Mike Fahey

Toys For A Game We’ve Not Yet Seen

Our first official look at Angry Birds Go! comes not from a trailer or in-game screenshots, but from Hasbro’s upcoming line of Telepods and Jenga toys based on the kart-based spin-off. Strange. Like Angry Birds Star Wars II, Angry Birds Go! will have the ability to scan in physical toys for use in the game,…

Let’s Watch The Opening Of Lightning Returns And Make Oooo Noises

Square Enix has lost a substantial amount of mojo over the years, their ability to create spectacular cinematic game openings remains intact. Watch them open the hell out of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. It’s not in English, but you don’t really need to know Japanese to get what’s going on here. Lightning has returned,…

Maybe Avengers Alliance Can Make Sense Of Marvel’s Infinity Event

Marvel’s universe-spanning “Infinity” event is coming to turn-based social RPG Avengers Alliance, where it will hopefully make more sense. I am so lost in space right now. There’s just something about the Infinity series (“Infinity Gauntlet”, “Infinity Crusade”, “Infinity War”, “Infinity Bucket”) that makes my brain turn off. I’ve read each series and its crossovers…

Arby’s Smokehouse Brisket: The Snacktaku Review

To make the new Smokehouse Brisket sandwich, Arby’s starts with quality beef brisket, smoked for at least 13 hours for that falling-apart-in-your-mouth texture. Then it covers it in unnecessary junk, because that’s what Arby’s does. Note that in the video I say 24 hours several times. This is because 24 is a better number than…

Sonic The Hedgehog’s Latest Enemies Are An Odd Bunch

Dr. Eggman’s great and all, but he’s just not deadly enough for Sonic: Lost World, so we end up with these guys — the Deadly Six. One of them is a sullen teen. Sounds pretty deadly to me.

The iPhone 5S May Break When Exposed To .50 Caliber Rifle Rounds

The iPhone 5s holds up to being dropped on concrete or submerged in a bowl of water, but put a couple of .50 caliber rifle rounds through it in slow motion and it nearly disintegrates. This wouldn’t have happened if Steve Jobs were still alive. Having tried and failed to procure an iPhone 5S in…

Final Fantasy XIV MMO Log Three: Play Us Out, PlayStation 3

Welcome to the third and final MMO Log before we slap a review on Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and call it the better part of a month. This week I’m taking a look at the PlayStation 3 version of the game, which is just like the PC version after three or four beers.…

Riddick: Merc Files Is A Bad Game For A Bad Man

Vin Diesel’s signature character is a brutal killing machine; a predator pouncing from the shadows to take down his terrified prey. Riddick is not a guy standing patiently in the shadows for extended periods of time, waiting for patrolling guards to pass. Or is he? I suppose there is a lot of prep work that…

The First Announced iOS 7 Gamepad Looks… Interesting

I figured the release of iOS 7 with game controller support would be accompanied by a blast of press releases from every major peripheral manufacturer, showing off their entry into the newly-opened market. So far all I’ve seen is a tease from Logitech and this, an accessory that transforms your iDevice into a controller sandwich.…

What’s New In Skylanders: Swap Force? So Many Things.

Every Skylander character released so far has been remastered in HD. We’re visiting a region of the Skylands we’ve never seen before. We meet Kaos’ evil mom. So many new features are coming in Skylanders: Swap Force, some almost exciting as the ability to jump. I’m a little fixated on Swap Force‘s jumping mechanic. That’s…

While The World Plays GTA V, I’m Playing Deer Hunter 2014. Man.

The biggest game of the year is sitting in my PlayStation 3, and I’m sitting on my back porch, shooting wolverines on my iPad. I’m just as surprised as you are. It’s not just Grand Theft Auto V. I’ve got Rayman Legends, a game I’ve been whining about since it was delayed for the Wii…

This week’s Nintendo Download is brought to you by reanimated Zelda and hot samurai lovin’. The HD remake of Wind Waker drops tomorrow, next Tuesday brings Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure, and today we’ve got Hakuoki: Memories of the Shinsengumi. Idea Factory’s samurai adventure visual romance novel for the 3DS. Can the week get…

Xbox One And PS4 Make Toys’R’Us’ Hot Toy List. Only One Is Fabulous.

Toy retail giant Toys’R’Us has released its annual list of the hottest products for the holiday season, and while both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 made the cut this year, only Microsoft’s console made it into the “Fabulous 15.” Why? There are 36 products in total on the annual Toys’R’Us Hot Holiday Toys list,…

All The Reason I Need To Buy An Xbox One

Who spends $500 to play a $20 downloadable game? I do, if the game’s the spiritual successor to the Panzer Dragoon series. Fresh Crimson Dragon screens and a new trailer out of TGS seal the deal. I get a little bit crazy when it comes to shooting things of dragon-back while riding through Roger Dean…

Nvidia’s Tegra Note Platform Is The Shield Without All The Shield Bits

Nvidia’s portable gaming system is neat, but there are several things it does — playing media, running games in portrait mode — that could be handled better by a similarly-powered tablet. The Tegra Note plaform is that tablet. Technically tablets, plural, the Tegra Note isn’t a single tablet, but a complete tablet platform, coming to…

Remove your Battle.net Mobile Authenticator Before Upgrading To iOS 7

Blizzard’s mobile Battle.net Authenticator is a handy way to secure your StarCraft, World of Warcraft and Diablo accounts from rampant hackers, unless a major iOS upgrade screws it up. Then you’re in for a headache. Brought to players’s attention a couple of days ago on Blizzard’s forums, in some cases upgrading from iOS 6-something to…

Angry Birds Star Wars II Could Have Been A Great Shameless Cash-Grab

Making a mobile game crossover is easy. Just take your popular game and re-skin it to resemble whichever pop culture phenomenon will rake in the most cash. This is twice now Angry Birds developer Rovio has screwed up that simple formula. It’s probably because they’re Finnish. The first Angry Birds Star Wars game was noticeably…

The Best-Looking Mobile Game Rises Again, More Powerful Than Ever

The hero of the Infinity Blade series never really dies. Each time he falls he is reborn, accruing skill and power until he’s an unstoppable force. The same could be said for the series itself. The first Infinity Blade was presented as a demonstration of the graphical prowess of Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 on the…

Call Of Duty Mega Bloks Are Coming. Let’s Build A Set.

Following successful outings with World of Warcraft and Skylanders, Mega Bloks completes the holy trinity of Activision properties with Call of Duty collector construction sets. Want to watch me put one together? Due out at Toys’R’Us later this month and other U.S. retailers this fall, Call of Duty collector construction sets are a premium line,…

All’s Well That’s Haswell In Origin PC’s Millennium Gaming PC

Origin PC makes a damn fine $3,500 gaming system, even when the CPU isn’t exactly geared towards the high-end PC gamer. Well, that was an easy review. Who’s for dessert? It happens every time Intel introduces a new processor line — a barrage of announcements from the boutique PC industry mainstays, announcing that they’ve got…