Mike Fahey

Trauma Team Undergoes Pre-Op Price Drop

Atlus’ eagerly anticipated surgical simulator Trauma Team for the Nintendo Wii is coming on May 18, and rather than submit the game to Atlus’ traditional last-minute delay, they’ve gone and dropped the price by $10 instead. Score! I tease Atlus, but only because they have a tendency to scoot their games across the calendar with…

Linkin Park’s Video Game Doesn’t Look Nearly As Bad As It Should

Grammy-winning rock band Linkin Park have teamed up with mobile game developers Artificial Life to create Linkin Park 8-Bit Rebellion, an iPhone game that looks like it could actually be highly entertaining. The evil PixxelKorp has stolen Linkin Park’s music, and it’s up to you and your friends to get it back, preserving the sanctity…

Super Street Fighter IV Box Art Gets A Welcome Dose Of Dudley

Fans disappointed by the drab box art Capcom rolled out for the North American release of Super Street Fighter IV should be pleased with the updated look, which ditches Cammy for the ever-dapper Dudley. I was not pleased with the original box art one bit, likening it to tossing bits of clip art about in…

The 10 Tribes Of Final Fantasy XIV – Oh Look, Dark Elves!

Sure, Final Fantasy XIV only has five races that are renamed versions of the races from Final Fantasy XI, but with two tribes each, that’s like ten races total! Let’s take a look at them, shall we? The Japanese Final Fantasy IV site now formally splits each of the game’s five races into two separate…

Sociologist Spends 2,300 Hours Seeking Civilization In World Of Warcraft

Sociologist and director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation, William Sims Bainbridge spent 2300 hours entrenched in popular MMO World of Warcraft, looking for look for insights about Western civilization. What did he find there? William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D., is no spring chicken, but he braved the wilds of Azeroth for 2200 hours,…

It’s Too Late To Turn Back Now

The Saboteur Is A Lot Less Chesty On The iPhone

With a rating of 12+ on Apple’s App Store, Hands-On Mobile’s iPhone take on EA’s The Saboteur promises more Nazi foiling and less randomly topless women. The Saboteur is now available on the App Store, with $2.99 scoring purchasers 12 missions spread across seven environments, with a less potty-mouthed Sean Devlin amassing an arsenal of…

The Cutest Indie Game Plushie Ever

Indie game developer Edmund McMillen goes full circle, so to speak, as Bigshot Toyworks releases a couple of plush toys based on his award-winning PC game Gish, starring a loveable ball of tar out to save his girlfriend. With a new Gish game on the horizon and a cameo by the grinning black ball in…

Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About Street Fighters

UDON Entertainment gets down and dirty with every Street Fighter character to ever go a round this June, with the release of the Street Fighter: World Warrior Encyclopedia, with information ranging from fighting styles to favorite foods. Did you know high school ninja Ibuki loves roasted sweet potatoes and is an extremely fast eater, or…

Man Arrested Allegedly Trying To Steal Early Copy of Game At Convention

Atomic Games’ Xbox Live Arcade shooter Breach impressed one PAX East visitor so much he apparently attempted to steal the code, and he might have succeeded too, if not for one fatal mistake – telling the developers he was stealing it. We don’t condone stealing here at Kotaku, but we do enjoy being helpful, so…

The Great PAX East Slurpee Caper

Come hear the tale of how one video game journalist, driven by the love of the Slurpee, overcame tremendous odds to travel one and a half blocks in two hours. I’ve never been candid about my love of the Slurpee. I’ve lived in Georgia since 1984, and back then I used to ride my bike…

Snoopy Flying Ace: High Road To Reminiscence

A brief hands-on with upcoming Xbox Live Arcade air combat game Snoopy Flying Ace at PAX East made me realize how badly I missed playing Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge. Snoopy Flying Ace, developed by Smart Bomb Interactive, is the follow-up to Snoopy vs. the Red Baron, a dog-fighting (sorry!) game for the PlayStation…

Eight Billion Years Of Dead Space

For Dead Space 2 executive producer Steve Papoutsis, PAX East was an amazing opportunity to connect with the fans that could keep the franchise going for “eight billion years.” “Eight billion years,” was the tongue-in-cheek answer Steve Papoutsis gave when I asked him how long he saw the Dead Space franchise lasting. Awash and perhaps…

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile Preview: The Machine Girl Cometh

Ska Studios’ The Dishwasher returns in Vampire Smile, and he’s not alone, as his previously dead sister Yuki takes up arms against an army of twisted enemies, Machine Girl style. The Dishwasher was the winner of Microsoft’s first Dream-Build-Play contest, earning creator James Silva $10,000 and an Xbox Live Arcade publishing contract with its over-the-top…

Logan International Airport Thinks This Might Be A Bomb

Damn you Andrew Ryan! As seen in my carry-on luggage, which Logan Airport security looked at for a very long time.

The Power Of The Black Mage Case Mod Compels You

Lurking deep within the darkened Bring Your Own PC room at PAX East, the pixel Black Mage case mod waits, lightning wand in hand, for the right moment to strike. Someone mentioned the Black Mage case mod to me yesterday, after catching sight of my Black Mage tattoo, and I knew I had to get…

The Penny Arcade Expo’s Real Arcade

On the third floor of the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, visitors to the Penny Arcade Expo East get to visit an actual arcade, filled with free-to-play arcade cabinets and pinball machines, just like mother used to make. Okay, technically my mother didn’t make arcade machines, but back when I was a kid she’d send…

Let’s Shank Again, Like I Did Last Summer

When last I left Shank, it was PAX West 2009. Six months later I got my hands on a whole new, platform-heavy level and word from Klei Entertainment’s Jamie Cheng on quality versus quantity. If you read my Shank preview from PAX 2009, you’ll know that I was incredibly impressed by Klei’s Spaghetti Western take…

PAX East Cosplay Gallery: Day Two

We promised you more cosplay for the second day of PAX East, and we have delivered! Check out today’s gallery for more Pokémon, Mario, Final Fantasy XIII, Fallout, The World Ends With You, and this uncanny Jerry Holkins cosplay. Today’s cosplay gallery spits on yesterday’s cosplay gallery, trampling it into the ground like a baby…

Dead Space 2: More Fun With Severed Limbs

Dead Space’s strategic dismemberment system was a lot of fun, but ultimately a waste of perfectly good limbs. Executive producer Steve Papoutsis tells Kotaku one way the sequel will keep the fun going even after someone loses an arm. I caught up with Mr. Papoutsis in the lobby of the Sheraton, which connects to the…