetos In Japan. I Have Ordered Them.

Today I learned, via Reddit, that Japan contains Mountain Dew flavored Cheetos. As a means of proving my dedication to the Snacktaku cause into the year 2014, I have ordered three packages. “But Fahey,” you say. “Don’t you already have at least three people living in and working from Japan?” I was not aware of…

My Favorite Steam Machine So Far Is Barely Larger Than A Sandwich

Maingear’s Steam Machine didn’t make it into Valve’s brochure. At 4.5 x 4.23 x 2.34 inches and weighing less than a pound, it’s pretty easy to miss. While many of the official third-party Steam Machine partners have been doing their damndest to make a full-size gaming PC as small as possible, manufactures like Maingear (and,…

Origin’s Steam Machine Has That Set-Top Box Look

Origin Systems’ entry in the Steam Machine market would look right at home atop your television, if we hadn’t advanced to the point where such a thing requires tremendous balancing skills. The Chronos looks like my brother’s stereo in 1989. I can dig it. Steam Machines come in all shapes and sizes — one might…

I Knew We Couldn’t Trust Those Damn Ewoks

There was always something a little off about the cuddly creatures that played heavily in the sixth act of the Star Wars saga. Now we know. It’s not so much a LEGO stop-motion animation from the Brotherhood Workshop as it is a a dramatic representation of true events. It makes sense. There’s nothing quite as…

Adventure Time toys are coming to McDonald’s Happy Meals January 17. Finn, Jake, Ice King and Beemo are excellent reasons to pick up boxed lunches for the homeless in your area. According to HappyMeal.com, these are boys’ toys. Girls will have to deal with Paul Frank’s stupid monkey.

Got extra Skylanders? Encase them in endless holiday nightmare. The problem with collecting Skylanders toys and games is extra toys and extra toy-scanning portals of power. Toy customization expert KodyKoala hasjust the thing — a glowing crystal prison — a Skylanders phantom zone. Such exquisite torture.

The Steam Machine most likely to transform into a 90s robot. CyberPowerPC’s newly-announced Steam Machines, due out in the second half of 2014, start at $499 and look like the ski boots I wanted to buy in high school to build a robot costume. More info should be available on theirconfusing website later today.

The First Liquid-Cooled Steam Machine

Some Steam Machine makers are attempting to create small form factor gaming machines powered and priced competitively to the latest generation consoles. Starting at $1,899, Digital Storm’s liquid-cooled Bolt II is not one of those. Digital Storm has proven itself capable of creating affordable gaming machines, but for the most part the company has been…

The First Official Wireless iOS Gamepad Is Small. Maybe Too Small.

All the age of controller-enabled iOS gaming has given us so far is a pair of wraparound shell controllers that only work with newer iPhones or iPod Touches. Where’s the iPad love? SteelSeries brings the iPad love with the Stratus — the first official wireless gaming controller for iOS 7. SteelSeries has been in the…

It’s Okay, They Aren’t Ponies — They’re Raptors.

People keep telling me it’s wrong for a grown man to enjoy a cartoon about colorful pony friendship. Fine. How about colorful velociraptor friendship? The incredibly talented Brianna “Cherry” Garcia offers this splendid compromise. Somewhere between My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and conforming to whatever society thinks a normal guy should like, there is…