Mike Fahey

Fable Creator Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award

Much more than the creator of fable, Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux was behind everything from classic god game Populous to the light-hearted simulator Theme Park. These achievements and more will be honored at the Game Developers Choice Awards during GDC 2011. Kotaku will be there on Wednesday, March 2, in San Francisco when the esteemed developer…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Behold Kotaku’s official forum, where the video game discussions stretch on for as long as the eye can see! Thanks to reader Wulfzoid for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics

Even U.S. Vice Presidents Play Angry Birds

This Angry Birds thing goes all the way to the White House. Former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney reveals he’s dabbled in Angry Birds on the iPad. Pray he’s better with a slingshot than a shotgun…

More Than 300 Million Dead In 24 Hours

A real-world tragedy is a triumph for Activision and developer Treyarch. Dutch infographic makers Spijkermat average the stats from Call of Duty: Black Ops’ multiplayer lobby in order to paint this grim picture of death and destruction. [Infographic] 24hrs COD: Black Ops [Spijkermat]

One Dead Sackboy And The Rest Of The LittleBigPlanet 2 Collector’s Edition

This might be the most dramatic opening of a video game collector’s edition ever committed to video, though probably not. It’s the LittleBigPlanet 2 Collector’s Edition! Let’s open it. Why did I order the LittleBigPlanet 2 Collector’s Edition? I think it was the bookends that got me, which is strange, as all of my bookshelves…

These LEGO Brick Birds Are Angrier Than Ever

LEGO artisan Tsang Yiu Keung has discovered the secret to success in Rovio’s ridiculously popular Angry Birds: If throwing birds doesn’t stop the pigs, throw bricks instead. LEGO bricks, to be precise. Tsang has painstakingly recreated most of the game’s major players in LEGO form, right down to a little LEGO slingshot for hurling blocky…

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How Realistic Do Gamers Want Their Games To Get?

In today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Matt_Twombly ponders the advanced realism coming in games like Rockstar’s L.A. Noire. When do games become too real? Reading the latest editorial on L.A. Noire got me thinking: How realistic do gamers actually want their games? There is all this talk this generation of immersion and games’ capacity to…

This Is How South Korean Children Battle Game Addiction

It looks like torture, and for children In South Korea that are used to playing video games non-stop, ruining their grades in the process it might be. This is where parents send their children to learn a little self-control. You’d never see these sorts of images featuring North American children. One glance at the pained…

These Sackboys Are Barking Up The Wrong Tree

LittleBigPlanet 2 hits stores today, and while it does a lot of things, the Xbox 360 is one thing it will not do. As seen on BertieA’s Flickr stream. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

Heroic Company Of Heroes Dev Lives On In His Daughter

In September Company of Heroes Online lead designer Brian Wood was killed in a car crash. His pregnant wife Erin survived. NBC’s Today talks with the widow about how she’s keeping Brian’s memory alive for her newborn daughter. Brian Wood lost his life in September of 2010, but through his actions a new life was…

The Uncanny X-Men At The Mercy Of One Of Games Journalism’s Greats

Kieron Gillen was one of the most profound and prolific video game journalists working in the industry. Some would even say he invented games journalism. Now the future of Marvel’s Uncanny X-men is in his hands. Kieron Gillen has worked with just about everyone in the video game business. He’s written for PC Gamer UK,…

Kinect Hacked To Perform Surgery

We’ve seen the Xbox 360 Kinect control robots before, but never robots with tasks this important. A group of graduate engineering students at the University of Washington are using Microsoft’s device to guide the actions of surgical robots. Scientists and engineers have been working for years to integrate gaming technology into the human-controlled robots that…

Xbox Live Indie Clips: The Charge Is Only Briefly Sexy

Some Xbox Live Indie games try to confuse you with pictures of beautiful women in tight clothing, masking a mediocre gameplay experience with sex. Say hello to The Charge by Zebra Games. It’s games like this than make me glad that Indie games on Xbox Live comes with demos by default. I should have taken…

Modders Building A Harder, Faster, And Stronger Fallout: New Vegas

This is not your out-of-the-box Fallout: New Vegas. This is Project Nevada, an ambitious mod for New Vegas that adds bullet-time, sprinting, tackling, cybernetic implants, and more to Obsidian’s desert romp. The best thing about owning any Bethesda game on PC is the robust modding community, constantly striving to make games like The Elder Scrolls…

Does This Count As Playing With Your Food?

If more butchers molded their meat into Pac-Man shapes before packaging it would save me a whole lot of time. As seen in Kroger by Gambit09.

Implied Fisting Is One Sure Way To Get A Mature Rating

Ar Tonelico III was rated teen in Japan. The ESRB isn’t being as kind, slapping on a mature rating on the PlayStation 3 RPG for, among other things, a male character reaching inside a female character’s body while she moans. Anyone that’s played the first two games in the Gust-developed, NIS America-published role-playing series Ar…

Attractive People Are Smarter Than You Too

We can’t all be Angeline Jolie or Brad Pitt, but what we lack in looks we make up for in brains, right? Apparently not. Researchers in London have found that attractive people are smarter too, dammit. This has to be some sort of joke, right? I’ve seen the best minds of my generation, and the…

These Video Game Achievements Should Not Exist

In today’s episode of the daily Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter BiggunSid talks about the trophies and achievements that he’d like to see game developers do away with. I think most of us will agree that achievements/trophies are a pretty cool addition to the current generation of gaming. Some of us love it-a buddy of mind…

The Most Realistic Sports Video Game Ever

It’s almost like being there! Thanks to Zelda Did It! for sharing the pic. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.