Mike Fahey

Injustice 2‘s first DLC fighter, Red Hood, is now available for early play for folks who purchased the ultimate edition, ultimate pack or fighter pack 1. In case you have trouble getting him to show up in game, there’s a guide over on the game forums. Or just jimmy him loose with a crowbar.

The Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy for PlayStation 4 features Crash’s sister Coco as a playable character across all three remastered games. Apparently she utilized time travel to inject herself. That’s so Coco. Speaking of time traveling, the game drops on June 30.

Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite‘s Story Demo Feels Like Awkward Fanfiction

It’s hard to combine characters from wildly disparate sources into one epic story without things getting absurd. The Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite story demo’s strategy is to embrace the goofiness. The story concept is cool. Two powerful mechanical beings, Marvel’s Ultron and Mega Man X villain Sigma, driven by their shared desire to rid their…

Alto’s Odyssey Trades Snowy Mountains For Desert Sands

Snowboarding game  Alto’s Adventure showed us the artful side of the endless runner. Follow-up Alto’s Odyssey, due out this summer on iOS and Android, takes the same serene action to the desert sands and skies. Check out a live demo of the game from yesterday’s Gameslice E3 stream. Eli Cymet, lead producer for development team…

Lawbreakers will officially launch on PlayStation 4 and PC August 8. Speaking during the PC Gaming Show at E3, Boss Key Productions’ Cliff Bleszinski said the price will be $29.99, “None of that $60 multiplayer-only bullshit.”

Zelda-style action adventure Secret Legend wasa highlight of PAX 2016, but the name wasn’t great. Now it has a new name, Tunic, and an E3 trailer that really shows off how damn adorable the foxy main character is. Look at that little guy! Then look at the official website! 

Total War : Warhammer II (aka Total Warhammer II) will arrive on PC September 28. Those who preorder the base game or the$150 Serpent God editionwithin the first week of availability get a free race pack for the original Total Warhammer.

Cave Story And Code Of Princess Collide In Fighting Game Blade Strangers

Revealed last night during the official Twitch E3 stream, Studio Saizensen’s Blade Strangers is a 2D fighter that combines the speed of Guilty Gear with the easy inputs of Smash Bros. More importantly, it lets Curly from Cave Story fight Solange from Code of Princess. Studio Saizensen is the development studio behind 3DS action RPG…

Monument Valley 2 Is A Very Good Sequel To A Great Game

Ustwo’s perception puzzle adventure Monument Valley isone of my favorite mobile games. The sequel popped up earlier this week as a surprise announcement during Apple’s WWDC keynote, and it’s every bit as beautiful, relaxing and enjoyable as the first. The original Monument Valley told the story of Ida, a lost princess wandering a world inspired…

The promised connectivity patch for Tekken 7 is now live on PlayStation 4, and I’m finally getting into more matches than I’m getting disconnected from. Look for the update to hit Xbox One and PC next week.

Take a look at a supernatural boss battle in the E3 trailer for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. The Kickstarted spiritual successor to Castlevania is looking good, though that idle animation is bugging the bejeezus out of me.

Toy Time Celebrates Ghostbusters Day With Playmobil’s Ecto-1

On this day in 1984, horror comedy classic Ghostbusters was released in U.S. theaters. Three decades later we’re still playing with toys based on the film. While the figures might look silly, Playmobil’s Ecto-1 is one of the coolest renditions of the Ghostbusters’ iconic ride yet. 2017 marks Playmobil’s first foray into licensed toys, after…

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Is A Whole Lot Of Fun

The fourth installment of WayForward Technologies’ Shantae series launches today, and the half-genie’s latest shape-shifting platforming adventure looks as good as it plays. Originally posted 12/20/2016—The game’s now out on the Switch, which is an excellent place to get to know Shantae if you haven’t already. The Shantae series launched in 2002 with an eponymous…

Circular Rhythm Game Superbeat: Xonic Is So Good On Xbox One And PS4

Originally released in 2015 for the PlayStation Vita, Superbeat: Xonic is a hardcore rhythm game that’s only real failing was being released during one of the Vita’s rocky patches (i.e., post launch). Now it’s out on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, ready to show a much bigger audience around some great music. Developed by Nurijoy,…

Racing sequel Project Cars 2 will be released in North America on September 22 for Xbox One, PC and PlayStation 4. That doesn’t leave us much time to write about how pretty it is over and over again. Here’s the game’s E3 trailer. It’s nice.

A History Of Kirby Death Animations

Need to scrub the sight of Kirby’s human feet from your eyes? YouTube’s MasterofHyrule has compiled a ten minute video history of the pink puffball’s death animations and game over screens. It might help. Is this video really necessary? You tell me. Yes, I could have just linked it and left it at that, but…

Having trouble connecting to other players online in Tekken 7? Bandai Namco is working on a patchto fix those issues. The PlayStation 4 patch should be out by the end of this week, with the Xbox One and PC versions arriving next week.

What We Loved About The Wonder Woman Movie

After a run of mediocre to downright disappointing releases, DC Comics finally gets a movie worth eating overpriced popcorn in a room full of strangers. It’s as if all the world’s been waiting for Wonder Woman and the power she possesses. Compete’s Maddy Myers and I saw the movie over the weekend, and we have…

Atlus Announces A Trio Of 3DS RPGs For North America

In case you were worried about the state of JRPGs on the Nintendo 3DS, Atlus just announced not one but three new games coming to the console in late 2017/early 2018—Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth, Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology, and Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux. The fifth main installment of the Etrian Odyssey…

A Look Inside The Art Of Overwatch 

Coming this fall from Dark Horse, The Art of Overwatch is more than 300 pages of the illustrations and concept art that Blizzard produced while creating its frighteningly popular hero shooter. We’ve got four of those pages, and they’re quite nice. As someone who loves looking at Overwatch much more than actually playing, I’m looking…