Mike Fahey

Persona‘s Greatest Heroine Is Also One Of Persona‘s Coolest Models

Mitsuru Kirijo from Persona 3 is amazing. She’s Gekkoukan High School’s valedictorian, student council president, and the leader of its Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad. Such a complicated character, yet everything she is can be captured by a simple resin garage kit. That stoic expression — as if she’s almost bored with the idea of risking…

Let’s get ready to Batman. Batman: Arkham Origins hits stores on Friday, leaving us enough time for several hundred preparatory views of the official launch trailer. Going to Batman so hard this weekend. How about you?

It’s Like The iPhone 5c Was Meant To Be Pokémon

The problem with the Apple 5c isn’t the plastic — it’s actually quite lovely. The problem is committing to one of its five vibrant colors. The brilliant George Michael Brower makes the decision easy, with a free Pokémon twist. It’s no longer a choice of colors. Now it’s a choice of Pokémon allegiance. In considering…

Boo Berry: The Snacktaku Monster Cereals Review Spooktacular

The sudden chill as you turn into the cereal aisle; the soft, lilting voice at the periphery of hearing, musing on breakfasts long ago; the ephemeral taste of berry-like flavor on the tip of your tongue — all these are Boo Berry, the Monster Cereal forever trapped between this world and the next. I must…

Inside Arby’s Test Kitchen: A Snacktaku Special Report

Every year, Arby’s executive chef Neville Craw and his crack team come up with upwards of 1,200 potential new sandwiches. Around 50 of those are developed until release-worthy. Only five or six make it to stores. One of those is the Smokehouse Brisket sandwich. Earlier this month, Arby’s invited me to its Atlanta headquarters to…

Battlefield 4‘s Story Trailer Punches A Dog Right In The Face.

Man, remember the Battlefield 3 single-play story, with the train and the…that rat? There was definitely a rat. And a building collapsed. That’s all I got. Battlefield 4 looks much more memorable. I certainly won’t forget the guy straddling and punching a dog at 1:36 in this trailer. Maybe it’s a dig at everyone’s favorite…

From MMO to movie star. Funcom’s supernatural MMORPG The Secret World makes its big-screen debut in IRL, a Swedish film about a troubled teen who finds happiness in a virtual world. Check out an interview with director Erik Leijonborg at thegame’s official site.

Count Chocula: The Snacktaku Monster Cereals Review Spooktacular

For the first time in America’s troubled history, the five points on the pentagram of morning food evil glow as one upon store shelves, signaling the coming of the last complete breakfast. Five cereals in five days, and a Count Chocula shall lead them. In 1971, as I was still hatching my brilliant plan to…

She’s The First Woman To Set An Arcade Game Record In Nearly 30 Years

On Saturday, September 19 at the Galloping Ghost Arcade in Chicago, Illinois, 30-year-old Caitlin Oliver set the new world record for the arcade version of Namco’s classic beat-em up, Splatterhouse. According to video game historian Patrick Scott Patterson, the last time a woman set an arcade game world record, Caitlin was around one-year-old. The old…

Garchomp, use Plunge to Your Death! As Redditor Krshaw18 points out, Pokemon bridge logic falls short. Funny, everything else made so much sense. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can find. Send us suggestions if you’ve got them.

Marvel Heroes Is The Best Game Ever, Because Squirrel Girl

Ladies and gentlemen, Squirrel Girl is now live in Gazillion Entertainment’s free-to-play MMO, Marvel Heroes. As LEGO Marvel Super Heroes doesn’t come out until Tuesday and Super Hero Squad doesn’t count, Marvel Heroes is the first, and therefor best. Disclaimer: There’s probably something wrong with Fahey.

Punching Bears And Devil Dice In One Hell Of A Week In Gaming Apps

Any week where you can punch a couple hundred bears in the face is a good week. Add the return of one of the greatest puzzle games of the original PlayStation generation, and you’ve got one slightly late Week in Gaming Apps. I have to say, this is one of the best Week in Gaming…

Nvidia Is Changing The Way We Display, Stream, And Capture PC Games

Say goodbye to V-sync, uninstall your bootleg copy of FRAPS and reconsider picking up one of Nvidia’s Shield handhelds. During its “The Way It’s Meant To Be Played” event in Montreal today, Nvidia unveiled a trio of technologies that could make its video cards an indispensable part of any PC gaming rig. Goodbye V-sync, Hello…

You Can Play Batman: Arkham Origins Right Now For Free. Sort of.

While we’re still a week out from the October 25 release of Batman: Arkham Origins for consoles and PC, the free-to-play mobile game is alive and kicking. Also punching. Watch. Obviously not the same as the console experience, the iOS version of Batman: Arkham Origins does have thugs to punch and assassins to wrestle with,…

Toy Story in Space Brings The Disney Infinity Saga Full Circle

It was Avalanche Software’s innovative Toy Box Mode for the Toy Story 3 video game tie-in that lead to the creation of the toy-driven Disney Infinity. Next week Buzz, Woody and Jessie come home, and it goes a little something like this. Priced at somewhere between $35 and $40 when it hit store shelves next…

The My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic game suffered from a severe lack of dancing mini-games. It suffers no longer. The movie-themed Equestria Girls update is live for iOS and Android, turning ponies into real girls and making them dance for your amusement. Love or hate the movie, that song is pretty catchy.

PlayStation 4 Will Cost $1,850 in Brazil

And we thought Argentina had it bad. In Brazil, the land of high video game import taxes, PlayStation fans will have to shell out 3,999 Brazilian Real for Sony’s next console come November 29. That’s roughly $1,850 USD. Ouch. The $100 price advantage the $399 PlayStation 4 enjoys over the $499 Xbox One here in…

How We’ll Create The Prettiest Elder Scrolls Characters Ever

As versatile and deep as the series is, it wasn’t until Skyrim that The Elder Scrolls started generating somewhat attractive player characters. Looks like they’ve nailed attractive character creation for The Elder Scrolls Online. The Elder Scrolls characters really have come a long way. Here’s character creation from 2002’s The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: The…

There’s a Musical Surprise In Skylanders: Swap Force

I was not expecting this at all. Don’t click if you don’t want to spoil it. As if aintricately lovely score by Lorne Balfe — the man behind the music for the first two Skylanders games, Assassin’s Creed III and Beyond: Two Souls — wasn’t enough, Vicarious Visions audio designer Matt Pirog put together this…

Track: The Zookeeper’s Boy | Album: And The Glass Handed Kites | Artist: Mew Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.