Mike Fahey

Angry Birds Go! Is Taking A Seriously Wrong Turn

It’s still a couple of weeks before the Angry Birds kart racing game hits mobile devices in North America, but it’s on New Zealand’s iTunes right now, and I’ve played it long enough to get very angry with it. Energy meters? Really? A lot of folks like to rip on the Angry Birds series for…

Nobody wants your Black Friday discounts, Grand Theft Auto Online Judging by the comments under Rockstar’s news post, most players would prefer an experience boost or news of new and upcoming downloadable content than 50 percent off hunting rifles and black clothing.

Skulls Of The Shogun Finally Makes It To iOS, And It’s Brilliant

After spending most of the year as a Windows Phone 8 exclusive, the mobile version of 17-Bit’s wonderful little turn-based strategy game finally makes the jump to iOS, and damn if it doesn’t look gorgeous there. Inspired by the Advance Wars series, Skulls of the Shogun‘s gorgeous 2D-meets-3D style has been charming the hell out…

Activision Is Going To Make So Much Money From This Skylanders App

Available today for iOS, the Skylanders Collection Vault is an app that tells kids exactly how many Skylanders their parents still need to buy them, while letting them compare their paltry collection to the kid down the street whose mom and dad love him more. It’s so awesome. No really, it’s brilliant. Call of Duty…

Even The Most Promising Game Can Be Ruined By Free-To-Play Foolishness

Dammit, Tank Nation — why won’t you just let me love you? I wanted to spend hours flinging projectiles at challenging enemies against lush 2D backdrops, pausing only to use my amassed resources to fit new parts and upgrades onto my fantastical tank creations. I wanted to progress through the expansive story, discover new lands…

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is going mobile next month. iOS, Android, Amazon, and Windows Mobile gamers will soon be able to dive into an enhanced version of early 90s Los Santos, where protagonist CJ will have another chance to follow the damn train. Expect enhanced graphics, controller support (woot), and a distinct lack of…

Aw, Hel — Hi-Rez Studios‘ Smite is officially releasing on March. Having accrued some 2.5 million worshippers during open beta, the god-on-god MOBA will undergo a baptism-by-fire following its March 25 release, with a $100,000 launch tournament held in scenic Atlanta, Georgia. Still waiting for them to add Jesus.

How To Talk To Your Children About The New Angry Birds Update

There’s a new update for Angry Birds available today, transforming the Bomb Bird’s explosions into highly-destructive electrical pulses. Your children will have questions about this update, and the accompanying trailer. We’ve got answers. How many updates are Rovio going to make? All of them. How does a Bomb Bird become an Electrified Bomb Bird? When…

All The Assassin’s Creed Naval Battles You Can Take Coming December 5

Ahoy, Android and iOS mateys! No, I can’t do that. That’s stupid. I’ll just — look, Assassin’s Creed Pirates is coming to iOS and Android on December 5. It has all the boats. Look at the goddamned boats. My brother was the biggest Assassin’s Creed fan I knew, until Assassin’s Creed III made him do…

Dress Your Xbox One And PS4 Up Like Respectable Game Consoles

Ah, that’s much better. Now where do I put my money? Lovingly crafted by the fine folks at houseofgrafix (thanks, Paciano!), these NES-flavored skins transform your boring black boxes into actual video game consoles. They’re so pretty you’ll want to blow them to clear the dust from the contacts before inserting your cartridges. I can’t…

A New Doctor Who Game, Just In Time For A New Doctor

At this point, between this past weekend’s 50th Anniversary special and the upcoming regeneration of the 11th (or 12th) Doctor, my Doctor Who excitement level is so high I don’t care that this week’s mobile game release looks like Puzzle & Doctors. Doctor Who: Legacy, developed by Tiny Rebel Games and Seed Studios, looks a…

Should you play Tearaway or The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds? Why not both? TDZDaily.com‘s video game editor Derrick Dover used Tearaway‘s character editing tools to bring two of the year’s best portable games together as one. I’d play the heck out of The Legend of Tearaway: Iota’s Awakening.

Your Adobe Passwords Make For An Incredibly Easy Crossword Puzzle

When life gave him 153 million leaked Adobe accounts, complete with emails, encrypted passwords and password hints, engineer Ben Falconer made a crossword puzzle. A pathetically easy crossword puzzle. As the nice folks at Rock, Paper, Shotgun point out, the first thing you should do before playing Adobe Crossword is tocheck to see if your…

So, Which Pokémon Would You Say Is The Sexiest? Just Asking.

I love Pokémon. YouTuber Chris Sanders loves them too. Maybe a little too much. The creator of Pokémon First-World Problems returns with an all-new, all-different set of problems, and while I have to concede his points on at least number 10 and 1, the rest of his picks I find a little Farfetch’d. Awwww, yeah.

The Legend Of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: The Kotaku Review

I haven’t enjoyed a game in The Legend of Zelda franchise this much in more than 20 years. Yes, I am one of those Legend of Zelda fans – the ones who steadfastly maintain that the pinnacle of the series, despite all the advances of the past two decades, is a 2D sprite-based game for…

Wreck-It Ralph, Rapunzel and Frozen Disney Infinity Toys Are Out There

The third round of Infinity figures is hitting stores today, bringing Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope, Tangled‘s Rapunzel, and Anna and Elsa from Frozen to Disney’s cross-property toy box. Now all you have to do is find them — at three different retailers. Dammit, Disney. Not only are you releasing four products (Anna and Elsa come…

Tips For Playing The Legend Of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

The latest game in Nintendo’s beloved action role-playing series is upon us, and while it contains many links to the past, there are aspects of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds that remain a secret to everybody. You may need a little help. So here I stand, in a dark cave flanked by…

The Activision Action Figures The Atari Age Deserved

We should have gotten action figure tie-ins for every game Activision released on the Atari 2600, but we didn’t, because marketers were stupid back then. Dan from Chicago Toy Collector makes up for the oversight with this killer custom G.I. Joes. Can you guess which figure goes with which game? Oh come on, at least…

Chased By Bees Is My Favorite Hunger Games… Game, I Guess.

The next Hunger Games movie comes out tomorrow, so while we’re all eagerly lining up for midnight showings, we can play Reliance Games’ latest movie tie-in, The Hunger Games: Chased By Bees. The iTunes listing for this game is actually Hunger Games: Catching Fire Frenum Run, which is odd because you never catch fire or…

There are many problems with Oreo’s next-generation game controller concept, but taste isn’t one. Getting in on the console launch fun via Twitter, Oreo has created a controller with two ‘O’ buttons, a ridiculous d-pad, uncomfortable thumb sticks and a gem in the middle that’s begging to have the head of a penis drawn around…