Mike Fahey

Don’t Watch 50 Video Games Songs In 2 Minutes, Just Listen

YouTube guitarist FamilyJules7X enjoys making metal covers of his favorite video game themes, so he put together a medley of 50 rapid-fire clips that go by so fast it’s impossible to pick them all out. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. No peeking, now. Some video game themes are so iconic that even a few…

Black Ops III‘s New Micro-Map Is Full Of Amazing, Tiny Details

The biggest challenge in Micro, the “fun” multiplayer map in Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s final batch of downloadable content, is pulling yourself away from the massive cupcakes and copious amounts of alcohol long enough to shoot other people. Luckily it’s easy enough to create a custom game where you can explore the over-sized…

With Star Wars: Clone Wars, Dolphin Emulator Finally Boots All GameCube Games

Until recently, the folks behind the popular Dolphin GameCube and Wii emulator software have been able to run every GameCube game in the official Nintendo library save one: Star Wars: Clone Wars. Now it finally works. The Dolphin team has been tirelessly working to make the perfect GameCube emulator for years, rewriting and tweaking the…

Hitting World Of Warcraft: Legion’s Level Cap Is Only The Beginning

Hitting World of Warcraft: Legion’s 110 level cap isn’t the end of the game. In fact, it’s when the expansion really starts picking up speed, dropping an overwhelming amount of activities on the player all at once. The initial series of quest that take players through four of the expansions new zones, searching for powerful…

Biker Mice From Mars Gets An Advance Wars Style Prequel

Classic ‘90s cartoon Biker Mice From Mars follows a trio of alien rodents attempting to save the Earth from the evil army that destroyed their home planet. Mobile strategy game Biker Mice: Mars Attacks tells the story of the Plutarkian war on Mars. Weird. Well, not so weird considering that Biker Mice From Mars has…

Origin Omni All-In-One Gaming PC Review: Everything In Its Place

I spent my first hour with Origin PC’s Geforce GTX 1080-powered, 34-inch ultra-wide curved screen Omni all-in-one gaming PC just staring at my desk. There’s a lot more of desk now. I didn’t know I had so much desk. Technically I spent the first hour looking for my power screwdriver to extricate the system from…

Duke Nukem 3D Returns To Consoles And PC With An All-New Episode

Arriving on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC on October 11, Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary Edition World Tour reunites some of the original game’s creators to add a new eight-level chapter to the 1996 classic. Gearbox Software’s brought some of the band back together for Duke Nukem 3D’s 20th birthday, including original designers Allen…

World Of Warcraft: Legion Progress Report: All The Artifact Weapons

It’s been four days since World of Warcraft’s sixth expansion dropped, and while a full review is weeks away, I’ve been plenty busy exploring, dancing, crafting, participating in PVP . . . okay I’ve just been obsessively collecting artifact weapons. I need them. It started innocently enough. I was logged into the game when the…

Even In Portrait Mode, Lumines Keeps Shinin’

While it may not be as responsive as it was when it debuted on the PlayStation Portable on 2005, Lumines: Puzzle & Music for iOS and Android is every bit as engaging as the original. Note I mention in the video that the game is free. This is incorrect. It’s a $2.99 premium title. Lumines…

Logitech’s Prodigy Series Wants To Be Everybody’s Gaming Gear

Today Logitech G reveals its new Prodigy series of gaming accessories, two mice, a keyboard and a headset designed with the goal to be “gaming gear made exclusively for everyone.” The idea, as I understand it from a briefing I had on the Prodigy line earlier this week, is that while there will always be…

Really Digging This New Pac-Man Design

Giving one of the world’s most iconic video game characters a makeover for his latest mobile game, Bandai Namco have created a Pac-Man that really works with today’s more minimalist cartoon sensibilities. Or he’s just really damn cute. The game is Pac-Man Pop, available today on iOS and Android, which is a free-to-play bubble shooter…

Disney Shutting Down Both Avengers Alliance Games For Some Damn Reason

After four years of being one of the few Facebook games worth a damn and a fine free-to-play mobile joint, Marvel’s Avengers Alliance and its recently-released sequel will be shutting down at the end of this month, because some part of Disney hates fun. Marvel Avengers Alliance, launched on Facebook back in March of 2012before…

All The Rogue One Lego Star Wars Stuff Coming Out This Month

The first wave of toys based on Star Wars side story Rogue One arrive on store shelves on Friday, September 30. Lego’s bringing three buildable figures and five new sets to the party. Let’s look at them! Sargent Jyn Erso is front and center in the collection, as she should be, charging into battle as…

In Nintendo Direct Zelda news, the Phantom Hourglass & Spirit Tracks DLC pack for Hyrule Warriors is available today, and four new Amiibo are coming on December 2, including 8-Bit Link and a Wind Waker two-pack, with special functionality in the upcoming Breath of the Wild Oh yeah, and Skyward Sword is out on the…

Mario Sports Superstars Is All The Mario Sports

Mario’s starred in a lot of sports games over the years—soccer, baseball, tennis and golf. Mario Sports Superstars for the 3DS combines all four and adds some horse racing to the mix when it launches in spring 2017. According to the Nintendo Direct, these are five full games, playable both offline and online with friends…

3DS Streetpass Plaza Limit Increasing From 10 To 100 With Premium Update

Available after today’s Nintendo Direct, a premium update to the Nintendo 3DS’ Streetpass Plaza will speed up functionality and increase the number of players you can encounter from 10 to 100. Hooray! Anyone who has ever brought their 3DS to a gaming convention will surely appreciate not having to go through new visitors ten at…

After ordering the slaughter of surrendering Horde troops and voting to weaponize ancient evil in Mists of Pandaria, the Alliance’s bloodthirsty air commander’s first actions in Legion get her airship cracked in two over the Stormheim Mountains. Sky Admiral Rogers is the worst.

World Of Warcraft: Legion‘s Order Halls Are A Good Reason To Play All The Classes

The Druids. Nobody knows who they were, or what they were doing. In World of Warcraft: Legion what they’re doing is spending a lot of time in their lush and vibrant Order Hall, the latest expansion’s answer to one of Warlords of Draenor’s more contentious features. I loved Warlords of Draenor’s Garrison feature, which gave…

Furthering its commitment to working with the community to make a better game, Ubisoft announced today that a public test server for The Division will soon launch on PC.

EVE Online Goes Free-To-Play In November 

After more than a decade spent slowly building a tight-knit community of paying customers, science fiction MMO EVE Online is ready to open the free-to-play floodgates. With the introduction of Clone States in November’s big update, everybody can play EVE Online for free. Unlike other massively multiplayer online games that launch to an explosion of…