Mike Fahey

8BitDo’s New Arcade Stick Is Quite Charming

The fine folks at 8BitDo sure know how to put together attractive controllers. This is their new arcade stick for the PC and Nintendo Switch. It’s super-moddable, supports wired and Bluetooth connections, has easy button mapping, and even has a turbo function. All that tech, yet it still looks like a time traveller from the…

How’s It Going? Bill And Ted Edition

Be excellent to each other and welcome back to our daily open thread, dudes. Two movies came out this past weekend. One, New Mutants, only came out in theaters, forcing folks to brave movie theater crowds during a global pandemic in order to be horribly disappointed. The other, Bill and Ted Face the Music, launched…

Here’s The Prettiest Purple Gaming Headset I Ever Did See

Normally I turn to pink hues when I am looking for new gaming accessories, but the lilac Logitech G’s G733 Lightspeed wireless gaming headset, part of the company’s new Color Collection, is pushing me in a purple direction. Logitech G makes good gaming gear. Now it makes good gear in fancy colors. The new $130…

The Last Campfire Is A Totally Chill Puzzle Adventure

The Last Campfire, the latest from No Man’s Sky studio Hello Games, is a perfect game for unwinding. There’s no urgency to hero Ember’s journey through the mysterious world they’re trapped in at the beginning of the story. It’s about wandering lush fantasy environments and solving puzzles as lovely music plays. Push some blocks, light…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for realizing that holy shit, the summer is almost over, the new Madden is out, nothing feels like it’s really happening anymore. Hooray. It’s that time of year again, somehow. The time when I set down a wonderful little puzzle platformer like Hello Games’ The Last Campfire, trading it for the sport…

The good news, here’s a new trailer for Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. The bad news, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has slipped from a 2020 release to spring 2021. At least we know what gameplay looks like now, so we can hurt about the delay more. Yay!

Star Wars Comes To The Sims 4 September 8

Come September 9, scouring the mod scene to turn your Sims into Jedi and Stormtroopers becomes a thing of the past. The Sims 4 Star Wars: Journey to Batuu game pack will give players the chance to officially make their own Star Wars story. Your Sims will jump into the conflict between the Resistance and…

How’s It Going? Movie Time Edition

Let’s all go to the lobby and get ourselves infected. Welcome back to our daily open thread. Who’s going to see New Mutants in the theater this weekend, and what the heck is wrong with you? I’ve been waiting forever for this movie to release, and there’s no way in hell I am going out…

Hello Games’ The Last Campfire Launches Tomorrow

While a bunch of folks at No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games are dedicated to creating and maintaining an ever-expanding virtual universe, a small team’s been quietly working on The Last Campfire, an intimate, puzzling, platforming adventure that’s out for Switch, PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Apple Arcade … tomorrow. How lovely. Announced in 2018,…

How’s It Going? Food Torture Edition

Help, I am being tortured by a local gaming-themed eatery. Welcome back to our daily open thread. I live maybe five miles away from Battle and Brew, Atlanta’s oldest and most beloved geek restaurant. They’ve got gaming, trivia, computers, booze—basically all the things gamers need to get into trouble. Most importantly, they have AMAZING food.…

Fall Guys Is The Most Downloaded PlayStation Plus Game Ever

Apparently, if you make a super-fun, incredibly approachable game and release it for free on a popular game console’s online subscription service, tons of people will download it. According to the official PlayStation Twitter, Fall Guys is the best example of this, downloaded more times than any other free game on PS Plus. Cool beans,…

Microsoft’s Custom Wonder Woman 1984 Xboxen Are So Fancy

In celebration of the spirit of cross-promotional marketing with Wonder Woman 1984, Microsoft has cobbled together a trio of custom Xbox One X consoles decked out in gold, fur, and the odd Lasso of Truth. We’re going to start with the golden one, AKA the Wonder Woman Golden Armor Xbox One X Console. (I really…

How’s It Going? Pills Edition

Daily medication is an excellent way to keep track of what day it is. Welcome back to our daily open thread. It’s funny. Before I had my aortic dissection back in 2018, I prided myself on never taking medication. Aside from the odd migraine pill, chalky bits of chemical goodness never passed my lips. Now…

Stadia’s Exclusive Battle Royale Bomberman Launches September 1

Launching on September 1 exclusively for Google’s streaming Stadia platform, Super Bomberman R Online is all the fun times of Super Bomberman R plus a special online battle royal mode where 64 players battle it out across multiple stages simultaneously. Oh hey, and Louies are back. It’s Super Bomberman R with a little extra Bomberman…

Todd McFarlane’s Batman Action Figure Has Swords And Spikes

What does Spawn creator Todd McFarlane do when given the chance to design his own DC Multiverse Batman action figure? He puts spikes on it, gives him a pair of swords, some knives, and gives the cape a little extra flair. McFarlane’s Batman is very McFarlane. Todd McFarlane is no stranger to Batman, having drawn…

Evercade’s Retro Handheld Has Me Falling In Love WIth Cartridges All Over Again

It’s nice that we live in a world where any game we can imagine is just a download away, but sometimes that can get overwhelming. Limits can be nice. Cartridge-based retro game console Evercade has helped me remember that. Released earlier this year by UK company Blaze Entertainment, the Evercade is a retro handheld gaming…

How’s It Going? Badass Robot Warrior Edition

I don’t know about you folks, but my desk is protected by one of the Autobot’s greatest warriors. Welcome back to our daily open thread. I’ve been a fan of the Autobot’s first major female-identifying robot since she made her debut in Transformers: The Movie back in 1986. Other ladybots had appeared in the cartoon…

Half-Life: Alyx Speedrunner Isn’t Afraid To Get His Knees Dirty

Speedrunners do some crazy things in order to skip levels and invoke glitches. In the first virtual reality speedrun in Games Done Quick history, runner Buffet_Time literally crawls on his hands and knees to shave precious minutes off his time playing Half-Life: Alyx. Summer Games Done Quick is over, having raised more than $2 million…

Yakuza: Like a Dragon brings its freaky Japanese RPG vibes to the West on November 13. Sega says its spin-off launches on Xbox One, PC, PS4, and Xbox Series X (available when the console launches), with PS5 coming at a later date. They also made this new trailer. Good for them. 

Apple Court Filing Says Epic Asked For Special Deal Before All This Nonsense Started

When we last left the legal battle between Epic Games and Apple, the game maker had requested the court prevent Apple from removing its games and dev tool access from the App Store. Today, Apple fired back in a filing opposing the request, producing an email dated June 30 from Epic CEO Tim Sweeney asking…