fahey’s blogged about it a few times but he suffered an aortic dissection that paralyzed him. he never recovered and passed due to health complication:

I’m on Kotaku all the time. It’s a great way to procrastinate at work. I can catch up on all the gaming news, get some hot takes, learn about what it does/doesn’t take to make the games that form the hobby we’re all here for.
Sometimes G/O has had a bad run of it and people leave because of management, circumstances…

I’m in the journo industry, and I appreciate how much time and effort it takes to put together something with as many moving parts as this has. It was worth the effort, and is a fitting tribute to Mike.

Wow, this was a really sweet post. As a long time Kotaku reader, this was really touching to see all the past personalities I’ve read so much come back and all say something about him. I’ve missed seeing a lot of these names all in one place. What a heartwarming tribute. Rest in Peace Mike.

I scrolled through this and my main takeaway was that we should all strive to live a life that will be remembered so fondly by so many. 

I think one of the greatest compliments I could give to a reporter is that I often found myself reading articles on topics I wasn’t actually interested in, only because I saw his name attached to them.

He always gave a perspective that was interesting, even if I didn’t care about what he was writing about. He made me…

to everyone wondering where our post was: this was it. it took a while assembling all the responses from current and former kotaku dot com staffers but all that time gave us the room to honor fahey in the best way we knew how. i didn’t get to work with him long but his personality and wit were infectious. im bummed…

As a game developer on Disney Infinity, Mike wrote the best review and he was a true fan of the franchise. I was so touched that I friended him for it (and he accepted). I was a big fan of his writing and sense of humor. He will be missed.

I remember when Mike went to a My little pony con and wrote about it here. He got a lot of shit about it on comments but sort of joked it away. I donnu it was just how he handle the whole thing that made an impact on me. Like I’m gonna like whatever damn thing I please and not care how it may look for others.

Thanks for this. I know folks have been hard on you guys for not posting, selfishly I was one of them. If it’s any consolation, it’s because his work touched so many people throughout the years. He was so visceral about his life and his health, that his death provoked a similar reaction in many of his fans. Mike was…

Here’s your article, people. I wonder why it took so long? Look at all these tributes. RIP, Mike.

Every time I deal with a spider I think about the copy of Plants vs Zombies that ended up stuck on Fahey’s office ceiling and wonder if it’s still there.

Think I’ve teared up three times reading this site: Mike’s struggle with gaming addiction, Mike’s story about being in a coma, and today reading this tribute.

Thank you—and thanks Mike, rest well, you made a lot of people happy. Truly Fahey was the best of us.

If you skipped to the comments please notice the GoFundMe link the editors posted at the end.

Yeah it’s really sad and hard when a busy actor dies, but they leave all this finished work behind.  I think Philip Seymour Hoffman had movies coming out for almost two years after he died, which made his death even worse, because the work keeps coming and you’re aware he’s gone, and then it suddenly stops.  Same with…

Meh,  I’ll pass.  Even the movie dances and after parties look like shit.  If I could go back in time to my teenage years I would happily did the same thing I did when I was a teenager.  Hang out in a friends basement and play D&D

Like WowBOBWow said, don’t threaten us with a good time.

you say that like it wouldn't be awesome 

Given what Video did to the last one, I’m not surprised he’d rather switch mediums.

I haven’t seen Matt Smith’s work, but facially, he seems miscast.