Mike Fahey

Halfbrick’s Latest Pits Bears Against Their Natural Enemy — Art

It’s about time a game developer explored the complex relationship between members of the Ursidae family and pretentious art installations. And with a trailer narrated by The Stanley Parable‘s Kevan Brighting, no less! Available now in Canada and Australia iTunes and coming soon to everywhere else, Bears Vs. Art is a movement-based puzzle game in…

Pokémon Family Reunions Rarely End Well

You capture a Pokémon, add it to your Pokédex, and never once think of the family the poor creature left behind. Maybe now you’ll think, you heartless bastards. Maybe now you’ll think. Or not. See, this is why I number my Pokémon instead of naming them. By stripping them of their Pokémanity, I never run…

Deus Ex Facebook Page’s World Book Day Message: Don’t Read Books

One would think a series with its roots firmly planted in the seminal transhumanist science fiction of the 20th century would be a bit more respectful of the whole book-reading thing. Alas. Celebrated in the United Kingdom on the first Thursday of March, World Book Day is a yearly event organized by the United Nations…

A new Dark Souls? The next chapter in The Elder Scrolls? No, it’s just Angry Birds. Rovio is teasing another new Angry Birds title, soon to be soft-launched in Canada and Australia. Definitely getting an epic fantasy vibe, but which epic fantasy?

Your PC Must Be This Powerful To Play Dark Souls II

While the console version of Dark Souls II hits next week, the PC version, with its increased texture resolution options, isn’t due out until April 25. That gives us plenty of time to make sure our systems are up to recommended specs. Let’s have a look! Via the game’s Namco Bandai store page, we’re not…

Live-action Infamous: Second Son looks incredibly expensive. Gearing up for the big PlayStation 4 release on March 21, Sony rolls out a short live-action TV spot demonstrating how costly having super powers in real life would be to the American taxpayer.

PixelJunk Inc. Coming To Steam Early Access With A Sweet New Name

The latest adventure in Q-Games’ PixelJunk saga is so grand in scope and stature that a simple three-letter abbreviation couldn’t contain it, so PixelJunk Inc. becomes PixelJunk Nom Nom Galaxy, coming to Steam Early Access on March 13. In this incredibly long, often incredibly awkward video, Q-Games’ head honcho Dylan Cuthbert makes some soup, but…

Every Amazing Glass Shattering Physics Demo Is Now A Video Game

Every time game technology makers talk material physics, they pull out the old “shattering glass” demo. Now there’s finally a game about it. Update 3/7/14: Readers wanted to be reminded when Smash Hit came out, and this is how I remind you. The game is now available for free in iTunes and Google Play, and…

The villainous Darkseid joins the roster of Injustice: Gods Among Us mobile. While console and PC players will have to make due with the characters they’ve already got, the free-to-play mobile game gets a brand new bad guy to fight as/against, with a gold card up for grabs in a special timed event running March…

The Most Dramatic Mechanical Keyboard Switch Reveal Ever

Mechanical keyboards are pretty awesome, but they’ve never been quite this awesome. Behold the Razer Mechanical Switch, the first keyboard switch designed specifically for explosive CG debut videos. Or gaming. Probably gaming. That’ll show those old geezers at Germany’s ZF Electronics, makers of the Cherry MX keyboard switches that make most of today’s finer mechanical…

QuizUp, the stupidly good trivia game which still haunts my dreams, is now on Android. The free multiplayer online trivia game has grown even bigger since its iOS debut, with so many categories you’re bound to find one you don’t suck at. Snag it on Google Play.

There’s Pretty Much No Reason To Buy An Ouya Anymore

First came the Ouya Android microconsole. Then came Mad Catz’s M.O.J.O. Android microconsole. Today Mad Catz announces the M.O.J.O. microconsole will be playing host to Ouya content. I am so confused. This is all due to Ouya’s recent decision to allow the Ouya experience to be embedded in other Android devices. They call it Ouya…

Child Of Light‘s Co-Op Channels The Spirit Of The Wii

While Ubisoft’s charming platform role-playing game Child of Light is skipping Nintendo’s last-gen console, the spirit of the Wii lives on inside it’s utterly charming co-op gameplay. The game’s circle of light co-op partner reminds me of so many Wii games — titles like Super Mario Galaxy, where player two could take up the Wii…

Killzone Shadow Fall‘s first multiplayer expansion detailed, two free multiplayer maps released. Coming in April, The Insurgency Pack adds the Insurgent class, along with new weapons, abilities, and Elite Mode difficulty for single player. The Cruiser and Hangar multiplayer maps are available free today. Check out the PlayStation Blog for more info.

The PS4 Gets The Ultimate Version Of PixelJunk Shooter

In my opinion, Q-Games’ PixelJunk Shooter and Shooter 2 are the best twin-stick shooters on the PlayStation 3. This summer, Double Eleven is combining both into PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate for the PS4 and Vita. Here are nine reasons it’ll be even best-ier than before. Richard Snowdon from the Double Eleven production team laid out the…

”It’s not my fault people keep killing themselves.” The latest environment trailer for Frictional Games’ upcoming space horror game SOMA adds voices to excellent effect. I’d be happy just wandering these halls and listening to people talk. Knowing Frictional, there’ll probably be things try to kill me too. Always with the killing me.

Twitch Announces Mobile Streaming And Capture Tools

For years mobile gamers have had to jump through hoops to record and stream gameplay. Today Twitch gives mobile developers the ability to build such functionality directly into their apps. It’s about damn time. Services like Everyplay are nice, but built-in Twitch functionality will be much nicer. The Twitch Mobile Software Development Kit gives mobile…

Everything Wrong With 300 Couldn’t Stop The Unnecessary Sequel

Dammit, CinemaSins, you’re too late. You could have saved us all from 300: Rise of an Empire, but you neglected your duty, and now we drown in madness. “Hell yeah, they’re making a sequel to 300!” The laws of probability state that somewhere out there in this vast world that phrase was uttered. I really…

The Nerdiest Video Game Ever Made? Almost.

Calculords for iOS is incredibly nerdy — and wonderfully so. It’s a lane-based strategy game. It’s a collectible card game. It makes the player actively participate in math. There are few ways it could be nerdier — I have compiled a list. For one, it could be crafted by the deft hands of Sean “Seanbaby”…

It’s Finally Time To Take Down Guild Wars 2‘s Most Notorious Villain

This is Scarlet Briar, posing here next to her massive drill ship, currently tearing a gigantic hole in the harbor outside of one of Guild Wars 2‘s most important cities. Somebody should probably put a stop to that. This is it, Guild Wars fans. For months and months, ArenaNet’s major living world storyline has kicked…