Mike Fahey

There’s A Little Catherine In The Latest Persona Q Trailer

Chibi-fied characters from Persona 3 and 4 aren’t the only things to drool over in the latest trailer for Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth for the 3DS — there’s a little Vincent in there as well. A very little Vincent, along with some of his sheepy friends, and while the characters only appear in…

Nintendo’s Taking The eShop Down For Repair

Troubled by connectivity issues since Christmas Day’s influx of new console owners, Nintendo’s eShop for the Wii U and 3DS is in dire need of maintenance, so it’s coming down at 4 PM Eastern for a 12-hour repair session. Nintendo announced the down time earlier today on the company’s Facebook page. We sincerely apologize for…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Christmas is completely over now. Let’s get back to work. Aestevalis starts us off with an exhaustive primer on the next Tales of… game. Stormborn’s Pokemon One A Day features Growlithe, looking more adorable than ever, if that’s possible. Oh, and Jollybootsofdoom takes on Godzilla…

If Anything Can Make Me Love My Vita, It’s Digimon

This is a screenshot for Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth for the PlayStation Vita. It’s a game that probably won’t make it to North America. It’s not even due out in Japan until 2015. I’m so excited. It’s a little irrational, sure. I am a Digimon fan, after all. Not a super-hardcore fan, but enough of…

RG3 Gave The Redskins’ Offensive Line Xbox Ones for Christmas

Without anything else to hand off for the rest of the season, benched Washington Redskins franchise quarterback Robert Griffin III rolled up to Redskins park earlier this week with a sedan full of Xbox One consoles for the offensive line that let him get sacked 38 times this year. It’s the season of giving, even…

No Cat Should Be Without A Mario Warp Pipe Climbing Box

Cat Mario, meet Mario cat. Redditor Collinferal had a friend with a bored cat. With $140 in materials and his carpentry skills, he made her a magnificent Mario-themed toy that will keep said cat occupied for minutes. As the owner of two cats, I am constantly looking for ways to keep my feline friends from…

Strange And Wonderful Mirrored Video Game Cover Art

What the hell am I looking at here? It’s the strange imagery that’s produced by taking a familiar piece of cover art, splitting it in half and duplicating one side on the other. Imgur user Fryeguy43 has uploaded a gallery of twisted game art flip-takes. Highlights include Tommy Lasorda as Bill Clinton: Saints Row IV‘s…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Barely a creature is stirring in the post-Christmas TAY-verse, but we’ll soldier through. We’ve got Tommy Pickles’ look at A New Beginning, the adventure game about how horrible we are. Dexomega reviews Mobile Suit Gundam 00, and Habboi shows off the lovely gifts sent to…

We Must Never Forget The Horror Of Dragonball Evolution

“America’s worst insult to Japanese culture since Hiroshima” might be going a bit far, but otherwise Screen Junkies‘ Honest Trailer treatment of the abysmal Dragonball Evolution is spot-on. I guess the idea was to take the basic premise of the manga and anime series and convert them into material that would appeal to a broader…

You Can’t Have A New Smash Bros. Game Without Zelda

A staple of the series since Melee, Princess Zelda returns for her third consecutive Super Smash Bros. appearance on the Wii U and 3DS. High-definition has been very, very kind to our princess. Zelda[Official Super Smash Bros. Site]

A Fitting Finish For The Year Of Luigi

This was the Year of Luigi, but it didn’t feel like the Year of Luigi. At least not until today, when Japan’s Good Smile Company revealed the Nendoroid Luigi figure, and I fell in love. Nendoroid is probably the most popular toy line in the world for fans of giant heads on smallish bodies. Not…

He’s Got The Largest Video Game Collection In The World

With more than 11,000 titles spanning the width and breadth of gaming history, Michael Thomasson is the holder of Guinness World Record for the largest video game collection. That’s love. Or obsession. Maybe both. We tend to shy away from the “awards” published in the Gamers’ Edition of the Guinness Book of World Records every…

It’s Snowing In Los Santos (Tomorrow)

A beautiful sight, we’re shooting each other in the face tonight, walking through Grand Theft Auto Online‘s magical holiday snowfall. I’m sorry. I probably could have resisted if I’d tried harder. Let’s just unwrap Rockstar’s Christmas gifts. (Update: Rockstar says the snow is tomorrow only.) Gifts like special limited-time, holiday themed items available in GTA…

Hot Toys’ Ada Wong Is Lovely, But Can She Pull Off That Dress?

After my first whirlwind love affair with a Hot Toys Iron Man figure, I decided to go outside of my comfort zone for my second figure review. Someone a lot more vulnerable, but ten times as dangerous. Someone like Resident Evil‘s Ada Wong. Resident Evil fans know who Ada Wong is. All those who don’t…

A Stop-Motion Dreamcast Striptease, Trivia Included.

Jake Roper of Vsauce3 included six awesome facts about the Dreamcast in the latest stop in his stop-motion teardown trip through console history, so you didn’t have to feel as bad about watching console porn. But it’s still console porn. The Dreamcast was a beautiful machine, inside and out. None of these hardware failures. No…

Metal Band Avenged Sevenfold Is Making A Diablo Clone

What, you expected a pet sim? Tapping into the band’s deep love for video games (like Diablo) and working in elements of their signature (Diablo-ish), Avenged Sevenfold has teamed with developer Subscience Studios to create a mobile dungeon crawler that hearkens back to the … Diablo. It’s called Hail to the King: Deathbat. From the…

Ah, So Lara Croft: Reflections Is A Card Game. Great.

Back in March of this year, Square Enix trademarked the name Lara Croft: Reflections. Some speculated it would be a 3DS or PlayStation Vita game. Nope, it’s a free-to-play card battler. Lara Croft: Reflections is in testing right now in Austraila and New Zealand, so anyone with an account in those regions can download it…

The official high-capacity battery for the Wii U GamePad is now available in the U.S. The $32 part increases the GamePad’s battery life from between three and five hours to a luxurious eight. For a solution that doesn’t involve unscrewing the GamePad, there’s always the Nyko Uboost.

Tomb Raider Makes An Excellent Argument For iOS Controllers

Last week, Square Enix quietly released the original Tomb Raider for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. You can almost see the game through the haze of virtual controls. Might be time for a gamepad. Gamepad support, recently introduced to the platform with iOS 7, is likely why we’re seeing the original Tomb Raider being…

Mecha-Naruto. Yes. Designed by Naruto manga creator Masashi Kishimoto, Mecha-Naruto will be transforming into mechanical Kyubi form and piloting the fearsome Mecha-Kurama in Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4 next year. Believe it.