Mike Fahey

They Look Like Toy Cars, But They’re The “Future Of Consumer Robotics”

This looks like something you’d find in the Hot Wheels aisle at Walmart, but it’s much more than that. It’s a character from Anki Drive, an iOS-powered tech toy coming to Apple Stores and Apple.com on October 23. Its creators call it “the future of consumer electronics.” If anyone would recognize the future of consumer…

Everything Wrong With A Ten-Minute Movie Inside Grand Theft Auto V

Now playing in Los Santos theaters, The Loneliest Robot in Great Britain is a thrilling (and somewhat NSFW) animated tale of sex, machines and murder. Though the film is only ten minutes long, Cinema Sins manages to spend two explaining everything it got wrong. Spoilers follow! As if it weren’t cool enough that Grand Theft…

Tour The Too-Cute-To-Blow-Up Tiny Death Star

NimbleBit, Disney and LucasArts are about to unleash the ultimate weapon on our unsuspecting planet — Tiny Tower, only set on Star Wars‘ Death Star. Disguising myself as an Australian, I infiltrated the adorable Imperial base, hoping to save my people from destruction. Is there no hope left? If you managed to shake off the…

The Glorious Fried Food Creations Of The Texas State Fair

There is no combination of foodstuffs that doesn’t taste better rolled into a ball and deep-fried. This turkey and stuffing roll with cranberry and gravy dipping sauces is just the first blip on the heart monitor of flavor available at the Texas State Fair. Gizmodo’s Leslie Horn braved the spattering grease of this year’s Big…

An Entire Scottish Island Is Now An Ad For Skylanders

Know for its scenic mountain vistas and sheep farms with an economy based on fishing, tourism and whiskey-distilling, Scotland’s Isle of Skye is now the first real-world location officially twinned with a video game setting. One of the prettiest places on the planet, now a Skylanders: Swap Force marketing tool. I suppose pairing The Skylands’…

Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate celebrates Halloween with 28 costumes for $25. Along with a free “Haunted Lorelei” stage on both the paid and free Core Fighters versions of the game, fans can purchase a massive costume pack that gets every fighter in the game geared up for tricking and/or treating. Some are better than…

Zebras Made My PS3 More Beautiful

One of the key games used by Sony to demonstrate the graphical prowess of the PlayStation 3 prior to its North American release, Majesco’s safari simulator Afrika came out three years after the console launched and wasn’t very good. It’s dynamic theme, on the other hand, is exquisite. This was originally to be a post…

Attention Skylanders parents, you’re going to Toys R Us tomorrow morning. Swap Force launched this past weekend with some important elements and travel powers unrepresented. The twelve new figures going on sale tomorrow morning exclusively at Toys R Us should help fill in the blanks.

Mega Evolution Is Changing The Pokémon Trading Card Game

Mega Evolutions aren’t just for new Pokémon video games anymore. Booster packs coming to the Pokémon Trading Card Game in February will allow already-powerful EX cards to Mega Evolve — for a price. The Pokémon TCG: XY—Kalos Starter Set launches on November 8, giving players of the card game their first taste of Fairy-type Pokémon,…

The Next Angry Birds Game Looks Amazing. Yeah, I Wrote That.

Now that the toy tie-ins are on store shelves and we’ve got an official December 11 release date, we’re finally getting a look Angry Birds Go! gameplay. Wow. Not at all what I was expecting. I knew it was a kart racer, but I was expecting something a little more two-dimensional. Maybe even more of…

The digital edition of classic fantasy board game Talisman is now on Steam early access. Hope you practiced. While Nomad Games’ digitization is still waiting on online multiplayer and several other features to be implemented, it’s got 14 fantasy characters fighting for the Crown of Command, which is just what I was looking for.

Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams: The Snacktaku Review

Jeni Britton Bauer gave up her art studies at Ohio State University to persue her passion for food. Now, as the owner of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, she makes frozen art for your mouth. Let’s taste what many consider the country’s best ice cream. Ice cream is a magical thing. For one, it’s the perfect…

Wolverine Is The Most Useless X-Man, So He’s Fired.

Oh leave poor Logan alone, Pete Holmes. Hasn’t he been through enough, I guess? I mean, it’s still a bit fuzzy, continuity-wise. Eh, okay fine, fire him. I’m fine with Wolverine getting fired in this Pete Holmes Show skit, which debuted during the New York City Comic-Con this weekend, but only if Rogue got her…

The North American Tales of Symphonia Chronicles $100 Collector’s Edition for the PS3 is epic. If four Chibi Kyun Chara figures, a novel detailing what happened between Tales of Symphonia and Dawn of the New World, a multi-disc soundtrack and special collector’s packaging isn’t enough to get you to re-buy two games you’ve already played,…

The Most Popular Starship In Space

It’s not the most luxurious ride in the universe, but then it’s not trying to be. Roberts Space Industries doesn’t want the 2944 Aurora to be the best ship — just your ship. I don’t know about you, but I’m sold. If I knew absolutely nothing else about Star Citizen, the massively crowd-funded space sim…

Nothing Makes Monday Bearable Like Fresh-Squeezed Gaming Apps

Since we can’t all go back to bed, let’s play some gaming apps instead. Here are eight of the latest and/or greatest to get us started. Well, get you started at least. I’ve already played these, and once I post them I have to actively pay attention to whatever my co-workers are talking about. Grand…

The Most Convenient Portable Skylanders Game Yet

Now that the console version of Skylanders has finally caught up with the portable one in terms of jumping, the 3DS version of Skylanders: Swap Force ups the ante, letting players load all of their toys into the game at once. The previous installments of Skylanders for the 3DS only allowed players to load two…

Skylanders: Swap Force: The Kotaku Review

It’s taken 40 long years, but it’s finally happened. I’ve finally become an adult, and it’s all thanks to the latest Skylanders game. I just don’t understand the Swap Force The first Skylanders game gave us a batch of toys we could place on a portal to use as characters in a well-crafted action role-playing…

Skylanders: Swap Force Buyers’ Guide: What You Need, What You Don’t

You would think that on the third installment of Activision’s highly-successful toys-meets-games series they’d give folks the option to just buy the game by itself. Ha ha! We’re not getting off that easy. Every Skylander figure released thus far will work on Skylanders: Swap Force. You could play through the entire game using only first…

The Arkham Origins Mobile Game, From The Makers Of Mortal Kombat

Having NetherRealm Studio make a free mobile tie-in for DC fighter Injustice: Gods Among Us worked out so well, Warner Bros. is having them do the same thing for Batman: Arkham Origins. Bring on the beefy Batmen! Announced today at New York Comic-Con in Des Moines, Iowa, Batman: Arkham Origins (titled exactly the same as…