Mike Fahey

Witness The Destructive Power Of Dubstep In Saints Row IV

During PAX East earlier this year, Tina Amini told us that we could unleash the true power of the dubstep plague in the upcoming Saints Row IV. I did not believe her. I quietly denounced her as a liar. I may have thrown stones from a safe distance. Now I feel mildly bad about it,…

A Massively Multiplayer Online Trading Card Game? Tell Me More.

For the past couple of years, the folks at Cryptozoic Entertainment have been making a lovely array of physical trading card, board and deck-building games, everything from the official World of Warcraft TCG to The Big Bang Theory: The Party Game. Now they’re going digital with Hex: Shards of Fate, the first free-to-play massively multiplayer…

You’ve Got Will Smith’s Back In The After Earth Mobile Game

Or maybe that’s Jaden Smith. It’s hard to tell. Either way, this is the official endless runner of this summer’s Smith-Pinkett-Shyamalan blockbuster, After Earth. For once a movie-based endless-runner makes sense. Father and son crash land on a planet hostile to humans and must struggle to survive while being chased by monkeys and the hostile…

In Case You Missed Last Night’s Live Stream, Here’s The Best Part

Last night, as part of my review of the AverMedia Live Gamer Portable, I streamed random Steam games from my PC for nearly an hour and a half. I took requests. I chatted with readers in the Twitch.tv chat box. I hid in a tunnel and amused myself. Gearbox has gotten a lot of flak…

AverMedia Live Gamer Portable Video Capture Box: The Kotaku Review

Late last year I had a chance to check out the Live Gamer HD, an easy-to-use video capture card from AverMedia that allowed me to capture 1080p video from just about any HDMI source using a simple pass-through connection. It was the easiest hardware solution for capturing and streaming game footage I’d come across. I…

The Super Retro Trio Is Three Classic Consoles In One

With my children rapidly approaching gaming age, I want their introduction to my favorite pastime to begin with the classics — NES, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. The Super Retro Trio, coming this summer from Innex and Retro-bit, handles games from all three of those systems for a mere $69.99. That’ll look so lovely in…

Wolfenstein Game Publisher Bravely Adopts Anti-Nazi Stance

At the bottom of the official press release introducing the gaming world to Machine Games’ Wolfenstein: The New Order, publisher Bethesda Softworks clarified its position on the Nazi regime’s attempted genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. In a business driven by sales, estranging yourself from even the smallest demographic is a tough decision. I…

It’s Like Pokemon, Only With Cats and Baked Goods

I do not understand why I am playing this, so here’s a kitten with a steamed bun on its head. Bread Kittens is one of those free games I don’t remember downloading but suddenly find myself playing more than I probably should. Set in the world of Catlandia, an evil pet food corporation is brainwashing…

That’s One Way Of Interpreting Supreme Executive Power, Saints Row IV

Yes, that’s the President of the United States of America, kicking a guy in the nuts and punching an innocent-seeming woman into a car. Don’t blame me, I didn’t vote for him. Coming to the Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 on August 20, Saints Row IV weaves together two completely ridiculous storylines into one.…

Tasteless Americans Choose Lay’s Cheesy Garlic Bread Chips

The votes have been tallied, and the results are in — U.S. potato chip consumers are boring and disappointing. The Lay’s “Do Us a Flavor” promotional contest saw folks voting for one of three user-generated flavors — Chicken and Waffles, Sriracha or cheesy garlic bread. I tasted them all, and the winner was as clear…

All 65 Episodes of My Little Pony All At Once, All For You

If you should wind up in the custody of the CIA and withhold information during an interrogation, expect to be strapped to a chair with your eyes pried open and this video running in an endless loop on all four walls. YouTube insane person The Pixeltripper took all 65 episodes of the first three seasons…

Graze.com Healthy Snack Delivery: The Snacktaku Review

Each week I set aside some of my health for the sake of bringing Kotaku readers my honest, unbiased opinion about on some of the most horrible snack foods the world has to offer, and each week I get the same questions. “Don’t you ever review anything healthy?” “How are you not dead yet?” Folks…

EA has revealed that The Sims 4 is coming to Mac and PC is 2014, likely followed by updated versions of the same expansions they’ve already released for The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. Expect more information later today via EA’s The Beat.

Children Slaughtering Zombies Is More Fun When They’re Animales

Do not ask why Little Mexico has a zoo containing hundreds of elephants. Do not ask why the only people fighting the animal victims of a zombie plague are a pair of small Mexican children. Do not ask how a Roman candle can take down a full-grown pachyderm brought back from the dead via evil…

You’re Just In Time For A Game Boy Micro Unboxing

In 2005, Nintendo shut the door on the original Game Boy with the miniscule Game Boy Micro, a brilliantly-engineered two-by-four-inch rectangle of compromise. It wouldn’t run original Game Boy or Game Boy Color titles — just Game Boy Advance games — but boy was it pretty. Many people hated it. I just bought a new…

How Many Games Made It Into Apple’s Top 100 Apps of All-Time?

With the iTunes App Store quickly approaching the 50 billion downloads mark — that’s about six or seven apps for every person on the planet — Apple is showcasing a list of the top 100 free and paid iPhone and iPad apps of all-time, or as I like to call it, 47 gaming apps and…

I’m Too Old For This Week in Gaming Apps S**t

You kids get off of my lawn! Damn, that really does feel good. I turned 40 on Wednesday, so excuse me if I didn’t play as many gaming apps this week as you young people did. These old eyes aren’t what they used to be. Okay, not an excuse. If anything I should be playing…

Marvel Heroes Celebrates Iron Man 3 With An Open Beta Weekend

Gazillion Entertainment throws open the doors to Marvel Heroes this weekend, giving Iron Man fans across the country a chance to slip into a Stark suit and do some damage, Diablo-style. All a prospective hero has to do is register at the game’s official website and they’ll be in. The open beta event for the…

Sometimes It’s the Simple Things That Get Me

There are times I want to explore near photo-realistic ancient temples, battling terrifying enemies with the aid of powerful magical artifacts. I have moments where all I want to do is spend hours building armies, evaluating troop strength and capabilities and devising strategies to take advantage of my findings. Sometimes I just want to find…

Zen Studios brings its pinball platform to Steam on May 10, with a free download for Pinball FX 2 and six expansion packs priced at $9.99 each — Star Wars, Marvel, Marvel: Vengeance and Virtue, Marvel: Avengers Chronicles, the Pinball FX2 Core Collection and Zen Classics.