Mike Fahey

Toy Time Cracks Open A Case Of South Park: The Fractured But Whole Figures

Ubisoft’s second South Park game was just pushed back from early this year to sometime between March 2017 and April 2018. Let’s open a case of Kid Robot’s Fractured But Whole blind box vinyl figures while we wait! Collectible blind bag figures are taking up more and more shelf space in toy aisles these days.…

Lego Dimensions’ Knight Rider World Is Pretty Boring

Lego Michael Knight, a lone crusader in a dangerous world. The world of the Lego Knight Rider. A twilight world that feels like it only exists so more exciting Lego characters can play with K.I.T.T. Every new entertainment property that comes to Lego Dimensions gets its own Adventure World, a free-roaming map packed with challenges,…

Sniper Elite 4’s Campaign Is Perfect For The Patient Shooter

The most accomplished sniper in history accumulated 505 confirmed kills over a period of three months. I racked up 518 playing through Sniper Elite 4‘s single-player campaign mode in a little over 20 hours, most of which was spent hiding. Good times. I am not normally a stealth gamer. I lack the patience to wait…

Flipping Burgers Will Save You From Zombies In Dead Hungry

We’re all familiar with what zombies want to eat, but has anyone tried feeding them something else? Burgers, perhaps? The PixelJunk people at Q-Games give it a try in their first virtual reality game, Dead Hungry, and it works like a charm. Who knew? In Dead Hungry, available for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive…

Toy Time Plays With The Most Lego Batman Vehicle Ever

The Lego Batman Movie opens this week, bringing with it a horde of Lego sets based on that wonderfully goofy version of the Dark Knight. Crawling to the top of the pile as only a nocturnal winged mammal could is The Scuttler. Originally published 2/07/2016—Reupped for movie day. The Scuttler is the vehicle that comic…

The Difference The PS4 Pro Patch Makes In Fallout 4 

The PlayStation 4 Pro support patch for Fallout 4 arrived this week, delivering 1440p resolution, increased draw distances and enhanced Godray effects. YouTube’sCandyland created a video demonstrating the small but significant enhancements players can expect from the patch. While the enhanced resolution is an obvious benefit, things like draw distance and enhanced Godray effects are…

Not only does Lego Batman get his own movie today, he’s also the star of Lego Dimensions’ The Lego Batman Movie story pack. The pack features a six-level adventure based on the feature film and a new adventure world to explore. It’s in stores today.

Snacktaku Eats Girl Scout Cookie Cereal

As ifmonsters andsuperheroesweren’t enough, General Mills is now recruiting members of America’s finest cookie-selling force into his nigh-unstoppable breakfast army. The Girl Scouts have landed in our cereal bowls, and Snacktaku responds in the only way we know how. First published 2/09/2016—Repubbed just in time for breakfast. Here at Snacktaku, we’ve long kicked around the…

No New Skylanders Game For 2017

After releasing new installments every year since its 2011 debut, toys-to-life pioneer Skylanders is taking the year off. Announced during Activision’s 4th quarter 2016 financial results conference call, Skylanders is sticking to new toys and digital content for 2017. With a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Paradeand a Netflix animated series recently renewed for…

Remember Gill’s faithful companion from Street Fighter III? She’s Street Fighter V’s second season two character Kolin wields the power of ice in concert with the Russian martial art Systema. Also, her hair looks like Cheez Whiz. You can play her on February 28.

The PS4 Pro Will Soon Improve All Games, Not Just The Patched Ones

Games built or patched to take advantage of the PlayStation 4 Pro’s extra power run significantly better on the newer console. Boost Mode is an upcoming feature that puts that power to work on non-optimized PS4 games, and as Digital Foundry discovered, it works pretty well. Coming in PlayStation 4 firmware update 4.50, Boost Mode…

It’s about damn time. Iconic Hot Wheels street machines Twin Mill III and Bone race into Rocket League on February 21. I guess I have to play Rocket League now.

Adventures In Elder Scrolls Online House Hunting

Between the recently announced Morrowind expansion and this week’s release of the free player housing update, I decided it was time to venture back into The Elder Scrolls Online. I might be a little out of practice. To be honest, I’ve not played much of The Elder Scrolls Online since the first couple of months…

Long-Awaited Adventure Sequel Syberia III Arrives April 25

Adventure fans have been waiting for the third game in Benoît Sokal’s classic point-and-click adventure series for so long that I’m not sure I can take the April 25 release date announced today at face value, but that’s when Syberia III is supposed to be out on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC. The story…

Player Spends $1,000 In Fire Emblem Heroes, Still Doesn’t Have Hector

While many of us are struggling to resist dropping $12.99 on a full five-character pull in Fire Emblem Heroes,Redditor Kooko22 dropped a cool grand on Nintendo’s latest mobile game, expanding their team size to 500 and filling it completely—yet they still don’t have Hector. According to the AMA posted alongside a gallery of the expansive…

Even Hatsune Miku Gets A Season Pass

In case the more than 200 songs included in Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone weren’t enough, Sega’s got a Season’s Pass worth of downloadable content coming, starting with this week’s 1st Encore Pack. It’s time to “Ageage Again.” With two out of three DLC packs already released for the Japanese version of the virtual…

Project Cars 2 is coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC in late 2017. Crowdfunding on Slightly Mad Studio’s racing sim sequel began in 2015, months after the first game’s release. Expect more than 170 cars, 60 tracks, online championships and new racing disciplines to master.

Haunting Rhythm Game Deemo Comes To Vita This Spring

One of the first games I download whenever I get a new phone or tablet is Deemo, a touching tale of love, loss and sacrifice told through a piano-esque rhythm game. PM Studios and acttil are bringing the game to PlayStation Vita this spring. I’ve been waiting to add Deemo: The Last Recital to my…

Fallout 4‘s 55 GB Hi-Res Texture Pack Doesn’t Make A Huge Difference, But It’s Nice

The promised free Fallout 4 high-resolution texture pack released on PC yesterday, making the game look a bit better when you get close to things in exchange for a large chunk of hard drive space. Between the quality of the original release and the mods players have created since, Fallout 4 already looks pretty spiffy,…

Three Pinballs Attempt To Steal The Death Star Plans

In the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story pinball table, a ragtag band of shiny silver balls attempt to simulate obtaining the plans to the Empire’s planet-killing super-weapon. Will they survive to be featured in the Star Wars Episode IV pinball table? Rogue One is the 14th Star Wars table to the Zen Pinball 2/Pinball…