Mike Fahey

Should I Import That Damn Persona 4 Dancing Game? Update: Nope. 

I’ve been driving myself crazy over this game for months. In five days it’s released in Japan for the Vita, a format without region locking. I’ve been starting at Play Asia for an hour. Send help. I used to import a lot of games from Japan back in the day. Most of the games I…

So, About That Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward Coverage

Like thousands of other Final Fantasy XIV players I was awake at 5 a.m. Eastern on Friday morning to take my first steps into the game’s first major expansion. Then I realized Heavensward wasn’t quite like other MMO expansions. Most MMO expansions are level-based. If the new content is for players level 50 and above,…

The First Five Minutes Of Shenmue, Finally The Prime Game In A Trilogy

It’s been five days since the Shenmue III Kickstarter campaign was announced and it’s already approaching the $3.5 million mark. What kind of game inspires such rapid fundraising? This one. The original Shenmue was released in North America in 2000 for the Dreamcast, a system that video gamers loved passionately and video game makers largely…

Man Spends Six Years Crocheting One Super Mario Bros. 3 Map

Norwegian computer programmer and skydiving champion Kjetil Nordin put over 800 hours of work into researching and crocheting this lovely recreation of the map for Super Mario Bros. 3 World 1. Redditor Buttermynutsspent several minutes making it into this equally lovely GIF. Anyone with basic crochet skills and a whole lot of free time can…

The First All-Female Transformers Combiner Team Revealed

“All I want to do/is see six robots turn into/a giant woman.” Hasbro’s Fan Built Combiner poll culminates in the creation of Victorion, the most together combiner team Transformers has ever seen. Revealed yesterday in a USA Today exclusive, Victorion is two race cars, two helicopters, a motorcycle and a rescue truck combined together into…

Pizza Hut’s Hot Dog Bites Crust Pizza: The Snacktaku Review

At some point it dawned on Pizza Hut executives that sometimes people don’t want to eat pizza. Affixing foods people might want to eat more than pizza—say, hot dog bites—is not the most elegant solution. After stints in several other countries, the Hot Dog Bites crust pizza from Pizza Hut finally landed on U.S. soil…

Players Are Pissed Over Guild Wars 2 Expansion Pricing

Earlier this week ArenaNet announced preorders for Heart of Thorns, the first major expansion for Guild Wars 2. Then all hell broke loose over the upgrade’s $50 base price tag. For some players, as seen in the ArenaNet forums and in the Guild Wars 2 subreddit, it’s a simple matter of the price itself—they feel…

Everything About LEGO Dimension‘s Portal Trailer Is Really Great

I would have said awesome, but she’s watching us. She’s always watching us. Oh GLaDOS, it’s so good to have you back, even in LEGO form—perhaps especially in LEGO form. Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to lie directly to Batman’s cowled face, one of the many highlights of this trailer for LEGO Dimension’s Portal pack.…

Since we can never have too much Persona 4, UDON Entertainment is bringing the manga stateside. Starting in September the publisher will begin releasing English volumes bi-monthly through 2015 and into 2016.

Rock Band 4 Preorders Begin, Time To Hunt For Old Instruments

The next generation of Rock Band launches October 6, and instrument bundles now up for preorder—$130 for the guitar and $250 for guitar, mic and drums. Sounds like a good time to hunt for used instruments! I know, I know—stop preordering games. While Luke Plunkett hates the practice with a passion, I still find it…

Gears of War Ultimate Edition is coming to PC. The Coalition studio head Rod Fergusson announced a PC version of the game tonight during the PC Game Show at E3 2015. Fergusson could not comment on the chances of Gears 4 coming to PC as well at this time.

tinaamini — Someone spent a lot of time putting this together and I bet it was super fun.

Conan Plays Halo 5 Against Silicon Valley Cast, Fails Gloriously

Somebody should have warned Conan O’Brien about the gaming force that is Silicon Valley’s Thomas “Middletwitch” Middleditch. The talk show host never stood a chance. I don’t know about TJ Miller or Zach Woods, but Middleditch can regularly be foundon Twitch showing off his skills on just about every sort of game imaginable, from strategy-intensive…

Just A Few Short Days Before Final Fantasy XIV Turns Heavensward

All of this shiny new, far in the future Final Fantasy stuff from E3 2015 is great, but those of us with massively multiplayer leanings have more immediate concerns, like next week’s launch of the first major expansion for Final Fantasy XIV. Three new jobs, massive new areas, a new race, flying mounts, and all…

Keep Track Of Nintendo’s Upcoming Releases With This Handy Image

Print it out big and wrap it around your fridge.

A turn-based Tomb Raider for mobile devices. Following up on the success of Hitman Go, Square Enix announces Lara Croft Go, a step-by-step adventure coming soon to rectangular things with touch screens.

Nintendo’s E3 Event Began With A Bizarre Puppet Show

Nintendo kicked off this year’s digital E3 event by transforming its most public faces into puppets, and then Star Fox characters. These guys. At least Iwata, Reggie and Miyamoto look like they’re having fun, and that’s what it’s all about at the end of the day.