Mike Fahey

Here Are The 172 Xbox Cloud Gaming Launch Games

Tomorrow is the official launch day for cloud streaming with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and Microsoft has revealed the full list of 172 titles users will be able to stream to their Android phones and tablets, from A Plague Tale: Innocence to Yakuza Kiwami 2. It’s not the full Xbox Game Pass library, but a…

How’s It Going? End Of The Line Edition

Welcome to the final installment of our daily open thread. There is a new morning hangout, and it’s got music and everything. Our daily “How’s It Going?” posts started up many months ago as a means to help our community during the whole shelter-in-place thing, giving us a place to chill and hang. Now there…

Leaked Vids Reveal The Oculus Quest 2, A VR Headset That’s Gonna Get Dirty [Update]

Last year, Facebook untethered virtual reality fans from their computers with the standalone Oculus Quest, one of the best ways to experience VR. Earlier today a pair of videos originally uploaded to the Facebook Blueprint website revealed the Oculus Quest 2, a higher-resolution, more powerful standalone virtual reality headset with a white strap that’s sure…

Halo 3: ODST Comes To PC September 22

Halo 3: ODST comes to PC as part of the Master Chief Collection on September 22. PC players will finally get their chance to guide a group of orbital drop shock troopers through the streets of New Mombassa while listening to Nathan Fillion talk. Halo 3: ODST’s release means Halo PC fans are only waiting…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

This weekend is for decompressing after a week and change non-stop playing Marvel’s Avengers. Something simple with pretty colors is in order, I think. Something like Spinch, a surprisingly challenging little platformer from Canadian studio Queen Bee Games. See all the colors? Those are the work of Canadian cartoonist Jesse Jacob, whose psychedelic hues make…

Annapurna’s Eight-Game PS4 Box Sets Are So Good

Publisher Annapurna Interactive has released some outstanding games on the PlayStation 4, including Donut County, Kentucky Route Zero, Outer Wilds, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Wattam, What Remains of Edith Finch, Telling Lies, and Gorogoa. To celebrate the publisher’s first five years, Annapurna’s teamed with iam8Bit to bundle all eight games into a pair of gorgeous limited…

Marvel’s Avengers: The Kotaku Review

There are many things I do not like about Marvel’s Avengers, one of the best comic book video games I’ve played. I don’t like grinding missions to earn more powerful equipment so I can take on more difficult missions. I don’t like my heroes’ inventories slowly filling with junk until I have to pause the…

Crash Bandicoot’s Girlfriend Gets One Heck Of A Glow Up

Remember Tawna, the busty bandicoot who served as Crash’s girlfriend/motivation in the first game? She’s back and buffer than ever as the hero of her own personal universe in Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time. Crash Bandicoot 4‘s October 2 release date is less than a month away and developer Toys For Bob is still…

How’s It Going? Young Wallander Edition

Younger is not always better, especially when it comes to rough-and-tumble Swedish police inspectors. Welcome back to our daily open thread. I am a big fan of Kurt Wallander. He’s a detective whose adventures were chronicled by Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell. He’s the star of a series of novels, a bunch of films, a…

New Hyrule Warriors Is A Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Prequel, Arrives In November

Nintendo’s not ready to tell us more about the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but they’re fine springing a surprise prequel on us. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, due out November 20 for the Switch, is a hack-and-slash RPG set 100 years before Breath of the Wild. Developed by Koei…

Everything You Need To Know About Kamala Khan, The Star Of Marvel’s Avengers

When you think of the Avengers, you think Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, and Black Widow, comic book characters who’ve been around for over half a century. The main character in the Marvel’s Avengers video game, however, has only been in existence since 2013. That makes it pretty easy to read up on Kamala…

Playmobil Is Making The Most Adorable Volkswagens

Coming in 2021 from Zirndorf, Germany’s famous toy company is a pair of iconic Volkswagen rides that translate perfectly to Playmobil style. The Playmobil VW Beetle and the Bulli camper van even come with their own ‘60s and ‘70s era drivers. Look at those sideburns on the driver of that baby blue Beetle. While we…

What the world needs now is incredibly underdressed zombie slayers? D3Publisher’s unconventional hack-and-slash series returns on October 14 with Onee Chanbara Origin for PS4 and PC. Want to know if this game is for you? Hit play on the trailer above with the sound on, see how long you last. 

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Let’s be honest. The weekend is for sleeping as much as possible while still doing enough to have something interesting to talk about on Monday. Reading books. Watching television. Maybe even playing some of them video games. Along with my ongoing playthrough of Marvel’s Avengers, now in multiplayer, my rare waking moments this weekend will…

I Wish The Wheelchair-Using Inhuman In Marvel’s Avengers Did More

As a wheelchair user I applaud Crystal Dynamics for going out of its way to include a wheelchair-using character in Marvel’s Avengers. It’s heartening to see someone with a disability taking part in the grand battle between good and evil. I just wish Cerise had more to do than just scoot back and forth in…

How’s It Going? New Edition

I’ve been wanting to do this since I took over this post. Welcome back to our daily open thread. The only question about the New Edition edition of How’s It Going? was which song to use. “Candy Girl” is too obvious. “Mr. Telephone Man” hasn’t aged well. So I went with the most modest of…

It Took 12 Years, But I Finally Got A Platinum PlayStation Trophy

Sony introduced trophies for PlayStation 3 games in July of 2008. Since then I’ve earned more than 3,000 virtual accolades on PlayStation consoles, but it wasn’t until last weekend that I finally joined the Platinum trophy elite, thanks to Hello Games’ The Last Campfire. I wasn’t looking for fame and notoriety as I wound my…

Avengers’ Story Campaign Is Bigger And Better Than I Expected

When you start Marvel’s Avengers, the in-game menu suggests you complete the single-player campaign before diving into online multiplayer. Now I’m over six hours into the campaign and only just unlocked Black Widow, my fourth of the game’s six playable launch characters. This might take a while, but I’m not irritated. I’m having a great…

How’s It Going? Hooray September Edition

It’s still hot outside, the sun is still shining bright, but there is an end in sight. Welcome back to our daily open thread. It’s going to be another month before the leaves start changing in my area, and who knows when the temperatures will drop from “it burns” to “this is nice,” but it…

Say Goodbye To Summer In Animal Crossing: New Horizons

It’s September in Animal Crossing: New Horizons unless you’re a dirty time traveler, and the onset of Autumn brings new bugs, new sea critters, new crafting components and recipes, and no more Sundays wasted on August firework shows, thank goodness. Last month’s fireworks were nice, but giving up a rotating visitor every Sunday so Red…