Mike Fahey

Remember, It’s Free Comic Book Day 2014

Every year, on the first Saturday in May, comic book creators and publishers collaborate with comic book stores around the world to give out free books to once and future fans. It’s not too late to participate. Well, not to late for anyone not scheduled to work until after his local comic book store is…

The Chip ‘N Dale Rescue Rangers Theme Makes For One Sexy Slow Jam

First DuckTales, now Rescue Rangers. At the rate Scott Bradlee and company are transforming classic cartoon themes into R&B slow jams, there’ll soon be nothing left of the original Disney Afternoon but an incredibly soulful crater. Who knew the Rescue Rangers theme could be any sexier than it already was? Granted, 16-year-old me had a…

Report: Neversoft Merging With Call Of Duty Developer Infinity Ward

The studio that created Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater will soon be no more. According to an internal memo from Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg obtained by Giant Bomb, the 20-year-old studio is merging with Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward, and the Neversoft name is being retired. Neversoft was formed in July 1994 by Joel…

Everything We Love About Skyrim In One Honest Game Trailer

“From the developers of The Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls HD and Elder Scrolls with Guns comes a game so immersive you forget to eat, sleep and make friends because you’re too busy eating, sleeping and making friends.” Sounds about right. Sometimes Smoosh Games‘ “Honest Game Trailers” make me question why I bothered playing a game,…

What We Can Learn From The First COD: Advanced Warfare Screens

In the year 2054, a private military corporation (PMC) emerges with the power to rescue humanity from a war devastated by a global attack on its infrastructure. We’ve seen the Spacey trailer for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfighter Warfare. Now let’s see what the first three screens can tell us. Right off the bat, I’ve…

The Saturday Morning Stream: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 [All Done]

With its movie inspiration webbing up box office money this weekend and our official review forthcoming, I figured it was a good morning to play around with Spider-Man and his amazing friends. If only there was a Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends game. Iceman and Firestar would be a welcome break from this game’s constantly-quipping…

Appropriately Dark Screens From The Canceled World Of Darkness MMO

We didn’t get to see much of CCP’s World of Darkness vampire MMO before it was officially canceled earlier this month. Now that early testers are no longer worried about breaking embargo, we’re still not seeing much. Damn these are some dark screenshots. Appearing on a Russian World of Darkness site and posted to Reddit…

Disney Infinity Marvel Superheroes Coming This Fall

At a special event in Los Angeles this morning, Disney announced the second phase of its toys-meets-games franchise, bringing Marvel characters into the mix with Disney Infinity Marvel Superheroes Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada took the stage at the event (introduced by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s Agent Phil Coulson) to talk about the collaboration, following the new…

Hellraid Jumps To Current Gen, Looks Even More Like The Elder Scrolls

Originally slated for release on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC, Techland’s first-person co-op hackand-slash role-playing game Hellraid is riding an upgraded game engine to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One instead. Announced last year, the dark and gritty Hellraid drew many comparisons to Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls series, sharing a similar color palette, perspective…

Bob Hoskins, Star Of Super Mario Bros. Film, Dead At 71

Known for his roles in films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Brazil and the infamous Super Mario Bros movie, beloved British actor Bob Hoskins passed away yesterday at the age of 71. A familiar face on the big and small screen since the early ’70s, Hoskins’s gruff charm made him a natural fit for…

Everything Wrong With Spider-Man 3 Is Why The Franchise Got A Reboot

When the final movie in the first Spider-Man trilogy changed Peter Parker’s motivational motto from “With great power comes great responsibility” to “shit happens” was the perfect moment to call for a do-over. Let’s see what other Cinema Sins Spider-Man 3 committed. Judging from the positive reviews of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the notion that…

The Hero Of Skies Of Arcadia Gets The Statue He Deserves

One of the best reasons to own a Sega Dreamcast, the excellent role-playing game Skies of Arcadia hasn’t gotten nearly enough love. This 17-inch tall stature of main character Vyse from First 4 Figures is a step in the right direction. Sure, the game got a GameCube update and Vyse made an appearance in Sonic…

The Next Big Mobile First-Person Shooter Finally Gets A Name

Gameloft’s Modern Combat series may ape Activision’s Call of Duty series, but it’s definitely not on the same release schedule. Almost a year after the first teaser trailer, the fifth installment of the series has a name: Modern Combat 5: Black Ops — I mean Blackout. How’s that for a name? It’s identifying itself all…

It’s Peter Parkour, The Amazing Freerunning Spider-Man

I am so sorry. I tried to come up with something different, but I kept coming back to “Peter Parkour”. Hopefully this superhero-themed video from Ronnie Street Stunts can redeem the headline. Here’s the setup — Spider-Man has run out of web fluid, and has to hoof it. And action! Pretty nifty! If I ever…

No Wonder Infamous: Second Son Makes Me So Hungry

Seattle is a great city for foodies, even if those foodies are super-powered fugitives from corrupt justice. The fake food-obsessed Paul Yan of Enjoy the Bits captured scenes of Infamous: Second Son at its tastiest. Not only has Paul wandered the streets of digital Seattle snapping picture of food, he’s also cataloged the game’s restaurants,…

Wow, Pac-Man Sure Is A Lot More Complicated Than I Remember

Oh wait, this isn’t Pac-Man at all, just an overly-complex free-to-play Puzzle & Dragons clone called Pac-Man Monsters, now available on Google Play and iOS. There’s a lot of complaining about classic PC properties being perverted into mobile games these days, but what about poor Pac-Man? Save for the excellent Pac-Man Championship Edition games, most…

Not Every Pancake Can Be A Star Wars Pancake

The world’s premiere pancake artist Nathan Shields recreates the iconic creatures of the Star Wars universe in heated batter form. How I hate him. Taking requests from his adorable children, recreating faces and artwork after only a quick glance at a picture — he’s making the rest of us fathers look bad. My children’s two…

Plants Vs. Zombies Garden Warfare is coming to PC June 24. The PC version of Popcap’s online multiplayer shooter will feature all of the free updates already released for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One versions. There’s a deluxe edition up for preorder on Origin containing extra in-game coins and bonus sticker packs.

The Origin Of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Starring Bruce Willis

Fresh off developing the Bruce Willis-powered PlayStation game Apocalypse, developer Neversoft used the pre-built Willis model as the first rider in the prototype for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. That’s just one of many fun facts in Did You Know Gaming?‘s look at the king of skateboarding games. While I still maintain the sequel was the…

The Week In Games: Spins A Web, Most Any Size

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 might be the most high-profile game dropping this week, but that doesn’t me the next seven days aren’t full of smaller gems. It just means Spider-Man gets to be in the top image. Everybody but the folks who decided the Xbox One/Vita combination was a good idea will get a chance…