Mike Fahey

This Almost Makes Up for Europe Waiting Over a Year for Persona 4 Arena

Japan was playing the Persona fighting game in March of 2012. In North America we got our chance in August. Europe has to wait until May 10, but if they preorder at Game they’ll score this awesome 12-inch vinyl copy of the arrange soundtrack for their troubles. Man, I would have totally waited until May…

I’d Pay Good Money to Play This Impressive Destruction Demo

When Nvidia wants crap to break apart, it breaks apart good. This is is a real-time dynamic fracture demo shown at GDC, running at 30 frames-per-second on a single Geforce GTX 680 graphics card. Ever wish you could spend money on a tech demo? [Thanks, Zak!]

This “Pegformer” Delivers One New Way to Move, Many New Ways to Die

When developer First5 Games were looking for a fresh method of movement for their new platforming game, they found inspiration in those old Wacky Wall Crawler toys you’d get for a quarter out of supermarket vending machines as a kid. You know, the ones with all the sticky legs? I used to tear off their…

Behold Studios teams with Paradox Interactive to bring the glorious meta role-playing game Knights of Pen & Paper to PC, Mac and Linux asKnights of Pen & Paper +1 Edition. Roll to save versus awesome.

Before Plants Vs. Zombies 2 Comes Plants Vs. Zombies Vs. Facebook

While the promised sequel to the world‘s most popular undead floral combat simulator is still slated for a summer release, Popcap is sowing the seeds of something more social with Plants Vs. Zombies Adventures, a Facebook game that explores the original title’s tower defense roots. Where Plants Vs. Zombies was a corridor-based defense variant with…

Internet Rallies Against Kickstarter for Nine-Year-Old Girl

When Susan Wilson of Stevensville, Maryland launched a Kickstarter campaign for $829 to send her nine-year-old daughter Kenzie to role-playing game design camp last Thursday, she never expected donations to surpass $20,000. She also didn’t expect to be branded and scammer, a manipulator and a child abuser. The threats of violence were also a big…

Fetch Could Have Been an Animated Feature. Instead It’s an Utterly Charming iPad Game.

You could search the iTunes app store for days and not come close to finding a game with the charm and polish of Big FishGames’ Fetch. It’s an animated movie come to life, an adventure riddled with arcade action wrapped around a warm beating heart. It’s the story of a boy and his dog. While…

Because My Children Can Never Have Too Many Alice: Madness Returns Toys

More than a year and a half since the game’s release, Diamond Select Toys prepares to unleash action figure based on American McGee’s Alice: Madness Returns. Royal Suit Alice is going in the kids’ room when she arrives next month, and not just for the trauma factor. I’m not a bad parent — well, not…

I Didn’t Mean to Kill You, Beautiful Xenosaga Statue

Of all theGathering statues from e2406.com I’vereviewed, I was most looking forward to their gorgeous 20-inch rendition of Xenosaga‘s T-elos. Some role-players prefer Kos-Mos, but my heart was always with this dark-and-deadly Mary Magdalene cyborg. In the game she nearly took down the entire party all by her lonesome. I took her out with a…

Taco Bell Cool Ranch Doritos Tacos: The Snacktaku Review

Oh taco, sweet taco — in terms of pure convenience there is no finer food. Savory meat, vegetables and spice wrapped lovingly in corn or flour, the taco’s greatest strength is the edible container you hold in your hand. From the finest restaurants, the shadiest street vendor or a fast food chain that’s been bastardizing…

The First Free-to-Play Pac-Man Arrives With a Tournament Twist

Realizing that while we’ll always hold the original in the highest regard, no one wants to buy plain-old Pac-Man anymore, Namco Bandai has set the original arcade game free on Android, with a competitive way to get players to pay a little extra. Pac-Man + Tournaments is the original arcade game with a little something…

The First Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Gameplay Trailer Is Equal Parts Exciting and Terrifying

Temples hidden deep within uncharted jungles, dramatic pirate ship battles, 20 seconds of GameStop pimping at the end — the first gameplay trailer for Black Flag shows everything I look for in a blockbuster action-adventure, and one thing I do not. It’s not the sharks so much as the container they come in. While I…

Three Colors Combine to Form the Finest Sheep Shooter Ever

Red, green and blue — these are the primary colors, which can be mixed together in varying amounts to create every color of the visible spectrum. I learned this in my grade school art program. At the time I was convinced the teacher made it up to cover for the fact that they only had…

I Can’t Tell if Doctor Who Makes PlayStation Home More Creepy or Less Creepy

One of the problems I have with PlayStation Home is the avatars — they’re too uncanny; too department store mannequin for my tastes. Does dressing them up as the Doctor and giving them a TARDIS to play in help? Half of that question is rhetorical — everything is better with a TARDIS. Take any significant…

The Little Week in Gaming Apps That Probably Couldn’t

As I mentioned in last week’s installment of the Week in Gaming Apps, I spent the better part of this week moving all of my stuff from one place to another place. I figured the rest of the team might step up Monday through Wednesday, which is why there are only app reviews for Thursday…

Gazillion’s Marvel Heroes MMO officially launches on June 4. I’m not signing up until I can play as Squirrel Girl.

All the Fun of Quick Time Events, Without Those Pesky Events

Everybody loves quick time events, those timed button presses utilized in today’s high-tech interactive entertainment programs to help the user feel a modicum of control over grand cinematic sequences. the problem with quick time events, however, is that the graphical spectacle going on behind the prompts always threatens to steal attention away from important prompts.…

Picking a Graphics Card Can Be Hard. GPUBoss.com Can Help.

The graphics card marketplace can be quite confusing to the new PC gamer. There are no standardized labels, cards with the same number designation vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, and the internet is filled with people that swear their favorite piece of poly-processing hardware is the best. I’ve been buying cards for more than a…

Of Course You Want to Watch Nearly Seven Minutes of DuckTales: Remastered

Captured live on Capcom’s Twitch.tv stream earlier this afternoon at PAX East, seven minutes of gorgeous HD DuckTales remake footage is about all the average human can withstand without exploding, so Capcom trimmed it down to six and three-quarters. My favorite NES game of all time in the hands of WayForward, the 2D sprite artists…

Gameloft’s World of Warcraft Clone Already Has a Collectible Card Game Spin-Off

Gameloft has gotten so good at making mobile clones of popular games it’s now cloning games from the future. This morning, Blizzard announced Hearthfire: Heroes of Warcraft, a digital collectible card game based on characters from World of Warcraft. Yesterday, Gameloft released Order & Chaos Duels, a digital collectible card game based on characters based…