Mike Fahey

Pirate Bay Buyers Banned From Stock Exchange

Swedish stock market AktieTorget has banned potential Pirate Bay purchasers Global Gaming Factory X from offering stock, after determining that the company misled investors regarding their ability to buy the popular torrent site. We’ve been following the Pirate Bay sale saga rather closely since the sale was announced this June, with Global Gaming Factory declaring…

Deliberate Glitch Foils Arkham PC Pirates

A deliberate glitch in the PC version of Batman: Arkham Asylum has pirates perplexed to the point of accidentally outing themselves on the official Eidos forums. Cheshirec_the_cat posted a thread on September 4th in the official Eidos forums for Batman: Arkham Asylum, requesting help with a peculiar problem with the PC version of the game.…

The Secret World Revealed: Factions, Progression, And PVP

At PAX 2009 this past weekend, Kotaku sat down with Funcom to delve into the secrets behind The Secret World, learning about the societies, Cabals, and PVP combat in the upcoming modern-day MMO. I met with Funcom creative director Ragnar Tørnquist and The Secret World’s lead designer Martin H Bruusgaard on Friday afternoon at the…

Is Frank West In Tatsunoko VS. Capcom?

Some sloppy web design may have revealed the final four characters for the North American version of Capcom’s Tatsunoko VS. Capcom, and one of them has covered wars, ya know? Shoryuken forum poster Mumu was poking about the source code for the Tatsunoko VS. Capcom character site when he noticed something strange in the HTML.…

Clash Of Ninja Revolution 3 Got Moves

Naruto is all about the Jutsu, and Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 for the Wii has Jutsu to spare, to go along with the extremely long name. Here are the signature Jutsu for key characters Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi, names I’ve become all too familiar with during my tenure at Kotaku. I’ve gone…

Mad Catz Modern Warfare 2 Range In Pictures

If you thought Mad Catz line of Modern Warfare 2 accessories sounded impressive in print, wait until you see them in pictures. Here we get our first look at the Mad Catz Modern Warfare 2 lineup. First announced last month, it consists of custom controllers for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, that lovely Cyborg…

Singularity: Let’s Do The Time Wave Again

Nothing exhilarates quite like a refreshing dip in the 1950’s, courtesy of Singularity’s intriguing time wave. While the Time Manipulation Device in Raven Software‘s Singularity allows you to manipulate objects between ages, the time wave manipulates you, forcing you to switch between present-day and the 1950’s, when the titular catastrophe occurred. It’s an interesting mechanic,…

The First Four Secret World Screens

To compliment our rather extensive preview article, here are the first four screenshots for Funcom’s The Secret World, showing off the more paranormal side of everyday life. This is pretty much what I was envisioning when I first heard about The Secret World. Folks like you and me facing off against creatures like this and…

Wizard101 Celebrates First Year, Five Million Players

KingsIsle Entertainment’s family-friendly MMO might not have taken off as fast as Sony Online Entertainment’s Free Realms, but Wizard101 is doing just fine, celebrating more than five million registered players on its first anniversary. KingsIsle is decorating the world of Wizard City and promising a “special surprise” for all players of Wizard101 this month as…

Marvel VS. Capcom 2 Gets A Tournament Edition FightStick

The Marvel VS Capcom® 2 Arcade Fightstick: Tournament Edition will make you forget all about those silly limited-edition PAX and Comic-Con Street Fighter IV sticks you missed out on. Sure, the Comic-Con stick was stylish and the PAX Femme Fatale controller was pretty, but neither were quite as sexy as the Marvel VS. Capcom 2…

Toys R Launches Game Trade-Ins Nationwide – Update

The trade-in program Toys R Us was testing back in March seems to have tested well, as the retailer launches said program nationwide today, accepting used games from the Atari 2600 on up. Yes, the Toys R Us trade-in program differs from many of their competition in that there is no cut-off point when a…

10 Years Of Dreamcast: What Might Have Been

It’s been 10 years since Sega launched the Dreamcast, and while it eventually failed, we like to think that in an alternate reality somewhere the Dreamcast reigns supreme. Let’s imagine Dreamcast victory! In order for the Dreamcast to have been successful, many of the decisions Sega made leading up to the console would have to…

Today Is Video Game Innovation Day In Massachusetts

From the creation of Spacewar! at MIT in 1961 to today’s release of The Beatles: Rock Band from Cambridge-based Harmonix, Massachusetts celebrates video game innovation today with an official holiday. Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick has proclaimed today, September 9th 2009, to be Video Game Innovation Day, celebrating the state’s long history of gaming innovation.…

Bethesda’s Parent Captures Prey

According to official trademark assignment documents, Bethesda Softworks’ parent company ZeniMax Media now owns the rights to the first-person shooter Prey, and they’re filing trademarks left and right. The Prey trademark was assigned to ZeniMax Media in July by The Radar Group, which acquired it from Apogee the previous month. Superannuation discovered the trademark change-of-hands…

Save 666 Pennies On Dante’s Inferno

EA and GameStop have teamed up to offer you one hell of a deal on Dante’s Inferno, with $6.66 off and free shipping on preorders for an extremely limited time. It’s 09/09/09, and EA and GameStop are being rather clever, turning the date upside-down, removing the zeroes, and offering $6.66 off Dante’s Inferno, the video…

Assassin’s Creed II iPhone Releasing With Console Cousins

iPhone and iPod Touch owners will get their second helping of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed this November, when Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery hits Apple’s App Store day and date with the console releases. Ubisoft showed off Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery today at Apple’s “It’s Only Rock and Roll” event, which our sister site Gizmodo was kind…

New LucasArts Game Revealed This Week

Amidst a slew of remakes and re-releases, LucasArts is preparing to announce a brand-new original title on this week’s GameTrailers TV. GameTrailers TV host Geoff Keighley once again flexes his Twitter muscles, announcing that a new game from LucasArts will be making its debut on this week’s episode of the show. From Keighley’s Twitter: LucasArts…

F.E.A.R. 2: Replica Gone Rogue

You can’t have new F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin downloadable content without a new community music video. Here’s the one for the new single-player campaign, F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn. I actually ran into Monolith’s big star, Lucas Meyers, at the Warner Bros. booth at PAX 2009 this past weekend, and all I could do was stare at…

Dungeons & Dragons Online Now Free For All

After a rather lucrative week’s worth of testing the waters, Turbine has launched Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited, the free-to-play rebirth of Dungeons & Dragons Online. Following a preview week for VIP subscribers that indicated huge success for Turbine’s new free-to-play, microtransaction-based structure, Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited is now live for anyone…

Kathie Lee Butchers The Beatles

Kathie Lee Gifford had a Hard Day’s Night playing The Beatles: Rock Band on NBC’s Today Show. Thankfully Candace Bushnell and Jennie Garth were there to put a stop to the madness. I never imagined in a million years that I would have cause to thank 90210’s Jennie Garth for anything. It just goes to…