Mike Fahey

No Gaming Mouse Is This Exciting, But The New Naga Comes Close

This is the most dramatic gaming mouse trailer of 2013. It is for a mouse that leaps across canyons in a sports car in slow motion. The new Razer Naga does not do that, but it’s wonderfully clicky. Last year I pitted three MMO gaming mice against each other in a battle of the buttons,…

The Worst Feature Of Disney Infinity? These Power Discs.

I have no problem whatsoever with purchasing toys to unlock new characters and powers in a video game — as long as those toys aren’t sold randomly in blind packs, like Disney Infinity‘s Power Discs. The idea is rather cool — these colorful circular and hexagonal discs can be placed on the Infinity base under…

The final preorder bonus for Paradox Interactive’s eagerly-anticipated PC/Mac grand strategy Europa Universalis IVhas been revealed — a save game converter for Kotaku 2012 Game of the Year nominee Crusader Kings II, and a free copy of that game for those unfortunate enough to not own it already.

Nintendo is (finally) releasing a black version of the 3DS XL on August 11, just in time for the release of Mario & Luigi: Dream Team.

Popeyes Chicken Waffle Tenders: The Snacktaku Review

Did you really think I’d let July 29 go by without a review of the most exciting fast food item to hit the market since something really exciting I can’t think of right now? I sure didn’t. I am horribly sick, and not just mentally. My whole body aches, I am in and out of…

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, Robot Unicorn Attack 2 adds Stan Bush’s “The Touch” and “Dare” from the 1986 Transformers: The Movie soundtrack to its list of purchasable unicorn traveling tunes.

If There’s A Future In Motion-Controlled Computing, This Is It.

This is the Leap Motion Controller. I’m pretty sure it’s the future. This wasn’t the case last week, when the $79.99, USB stick-sized device for Mac and PC started shipping. Videos of people waving in the empty air in front of their computer monitor made me giggle more than think, and it wasn’t until the…

Lay’s Special Chip Flavors Return As If Nothing Happened. Jerks.

Those bastards After the emotional rollercoaster Frito-Lay has put me through, introducing me to wondrous flavors and then tearing them away, there is no way in hell I am buying these again — not even my beloved Chicken & Waffles. The four bags I negotiated for on Twitter last week do not count, of course.…

Kicking Back, Drinking Some Beer And Playing Candy Crush Saga

Voted least likely to be the subject of a drunken ‘Let’s Play’ video on YouTube, here King’s social/mobile puzzle sensation demonstrates it’s near-universal appear as Major and Squarepainter take on Candy Crush Saga‘s dreaded level 65. What the pair have done in this series of videos (see part two and part three), is unwittingly captured…

The Week In Gaming Apps, Now With 100 Percent More Video

What, you wanted a text Week in Gaming Apps? Well I wanted a pop filter, and I didn’t get that, a fact that’s p-p-p-painfully evident in this, the first all-video Week in Gaming Apps. That’s right, after years of spending my Fridays typing and taking screenshots, now I’m capturing footage, recording voice overs and learning…

Cosplay crossovers are officially over. These two win. Image credit: Comikaze, via College Humor

The Next Big Adventure Time Game Is Missing Something

Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW! allows up to four players to step into the booties of their favorite characters, taking on 100 randomly-generated dungeon levels filled with monsters, treasures, and all sorts of Gauntlet-style coolness. It would be the perfect online multiplayer dungeon crawl — if it had online multiplayer. Online…

This Stop-Motion Donkey Kong Is Almost Better Than The Real Thing

There’s a clarity to this version of the Donkey Kong arcade game that the original arcade cabinet just can’t match. Something about using thousands of perler beads instead of sprites, I’d imagine. GuizDP, who you might remember from his stunning rendition of one guy playing five guys playing the Tetris theme on guitar, proves once…

Shadowrun Returns Is The Start Of Endless Amazing Adventures

Shadowrun Returns is not simply a PC game based on the popular pen-and-paper cyberpunk-meets-magic role-playing game. It’s a digital sourcebook geared at harnessing the imagination of thousands of fans in order to power the creation of an entire universe of interactive adventures. It’s a player’s handbook, introducing the gamer to the professions suitable for survival…

Popeyes Wins The Fast Food Wars With Chicken Waffle Tenders

They’re trying to keep it a secret, and it’s much more fun and childish to imagine every beeped word in this video is “penis”, but thecat is out of the bag — Popeyes Chicken Waffle Tenders arrive July 29. AdvertisingAge has the skinny (probably the wrong choice of words) on Popeyes’ latest creation, chicken tenders…

It’s Hard To Play Square’s Vampire Game When The Hero’s This Sexy

While an Unreal Engine 3-powered vampire hunting period piece set in an alternate 19th century Paris may sound pretty compelling, the coolest thing about Square Enix’s Bloodmasque is facial mapping technology console developers gave up on years ago. Seriously, look at my character. Those partial black-framed glasses; the beard that stops before his chin; those…

Already confirmed for release on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii U, Ubisoft’s Rayman Legends will now be getting a day-one PC release as well. The game drops September 3.

There’s Nothing To Fear But F.E.A.R. Online

How does a series known for the twisted psychological horror of its single-player campaign translate into a free-to-play online shooter? We’re gonna find out soon enough, as Aeria Games reveals F.E.A.R. Online. There’s safety in numbers. That’s always been the problem with trying to do multiplayer horror, and I’ve a feeling it’ll be an issue…

The Most Elusive Comic-Con Exclusive Winds His Way To Retail

Everyone knew Hasbro’s Transformers Masterpiece Soundwave would bit hitting Toys’R’Us shortly after his debut at last week’s San Diego Comic-Con, but that didn’t stop fans from going crazy trying to get him. Retailing for $119.99 at Toys’R’Us and appearing on store shelves as we (and Seibertron.com) speak, Masterpiece Soundwave made his North American debut at…

The New Strider Looks Promising, But Where’s the Giant Robot Ape?

I’m positive my first question for Strider senior producer Andrew Szymanski and producer James Vance during our interview at Comic-Con last week was the question on every fan’s mind. It’s just not Strider without a massive robotic primate. “I can neither confirm nor deny,” said Szymanski. “Hmmm, I dunno,” said Vance. The new downloadable Strider…