Mike Fahey

Legendary Wars Could Be The Next Plants Vs. Zombies

No game on the iPad or iPhone captured my attention near as much as the touch-friendly versions of PopCap’s immensely popular Plants Vs. Zombies. Then came Legendary Wars. Legendary Wars is a tower defense game in the same vein as Plants Vs. Zombies. You gather resources, build up a defending army, and do your best…

Dracula Doesn’t Mind The Whipping So Much Anymore

After centuries of the Belmont clan whipping him into submission, Dracula found himself looking forward to the slayer family’s regular visits. What does Dracula have to do besides being whipped? He’s either trapped in another dimension for hundreds of years between video games or worse, dead, waiting to be resurrected and killed all over again.…

Video Games Teach Us How To Be Better Bad Drivers

A new study conducted by Continental Tyres has found that players of driving video games are better at passing their drivers test than non-gaming drivers. Unfortunately they suck at everything else. You know that feeling you get while you’re playing a racing game like Burnout Paradise or Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit when you blaze…

The Nintendo Download In 3D: Dolphins, Diaries, And Destiny

Nintendo fans don’t have to wait for the 3DS for a little 3D gaming. This week’s Nintendo download’s got dolphin pets, an interactive diary, and Magical Destiny, with no special glasses required. WiiWare gets the short end of the magic wand in this week’s Nintendo Download, with just one title: Shanblue Interactive’s Magic Destiny, an…

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All-Star Air Hockey Publisher: Skyworks Interactive Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points Description: Remember the days of hanging around the local arcade and playing air hockey until the wee hours? Grab your paddle and enjoy some classic arcade action with All-Star Air Hockey from Skyworks, creators of some of the…

Witness The World-Ending Final Boss Of Marvel Vs. Capcom 3

What menace could be so great that the combined might of Marvel and Capcom’s top heroes and villains are needed to contain it? Find out in the video below, if you can handle the spoiler. I’m guessing many of you already knew or at least suspected which character would wind up being the major bad…

Are Achievements Your Personal Video Game Ratings System?

In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, KillerIri5h notices a strong correlation between how much a player enjoys a game and the amount of achievements unlocked. Can you use achievements and trophies to rate your games? During a lazy moment today I decided to look through my past achievements on my X360. As I scrolled through 100+…

The Toughest Game Cartridges Survive Fire, Flood, Ice, And Jell-O

Which video game console had the most resilient cartridges, the Super Nintendo or the Sega Genesis? Blistered Thumbs’ Rinry lets her sadistic side shine as she boils, burns, freezes, and drops a pair of games to determine the toughest. NHL Stanley Cup for the Super Nintendo faces off against Joe Montana Sports Talk Football for…

This Excellent Twin-Stick Shooter Is The Last Of A Dying Breed

Luke Schneider of Radiangames has created six excellent Xbox Live Indie games. Today he released the seventh, Ballistic, and it could be the best of the bunch. It’s also the last. Every time I see the name Radiangames in the Xbox Live Indie Games store I can’t help but smile, and for good reason. Each…

A Visual Guide To Black Ops First Strike

Lurking somewhere beneath this striking Left 4 Dead style First Strike zombie poster are a series of screens showing off the new zombie playground and four new multiplayer maps coming to Xbox Live on February 1. Study them and survive. Videos are all fine and good, but nothing beats the good-old unmoving screenshot when it…

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Sure, Let’s Release Genetically Engineered Mosquitos Into The Wild

Malaysia recently released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild. What reason could there possibly be to justify such a thing? Malaysia’s intent is indeed honorable. They aren’t purposefully trying to create a super powered variant of one of the world’s most deadliest disease carriers. To the contrary, these 6.000 bugs have been genetically altered…

Teamwork Is Key In Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Flashpoints

Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Flashpoint system will give players of BioWare’s upcoming MMO the chance to team up and take on epic group adventures, like rescuing an important Jedi Master from the Imperial planet of Taral V. We’ve seen plenty of solo gameplay for Star Wars: The Old Republic, but not much in the…

Doodle Jump Gets A Visit From Russell Brand’s Easter Bunny

The star of Universal’s upcoming live-action-meets CGI movie Hop is making a side trip to the iPhone next month, when the Russell Brand-voiced Easter Bunny bounces in for a cameo on the iPhone’s all-time top paid U.S. iPhone app Doodle Jump. The Easter Bunny (or E.B., as he’s called in the film) seems like the…

The New Wii Kirby Loses The Yarn But Keeps The Epic

Revealed during yesterday’s Nintendo investor meeting in Japan, there’s a new Kirby game headed to the Nintendo Wii, and this time around the pink puffball is a bit more substantial than he was in Kirby’s Epic Yarn. Another Kirby game due out in Japan a little over a year since the last? The strong critical…

Did The Next Generation Portable Steal 3DS Thunder?

Kotaku commenter Truthtellah was really excited about the 3DS. Now that Sony has outed it’s Next Generation Portable, he’s a bit less excited. Did Sony steal some wind from Nintendo’s sails? That’s your topic for today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. So… to be completely honest, this new NGP announcement has taken a bit of steam out…

Anarchy Reigns Teaser Is All Sexy Sound And Fury

The first teaser trailer for PlatinumGames online multiplayer brawler Anarchy Reigns might not tell us much about the game, but with pulse-pounding music and the flash of deadly weapons it’s sure giving off a sexy vibe. Yesterday Sega and PlatinumGames gave the online multiplayer brawler previously known as Max Anarchy a proper name: Anarchy Reigns.…

Even A LEGO Star Wars Game Needs Voice Actors

Just because none of the characters in LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars actually talk doesn’t mean they don’t employ high caliber voice talent. They just grunt a lot. The cast from the hit animated television show Star Wars: The Clone Wars reprise their roles in LEGO Star Wars III, only there’s no script,…

Scientists Pinpoint The Clock Inside Every Living Thing, Even You

Inside every living creature there’s a 24-hour clock that regulates the biochemical, physiological, or behavioral processes going on inside of us, and now scientists have discovered exactly what that clock is. We call the 24-hour cycle that exists inside all living things on the planet the circadian rhythm. This rhythm can be seen in our…

Pot Man And The Video Game Characters A Rapper Identifies With

Are Mega Man’s battle chips the same thing as a rapper’s weed and alcohol? Houston-area rapper A.D.D. talks about the video game characters that inspire him, name-checking Kingdom Hearts, Metal Gear, and Tomba. Tomba? Okay, A.D.D. earns some serious video game cred for calling out that pink-haired pig-hugger Tomba as one of his inspirations, even…