Mike Fahey

They’re Making a Tiny Tower Set In The Death Star

Did you feel that? It was as if millions of productive work hours just cried out in pain and then were silenced. Tiny Tower is one of themost addictive mobile games ever made. Star Wars is Star Wars. This combination, teased via the Star Wars Twitter account, is the death of productivity. Here’s the official…

I’m Playing Assassin’s Creed IV Right Now. On My Desk. With Toys.

While the rest of the world has to wait until the end of this month to get their hands on Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, I’ve got Edward Kenway and friends right here on my desk, ready to pillage, loot, burn, and maybe make-out a little. With three generations of Kenways — Edward, Hatham and…

Scribblenauts Unmasked: The Kotaku Review

I have a lot of action figures. Every once in awhile I like to pull them down from their shelves or out of their boxes. I admire each one. Maybe I’ll pose then and take a few pictures. Then I get bored and put them away again. Playing Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure feels…

The Marvel Game I’ve Dreamt Of For Six Years, Almost

The Marvel Trading Card Game for PSP was released in February of 2007. Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords dropped in March of that year. I’ve been dreaming of a combination of the two ever since. Now it’s finally here, and it’s everything I wanted, only free-to-play. I wanted Marvel Comics characters facing off against…

Internet Don’t Need No Warcraft Movie Trailers, Internet Makes Its Own

Using only the sparse information provided so far by Blizzard and Legendary Pictures and a whole slew of fantasy movie clips, YouTube editor BloodRunsClear delivers his vision of what 2015’s World of Warcraft movie might look like. Not a bad fake trailer, given the source material, which ranges from a commercial for a medieval festival…

iOS 7 Giving You Vertigo And Nausea? Here’s An Idea.

The motion of iOS 7’s redesigned icons has many iPhone users complaining of motion sickness and vertigo. Jimmy Kimmel’s solution is the only guaranteed cure. Stop Looking at Your F***ing Phone Every 5 Seconds! [Youtube]

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn: The Kotaku Review

Final Fantasy XIV Online, massively multiplayer online role-playing game — an MMO barely alive. Square Enix rebuilt it. They had the technology. They had the capability to build the world’s first relaunched FF title. A Realm Reborn is that game. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster. Unlike 1970’s action heroes, video games don’t…

Can you smell that, Android gamers? The earthy mingling of vegetation and death? That means Plants Vs. Zombies 2 is coming. Popcap has announced a “soft launch” of the timed iOS exclusive in New Zeland and Australia, indicating the worldwide launch of the acclaimed free-to-play sequelon Android platforms is due “shortly.”

Stardock deals itself in to the mobile market. Dead Man’s Draw, a rather spiffy-looking card game for iOS, marks the developer’s debut on mobile platforms. You can get it here.

Video Game War Crimes Should Be Answered For, Says The Red Cross

The International Red Cross isn’t against allowing players to go against the established laws of armed conflict in their video game battles — it just wants to make sure those violations don’t go unpunished. One might expect an international humanitarian organization to look down on video games featuring realistic depictions of modern-day military conflict, but…

EverQuest II Can Sell You A High-Level Character With A Flying Horse

Who needs power-leveling when you can just spend $35 on a developer-sanctioned level 85 character? Bypass those pesky levels with EverQuest II‘s new Heroic Characters feature. Launched yesterday, the Heroic Characters feature allows past, present and future EverQuest II players to jump directly into the shiny boots of a level 85 character, complete with weapons,…

Bathe In The Blue Flames Of Mega Charizard X

We knew classic Pokemon Charizard would be getting a Mega evolution in Pokemon X & Y. We didn’t know it was getting two, one of which changes the creatures iconic colors completely. Mega Charizard X, making its big debut on October 12 in the two new Pokemon titles, evolves temporarily via careful application of Charizardite…

You Can Never Have Too Much Sniper Elite

The only thing more satisfying than nailing a difficult sniper shot in a video game is an entire video game based around difficult sniper shots. Rebellion and 505 Games are bringing Sniper Elite 3 to consoles and PC in 2014. An enhanced X-Ray Kill-Cam, fresh environments, an all-new story and more of an open-world sandbox…

Vikings are the next pirates. The Nordic follow-up to medieval melee simulator War of the Roses, Fatshark’s War of the Vikings is now available for early access on Steam.

The first Pikmin 3 paid DLC mission pack will be available today for $1.99. A game update will also show the top global scores for each level in the game. Hooray for high scores!

A Warm Welcome To The Playable Ladies Of Grand Theft Auto Online

Three out of my four playable GTA V characters might be male, but not one of them was greeted upon arrival in Los Santos with a rose and clumsy sexual advances. Now I’m not judging. Our liaison to the world of Grand Theft Auto Online is none other than Franklin’s pal Lamar Davis, and he…

I Can’t Stop Watching These Cyclists Missing A Perilous Turn

One by one they ride. One by one they fall. Somewhere in France there is a lush green field where it’s always sunny, save a slow and steady rain of BMX bikes. There’s a stand where they sell fresh-squeezed limonade and the most fanciful umbrellas you’ve ever seen, elaborate cycle-repelling devices that defy imagination. One…

Some Weeks It Seems Like All The Good Apps Are On iOS

Barring special occasions, I never go out of my way to exclude any mobile platform from the Week in Gaming Apps. Sometimes it just happens. Here’s a little insight into how the Week in Gaming Apps works. I download a bunch of new games on my iPad, because it’s easy to tell which games on…

Luke Cage Is Even Cooler In Marvel Heroes, If That’s Possible

Not only is Luke “Power Man” Cage super strong with unbreakable skin, he’s got the ability to summon his Heroes for Hire allies to his side in Marvel Heroes update 1.3, giving folks a whole new way to play. Gazillion could have easily made Cage just another super-strong bruiser, but that’s not what the character…

Odd Man In Cave: “Stop Naming Princesses Zelda”

A tradition based on a great tragedy that only seems to breed more tragedy? Awkward Spaceship has a point — maybe Hyrule needs to revisit its princess naming policy before everything explodes. There are plenty of perfectly good princess names out there that won’t cause powerful evil to arise and threaten the land. Princess Bubblegum…