Mike Fahey

Digging The Rift Collector’s Edition

Trion Worlds’ massively multiplayer online role-playing game Rift opens its doors tomorrow to head start players. Cost conscious players can purchase it from Steam for $50. Those less concerned with price can spend $80 on this thing. While I only played Rift in beta for the briefest of moments, I have to say I’m excited…

Discovery’s Final Launch Is PlayStation Home’s First Live Broadcast

The final launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled for tomorrow, and PlayStation space exploration fans can tune in directly from Sony’s console-embedded virtual world, provided they know someone with a digital yacht. The space shuttle Discovery takes off on its final voyage tomorrow at 4:50PM from the Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle will…

Celebrities Speak Out Against Bloody Birds Vs. Pigs Conflict

While they may be slightly more two-dimensional than traditional entertainment talent, the message of these iconic avian and porcine personalities is no less important: Stop this senseless Angry Birds war. Who knew there were so many celebrity birds and pigs, heartbroken over the constant conflict waging from iPhone to PlayStation Network every day? From Darkwing…

The Marvel Edition Versus Fighting Pad Is Hideously Wonderful

Can a specialized fighting game controller make you better at Marvel Vs. Capcom 3? PDP’s Marvel Edition Versus Fighting Pad says yes. The Basics The Marvel Edition Versus Fighting Pad is a controller built specifically with 2D fighting games in mind. The Xbox 360’s left and right bumpers, used in Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 to…

The World’s Smallest Computer Wants To Be Inside Of You

With computer technology forever striving towards smaller and smaller form factors, it was only a matter of time before engineers created the first millimeter-scale computer system, ready for implantation in the human body. Created by University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science professors Dennis Sylvester and David Blaauw, the tiny computer system…

Fallen Company Of Heroes Developer Celebrated With Song

Brian Wood, the Company of Heroes designer who perished in a car crash in September, was a game developer, devoted husband, and an accomplished choral singer. This weekend his former choir-mates will remember Brian through the music he loved. We’ve been following the story of Relic Entertainment’s Brian Wood since the tragic automobile accident that…

How To Dominate Bulletstorm’s Echoes Mode

Once the smoke clears and the credits roll in Bulletstorm’s campaign, Echoes mode is the place to put your kill skills to the ultimate test. People Can Fly’s Arcade Berg has some handy tips on topping the Echoes mode charts. In Bulletstorm’s single-player game, killing enemy players with skill is a way to earn points…

When Online Gaming Relationships Go Bad

Commenter WittyUserName thought he found a lasting online gaming friend in Battlefield: Bad Company 2, until the griefing started. Read about his gaming relationship gone sour in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. I just kicked a longtime friend off my friend’s list. There was this guy I played Bad Company 2 with a lot and we…

Dead Space 2’s Haunting New Chapter Arrives In March

Gabriel and Lexine from Dead Space: Extraction make their Dead Space 2 debut on March 1 as the central cast for the chilling new single-player digital download pack Severed. Here’s a scream that will haunt you all day long. I played Dead Space 2 for about an hour before I set it aside, not out…

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Playing The Dragon Age II Demo Like A Girl

Dragon Age II’s Hawke might be a male for official marketing purposes, but on my Xbox 360 he’s a saucy female rogue with a fiery temper. Check out some highlights of playing the demo as a lady Hawke. It’s a pity the character creation was disabled for demo purposes. Otherwise my Hawke would have been…

This Is Not Minecraft For The Xbox 360, But It’s Pretty Close

It looks like Minecraft and plays like Minecraft, but this is definitely not Minecraft. This is FortressCraft, a cooperative block-building title coming next month to Xbox Live Indie Games. See? No relation whatsoever. Okay, so there are a few similar themes. FortressCraft is, for all intents and purposes, a Minecraft-type game for Xbox Live Indie…

Monkeys Express Self-Doubt Through Computer Gaming

Are self-doubt and uncertainty purely human traits, or do other members of the animal kingdom experience these feelings? A team of scientists made monkeys play video games because it’s awesome. Oh, and to address the whole self-doubt thing. It’s too late for me, but some of you are still young enough to switch your focus…

Celebrating Five Years Of Dungeons & Dragons Online With Pirates

It’s been five years since Turbine opened the port of Smuggler’s Rest to adventurers heeding the call of Dungeons & Dragons Online, and to Smuggler’s Rest they’ll return for the new quests and special gifts of a special anniversary event. If you’ve been playing Dungeons & Dragons Online for five years, you’ve been through quite…

Petroglyph Enters The Online Arena With Rise Of The Immortals

The strategy masters at Petroglyph Games take a stab at online action with Rise of the Immortals, a free-to-play Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game aimed at both casual and competitive MOBA players. Much like Riot Games’ League of Legends or Stunlock Studios’ Bloodline Champions, Rise of the Immortals will put players in control of a…

Let’s Just Say White Mage’s Dad Is ‘Old-Fashioned’

White Mage, Red Mage, Black Mage, what’s the difference? In Dorkly’s latest video we discover that not every White Mage is as enlightened as the next. Yes, ‘old-fashioned’ is indeed a polite way of saying ‘racist’. As time progresses we’ll have to eventually replace ‘old-fashioned’ with ‘archaic’ or ‘anachronistic’, though the latter would surely upset…

Internet Gaming Obsession Claims Another Life In China

The dangers of internet addiction in China were demonstrated yesterday, when an unidentified 30-year-old man collapsed in an internet cafe outside of Beijing following three days of nonstop online gaming. According to witnesses the man had been playing an online game at the internet cafe for three days, taking in little food or drink and…

And Now A Little Princess Saving Music

It’s a musical edition of the daily Speak-Up on Kotaku today, as commenter Harrier entertains us with more than 25 minutes of Mario piano music, played nonstop and without the aid of sheet music. My 25-minute-long medley of songs from various games featuring Super Mario! It isn’t perfect, but it’s kind of tough to go…

You Are This Japanese Dancing Queen’s Only Hope

Cat-eared Japanese idol Toshi loves to dance, but she’s forgotten how to walk. Only your mastery of physics and bullets can get her to the dance floor before she dies a horrible, dance-less death. Or just shoot her. Your choice. If anyone is surprised that I’m checking out an iPad / iPhone game that uses…

Command & Conquer Reborn Under The Flag Of Victory

The brief appearance of a staging site for the new home of Command & Conquer on the web revealed that the beloved real-time strategy franchise will be born again under a brand-new EA development studio, Jon Van Caneghem’s Victory Games. While the current Command & Conquer homepage is still online and fully-functional, a new site…