Mike Fahey

Oh Good, a Getting Bitten By a Venomous Snake Simulator

There has got to be a better way to obtain snake juice in order to produce antivenom than poking at them with your finger until they get angry enough to bite your face off. It’s right there in the name of this free frightening iPad game—Killer Snake. Not Fluffy Snake. Not Mr. Cuddly McTouch-Hims. Killer…

For What It’s Worth, AVP: Evolution is the Best Aliens Game Released This Year

Other than the eponymous xenomorphs, general bugginess and some laughable artificial intelligence, Angry Mob Games’ AVP: Evolution from iOS and Android has absolutely nothing in common with the train wreck that is Gearbox’s Aliens: Colonial Marines. In just about every other way the mobile game is superior to the console/PC title. That’s not saying AVP:…

Four Official Shapes Change Eating Chicken McNuggets Forever

As you read this my wife is speeding to the nearest McDonald’s in celebration of the unearthing of an all-important snacking factoid—there are four official, McDonald’s-approved shapes for Chicken McNuggets. This changes everything. Business Insider recently had the opportunity to step inside the hallowed halls of McDonald’s headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, where they sat…

After an eternity with the 2009 version of Gameloft’s racer, Windows Phone 8 goes multiplayer with Asphalt 7: Heat

Yoshi’s Unlicensed Adventure Available on Android, At Least Until Nintendo Figures Out How to Remove It

If you’re a Hungarian Android developer looking to cut game design corners by co-opting an existing character, you might want to go a little more obscure than one of Nintendo’s most beloved characters. Spotted by the keen eyes over at NeoGAF, Era’s Adventures is a real game you can purchase on Google Play for $1.99.…

Real Racing 3 is a Beautiful Game Strangled By Freemium Nonsense

In 2009, Australian developer Firemint released Real Racing for the iPhone, stunning mobile gamers with amazing visuals and setting the standard for realistic mobile racing games. In 2010 the studio released Real Racing 2, adding licensed cars from major manufacturers and online play for up to 16 players. In May of 2011, EA acquired Firemint,…

Our Introduction to Edge of Twilight is a Bad Temple Run Knock-Off

I was excited about the revival of Fuzzyeyes’ Edge of Twilight steampunk action-adventure property. Then I played Edge of Twilight: Horizon. It’s pretty bad. Available as a free download for the iPhone, Horizon is nothing more than a bad copy of Temple Run, right down to the giant monkey creature chasing the naked homeless guy…

If There’s One Thing Windows RT is Good For, It’s Gaming

Windows RT, the version of Windows 8 built specifically to work on mobile processors, confuses a lot of people. It’s best to imagine it as a Windows 8 blowup doll—though it resembles the real thing it isn’t nearly as functional, but if you use your imagination you can still have a lot of fun. Microsoft…

Wouldn’t Sonic Be the Perfect Endless Runner Hero? Sega Might Agree. [Update]

Since Temple Run hit it big, the mobile markets have been flooded with endless runners—games in which the player jumps, rolls, slides, turns and otherwise guides an auto-running hero through treacherous terrain. When’s gaming’s original running hero going to get his due? According to LinkedIn job listings uncovered over at The Sonic Stadium (via Pocket…

It’s Not Every Day a Free Mobile Game Launches With a $100 Licensed Headset

Real Racing 3 launches in North America tomorrow, and fans won’t need to drop a single red cent on the third installment of Firemonkeys’ console-quality racer if they don’t want to. That’ll free them up to spend $100 on the special Real Racing 3 edition of SteelSeries Flux headset. I can’t recall another mobile game…

As Calls to Action Go, ‘Shoot Animals Out of Your Face’ is Right Up There

The call to action is the battle cry of the marketeers, a modest collection of words crafted to grab the potential customer’s attention and send them charging their credit cards for whatever is being sold. I’m not sure if Butterscotch Shenanigans knows me or just stumbled upon this accidentally, but I will buy anything marketed…

This Week’s Android Charts: Music of the Cubes Vs. Spheres

Just when you’re ready to write off the Android gaming community’s good taste, a game like ShockPanda’s Cubes Vs. Spheres sneaks onto the charts, reminding us that there are discerning gamers on the platform. Not that there’s anything wrong with buying Ruzzle a couple million times, and heck—one of the top games for the past…

Five Fresh Games Join the Queue for Tegra 4

The best thing about Nvidia’s TegraZone, where Android and Windows RT device owners can purchase and play the latest Tegra-fueled games, is that it’s not very crowded. The Tegra 3 chip is lovely and does a wonderful job of powering amped mobile titles, but developers haven’t exactly flocked to the platform. Perhaps that’s changing with…

Preorders for Razer’s Edge PC gaming tablet start 3/1 at RazerZone.com, with systems shipping later in the month.

Revitalized Steampunk Saga Edge of Twilight Starts on iOS

I’ve been following the development of Fuzzyeyes Planescape-esque steampunk adventure Edge of Twilight since 2007‘s first teasing glimpse of a world that seemed torn from the pages of one Dungeons & Dragons‘ most underrated settings. In 2009 there were rumors that the entire project had been scrapped, and development slipped into limbo. Then, in December…

The Angry Birds Cartoon is Launching Next Month. Take Cover.

You know what the most recognizable characters in mobile gaming are lacking? Character. Debuting March 16 and 17, Rovio’s Angry Birds Toons series will define Red, Black, Blue, White, Yellow and the pigs by their story arcs instead of their parabolic arcs. Yeah, I’ve been waiting to use that forever. As much as many of…

This Week’s iPhone Charts: Cheating is Charting

The free iPhone word game 4 Pics 1 Word is pretty damn popular. So popular that an app that allows players to cheat in the game debuts this week at number six on the free iPhone game charts. Sheesh. Mobile gaming is a wild and unruly frontier. One week you’re the game that copied that…

Pizza Hut Big Pizza Sliders: The Snacktaku Review

Only the juggernaut that is Pizza Hut would have the balls to spend millions of dollars on post-Super Bowl advertising to introduce the world to its version of the tiny pizzas they sell in the Wal-Mart freezer section for a dollar apiece. They aren’t bad, but your time to really enjoy them is quickly running…

Intel’s First Dual-Core Mobile Processor Takes a Tour of Epic Citadel

The free Epic Citadel app is the Unreal Engine 3-powered way to determine how game-capable your mobile hardware is, so Intel decided to use it to demonstrate the power of the Clover Trail+ Atom Z2580, its first dual-core smartphone system-on-a-chip. There are three different configurations of the new Intel SOC representing three different CPU speeds—2.0…

The Most Terrifying Game I’ve Played In Ages Is Not Technically a Horror Game

Death is coming, and it’s coming large. This grim reaper needs no dark shadows or flickering lights. There is no slender ghoul lurking just outside the periphery of vision. Where one would expect shrill violins there is thrilling chiptune. The coming darkness isn’t a metaphor—it’s the gaping maw of an enormous space worm, and I’m…