Mike Fahey

Fable III Really Signals A Larger Microsoft Push For PC Gaming This Time

Microsoft asks itself hard questions in an internal Q&A document obtained by Kotaku, including whether the larger investment in PC gaming brought on by Fable III is different than the other times it promised the same and didn’t deliver. We didn’t ask the question. We didn’t have to. In an internal Q&A document prepared for…

Welcome To The Summer

It’s the first day of summer, and you know what that means — the return of our daily science posts, like this one, explaining why it’s the first day of summer! Note: If you are in the Southern Hemisphere, ignore this post, and enjoy the winter. Today is the summer solstice, which for those of…

One Killer Father’s Day Present

A Father’s Day picture created by the wife of Kotaku reader Paul, depicting him and his son Caleb as deadly killers.

The Sly Collection Is All HD, Only A Little 3D

When Sanzaru Games brings The Sly Collection to the PlayStation 3 this November, you can expect all three Sly Cooper titles in moderately good-looking high-definition. Just don’t expect all three games to be 3D. I couldn’t resist giving The Sly Collection a quick play during my visit to the Sony booth at E3 2010, and…

Gran Turismo 5 Weather, Go-Karting, And Track Editor Confirmed?

Will Gran Turismo 5 have dynamic weather, go-kart racing, and a track editor when it ships this November? Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida seems to think so. Speaking in an interview with the official UK PlayStation website, Yoshida seemed to have a much deeper knowledge of Gran Turismo 5’s features than we…

The Crackdown 2 Demo Has A Facebook Twist

The Crackdown 2 demo goes live today, giving players a jump on their retail version achievements and extra goodies for those who play the tie-in Facebook game. The 1GB Crackdown 2 demo has dropped for Xbox Live Gold subscribers, giving players an early taste of four-player co-op sandbox action game. As a special bonus to…

I Seem To Have An Invizimal Touch

Sony’s E3 2010 booth was filled with eagerly anticipated titles like Killzone 3 and God of War: Ghost of Sparta, yet I made a beeline for PSP augmented reality Pokémon clone Invizimals. Why? It’s quite simple. After four straight E3 shows (six in total,) I’ve seen plenty of games like God of War and Killzone.…

The Nintendo Download: Invasion Of The Square Bears

This week’s Nintendo Download features a pair of Square Enix WiiWare games originally released in Japan as Kumanage, which sounds a lot cooler than The Tales of Bearsworth Manor. North America cannot handle Kumanage, so we get The Tales of Bearsworth Manor, two 1,000 Wii point games featuring a similar pop-up storybook look and feel…

Invizimals Gallery

Shogun 2 Total War: The Difference A Decade Makes

Artists from The Creative Assembly have spent more than a year learning ancient Japanese ink brush and wood block techniques, just to create transition art for Shogun 2: Total War. Imagine the work going into the actual game. The original Shogun: Total War intrigued me so much that I actually purchased it. I harbored a…

Shogun Concept art

How Did We Miss A Toy Story 3 Flash Mob?

At some point during E3, this happened, but we were far too busy working to see it. I’ve always wanted to see a flash mob in action, even if it is just a marketing tie-in. It seems I’ve missed my chance. From the YouTube description: Attendees at E3 2010 were surprised with an Alien Invasion…

The Console Wars In Sexy Comic Book Form

When one gamer’s FoxBox630 fails, he trades up to the ESexy3. When the FoxBox630 returns from the shop, it’s war. This is Ryan Kinnaird’s Next Gen Warz, a two-issue comic series due in September from Image Comics. Writer and artist Ryan Kinnaird used to do illustrations for PSM, and in 2003 created a “mature” Marvel…

Mouth-On With Gamer Grub Smores And BBQ

I can’t very well ignore an E3 booth that’s handing out free food. Gamer Grub debuted two new flavors at the show, and I went mouth-on with Smores and BBQ to see if they are worthy of our stomachs. What is Gamer Grub? It’s a series of snack mixes containing the vitamins and neurotransmitters gamers…

El Shaddai Has God On Speed Dial

In Ignition Entertainment’s El Shaddai, you’re guided by a pre-fall Lucifer who carries a cell phone with God on his speed dial. Then things get weird. El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is a 3D action adventure game with a singular look and an even more unique premise. Inspired by the Old Testament’s Book of…

Pirates Versus Ninjas In Fat Princess

What started as a concept artist fooling around becomes reality later this month, when Fat Princess update 1.06 brings the never-ending struggle between pirates and ninjas to life. Oh, and giants too. Fat Princess was never supposed to have pirates and ninjas. That’s what a rep told me when I gave the new characters a…

How To Trade-Up To The New Xbox 360 For $90

The new, smaller, sexier Xbox 360 is in stores now, and if you know where to go it can be yours for as little as $90. As a member of the Kotaku team not present at Microsoft’s 2010 E3 press conference, I do not get the new Xbox 360 for free, so as soon as…

PixelJunk Shooter 2 Plays With Light And Acid

Building on elements of the first game, Q-Games brings corrosive acid and creative lighting tricks to bear in PixelJunk Shooter 2. Shooter 2, the first true sequel in Q-Games’ PixelJunk series, picks up where the first game left off, plunging the player into the belly of the beast, which is incidentally the name of the…

Wait, Naughty Bear Has Multiplayer?

Not only does 505 Games’ upcoming killer bear game have multiplayer, it has game modes that actually promote strategic thinking and cooperation. Who knew? Naughty Bear is a game about one bear killing other bears, so naturally that extends to the multiplayer modes of the title as well. Developer Artificial Mind and Movement (A2M) didn’t…

Toy Story 3 Movie Review: Childhood’s End

It’s been fifteen years since Pixar Animation Studios ushered in the age of the CGI movie with Toy Story, a candid look at the secret lives of toys. Are we too old for one last trip inside the toy box? Toy Story introduced us to a world of living toys that only desire to be…