Mike Fahey

Three Upcoming Mobile Zombie Shooters All At Once, All For You

Halloween is right around the corner, and that means its time for a flood of zombie games to iOS and Android devices. Gamevil, Gameloft and Foursaken Media each sent me info on a different zombie game today, so I’ve bunched them together into a shambling zombie game horde. What’s new with the walking dead? Check…

Apps Plus Toys: Zapped Battleship and Spellshot

Hasbro’s Zapped line of app-enabled toys and games combine the company’s popular properties with interactive iPad apps, creating a compelling hybrid of the old and the new. The initial entries in the line were products in which the iPad was used to supplement popular board games like Monopoly and The Game of Life. These are…

Mobile MMO Arcane Legends Stars Warriors, Sorcerers, Rogues and Puppies

How am I supposed to care about the main characters in Spacetime Studios’ latest mobile and browser MMO when there’s an adorable little puppy following me around? Hopefully they’ll take the cuteness down a touch once Arcane Legends gets out of the cinematic trailer phase. Spacetime Studios has been kicking out legendary MMO jams on…

FarmVille 2 Worked Out Okay, So Zynga’s Working on CityVille 2

Currently the fastest-growing game on Facebook, FarmVille 2 is a bright spot for the financially troubled social gaming masters at Zynga. Its 3D graphics and crafting system have drawn in new players and kept them in the game (that’s me testifying). So it’s no surprise that the newly-revealed CityVille 2 features the same friend-driven gameplay…

The Redesigned Games.com Makes It Easier to Play New Games on Any Platform

AOL’s destination for competitive casual gaming features more than 5,000 games to play. Today a sleek new multi-platform redesign for Games.com makes it much easier for players to find and play them. The problem with having several thousand web-based games in one spot is giving users a way to sort through and discover them without…

My Favorite Rhythm Game Series Makes Its Stunning (and Stumbly) iPhone Debut

With DJMax Technika Tune bringing a different take on Korea’s premiere rhythm game to the PlayStation Vita later this month, fans of the original can score a heavy dose of track-based tapping with DJMax Ray on the iPhone, if they don’t mind dealing with a bit of bugginess. DJMax Ray is essentially an evolution of…

I am a Dirty Diamond Dash Cheater

After noticing that a cool three million people were playing Wooga’s gem clicker Diamond Dash on Facebook, reader Juan Aponte sent along a little program he created to ‘assist’ players in achieving ridiculously high scores. I’m not going to give it out, but I’ll show you what it does. Cheating at Diamond Dash is nothing…

Major Retailers Rally Behind the MOGA Android Controller Solution

Due out October 21, PowerA’s MOGA Android game controller system has caught the eye of plenty of mobile developers, but it’s also got the attention of retailers, with more that 7,000 stores prepared to carry the $49.99 device come launch day. Who’d have thought it’d be showing up at Toys ‘R’ Us? Amazon.com, BestBuy.com and…

The Most Powerful Man in the Universe is Coming to iOS

This is Adam, Prince of Eternia, defender of the secrets of Castle Grayskull. Fabulous secret powers were revealed to him the day he held aloft his magic sword and said “By the power of Grayskull, I have the power!” He’s kind of a big deal, and he’s coming to iPhone and iPad to prove it.…

Darrell Lea Soft Eating Liquorice: The Snacktaku Review

In America, when most people think liquorice they think Twizzlers. When someone offers me licorice and then hands me a Twizzler I want to strangle them with a piece of Darrell Lea Soft Eating Liquorice, but it’s far too pliant and delicious to take a human life. I’ve prided myself on not writing a Snacktaku…

The Dorkly Weekly: There is Absolutely No Reason to Reinstate XCOM, You Guys

Aliens? Come on, guys. No one actually believes aliens are coming to kill all of you humans, with your multitudinous genitalia. I mean really, it’s called XCOM: Enemy Unknown—that’s uncertainty right there. Probably just weather balloons. With lasers. For more sick and twisted video game comedy, follow the link to Dorkly.com

My Dear Pony is Too Horrible for You to Play, So I Did

Being in a very pony receptive mood this morning, PlayPink.com‘s email about a new game called My Dear Pony was not nearly as ignored as it should have been. Don’t watch the video if you don’t want to spoil the ending. And that happened.

The Snacktaku Slider: Arby’s Roast Beef-ish Sandwich

In our first Snacktaku Slider we covered breakfast with syrup-infused muffins. Now it’s time to explore what those amazing food photographers can do with a little off-color roast beef. I spent a year working for Arby’s when I was 18, using my natural charm and the fact that I had no business whatsoever working in…

Apps Plus Toys: Apptivity Batman and Cut the Rope

I love gaming apps, and I love toys. This week I’m taking a look at gaming apps that employ physical toys to enhance the play experience, starting with a look at Mattel’s Apptivity Batman and Cut the Rope games. Let’s play with toys! The Apptivity line sees Mattel bringing the full force of its children’s…

Gameloft’s first Unreal Engine 3 game, Wild Blood, is now available on Google Play for Android.

Stop Teasing the My Little Pony Fans, Gameloft

This morning Gameloft tweeted this image. If anyone needs me I’ll be curled up in the corner rocking back and forth. You may have noticed I’ve been covering mobile and social games here a lot more often. I assure you the upcoming My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic games from Gameloft have absolutely nothing to…

If Not for Facebook We’d Never Play Megadeth Slots

Today’s world is a beautiful and magical place, where a person can click a single link in an article and instantly be playing a Megadeth slot machine in the AvaTingo Slots and Bingo Facebook app. That’s right, its the slot machine too rowdy and drunk for Metallica. Thank you, Facebook!

Blueprint 3D Gains the Power to Blow Your Pictures Apart in Three Dimensions

An incredibly cool game I somehow neglected to tell you folks about despite playing it for hours on end, Blueprint 3D is an iPhone game that involves twisting about exploded blueprints until they line up on your screen—or at least it was. With next week’s 2.0 update, it’s all about transforming your photos into exploded…

What Facebook is Playing This Week: I’m Going to Run Out of FarmVille 2 Screenshots

When last we left our intrepid gathering of the top ten Facebook games by daily active users, Zynga’s FarmVille 2 had made a dramatic leap to the head of the pack. It’s still there, bigger than before. Last week FarmVille 2 inched ahead of Texas Hold ’em Poker, with a mere 200,000 users separating the…

There’ll Be Mobile Fluxx for Christmas

Playdek, the folks dedicated to bringing amazing card-based experiences to mobile devices, is bringing the chaotic glory of Fluxx to iOS in time for Christmas, unless the rules drastically change between now and then. With Fluxx you never really know, now do you? Andrew Looney’s twisted creation is a card game in which the rules…