Mike Fahey

The Top PVP Players in Avengers Alliance Deserve Punishment

Avenger’s Alliance is a single-player turn-based role-playing game, but it’s also a competition, with players vying for top positions in seasonal PVP tournaments. Season five is around the corner, and players that fight harder than most have a chance to secure the punishment they so richly deserve, courtesy of artist Mark Texiera. No one knows…

Those With Friends Games Sound Like a Fine Place to Find Yourself a Valentine

I guess Words with People You Want to Hook Up With was just too long a title. In honor of the day before discount candy, Zynga has crafted an infographic to demonstrate what a hotbed of flirting the “With Friends” franchise really is. Who uses the chat function of a mobile game to hit on…

The New Ultima Can’t Come Soon Enough

I’ve not seen a more tantalizing “Coming Soon” at the end of a trailer in quite some time. Set 21 years after the events of 1985’s Ultima IV, Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar looks to capture the feel of that classic role-playing game with modern-day mechanics. What was originally planned as a reimagining of…

How to Control a First-Person Shooter With Only Two Fingers on One Hand

In December, former Battlefield developer Ben Cousins revealed The Drowning, an ambitious first-person shooter aimed at both hardcore shooter fans and casual players alike. The game’s simple two button control scheme is key to bridging the audience gap, and now we get to see how it works. Interesting. It’s certainly simple, but is it too…

I Knew From the Start That I Would Love Rock Runners

Have you ever played a game that just feels right—a game where the controls and challenge immediately click, making playing it an almost instinctual thing? Rock Runners is that kind of game. The person that first emailed me about this level-based runner from Recoil Games said they thought I’d really enjoy this one, and I…

Awww, how sweet! Wet Productions has set Virtual Girlfriend and Virtual Boyfriend for iOS free for Valentine’s Day.

Doctor Krieger Would Not Be Happy With This Hyperdimensional Virtual Girl

The virtual wife of Archer‘s resident scientist (and potential genetic clone of Hitler) Dr. Krieger is much more animated than the pair of anime girls in NIS America’s Hyperdimension Neptunia the App for iOS, and likely not as expensive either. Hyperdimension Neptunia the App is a virtual companion app featuring two characters from the odd…

Build Custom Creatures on Your iPad, Bring Them to Life Through 3D Printing

The latest entry in Autodesk’s 123D line of 3D design tools, 123D Creature gives iPad owners the power to sculpt and paint their own three-dimensional creatures and then share them with the community, export them as a 3D mesh, or have them sent to a 3D printing service to be transformed into real stuff. 123D…

This Week’s Android Charts: Google Play Could Really Use a ‘New Release’ Section

Oh look, it’s Minecraft Pocket Edition at the top of the Android paid game charts, recovered from last week’ brief bout of Ruzzle fever. There’s not a single new game on the Android top paid charts, just the usual suspects shuffling about. Mosquitoes are starting to breed in it. The free chart isn’t much better.…

EA Readies Short Attention Span Tetris

Coming this spring to Android and iOS, Tetris Blitz takes the lightning round concept of Bejeweled Blitz and applies it to the world’s most beloved poozle (Russian for puzzle, probably) game. This does not mean you won’t spend an hour playing Tetris in the bathroom at work—you’ll just get a lot more games in one…

They’re Making Mountain Dew for Breakfast, and It’s All Your Fault

As a man that at one point in his life consumed no less than four liters of vaguely citrus soda a day, I find it hard to believe that there was really a large demand for a mildly juice-infused Mountain Dew breakfast drink, yet here we are. Coming February 25 to retail locations across North…

Neon Alley, VIZ Media’s 24-hour anime channel, now gives Xbox 360 owners all the Naruto they can eat for $6.99 a month.

Why Deadpool is the Best Character in Avengers Alliance

I’ve been playing far too much of Marvel’s Avengers Alliance on Facebook lately, or maybe I’ve been playing the right amount, as I had just enough command points to recruit the fourth wall-breaking Merc with a Mouth into my party. Now it’s really a party. Deadpool, previously a PVP unlock in the turn-based superhero role-playing…

You Could Win $200,000 for Playing The Most Annoying Facebook Game Ever Made

How would you like to win a $200,000 mortgage pay off or $100,000 cash? That’s the grand prize in Race 4 My Place, a new social city building game that trades real-money microtransactions for an even more annoying revenue model—mandatory advertising. PopRox Entertainment’s Race 4 My Place seems like a wonderful idea. It’s a Facebook…

Now There’s an Official App for Watching Pokemon Cartoons

I had no idea I wanted an app that featured a weekly rotation of 50 episodes of the Pokemon cartoon sorted by game region until just now. The free Pokemon TV App is here, and it wants to show you its Pokemons. Not only does the free app, available today on iTunes and Google Play,…

This Week’s iPhone Charts: Attack of the Clones

On the right side you’ve got RedSpell’s What’s the Word?, a picture-based word game that’s been tearing up the free iPhone charts for several weeks. On the left, LOTUM GmbH’s What’s the Word?, a picture-based word game that arrived on iTunes on February 4. Guess which one is at the top of this week’s charts?…

Filling In the Blanks on Neverwinter‘s Character Sheet

It’s been years since I’ve walked the streets of Neverwinter, rapier swinging with every step, ready for whatever dangers lurked in the alleys of one of Dungeons and Dragons‘ most notable locales. It’s also been awhile since I filled out a good old paper character sheet. Why not combine the two? Due out early this…

15 Flavors of Japanese Kit Kats: The Snacktaku Review

This weekend I went on a magical flavor journey across the Pacific, to a land where what Americans deem worthy of snackhood is laughably tame. This weekend I tasted 15 different varieties of Japanese Kit Kats, and I am forever changed by the experience. Snacktaku fans will remember the Japanese Kit Kats as one of…

Real Racing 3 is Even More Attractive Now That It’s Going Free-to-Play

The latest entry in Firemonkeys’ Real Racing isn’t just going to be the nicest looking entry in the series when it drops on February 28—it’ll also be the first one that’s completely free to play. In an interview with Bloomberg, EA’s senior vice president for mobile and social game development Nick Earl said the company…

Interested in hunting hidden objects? G5 Games’ Letters from Nowhere is free on iOS and Android until February 17.