Mike Fahey

This Adapter Is The Easiest Way To Connect A PlayStation 2 To HDMI

As television technology evolves, it gets more difficult to connect classic consoles to modern television sets. Hooking up my PlayStation 2 for gaming and streaming via HDMI was particularly difficult, until Pound’s PlayStation 2 HD Link cable made it simple. My original attempt at connecting my PlayStation 2 (and original PlayStation) to my capture box,…

Starbreeze CEO Steps Down As Company Files For Reconstruction

Due in large part to poor sales of co-op first-person shooter Overkill’s The Walking Dead, Swedish video game developer and publisher Starbreeze today filed for reconstruction with the Stockholm District Court, with CEO Bo Andersson leaving his position and resigning from the company board of directors. The company that brought us The Chronicles of Riddick:…

Five Years After Disney Shut It Down, Toontown Online Gets Keybinding And Walking

The dedicated fans who’ve been running Toontown since Disney shut down the family-friendly game back in 2013 aren’t just maintaining the MMO, they’re improving it. The newly-released “Options Update” for Toontown Rewritten finally gives players the ability to rebind controls and walk instead of run. It’s adorable how excited the team is about it. Toontown…

Farming Is A Lot Of Fun When You Aren’t Actually Farming

“I’m the farmer. I work in the fields all day.” The chorus from Barenaked Ladies’ “Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank” plays on repeat in my head as I sit in front of my computer tending virtual crops in Farming Simulator 19. That’s as close to hard outdoor work as I like to get. I…

As If I Wouldn’t Love Two New Persona Dancing Games

Surprise, everybody! The Kotaku writer who loves Japanese RPGs and rhythm games is completely enamored with two rhythm games starring beloved Japanese RPG characters. It’s like Atlus made a pair of games just for me. You might like them, too. Back in 2015 Atlus released Persona 4: Dancing All Night, a game that took the…

The Criminal Minds Game Gets Right To The Grisly Bits

Based on the long-running television show about a crack team of FBI profilers hunting serial killers, the new Criminal Minds mobile game has no qualms about depicting cartoony atrocity by murdering a family of four in the first minute. I got into Criminal Minds while I was hospitalized earlier this year. Forced to watch commercial…

Darksiders 3 Is A Mess

Here we see Fury, apocalyptic horseperson, facing off against Wrath, one of the Seven Deadly Sins she’s tasked with dispatching as the star of Gunfire Games’ Darksiders 3. Looks like an epic battle is about to unfold. Not really. Perhaps it’s just his nature, but Wrath isn’t much for tactics. Following an elaborate opening battle…

Award-winning composer and arranger Rozen’s latest exploration of The Legend of Zelda series is a musical journey through the darker corners of Majora’s Mask called Children of Termina. While the 17-track album drops digitally and on CD and vinyl November 30, you can listen to an exclusive preview track, “A Moment’s Peace,”right here.

This Freaking Thing Right Here

I just picked up one of those snazzy $200 PlayStation 4 Slim Spider-Man Black Friday bundles. It comes with the console, a controller, a copy of Spider-Man, USB, HDMI and power cables and a small piece of audio garbage no one needs. I can’t believe Sony is still including this stupid little mono monstrosity with…

My Son And I Have Issues With The Latest Paw Patrol Game

Paw Patrol: On A Roll is a capable, kid-friendly platform game. Heroic hounds of every rescue discipline travel left to right, collecting items and using their special skills to save humans and animals in peril. It’s fun, but after a dozen missions, its endless instruction repetition and a lack of equal puppy representation frustrates even…

Gathering Storm Expansion Brings Climate Change To Civilization VI February 14

After spending the past day or so teasing fans witha stream that eventually resolved into a countdown clock, Sid Meier appeared on the Civilization YouTube channel to announce Civilization VI: Gathering Storm, a second expansion coming to PC on February 14, adding forces of nature to the popular strategy game. The Gathering Storm expansion adds…

Razer Releases The Least Razer Keyboard Ever

Gaming peripheral maker Razer is not know for its understated designs. Its keyboards in particular are generally bulky and flashy; some might say a little gaudy. The Blackwidow Lite is none of those things. Not that there’s anything wrong with big and flashy—some of my favorite Razer gear is pink, after all. But sometimes a…

Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee Versus Pikachu: Which To Get

It’s Pokémon Let’s Go launch day, and trainers around the world are setting off on a new adventure through Kanto with their partner Pokémon. That is, unless they can’t decide between the Eevee and Pikachu versions of the game. We’re here to help. You should definitely choose Eevee. Or maybe Pikachu. Ultimately, the decision comes…

Final Fantasy XIV‘s Next Expansion Is Shadowbringers, Coming Summer 2019

Announced today at Square Enix’s annual Final Fantasy XIV Fanfest, the popular online game’s third expansion, Shadowbringers, is coming early summer 2019. Expect an expansive story, a raised level cap and multiple new jobs—including one wielding a gunblade. And did somebody say playable Viera and Blue Mages? Now that players have freed Ala Mhigo and…

The Transformers Trading Card Game‘s Metroplex Is As Big As My Face

Just as I was getting used to having hero cards two times the size of the average trading card game, Hasbro releases the Metroplex deck, featuring a card as large as my face. No card should be as big as my face. In a normal round of the recently-releasedTransformers card game, two players pick a…

Yep, You Can Play A Handful Of Xbox One Games With Mouse And Keyboard Now

Welcome to the age of keyboard and mouse Xbox One gaming. As of yesterday’s update, players can, should they wish, play several games without having to resort to some plebeian console controller. If you couldn’t stand Warframe, Fortnite or War Thunder without a pointer and keys, now is your time. Those are just three of…

Pokémon Let’s Go Helped Me Connect With My Son

“Dad, can we play Pokémon together?” my seven-year-old son Seamus asked as I wandered about Kanto in Pokémon Let’s Go! Eevee. It was the first time he’d asked to play a video game with me. It led to the first time we played a video game together. Seamus and his twin brother, Archer, love video…

Everyone Could Use A Little McCree

Good Smile Company’s big-headed McCree figure is every bit the roguish cowboy fans know and love, even if his high noon is a lot lower than normal.  Joining the Nendoroid Overwatch figure rosternext July, this version of McCree packs a whole lot of swagger into a small package. Don’t let the smile fool you, he’s also…

EA has teamed up with Petroglyph to remaster not only Command & Conquer, but Red Alert and both games’ expansions, all in one package. No word on a release date—the project has just started—but with members of the original Westwood team working on it, it should end upmuch better than a silly mobile game.

Let’s Go Are The Prettiest Pokémon Games Yet

The story is familiar and the players are the same, but the scenery has never looked so good. Gorgeous visuals abound in our latest trip through the Kanto region, making Pokémon Let’s Go! Pikachu and Eevee the prettiest pocket monster games yet. Take a look! Before we begin our tour of the sights of the…