Mike Fahey

The MOGA Pro Should Have Led The Android Gamepad Invasion

Last October peripheral maker Power A made a bid for the Android gamepad market with the MOGA, a pocket-sized controller with a flip-up clip for holding your smallish Android gaming device. The idea was that this odd little controller, paired with a smart phone, was effectively its own handheld gaming system, a Google-powered Game Boy.…

X-COM Makers’ Mobile Monster Mash Conquers Hearts And Wallets Alike

There’s quite a lot of extra content available for purchase in Haunted Hollow, the spooky new iOS strategy board game from Firaxis, creators of XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Between new creatures to add to your arsenal and special item unlocks, you could spend upwards of $17 on the free-to-play game, but that’d be stupid — the…

The God of Schemes Acts Natural in The Elder Scrolls Online

Daedric Prince Molag Bal, is the Cobra Commander of Tamriel, always trying to enslave the souls of the world to his will, always going about it the wrong way. He’s the god of schemes, after all — not the god of carefully crafted plans. For instance, there’s an ancient prophecy in the Elder Scrolls that…

This Is The Prettiest Game On iTunes, But Looks Aren’t Everything

I stare at the glorious handcrafted world of Blitz Games’ Paper Titans for hours, lazily rotating each colorfully cobbled-together stage. I would gladly take a large stack of proto-form Titans, popping them out of their paper prisons and folding them to life with a flick of my finger. This striking setting cries out for interaction…

A 30-Year-Old Fighting Fantasy Comes To Life In My Hands

I was a little over 13 when I read the first book in UK game designer Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! series of Fighting Fantasy books. Enhancing the page-turning elements of the Choose Your Own Adventure books with pen-and-paper role-playing game mechanics, the series instilled in me a voracious appetite for interactive fiction. Twenty-seven years later the…

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon: The Kotaku Review

There is joy in stupidity. In an age where the search for deeper meaning in our interactive entertainment pursuits begins after the first trailer — where more thought goes into post-game critical analysis than development — a game that bears its shallow soul for all to see is a blessing. “The game is stupid,” Far…

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon: The Kotaku Review

There is joy in stupidity. In an age where the search for deeper meaning in our interactive entertainment pursuits begins after the first trailer — where more thought goes into post-game critical analysis than development — a game that bears its shallow soul for all to see is a blessing. “The game is stupid,” Far…

SyFy TV tie-in Defiance is running an in-game contest that’ll score the winner a guest spot on the show! Well, a guest shot as a picture of them rendered by the show’s artists. All you have to do is play better than everyone else. TV and MMO cross-media experiments are hard.

LEGO Avengers Assemble To Face Their Greatest… Oh, It’s Just Galactus

You know, the Devourer of Worlds loses a lot of his menace when you can take him out with Rocket Raccoon, Jill Valentine and Chun-Li. His once-menacing silhouette appears towards the end of this CG teaser trailer for LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, coming this fall to all platforms that would have it. I remember reading…

Consider This Training For One Of The Best Fantasy Board Games Ever

If Talisman Prologue is any indication of how the full version of the classic fantasy board game will pan out, then fans are in for a real treat when Talisman Digital Edition launches this summer. Until then, they can re-learn the ropes in this single-player boot camp. The board game Talisman ate up a great…

GameStick Reminds Us That It’s Still a Thing, Like the Ouya

Everybody’stalking about the Ouya these days. Ouya exclusives, Ouya unboxings, Ouya reviews — what about theGameStick? It’s a standalone Android console too, you know. Sure, it might not be as powerful as the Ouya or have the strange, mildly-confused following of the Ouya, but it’s got spunk? Sure, we’ll go with spunk. Just look at…

Pizza Hut’s Crazy Cheesy Crust Pizza: The Snacktaku Review

For years, pizza scientists at delivery powerhouse Pizza Hut have been chumming international waters with the most bizarre combinations of dough, sauce, cheese and stuff. They’ve made pizza with hot dogs in the crust. Fish sticks and prawns. Cheeseburgers. Some of these magnificent creations have made it as far as Canada, but to this day…

The free-to-play Ragnarok Online 2: Legend of the Second launches commercially on Wednesday, May 1. Players can grab it at the official website or via Steam.

An Immersive Look At Microsoft’s Display-Extending IllumiRoom Tech

Earlier this year Microsoft gave us our first look at IllumiRoom, a new technology that uses a Kinect-enabled projector to extend the game-playing environment from the television screen into the living room. Today Microsoft Research has released a five-minute video that delves deeper into the technology that could debut on the next Xbox. With the…

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Is Powerful, Versatile, But Not Bulletproof

Samsung has unleashed the Galaxy S4, the latest iteration of the iPhone-challenging Android smartphone. I’ll let our friends at Gizmodo handle the review, while we tackle the more important issues, such as what happens when you shoot it with a high-powered sniper rifle. RatedRR’s shooting videos are a guilty pleasure of mine. They’ve shot aWii…

Killing Yourself Is Fun In They Need To Be Fed 2

Every level of They Need To Be Fed 2 ends with you hurling your big-headed black and white body into the gaping maw of a carnivorous plant. Trust me, it’s for the best. As it was with Jesse Venbrux’s original They Need To Be Fed, the goal of this perfect little platforming sequel is not…

What Not To Name Your Spacefaring Raccoon Video Game

A browser-based game from a group of students from the Utrecht School of Arts & Technology in the Netherlands starring an adorable raccoon trying to reach the moon sounds like a lovely idea. Just might not want to call it Starcoon Starcoon is a game that brings the “as high as you can get” games…

EVE Online‘s Second Decade Collector’s Box Might Get Me To Play Again

It’s hard to believe that EVE Online has been running for a decade. Even more impressively, the game’s been growing steadily over the past ten years, picking up refugees from stale fantasy worlds and showing them what the universe has to offer. I’ve been struggling to find a hopping on point for years. Perhaps September’s…

EVE Online‘s free-to-play PlayStation 3 persistent-world multiplayer shooter counterpart, DUST 514, is officially launching on — wait for it — May 14. Clever, CCP.

Everything’s Blue in The Week in Gaming Apps

Well, almost everything. We had a good thing going, Talisman Prologue, and you had to go and completely screw things up. Great job. Don’t know why I even bother anymore. They Need to Be Fed 2 is blue, sometimes. The newly-retooled The Night Jar? Blue. There’re blue skies in Madmonster, even if they are the…