Mike Fahey, Author at Kotaku

These Eight Xbox Indie Games Will Rise This Summer

A total of ten titles will make up the Indie Games Summer Uprising, representing the best titles Xbox Live’s Indie Games has to offer. The first eight have been chosen. Let’s take a look! These initial eight games were chosen by independent developers to act as ambassadors for the Xbox Live Indie Games program to…

By Mike Fahey Published July 18, 2011

You Can Play Through Deus Ex: Human Revolution Without Combat, But Why?

In the latest behind-the-scenes video for Deus Ex: Human Revolution the development team demonstrates the most explosive of the game’s four pillars: Combat. You can avoid killing everything but bosses in the next Deus Ex game, focusing instead of the other three pillars of the game: Hacking, stealth, and social. I say bah! Where’s the…

By Mike Fahey Published July 18, 2011

Happy Cloud Streaming PC Game Service Now Open to the Public

Happy Cloud, the streaming PC game service that lets you play as your games download, has officially launched, with ten games from three publishers available for purchase and speedy play. Hit up the official website to sign up.

By Mike Fahey Published July 18, 2011

Reviews

$100 Rainbow Lamps Paint the Walls with PC Gaming’s Light

For decades PC gamers have been content to let the colored lights of their favorite virtual playgrounds remain safely contained within the borders of their monitors. Mad Catz’s amBX-powered Cyborg PC Gaming Lights present a compelling reason to start playing outside the box. I’ve been writing about amBX for years now, and my articles on…

By Mike Fahey Published July 18, 2011

Bury Me Deep Beneath These Cut the Rope Plushies

Coming in September to toy and specialty shops around the country, these plush representations of Cut the Rope‘s hungry little mascot Om Nom are so ridiculously adorable I would gladly suffocate beneath a mountain-sized pile. These teasing images were sent by Chillingo and developer ZeptoLab, along with news that the game’s 1.4 “Toy Box” update…

By Mike Fahey Published July 18, 2011

In the High Church of the Master Control Program

Religion and belief were two of the key themes in the 1982 Disney classic Tron. Three of the key themes at Lifechurch.TV’s location in Warr Acres, Oklahoma this month are religion, belief, and Tron This month Lifechurch.TV takes their message to the movies. During the evangelical church’s “At the Movies” sermon series, each of its…

By Mike Fahey Published July 18, 2011

When Minecraft Meets Bomberman, Chests Explode

Explosives and destructible blocks have always played an important role in Minecraft, so it was only a matter of time before some blockheads recreated Hudson’s classic multiplayer maze game Bomberman utilizing Mojang’s building blocks. Let’s blow some shit up! Cuzic and Tempus of Minecraft A2Z came up with the idea to recreate Bomberman in Minecraft…

By Mike Fahey Published July 18, 2011

We Must Teach Younger Gamers the True Meaning of Ninja

Commenter Kevwood112 worries that we as a community may have lost sight of what it means to be a ninja, which should be a good thing, as you aren’t supposed to see them anyway. Let’s Speak Up about it. My friend and I were have a discussion the other day about ninjas and how they…

By Mike Fahey Published July 18, 2011

The Week in Gaming Apps

This week Kotaku‘s Gaming Apps of the Day are all over the place, from an arcade fighter to a card game to a … clock? It’s starting to look like the Nintendo Download up in here. What’s next, colored notepads? I suppose it’s okay when the clock in question is Fallout inspired, and it’s not…