Mike Fahey

D&D‘s First Official iPad Game Is Lords Of Waterdeep

Wizards of the Coast has really been on top of Dungeons & Dragons’ digital initiative lately. We’ve seen the launch of the MMO Neverwinter, the first official mobile game in DeNA’s Arena of War, and now they’re teaming up with card and board game masters Playdek to bring the award-winning Lords of Waterdeep to iPad.…

Tips For Playing Plants Vs. Zombies 2 Without Paying

Plants Vs. Zombies 2: It’s About Time has arrived, and despite the glowing reviews and praise for its relaxed attitude towards micro-transactions, folks are worried about the whole “free-to-play” aspect reaching into their pockets and taking all of their money away. You don’t have to be that person. Plants Vs. Zombies 2’s micro-transactions were built…

There’s Nothing Wrong With The Vita Some Talking Dogs Couldn’t Fix

A pet sim/adventure game featuring talking dogs? PlayStation Vita Pets bounds through the forest next year to rescue the unfortunate handheld gaming device trapped in the well. Technically the PlayStation 4 is lowering the rope with the new streaming and cross-play features the console will share with the handheld, but it’s definitely going to be…

Look Kids, It’s A Cool Toy Game That Doesn’t Need Physical Figures

Coming soon to tablets and mobile devices from Uber Entertainment of Planetary Annihilation and Super Monday Night Combat fame, Toy Rush is an intriguing mix of tower defense and collectible card game. I just want to hug it. Toy Rush will be playable at the PAX Prime Indie Megabooth at the end of the month.

This Will Be A Limited Edition BMO Steelbook, With A Game Inside

Yes, BMO — I would like to an Adventure Time video game, but only if it’s stuffed inside a metal representation of your perfect form, like the 3DS collector’s edition of Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW! The console versions of D3Publisher’s next big Adventure Time game are missing more than online…

It’s My Western Horse 3D day in the Nintendo Download, as the eagerly-anticipated horse simulator is finally released for 3DS and DS, along with Barbie: Groom & Glam Pups for the 3DS. It’s a beautiful day. Ooo, the Wii U has Galaga now. What other treasures lurk in this week’s Nintendo Download?

Disney Infinity Exclusives Are Here To Ruin Everything

Check out Lightning McQueen from Toys’R’Us’ Infinite Crystal Series of exclusive toys for Disney Infinity. This is going to make your children completely unbearable. Well, more unbearable. Like the Toys’R’Us exclusive Legendary series of Skylanders toys, the Infinite Crystal series sounds like its going to be the start of a whole line of clear versions…

Plants Vs. Zombies 2 Is Free-To-Play That’s Better Without Paying

You can spend five dollars in Plants Vs. Zombies 2: It’s About Time to advance from Ancient Egypt to the Pirate Seas. You can unlock enhancements with cash, or use your real money to purchase in-game currency, stocking up on power-ups and using them to blow through every level. Or just keep your money and…

Pixel People Was Dangerously Entertaining. Now It’s Deadly.

In late January, LambdaMu Games took over every non-working waking hour of my life with Pixel People for iOS, a game about gene splicing, city-building, and desperately trying to avoid spending money (I failed on more than one occassion). It took me a month to stop playing. That’s why today’s massive update is a jerk.…

The Typing Adventure Of A Lifetime Is Just A Click Away

Mario. Mavis Beacon. The Dead. Over the years many video game characters and Mavis Beacons have attempted to impart the art of keyboard-diddling, but none have come as close to perfection as Icarus Proudbottom. Before you read on, it’s time for character creation. Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing is a free-to-play PC game hand-crafted by Holy…

One Of Disney Infinity‘s Mobile Apps Is Amazing. Not This One.

This is Disney Infinity: Action!, a free movie-making, do-it-yourself marketing tool. It’s actually rather nifty, but not as nifty as the Disney Infinity: Toy Box app. Disney Infinity: Action!, hitting iTunes and the Windows Store tomorrow with Android coming soon, is a toy for making movies with all of your Infinitized Disney friends. Users unlock…

Spartan Assault May Be Different, But It Tastes Like Halo To Me

Running across alien terrain in sexy armor, firing machine guns, tossing sticky grenades, mounting turrets, jacking vehicles and slaughtering grunts and elites by the dozens? This is Halo, only now we’re up above it instead of down in it. Halo: Spartan Assaultis a twin-stick shooter crafted by Microsoft’s 343 Studios and Vanguard Entertainment, the developers…

GTA V‘s Los Santos Travelogue Is Almost As Fun As Being There

Our collective trip to beautiful (and incredibly dangerous) Los Santos isn’t for another month, but we can explore the sights and sounds of the city and its surrounding areas early through the official interactive travelogue. It’s filled with so much greatness. What sort of greatness, you ask? How about 360 degree views of some of…

The Powerfully Moving That Dragon, Cancer Is Now A Ouya Exclusive

Thanks to an investment from the Ouya team, Ryan Green and Josh Larson’s interactive exploration of a family coping with a young child’s terminal cancer diagnosis comes to fruition in 2014. The game will be exclusive to the Android home console. I cried more reading about Jenn Frank playing That Dragon, Cancer than I ever…

This Machine-Gunning Raccoon Is My Favorite Movie Ever

Sure, it’s only all of two seconds from footage filmed off a screen from the audience of a comic-Con panel, but Rocket Raccoon is all of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy I needed to see. Leaked all over the place over the past couple of days, the rapidly cobbled together footage from James Gunn’s intergalactic…

You Can Only Get The Skylanders Swap Force Dark Edition At GameStop

Taking a break from marking up used games, GameStop announced today that preorders were open for the chain-exclusive Skylanders Swap Force Dark Edition Starter Pack, which replaces the normal pack’s milk chocolate with sumptuous dark… oh wait. *reads through the press release again* Oh! So this pack contains five exclusive Dark Edition Skylanders figures —…

There’s Just Something Sexy About This Week In Gaming Apps

I apologize in advance for any spontaneous swooning that might occur from watching the video portion of this Week in Gaming Apps. Yeah, I don’t know what I was doing there either. I was just kicking back in my chair with my trusty iPad, and the mood just hit me. It quickly faded, however, and…

The PixelJunk Folks’ Visualizer Makes The PS3 More Fun At Parties

For six years I’ve been streaming music to my PlayStation 3 using the same old trio of launch visualizers, which is a sadness. This week Q-Games makes me happy again, with a new PS3 app simply called Visualizer. Having sights to go with my sounds has been important to me I installed my first CD…

This New Character Lineup Is What’s Cool About Disney Infinity

Disney Infinity comes out a week from today with a host of characters from your favorite Disney franchises. Today at the D23 Fan Expo, eleven new characters and a new Toy Story in Space playset were announced. Look at all of familiar faces, hanging out together. That’s pretty awesome. We’ve got Buzz Lightyear and Jessie…

Two of the world’s most addictive mobile games, Taito’s Groove Coaster Zero and GungHo Online’s Puzzles & Dragons, are crossing-over August 12-24. There’ll be special Groove Coaster Zero-themed dungeons and creatures popping up in the puzzler, while a special P&D song pack will be available in the rhythm game for $4.99. This is dangerous.