Mike Fahey

Professor Sycamore Introduces Five New Pokemon And More For X And Y

Who are those five Pokemon? Let’s ask Professor Augustine Sycamore, the latest in a long line of tree-named Professors, making his debut in Pokemon X and Pokemon Y this October. Hit the jump for new gym leaders, Team Flare, and an all-new gameplay vid. He speaks for the trees, the good Professor Sycamore, the mentor…

The Movie Might Be Good, But You Can Skip The Pacific Rim Video Game

The Pacific Rim mobile game could never be anything other than an Infinity Blade-style swipe-fighter. Oh there were other game formats that would have worked just fine. Imagine a visual novel adventure with hand-drawn 2D battles between titanic robots and immense aliens, or maybe a Puzzle Fighter-esque game with a dual-sided board, to allow two…

Rovio is teasing a new Angry Birds game announcement for Monday with a somewhat telling image. Looks like Angry Birds: Star Wars is taking on the prequels. I dread the coming of Jar Jar Bird.

The Coolest Exclusive Goodies Of Comic-Con 2013

Completely arbitrary headline alert! This is a list of what I think are the hottest, mostly video game-themed toys and books of next week’s San Diego Comic-Con, based on years spent developing tastes and whims specifically geared towards making me spend entirely too much money on colorful pieces of plastic. There are so many excellent…

Eidos Disables Your Guns in iOS Deus Ex, If Your Device is Jailbroken

Released yesterday for iOS Deus Ex: The Fallis all about giving the player options, unless that player is attempting to run the game on a jailbroken iPhone or iPad, in which case it removes one of the most important abilities in the game — pulling the trigger. Encountered by Redditor KipEnyan and verified by several…

Team17 Finally Making Worms 3. No, Worms 3D Didn’t Count.

The battle of the non-arthropod invertebrates that begin way back in 1997 finally reaches its third stage later this year, as Team17 prepares Worms 3 for exclusive iOS deployment. The original turn-based earthworm artillery strategy debuted back in 1995, followed relatively quickly by Worms 2 in 1997. Worms 3D briefly turned the series stupid in…

There’s A Game Called Turd Birds. Okay.

Added to my lexicon of phrases to use when I’m angry or frustrated and can’t drop an f-bomb, it’s Turd Birds, available on iOS and Android today from Cat Daddy Games and 2K Games. Turd Birds Surely this is not a game about birds shitting on things. Let’s see what the official announcement has to…

Hey Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon fans! Ubisoft has patched the game with the ability to reset conquered garrisons, so the spinning laser blade fun never has to end. Ever. Amen.

Sorry Console/PC Gamers, But The Mobile Deus Ex Is Damn Good

“We didn’t ask for this!” came the cry of PC and console fans, angry with the revelation that the next Deus Ex game would be an episodic mobile adventure. They don’t want to play it on their phones or tablets. It’s a pity, really, because The Fall is nearly every bit the Deus Ex game…

Attack Of The Tiny BioShock Infinite People

As promised back in April, the folks at WizKids/NECA have come through on the BioShock Infinite front, delivering a set of tiny playable figurines that look just like the promotional, only with incredibly sloppy paint jobs. HeroClix players — action figure collectors in general, really — are used to these discrepancies between announcement images and…

Study: Scientists Are Running Out Of Ways To Study Violent Games

Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia gathered 64 students together and had them each play either a violent or non-violent game. Then the researchers pretended to drop their pens to see what would happen. Researchers have so much fun. So the 64 students were each tasked with playing 20 minutes of one of…

Everybody Wants To Kiss Beyond: Two Souls‘ Hunky Love Interest

Ignore the circle button prompt, Eric Winter’s Ryan Clayton is completely irresistible, no matter how shy you might be. Nestled lovingly within thefirst installment of a four-part ‘making of’ documentary for Quantic Dreams’ PlayStation 3 exclusive Beyond: Two Souls was a not-at-all-awkward scene of Ellen Page’s Jodie Holmes deciding whether or not to suck face…

Laharl, Etna and Flonne return to their proper headlining roles when NIS America brings Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness to the PlayStation 3 on October 8 in North America, September 27 in Europe. Still too long to wait.

Now The Secret World Has A Snowmobile Chase, And That’s Beautiful

In the Issue #7 update for Funcom’s paranormal MMO The Secret World, the player gets to wear a tuxedo and participate in a James Bond-esque snowmobile chase. There are rockets. This is why I love The Secret World. While other, more popular MMOs layer on the pop culture references, cramming them into settings where they…

The Best Part Of Today’s GTA V Trailer Is Ten Seconds Of Multiplayer

Today’s new gameplay trailer for Grand Theft Auto V is filled with all sorts of nifty things you can do in the single-player game. You can keep those. All I care about is that last ten seconds of tantalizing multiplayer mayhem. I never finished the story mode of Grand Theft Auto IV. Hell, I only…

Plants Vs. Zombies 2 Is Weeks Away, But Aussies Get To Play Today

Fans of PopCap’s garden defense sensation were crushed late last month, when the eagerly-anticipated sequel slipped from its original July release window. The bad news? Game producer Allen Murray says we’ve still got at least four weeks before Plants Vs. Zombies 2: It’s About Time comes out. The good news depends on how well you…

Every Video Game Should Have A Morning Star Alpha

With talent like comic book artist Mike Choi and award-winning science fiction author John Scalzi attached to it, an interactive comic book tie-in for upcoming mobile shooter Morning Star was a no-brainer. But Morning Star Alpha is much more than a game supplement — it’s a fresh new idea that every game with a rich…

See What A Difference HD Makes For Final Fantasy X

Along with the news that every preorder of the Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster will be upgraded to the Limited Edition with a 24-page art book for a case, Square Enix also released a comparison video that demonstrates how much we probably could have done without this remaster. Smoothing out the jaggies is lovely and…

Play Google’s Roswell Alien Doodle Before The Government Cover-Up

Sixty-six years ago today the Roswell, New Mexico Daily Record stunned the country with one of the finest examples of a sensationalist headline this side of… well, nevermind that. “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch In Roswell Region,” was a joke, a sham, a goof, and certainly not proof of aliens landing on U.S. soil…

The Toughest Foe You’ll Face In Cross Horizon Is The Paywall

During my first ten minutes playing MarvelousAQL’s Cross Horizon I was asked if I wanted to purchase a key to open a chest I’d found on the battlefield. Were I not playing it for review, I would have stopped right there. Despite my knowing full-well that there’s no such thing as a truly free-to-play action…