Mike Fahey

Science Finds Courage In The Human Brain

General George Patton said that “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” Now scientists may have found a way to stimulate courage, pinpointing the portion of the brain that helps humans conquer their fears. Snakes – why is it always snakes? A team of researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel,…

El Shaddai’s Lucifel Is Headed For A Fall

The second part of Ignition’s epic trailer for El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron gets up close and personal with Lucifel, a suave archangel destined to become the foremost fallen. Oh, and porklings. Lucifel is of course Lucifer, God’s favorite angel who eventually falls from grace and becomes the ruler of hell. The eternal damnation…

Survive Earthquakes, Floods, And Tornadoes With Disaster Hero

Adventure game company Legacy Interactive and the American College Of Emergency Physicians have teamed up to create Disaster Hero, a web-based game aimed at helping people keep it together while the world is falling apart. When the forces of nature turn against us it seems like there’s nothing we can do to prevent them, but…

Missed Connections: Rock Of Ages

Between the trailer, these screenshots, and the advertisements on every E3 badge holder, I’m terribly sorry I missed our E3 2010 appointment with Atlus and didn’t see Rock of Ages, but I had to fly home. There was cake waiting. Rock of Ages is a new downloadable game from ACE Team of Zeno Clash fame.…

Living The High Life In Test Drive Unlimited 2

A glamorous, raven-haired beauty clad in a slinky dress wanders through a showcase of the world’s most expensive vehicles, her high heels clicking on the tile floor. I’m that raven-haired beauty, and one of these cars will soon be mine. The game is Test Drive Unlimited 2, Eden Games and Atari’s second trip into the…

DC Comics Finally Goes Digital

The electronic comic book movement gains momentum today, as Batman and Superman publisher DC Comics finally goers digital, offering downloadable comics for the iPad, iPhone, and Sony PSP. Marvel does it. Image does it. Even Dark Horse has electronic versions of many of their comic books available for purchase online. The one, major holdout has…

Jimmy Fallon Jacks The Hind In Call Of Duty: Black Ops

Jimmy Fallon played Call of Duty: Black Ops on Late Night last night, proving once again that video games are much more enjoyable in front of a live studio audience. Who needs 3D when you can have an entire television studio full of fans cheering you on? Fallon is joined by Treyarch’s Mark Lamia and…

Scientific America Looks at GTA, Calls for Non-Sexist, Non-Racist, Non-Violent Video Games

The problem of using science to determine whether or not violent video games like Grand Theft Auto do harm to our children is neatly summed up in one article on Scientific American – there’s always good news and bad news. In an article titled “Grand Theft Auto Is Good for You? Not So Fast…,” Scientific…

City Of Heroes Goes Rogue In August

Gripping moral decisions come to NCSoft’s super hero MMO City of Heroes this summer, as the company sets an August 17 release date for the game’s second major expansion, Going Rogue. Mark your calendars!

Transformers: Robots In My House

Hours after running this morning’s review of Transformers: War for Cybertron, a package showed up on my doorstep featuring the toy versions of two of the game’s Autobot stars. I’ve been actively seeking these two figures out for a couple of weeks now, just in case they slipped out into stores early. I’ve been collecting…

Smuggling Myself Into The Old Republic

As Kotaku’s resident massively multiplayer online gamer, you’d think I would have gone hands on with Star Wars: The Old Republic before last week. Was it worth the wait? Following a brief presentation of a couple trailers for The Old Republic, BioWare representatives led me to a small room lined with computers and asked me…

Missed Connections – Rift: Planes of Telara

Dear Trion Worlds. I am terribly sorry I missed our appointment at E3 2010. If it’s any comfort, the E3 trailer for your MMO Rift: Planes of Telara looks very pretty. Rift is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game with a very intriguing concept. The land of Telara is being ravaged by rifts opening in…

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Disney Is Completely Serious About These Tron Action Figures

Disney unleashes the first product shots of their massive Tron Legacy toy and electronics line, including mice, keyboards, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 controllers, and action figures with cutting-edge impulse light projection technology that makes them extremely ugly. You can expect plenty of Tron Legacy junk on store shelves come this December, including the 12…

Transformers: War For Cybertron Review: Now Light Our Darkest Hour

After suffering through two sub-par games based on the live-action films, do Transformers fans finally have the video game worthy of the franchise in War for Cybertron? In 2004, developer Melbourne House and Atari gave us a glimpse at how good a Transformers game could be in the Transformers Armada-based game for the PlayStation 2.…

Packing Tips From A Tetris Master

Have you ever seen a skilled Tetris player performing and thought to yourself, “He must be great at packing a moving truck?” We put that notion to the test, assembling several handy moving tips from a Tetris pro. Tetris masters aren’t that easy to find. There are no large, organized tournaments for the game and…

Four Play For The Price Of Two With The Xbox Live Gold Family Plan

Microsoft gears up for the launch of family-friendly Kinect this fall with the Xbox Live Gold Family subscription plan, delivering four Xbox Live Gold memberships for the price of two, plus a host of new features and family-exclusive content. This is why I need kids. Starting in November, Microsoft’s new Xbox Live Gold Family Pack…

Blood Of The Cybermen Looks Terribly Chilly

The second free downloadable Doctor Who Adventure Game will be Blood of the Cybermen, which takes place in an abandoned Arctic research station. That certainly explains the mini-skirt. After the first episode in the series, City of the Daleks, garnered more than half a million download requests in the first 12 days of release, the…

Magic: The Gathering – Duels Of The Planeswalkers PC Review: I’d Tap That

After a highly-successful run on Xbox Live Arcade, the collectible card game craze visits Steam with the PC version of Magic: the Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers. We didn’t get a chance to squeeze in a review for the original release of Duels of the Planeswalkers on Xbox Live Arcade last year, and that’s…

How Developers See The PlayStation Move

Seeing the tools developers use to create games on the PlayStation Move could be the key to understanding the device’s full potential. Move research and development lead Dr. Richard Marks walks us through the tools of the trade. While we’ve barely scratched the surface in terms of what the PlayStation Move motion controller is capable…