Mike Fahey

The PlayStation 4 Makes Skylanders: Swap Force Look So Much Better

In August I got an early chance to play the latest installment of Skylanders on a PlayStation 4. I thought it was just the prettiest thing ever. After reviewing the game on the PS3, I thought I might have just been seeing things. Nope. So much better. The difference, which might not show up quite…

Look, Trion Worlds Is Doing The Whole Voxel Thing Now

Pixels were great, but they were so two dimensional. Polygons were really cool, but now that developers have to license them directly from the gaming website (they do not), everybody’s moving to voxels. Even Rift and Defiance developer Trion Worlds is doing it, with free-to-play online adventure RPG Trove While the rest of Trion was…

Killer Mobile Games Don’t Need No Shiny New Console

Who needs to spend several hundred dollars on a console when we’ve already spent several hundred on the latest tablet or smark phone, right? Hey, at least the games are cheap, and this week sees the release of some damn fine games. Better than the PS4 launch lineup? I’ll leave that up to you folks…

DC Universe Online Isn’t Like Other PS4 Launch Titles

DC Universe Online is not a PlayStation 4 original. It’s not a recently-released big budget third-party title. It’s not an indie darling. It’s a nearly three-year-old, free-to-play, massively multiplayer online role-playing game — a different sort launch title, with a different set of issues. First off, let me say how excited I am to finally…

How The PlayStation 4 Comes Apart

Now that theiFixItfolks are finished with their live launch-day teardown of the PS4, they’ve posted a lovely video showing us how easy it is to get to the new console’s delicious innards, and the bits that might cut you. While the PlayStation 4 gets a pretty high score for repairability, there are a couple of…

The Old Republic‘s New Space Battles Have So Many Lasers, Y’all

Are we killing each other in space yet? Not yet. Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s skies don’t fill with fire until the subscriber early start of the Galactic Starfighter expansion on December 3, but you can see them now via this handy video dealio. So many lasers. I haven’t been this excited about Star Wars:…

Dead Rising 3 Is Going To Be The Best Mega Man Game In Ages

Come for the zombies, stay for the robot boy dress-up party. Capcom’s Dead Rising 3 once again lets its protagonist don fabled armor from the fan-favorite franchise, gifting a Mega Man X costume to any brave soul who completes the game. The Mega Buster, on the other hand, (ha!) takes some work. Completing the game…

It’s About Time The X-Men Fired Angel

Now that Wolverine and Gambit are gone, it’s time for Pete Holmes’ Professor X to take out the X-Men whose wings deserved clipping the most. Fly free, little Angel. You’re dumb. Back when the X-Men were born into the Marvel Universe, flying must have seemed pretty handy. Then came a flood of mutants who could…

Marauding Maniac Meets Mournful Madwoman In Injustice Annual #1

Who would win in a fight, Wolverine-clone Lobo, or the Joker’s unhinged girl Friday? The answer might be a lot more clear if this showdown weren’t happening in the Injustice universe. The Ultimate Edition of Injustice: Gods Among Us is available today, combining all of the downloadable content for the DC Comics alternate reality fighting…

More Than 200 Music Tracks From Pokémon X And Y For Only $10

The recent release of Pokémon X and Y didn’t just give the game a graphical overhaul. The music is better than ever before as well, and now you can buy all 3.5 hours’ worth of it on iTunes for a piddling $9.99. The Pokémon X & Pokémon Y Super Music Collection contains 212 tracks, to…

The fantastic Rayman Legends comes to non-Nintendo next-gen in February. During Ubisoft’s fiscal year 2013-2014 conference call, CEO and chairman Yves Guillemot revealed that the second game in the limbless wonder’s console rebirth will hit next-generation consoles in February 2014. Can it possibly get any prettier?

Send Help. Stupidly Good Quiz Game Is Robbing Me Of Sleep.

I played my first round of Plain Vanilla’s QuizUp, “the biggest trivia game in the world”, last night around 9 PM. I played my last round of the evening at 4 AM. This game is dangerously good. I’ve been overlooking emails about QuizUp for several weeks now, which, considering how tired I am today, was…

Okay, Maybe Call Of Duty: Ghost‘s Spawning Could Use Some Work

Now I’m no first-person shooter expert, but I’m pretty sure you shouldn’t be able to kill the same opponent four times in ten seconds. Not only does YouTube’s Gold Glove kill one guy four times in that time span during this Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer match, he kills another two enemy players while he’s…

The New MOGA Android Controllers Have The Power

For the past year, Power A has been chipping away at the Android accessory market with its MOGA line of game controllers, combining convenient clips with console-quality controls. Now they’re releasing the MOGA Power line, adding device charging capability to a pair of slightly retooled controllers, at a price. What Are They? The MOGA Hero…

The Ultimate ‘Round The World’ Gaming Tour For A Mere $9,000

Got a long vacation coming up? Have a spare $9,000? UK travel agency Sta and Game have put together a 14-stop ‘Round the World’ tour that takes gamers to London, Tokyo, Phuket, Boston and beyond. “The Epic Gaming Adventure“, as Sta is calling it, is the sort of trip I would have mapped out for…

GTA V Comes To PC And Mac… As A Screensaver

You might not be able to play Grand Theft Auto V on your computer yet, but you can at least enjoy hundreds of user-taken photos of GTA V and Grand Theft Auto V with Rockstar’s official Snapmatc Screensaver. This kind of makes me wish I had another PC on my desk, set up specifically slip…

It’s The Biggest Week In Gaming Apps Ever

Seventeen amazing games — that’s got to be some sort of Week in Gaming Apps record. I go on vacation for a week, and all the good games come out at once. Luckily a good portion of my vacation was spent sitting on my ass with my iPad or Nexus 7, downloading bite-sized games and…

If You Love Loki So Much, Maybe You Should Just Play Him

Thor: the Dark World is in theaters everywhere, and we all know it’s only for naming uniformity that it’s not called Loki: the Dark World. The god of mischief is hot, so of course he’s the playable star of Marvel Heroes‘ update 2.0: Asgard. The Asgard update for Gazillion’s massively multiplayer Marvel Comics game kicked…

We Know Much More About The Warcraft Movie Now

The Warcraft movie is coming in 2015, yet we barely know anything about it outside of the setting and who’s directing. At the Warcraft movie presentation at BlizzCon 2013, we learned a whole lot more, from setting to story and more. Who’s Working on the movie? When director Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) first read…

World Of Warcraft‘s Coolest New Feature? Garrison Building.

Like Mists of Pandaria’s Pokemon before it, the new Garrison feature in World of Warcraft’s Warlords of Draenor expansion doesn’t have much to do with traditional MMO gameplay, which is probably why I find it so intriguing. That, and the collecting people thing. Garrisons, explained today during the “What’s Next” panel today at BlizzCon 2013,…