Mike Fahey

Hero Creates The Entire Smash Bros. Ultimate Roster In Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Redditor DJ-Dez spent over 400 hours creating Animal Crossing custom costumes representing every playable character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, though they may have cheated a bit on the Villager and Isabelle. There are those who create custom clothing in Animal Crossing, and there are those who wait patiently for other people to put in…

Paper Beast, the stunning PlayStation VR game from the creator of Another World, isn’t just for PSVR anymore. Paper Beast is coming to PC virtual reality platforms this summer, with continuous move support, upgraded graphics, new creatures, and more. 

Nintendo’s New Clubhouse Games Is A Damn Fine Collection Of Light Diversions

Coming June 5 to the Nintendo Switch, Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics is no cheap-and-dirty mini-game bundle. It’s a polished collection of beloved multi and single-player card, dice, board, and sports games in a wonderfully presented package. It’s good stuff. This article was originally published on May 21, 2020. Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics, developed by…

The Live Gamer Bolt Is An Excellent 4K60 Capture Box If You’re Into That Sort Of Thing

Do you want 4K 60 frames-per-second video game capture, because the Avermedia Live Gamer Bolt capture box is how you get 4K 60 frame-per-second video game capture. As long as your PC can handle it. Back in my day all we needed was 1,080 pees and a ship to sail them by. Today’s gamesters and…

Dead Cells, the outstanding roguevania about death, rebirth, and killing many things, is now available on Android devices. It’s the full game with no ads, a mobile-friendly auto-hit mode, and support for Bluetooth controllers, all for $8.99.

Mario And Luigi Make Magnificent Mechs

Singapore-based artist ClogTwo makes wonderfully detailed works imagining mechanical art. His Mechasoul series imagines iconic characters as pilots inside their own massive mechs. Mario and Luigi are the subjects of his latest work, and they are magnificent. The brothers Mario prepare for battle inside giant robot versions of themselves. Cutaways show off the insides of shock-absorbing…

Animal Crossings’ Sharks Don’t Do Fish Crimes But I Love Them Anyway

Hot on the caudal fin of Tripwire Interactive’s bloody aquatic epic Maneater, Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ summer season fills its seas with man-eating beasts. Animal Crossing’s sharks don’t actually eat people and can be caught by a single human holding a flimsy fishing pole, but that just makes them more lovable. Nothing like standing on…

Pokémon Sword and Shield‘s Isle Of Armor DLC Drops June 17

According to information released today initially on the official Japanese Pokémon website, the first DLC from Pokémon Sword and Shield’s expansion pass, The Isle of Armor, brings new pocket monsters and fresh adventures to the games on June 17. The website and accompanying trailer show off new features coming in The Isle of Armor on June…

It’s Wedding Season In Animal Crossing: New Horizons

The month of June signals the beginning of summer in Animal Crossing, bringing new fish, bugs, and special recipes to the game. It also brings alpacas Cyrus and Reese to New Horizons for a month-long celebration of their wedding anniversary. They’re so damn cute. Upon waking up on my Animal Crossing island this morning I…

Pokémon Battle Academy Turns The Trading Card Game Into A Board Game

Learning a trading card game that’s been around for a couple of decades can be daunting. Learning a board game, with a box filled with everything one needs and succinct rules, is much easier. So The Pokémon Company made the Pokémon Trading Card Game into a board game. Launching worldwide towards the end of July,…

Aww, Apple Arcade’s Got A Spongebob Game Now

Every game platform or service worth its salt needs a Spongebob Squarepants game. Now’s Apple Arcade’s time. Spongebob: Patty Pursuit has arrived. Patty Pursuit is a colorful auto-running platformer with plenty of jumping, stomping, wall-hopping, and treasure collecting. Plankton has kidnapped Spongebob’s friends and stolen the secret Krabby Patty formula, but for some reason left…

Today’s HP announced its new consumer virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2. The headset, available this fall for $600, includes a pair of Valve-designed 2K lenses, four-camera internal tracking, off-the-ear spatial audio, and support for Windows mixed reality. Preorders start *checks watch* now.

Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition‘s New Chapter Is Light-Hearted Fun

Included in this week’s definitive edition of Xenoblade Chronicles for the Switch is Future Connected, a short playable epilogue. It ties up a dangling plotline and has a lot of fun doing it. Future Connected is not simply more Xenoblade Chronicles, which is good. I just finished playing a couple dozen hours of Xenoblade Chronicles,…

Stern’s New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pinball Machines Are Glorious

The latest silver ball playground from Stern Pinball is a trio of machines based on the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. They’ve got a spinning magnetic pizza. They’ve got a sculpted Turtle Van that can capture up to four balls. They have a floating Krang. They even play the original theme song. A new…

Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition Makes An Excellent Third Impression

It’s hard not to focus on Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition’s upgraded graphics. The Switch version’s crisp characters and updated textures are far removed from the washed-out, muddy visuals of the Wii original. But it’s the little quality-of-life adjustments to this enhanced version of Monolith Soft’s open world action RPG that are making my third playthrough…

Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath’s Story Goes Pretty Much As Expected

The new single-player story content in Mortal Kombat 11’s Aftermath expansion stars the treacherous sorcerer Shang Tsung. Having that backstabby, soul-stealing bastard front-and-center is a good sign that betrayal is going down at some point. It’s just a matter of when and how much. Eventually and bunches. Out today for PC, PlayStation 4, Switch, and…

Properly dramatic soccer is coming to consoles and PC this summer. Bandai Namco’s Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions launches on PC, PlayStation 4, and Switch on August 28.

Released last year on the Epic Games Store, Quantic Dream’s Detroit: Become Human, Beyond: Two Souls, and Heavy Rain are coming to Steam on June 18. Know in some circles as the “Oh Yeah, Those” trilogy, all three games have playable demos available on Steam right now. 

No Man’s Sky Coming To Xbox Game Pass And Windows PC In June

The procedurally-generated universe of Hello Games’ sci-fi epic is getting a massive influx of new explorers next month, as No Man’s Sky joins the Xbox Game Pass subscription service and scores a new Windows PC version. In the nearly four years since its August 2016 release, No Man’s Sky’s has evolved from a relatively bare-bones…

Let’s Settle Splatoon’s Mayo vs. Ketchup War, With Science

Splatoon 2′s first post-launch Splatfest kicks off tomorrow, and fans are passionately rallying for their favorite the upcoming Mayo Vs. Ketchup battle. Snacktaku removes passion and common sense from the equation to try and determine a winner using the magic of snack science. Originally posted 8/03/17. Re-upped in honor of this weekend’s encore of Splatoon…