Mike Fahey

Star Trek Online Celebrates Its First Year

It’s been a year since Cryptic Studios boldly went and released a massively-multiplayer game based on Star Trek, and it’s come quite a long way since then. See what’s changed and what’s next for Star Trek Online. Star Trek Online is a different game from the one I reviewed a year ago. Back then I…

Is This The First Kinect-Created Music Video?

Some music video directors spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on fancy special effects. Filmmaker Dan Nixon just spent $150 on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect to create the music video for Echo Lake’s “Young Silence.” I don’t know about the song, but the imagery in Echo Lake‘s “Young Silence” is quite eerie and haunting, thanks…

Pirates Of The Caribbean Has Never Been So Blocky

You’ve seen the trailer, now check out the first action-packed, block-built screenshots of Lego Pirates of the Caribbean in action.

Stem Cell Shooting Gun Heals Massive Burns In Days

Treating serious burns is a time consuming process that normally takes weeks or months, leaving patients open to dangerous infections as they heal. This newly-developed stem cell shooting spray gun reduces healing time to days. Warning: Graphic video inside. Most of the damage from serious burns doesn’t come from flames. It comes from infections brought…

Can Kinect Make You Swim Like Michael Phelps?

505 Games has teamed up with Olympic superstar Michael Phelps to create Michael Phelps – Push the Limit, “one of the most realistic and intense sports simulation video games ever.” Is it time to flood your living room? The Kinect is a magical device full of hope and wonder, but I’m having trouble envisioning how…

Duty Calls Is A Quick And Brutal Stab At Call Of Duty

Look away, Call of Duty fans. Bulletstorm’s Duty Calls parody game viciously sums up the Call of Duty experience in one painfully funny four-minute experience complete with boring briefings, bloody screens, and the obligatory slow-motion shoot-out. Watch us play it. If you plan on downloading and playing Duty Calls, don’t watch this video. It’s a…

Bulletstorm Mocks Call Of Duty With A Free PC Game

First Bulletstorm took on Halo with a touching, vomit-soaked diorama. That’s good enough for Halo, but to take on Call of Duty it’ll need something meatier, like the full downloadable PC game Duty Calls. I’ve seen games marketed by mocking other titles before (mocketing?), but never quite to the extent Epic Games is taking it…

Do You Prefer Your Collector’s Edition Goodies Physical Or Virtual?

Art book or golden gun? Poster or multiplayer skin? In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur.Froid wants to know why some people prefer in-game collector’s edition prizes to tangible swag. What’s your poison? Why do so many people prefer in-game baubles rather than real world items when they order collector’s editions? I went into GameStop…

Mad Catz Is Making Official Wireless Headphones For The Xbox 360

Finding a quality set of headphones for the Xbox 360 just got a lot easier, as Microsoft teams up with peripheral maker Mad Catz to create a line of co-branded wired and wireless stereo headphones under Mad Catz’s Tritton brand. Mad Catz and Microsoft will be working together to design the headphone line, which will…

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This Could Be The Uncharted Movie’s Female Lead

The bad news is the big-screen “adaptation” of Naughty Dogs’ beloved Uncharted series is still underway. The good news? I get to post a picture of Scarlett Johansson, who could be in the running to play Nathan Drake’s girl. We know director David O. Russell wants Mark Wahlberg to star as Nathan Drake, and we…

Playing Video Games With Dad Builds Better Daughters

Do video games make girls healthier and happier? A brand-new study out of Brigham Young University’s School of Family Life suggests they do, as long as parents are willing to play along. The Brigham Young study, authored by Sarah M. Coyne, Ph.D., distributed questionnaires to 287 adolescents between the ages of 11 and 16 and…

Become A Dragon Age Legend On Facebook

It’s time to sign up for the closed beta for Dragon Age Legends, EA 2D’s Facebook companion to Dragon Age II, where players can earn exclusive items for use in the console game. I was under the impression that Dragon Age Legends would be hitting Facebook before the March 11 release of Dragon Age II,…

This Dark Link Statue Will Haunt Your Dreams And Your Wallet

First 4 Figures gives its painting guy a well-deserved rest with the latest addition to its Legend of Zelda statue line, Dark Link. To glow or not to glow? That is the question for Legend of Zelda fans interested in picking up this stark and striking statue of Link’s darker side. Both the normal edition…

Of Course There’s A Limited Edition Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Arcade FightStick

Every major Capcom fighting game release since Street Fighter IV has seen a super sexy Tournament Edition Arcade FightStick from Mad Catz, and Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 is no exception. Fighting fans know the drill by now. The Tournament Edition Arcade FightStick is a lovely piece of arcade technology, featuring Sanwa Denshi components housed in…

Is Video Game Difficulty Ass-Backwards?

Kotaku commenter SuicidalEarthworm (don’t do it!) feels that video games are handling difficulty wrong, getting progressively easier instead of more difficult. Add your two cents in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. You know what I think, game difficulty is all backwards in practically all games. You start up with barely any weapons…and if a game involves…

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Meet Anarchy Reigns’ Zero And His Two Stabby Friends

Yesterday we got our first look at Anarchy Reigns’ Ice Queen Sasha in action. Now we meet Zero, a dual-wielding swordsman who could give Metal Gear Solid’s Raiden a run for his money. We’re slowly being introduced to the full cast of Anarchy Reigns, the online beat-em up from the makers of Bayonetta and MadWorld.…

The Final Bit.Trip Brings Commander Video Home

It’s been a long, strange trip for Commander Video of Gaijin Games’ Bit.Trip series, but he’s finally coming home. Check out the official trailer for Bit.Trip Flux, the sixth and final stop on the Bit.Trip train. It’s hard to believe it’s been so long since Bit.Trip Beat’s debut on WiiWare back in March of 2009,…

Street Fighter X Tekken Is Serious Business Indeed

Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono takes no chances as he prepares for a visit to Namco Bandai’s Sunnyvale offices to talk the Street Fighter X Tekken crossover fighter, as seen on Capcom Unity Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.