Mike Fahey

If You Hate This Week In Gaming Apps, You’ll Love Next Week

Only one game in this installment of This Week in Gaming Apps is available on Android. That’s sad, and we’re going to make up for it next week, with a very special Android-only Week in Gaming Apps. Next week will be completely iOS-free. Apple platforms have been hogging the spotlight lately, largely due to featuring…

The Angry Birds Star Wars II Toys Are Out. Let’s Play While We Wait.

While Angry Birds Star Wars II isn’t out for iOS and Android until September 19, the toys you can scan into the game are already out. Why? Because unlike Skylanders and Disney Infinity‘s toys, these are bursting with playability. See for yourself! These little dudes were on the shelf at my local Wal-Mart last night.…

Don’t Worry, We’ve Got Final Fantasy XIV Covered. Well, Mostly.

Certainly more covered than my level 14 Miqo’te archer, who spent the weekend looking for pants while everyone else was having trouble playing. I was actually rather surprised to learn that folks were having connection issues with the early start of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. I downloaded the client on Saturday morning, logged…

Disney Infinity: The Kotaku Review

Disney Infinity is a wonderful way for children of all ages to indulge their desire to create and explore, but are all of these colorful pieces ofexpensive plasticreally necessary? Setting aside the game’s creativity-exercising segment for the moment, let’s consider the origin of Disney Infinity. The game’s roots lie in 2010’s Toy Story 3: The…

The best shooter dogs are Nazi cyborg dogs. Roll over, Call of Duty; this Gamescom screen for Wolfenstein: The New Order shows how shooter dogs should be done. It also shows a swastika armband, which maybe isn’t the best idea for a screenshot celebrating a German trade show. But man, look at that dog. Catch…

There’s Something Strange About GTA V‘s Yoga Clinic

I’m no yoga expert — not by a long shot — but I am pretty sure the poses depicted in Grand Theft Auto V‘s newly-updatedLos Santos Travelogue aren’t on the up-and-up. This one’s “Downward Facing Camel.” The others are incredibly NSFW. My wife does yoga, and I would have noticed this. Or maybe not. I…

The Voice of Star Wars‘ Emperor Takes On His Hammiest Role Yet

Good. Use your aggressive feelings. Let the hate flow through you. If Ian McDiarmid reprising his role as Emperor Palpatine in pig form doesn’t sway you to Angry Bird Star Wars II‘s Pork Side — if you will not be turned — you will be destroyed! The man who portrayed Star Wars‘ greatest villain across…

Hopefully This Won’t Make You Throw Up

Give me nigh-limitless power to express myself, and this is what happens. I had this on my television as I went to sleep. It might be the most fun I’ve had in a video game ever. Well-worth the wait, Disney Infinity.

Speaking of hot mobile racing games, the first developer diary for2K Drive gives us a pretty good idea of the ambitious scope of the celebration of driving Lucid Games is putting together. This is pretty sexy right here.

If You Like Disappointment, You’ll Love Disney Infinity 3DS

Released alongside its console cousins at the exact same $74.99 price point, Disney Infinity for the 3DS is a collection of sad mini-games featuring characters that are much more interesting on the Wii, Wii U, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. There are absolutely no Metacritic reviews for the 3DS version of Disney Infinity, subtitled Toy…

The Most Technologically-Advanced Six-Sided Die Ever

It’s USB powered. Each face is capable of displaying numbers in 256 million colors. It’s got a proximity sensor, a magnetic field sensor, an accelerometer and an ARM microcontroller with temperature sensor. It’s a six-sided die for tablet board gaming, and it’s beautiful. On sale nowfor $39.99, the Dice+ Universal Board Game Controller has the…

All I Want In A Racing Game For 99 Cents

Takedowns, wild jumps, drifting, branching shortcuts, car damage, online multiplayer and music from The Crystal Method — that’s all I really wanted, and that’s what Asphalt 8: Airborne delivers for under a buck. Mobile racers are getting prettier every day, and while Asphalt 8: Airborne isn’t as gorgeous as EA’s Real Racing 3, it’s also…

Are you ready to Fish On with this week’s Nintendo Download? Not just normal Fish On, mind you, but Fish On 3D. Now that I think about it, you’re probably not ready. Get started with some Ninja Gaiden II and the digital release of Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward, and we’ll see where you are…

I’ve Played Skylanders On The PS4, And There’s No Going Back

I didn’t fully appreciate the next generation of consoles until last Friday, when I got the chance to play Skylanders: Swap Force for a couple hours on the PlayStation 4. It’s not that I consider the third installment of Activision’s wildly popular toys-meets-games franchise to be the pinnacle of gaming achievement or anything. I know…

Here’s Your Xbox One Wireless Racing Wheel, Forza Fans

The launch of the Xbox One in November brings with it Forza Motorsports 5, and as nice as the new game pad’s haptic feedback is, racing fans are going to need something meatier. Something with force feedback and foot pedals and genuine suede leather. Oh hi there, Mad Catz Force Feedback Racing Wheel for the…

Coming September 4 to iOS and Android from Konami, Star Wars: Force Collection is a free-to-play collectible card battler featuring more than 230 people, places and things drawn from episodes I through VI of the Star Wars saga. Here’s hoping it isn’t completely evil.

The Fastest Leveling Up In Disney Infinity Is Just a Giant Fan Away

Tired of grinding through adventures to earn your Silver and Gold character statues in Disney Infinity? YouTube user Craig Sullivan (viaChris Kohler’s Twitter) discovered this simple-yet-devious means of leveling up in minutes. Having had all of my progress eaten by the PlayStation 3 problems, I am certainly down with a little creative cheating. All you…

EverQuest Next‘s In-Game Terraforming Is Downright Hypnotizing

That the developers can hop intoEverQuest Nextand transform a barren landscapes into complicated structures in real-time is almost as cool as knowing players will be able to do it too, once EverQuest Next Landmark launches later this year. This trio of videos aren’t in real-time, obviously, but they do demonstrate the tools developers are using…

So Much Wrong With These PlayStation Home Star Trek Costumes

I’m sure Geordi La Forge would be pleased as punch to see the visor he used to overcome his handicap reduced to a fashion accessory for a backwater virtual world. Oh, I guess he wouldn’t. Unless of course these Star Trek: The Next Generation costumes, crafted by Flashman Studios as part of an initial wave…

To Be Fair, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes‘ Galactus Is OMG Squirrel Girl

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes reveals its ultimate villain, and we are all acting surprised. I gasped audibly. We did not see this coming. Well, we did see it coming. We just didn’t know it would be so freaky. Of all the incarnations of Marvel’s world-eating ultimate menace, the brief glimpse we’re given here in the…