Mike Fahey

You’ll Need A Powerful PC To Pull Off Fallout 4‘s Hi-Res Texture Pack

If you want the power armor in your PC version of Fallout 4 to look this gloriously scratched and rusted, you’d best bring the hardware. Bethesda’s official high-resolution texture pack features some weighty recommended specs, including an AMD card that isn’t even out yet. Available next week along with aPlayStation 4 Pro update that adds…

The Sword Art Online Mobile Game Is Worth A Try

The latest game based on Japan’s popular trapped-in-an-MMO light novel series is a free-to-play mobile game in which players collect and upgrade characters as they advance through the story of Sword Art Online anime. It’s formulaic, but it works quite well. Licensed character collecting mobile games are all the rage right now. Players gather or…

A History Of The Bow & Arrow, Gaming’s Premier Primitive Projectile 

The bow and arrow is one of humanity’s most primitive weapon systems, right up there with stick attached to rock. Stuart Brown of YouTube’s Ahoy channel explores the history of the bow in reality and video games, from prehistoric hunters to modern-day marksmen. The bow and arrow isn’t only one of the earliest projectile weapons…

A Complete Wii Collection Is An Impressive Sight

Including last October’s release of Just Dance 2017, 1,262 games have been released in North America for the Nintendo Wii since its late 2006 launch. NintendoAge forum user NintendoTwizer has collected all of them. Along with the 1,262 games (plus some double packs and variants), NintendoTwizer has also collected all four Wii colors and all…

Snacktaku Eats Taco Bell’s Surprisingly Tasty Naked Chicken Chalupa

The two weeks are up, and it’s time to put Taco Bell’s new fried chicken taco shell creation into our mouths, for science. Sometimes science is pretty awesome. Believe it or not, this is one of those times. After pulling off a major win a few years back with its Doritos Locos Tacos, normal tacos…

One Of These Four Transformers Will Be The Next Leader Of Cybertron

First round results for Hasbro’s “Power of the Primes” Transformers fan vote are in, narrowing down the next keeper of the Matrix of Leadership to four candidates: the Japanese one, the obvious one, Monkey Joe and Unknown (though secretly Deathsaurus) Evil. If only they held debates. Following the popular but re-painty Combiner Wars and the…

The Fire Emblem Heroes Fan Vote Could Be Going Better

Now through January 31, Fire Emblem fans are voting to see which hero and heroine from across series history will be featured in the upcoming mobile game, Fire Emblem Heroes. As of yesterday, Ike and Lyn were winning. Surely we can do better than that. Maybe the right people aren’t voting. Maybe they’re put off…

Batman V Superman: When Good Toys Come From Bad Movies

Can you hate a movie but love its characters, or does a bad cinematic experience poison you against them? Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice was a massive disappointment for me, but damn if I don’t adore DC Films’ Superman and Armored Batman figures. It must be tough to sell $50 premium figures based on…

The offroad racer that started life as Colin McRae: Dirt is getting another sequel this year. Codemasters has officially announced Dirt 4, coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Windows in June.

Square Enix Is Making The Avengers And More Marvel Games

Marvel’s move back into console gaming takes a huge step today, as the comic book company announces a multi-year, multi-game partnership with Square Enix, beginning with The Avengers Project Developed by Crystal Dynamics in collaboration with Eidos Montreal, The Avengers Project is the working title for the first game to come from the newly-announced partnership.…

Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom isn’t just for PlayStation 4. Bandai Namco today announced the RPG sequel is coming PC this year as well. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, also initially announced for the PS4, is also headed to PC, as well as Xbox One.

No, Smite. Just No. 

Coming to Smite with the season four update, Such Cold Skadi is a premium skin that is bad and everyone who made it should feel bad. Before you say anything, watch this. A couple of years ago I wrote about how much I loved some of the silly skins that the Smite folks come up with.…

The New Power Rangers Game Isn’t Good

Can we just get a Power Rangers Musou already and stop releasing nonsense like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Mega Battle? My initial reaction to the October announcement of the 2D brawler from Bandai Namco and developer Bamtang was “This looks like garbage,” but not having played the game I gave it the benefit of the…

Francis Ford Coppola Announces Apocalypse Now Video Game

Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope is teaming up with a crack team of game industry veterans to turn classic war movie Apocalypse Now into a crowdfunded psychological horror role-playing game. It’s been nearly four decades since Francis Coppola turned Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella Hearts of Darkness into a Vietnam-era war film featuring a surprisingly overweight…

Sometimes The Swimsuit Costume Is The More Modest Option

Tales of Berseria isa very good game, but its main protagonist is normally dressed in shredding Devil May Cry cosplay leftovers. She’s much better off wearing a swimsuit. Velvet’s revealing default outfit caused a stir when it debuted last year, with some fans disappointed that the first solo female main protagonist in the Tales series…

The game lineup for the EVO 2017 fighting game tournament has been announced, an eight-game mix of the usual suspects and newcomers like Injustice 2, Tekken 7, The King of Fighters XIV and BlazBlue: Central Fiction, with a ninth game being left up to player voting.

Transformers Fans Are Voting For The Next Leader Of Cybertron

Normally it’s the Matrix of Leadership that determines which Transformer takes up the Prime mantle, but this year Hasbro’s doing things a little differently. Fans are voting to see which Autobot, Decepticon or unknown evil gets the next Optimus-style upgrade. Every Prime has to start somewhere. Optimus Prime was once Orion Pax, a lowly dock…

Disney Infinity Studio Resurrected By Warner Bros.

Closed by Disney following last year’s cancellation of toys-to-life game Disney Infinity, developer Avalanche Software is back in business today, re-opened under new owner Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Its first project is a game based on Disney-Pixar’s Cars 3 Studio closures are an unfortunately common occurrence in the video game business. Studios closing then reopening…

Banner Saga Returns To Kickstarter To Finish Off The Trilogy

Nearly five years afterfunding the first installment of its hand-animated turn-based tactics game on Kickstarter, indie studio Stoic returns to the crowdfunding site to help finish the final game in the trilogy, The Banner Saga 3 Stoic wound up scoring more than seven times the $100,000 they were asking for the first Banner Saga game,…

The Iron Giant Looks Right At Home In This Fallout 4 Mod

The star of 1999 animated classic The Iron Giant is a 50-foot-tall robot with a heart of gold, a taste for scrap metal and some serious hidden firepower. Sounds like perfect Fallout 4 material to me. 3D artist Matthew Swanton made it happen. Swanton’s mod, available at NexusMods, replaces Fallout 4’s Liberty Prime with a…