Mike Fahey

From Introversion Software, the makers of Prison Architect, comes Scanner Sombre, a game involving navigating an underground cave using a LIDAR (light detection and ranging) scanner. It looks really neat, and it’s out on April 26 on Steam, GOG and Humble.

Office Space Video Game Puts A Modern Spin On Old Drudgery

The movie Office Space struck a chord with just about everyone working in a cubicle environment in the late ‘90s, nailing the ridiculous of the everyday grind. Office Space: Idle Profits, out now for iOS and Android from Kongregate, nails the grind in a different sort of way. In the film, disgruntled Initech office workers…

TSA Regulations Place World of Warcraft In Dire Peril

According to an exchange with the TSA’s official Q&A Twitter account (via /r/wow), even World of Warcraft Horde Chieftans have to check their weapons on flights. But should that weapon also be a lithium ion power bank, then Azeroth is truly doomed. In the proper hands, Orgrim’s Doomhammer could by one of the keys to…

Six-Year-Old RPG Two Worlds II Continues In May

Two Worlds II: Call of the Tenebrae is coming to PC, Mac and Linux on May 25, bringing over ten hours of new adventure and a major game engine upgrade to 2011’s redemptive RPG sequel. The standalone expansion was originally planned for 2016, but the developers got a bit carried away. According to the official…

Starbucks Workers Unprepared For Unicorn Frappuccino Armageddon

Yesterday Starbucks employees across the country were ravaged by stampeding hordes eager to get their mouths on the new Unicorn Frappuccino. Today the Starbucks Reddit is filled with their tales of courage and survival. I got to try out the strange, limited-edition sour mango concoction prior to yesterday’s wide release courtesy of my wife, who…

GTA Online Revisits Its Top-Down Roots Next Week

Grand Theft Auto Online’s Tiny Racers update, releasing next week, applies a little historical perspective to the game’s stunt racing, a callback to the series’ top-down origins. Before Grand Theft Auto III intruduced us all to free-roaming vehicle thievery in 3D the series was all about the top-down perspective. Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto…

Trackballs Still Deserve Our Love

Why waste energy moving a mouse around when you can control everything by placing your hand atop a large glowing sphere like some sort of techno wizard? The world needs more trackballs. In these days of super-precise optical and laser mice measuring their sensitivity in the tens of thousands of dots per inch, the trackball…

More Classic Games Need Remakes Like Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap

Rather than rebuild Sega Master System classic Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap from the ground up, developer Lizardcube just painted over the original game with modern graphics, music and sound effects. We need more remakes like this. Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap, out this week for Switch, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 with a…

Bandai Namco Announces Code Vein, Which Is Certainly A Video Game

Last week Bandai Namco teased a new game with a lovely hand-painted trailer and the tagline “Prepare to Dine.” Today they officially announce Code Vein, an anime-style post-apocalyptic vampire action RPG that only vaguely resembles the gorgeous animated short that preceeded it. Before we get into the nitty gritty of Code Vein, let’s soak in…

AMD Radeon RX 570 And RX 580 Review: A Little Extra Power Goes A Long Way

While enthusiasts eagerly await to coming of the next-generation of high-end Radeon cards, AMD shores up its starting lineup with the RX 500 series, featuring small but significant improvements over last year’s RX 470 and RX 480 graphics cards. 2016 was a busy year for the video card business, with both major players introducing their…

Looks Like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Gets Rid Of Controversial ‘Fire-Hopping’ Technique

There might be another good reason to pick up Mario Kart 8 Deluxe—no more obnoxious post-boost hopping. According to a video from GameXplain, the contentious “fire-hopping” technique apparently didn’t make the trip from Wii U to Switch. Discovered way back in the summer of 2014, “fire-hopping” is a trick that helps maintain speed coming out…

Mario Kart 8 Switch Makes Battle Mode So Much Better

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe launches for the Nintendo Switch next week, fixing one of the biggest missteps made by the original Wii U release. The new Battle Mode is so good. Rather than give players special arenas custom built for Battle Mode’s competitive mini-games as in previous iterations of the series, Mario Kart 8 on…

Telltale’s Guardians Of The Galaxy Series Starts Strong

I feel like I’ve just spent two hours poring over the first issue of a Guardians of the Galaxy limited series while listening to classic rock. It’s a good feeling. After sharpening its comic book storytelling technique with The Walking Dead, Fables and Batman, Telltale Games sets its sights on Marvel’s motley crew of spacefaring…

The Disney Afternoon Collection’s Rewind Button Makes A Big Difference

Capcom’s Disney Afternoon Collection drops this week on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, bundling together six classic NES games based shows from the heyday of Disney television animation. They’re just like you remember them, only now you can rewind. Watch us play. We streamed brief plays of all six games in the collection over…

HyperX Alloy FPS Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review: A Happy Minimum

This is the HyperX Alloy FPS, a mechanical gaming keyboard. It consists of a steel frame, a printed circuit board, a plastic base, 104 Cherry MX Brown switches with red LEDs and the corresponding keycaps. It doesn’t do a lot, but it does what it’s made to do very well. The HyperX Alloy FPS mechanical…

Snacktaku Drinks Starbucks’ Unicorn Frappuccino

Launching this week at Starbucks locations across the country, the Unicorn Frappuccino is a unique blend of oddly-purple mango and all the sour in the entire world. Nothing screams “unicorn” like those two things. Except maybe a man being murdered by a unicorn. Before we begin, in the interest of full disclosure I must point…

Lego City Undercover Runs Almost As Well On Switch As On PS4

Nintendo’s Switch is a lovely system, but from a pure power standpoint it’s no PlayStation 4. Even so, a Digital Foundry reportreveals the two consoles’ versions of Lego City Undercover aren’t too far apart performance-wise. While Lego City Undercover might not be the most demanding game, it is one of the first instances of a…

Everyone Is Apparently Playing A Game Called ‘Ballz‘

One of the hottest new mobile games going is a clever take on the brick-busting genre called Ballz. Go ahead, get it out of your system. I still haven’t. Available as a free download oniTunesand Google Play from the folks at Ketchapp, Ballz is one of those quick and dirty (shush) games that’s easy to…

Toy Time Takes The Fate Of The Furious Into Its Own Hands

In honor of today’s release of the eighth installment of The Fast and the Furious, Toy Time launches Ludacris, Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson from the hoods of Mattel’s Stunt Stars vehicles. I’ve not seen many of the Fast and the Furious films, but I am a huge fan of Vin Diesel and people riding…

Snacktaku Showdown: Oreo Vs. Hydrox

We here at Snacktaku have given the Oreo a great deal of attention over the years, but several years before the popular cookie’s 1912 debut there was another. Hydrox, the original sandwich cookie, takes on Nabisco’s usurper in the first-ever Snacktaku Showdown. Sunshine Biscuits launched the first creme-filled chocolate sandwich cookie in 1908. Hoping to…