Mike Fahey

Is It Sad I Want An Android Tablet Clearly Designed for Tweens?

Coming later this month from Fuhu Inc., the company behind the wildly popular Nabi line of kids’ learning tablets, the Nabi XD is a 10.1 inch Tegra 3 powered Android tablet with near field communication technology and a style so distinctive I don’t really care that it’s aimed at tweenyboppers. Is a little color too…

So, How Good Are You at Humming Music?

Hum a Song is a free social humming game for iOS. It’s like Song Pop, except you hum the songs. It’s rather fun. More importantly, it’s an opportunity to post a trailer filled with close-ups of people’s mouths. I never pass up such an opportunity.

Horn Free is Much More Than a Demo of One of the Year’s Best Mobile Games

Phosphor Games’ Unreal Engine 3-powered Horn is one of my favorite games of 2012, but $6.99 a relatively hefty price tag. Horn Free gives iOS gamers a taste of the gorgeous adventure along with a brand-new endless Quest Mode that should thrill old and new players alike. While other mobile games are busy trying to…

Ubisoft and Toys’R’Us Team for an Incredibly Complicated Way to Earn Coupons

Why spend hours maintaining a virtual business for no real reward when you can spend hours building a virtual Toys’R’Us and earn valuable coupons? Within 15 minutes of launching Ubisoft’s Toys’R’Us Towers on Facebook, I earned 15 percent off any single item in the store. Taking into account the massive markup the company pays to…

Sometimes You Just Have to Hit a Guy With a Goat

I’ve been playing some rather complicated mobile games lately, deep titles requiring strategic planning and inventory management to navigate epic tales of adventure. I’ve been managing cities, maintaining farms and gathering massive armies to vanquish my foes. It’s nice to kick back with a game that only demands I tap the screen to jump. Something…

You Have Three Years to Prepare for the Angry Birds Movie

After what feels like years of rumblings about a motion picture based on the world’s most popular mobile game franchise, Finnish developer Rovio makes it official: Angry Birds the movie, in theaters summer 2016. Following Marvel Studios’ lead (David Maisel, former Chairman of Marvel Studios is executive producer of the film), Rovio is producing and…

Morning Star Enters the Race to Redefine the Mobile First-Person Shooter

It’s not enough for developer Industrial Toys to have secured the talents of science fiction author John Scalzi and comic artist Mike Choi for their upcoming futuristic mobile shooter; they also aim to change the expectations core gamers have for their mobile games. If you’re getting a bit of a Halo vibe from this teaser…

Old Fashioned Pecan Roll: The Snacktaku Review

You might not remember the fifth time you had a Hershey’s Kiss or the eighth time you bit into a Twinkie, but there’s a 50 percent chance you remember every Old Fashioned Pecan Log you’ve ever eaten. That’s because there are only two spots in the entire space-time continuum where one purchases and consumes a…

The Dorkly Weekly: Pokemon Rusty Learns EV Training with a Special Musical Guest

EV Training is a special way to play Pokemon that utilizes math to maximize each of your pocket monster’s statistics. Pokemon Rusty doesn’t get it, even after the amazing Mr. Brentalfloss expertly summarizes it in song. “You’re sucking the fun out.” I’ve never been much of a min-maxer myself, preferring to enjoy my games without…

See the Difference a Year Makes for Anomaly: Korea

Last year, developer 11 bit studios released a scaled-down version of its reverse tower defense PC game, Anomaly Warzone Earth for the iPad, and it was wonderful. Look how far they’ve come with the soon-to-be-released sequel, Anomaly Korea Warzone Earth was the product of a team learning the mobile development ropes. 11 bit studios was…

You Don’t Know Jack Hops from Facebook to Mobile, and It’s So Much Better For It

One of the greatest reasons to play a game on Facebook, the irreverent video game quiz show You Don’t Know Jack expands to iOS and Android on Thursday, and once you’ve gone mobile Jack there’s no going back. I first played You Don’t Know Jack in 1995, back when games came on CD-ROM discs. Twelve…

Gamevil’s Baseball Superstars 2013 has launched free on Google Play. So much anime baseball goodness.

$26 Transforms Your iPhone or iPad Into the Ultimate Official Pokédex

Released last month in Japan, the official iOS Pokédex application is now available in North America and beyond, giving Pokémon fans around the globe access to the ultimate pocket monster compendium. Just don’t expect a kindly tree-named professor to hand it over for free. The official Pokédex app starts fans out with the critters from…

This Week’s Facebook Winners and Losers: Ruby Blast Adventures Wins at Losing

Despite recent efforts to revitalize the game with an element of progression, Ruby Blast Adventures digs itself a 2 million player hole in this week’s Facebook winners and losers. Maybe the thrill of adventure is wearing thin, or perhaps the recently released mobile version of Ruby Blast is sucking players away from the browser-based version…

The All-New, All-Different Week in Gaming Apps

Traditionally the Week in Gaming Apps has been a weekly round-up of our daily Gaming App of the Day feature, punctuating those Android, iOS and Windows Phone games we’ve deemed worthy of special attention. Now that my entire attention is on the mobile gaming market, I play too many games each week to let them…

Square Enix Sale Drops Mobile Final Fantasy Prices to Near Reasonable Levels

In celebration of the holidays and the impending release of the 3D Nintendo DS Final Fantasy IV remake on iOS. Square Enix has lined up a slew of iOS game sales, starting with slashed prices on those excellent-but-pricey mobile FF games. It’s hard to resist a mobile Final Fantasy game, but those that managed to…

For those of you allergic to Facebook, Insomiac’s monster-collecting social game Outernauts is now on Kongregate

One of the Greatest Role-Playing Games of All-Time is Now on iPad

For the past week PC gamers have been enjoying the enhanced edition of Baldur’s Gate, a fourteen-year-old BioWare role-playing game that many consider to be the greatest Dungeons & Dragons video game ever made. Now it’s iPad owners’ turn to rediscover the magic. If you’re unclear on what Baldur’s Gate is, you should read Jason’s…

It’s the Most Festive Struggle for Survival Against Killer Robots Ever

It might be the most hardcore game on Facebook, but that doesn’t mean Stomp Game’s mecha-Diablo Robot Rising is too cool to celebrate the holidays. It just celebrates in a hardcore fashion. Dressing up helper bots and the game’s sexy robot mascot in festive holiday hats is pretty cool. Adding snow and Christmas trees to…

Former Battlefield Dev Plans to Change the Way Mobile Shooters Play with The Drowning

As the former creative director of DICE Sweden, Ben Cousins knows console shooters. His team at Scattered (formerly Ngmoco Sweden) has collectively worked on five Battlefield games, the first three Halo titles, two Far Cry and Crysis games and the upcoming Tom Cruise film All You Need is Kill. If any development team can create…