Mike Fahey

5 Reasons Vanquish Hero Sam Gideon Is Still The Greatest

Today Sega releases the Bayonetta & Vanquish 10th Anniversary Bundle bringing two of Platinum Games’ best to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 with support for 4K at 60 frames per second. Both games look and play beautifully, but sequel-having Smash Bros. fighter Bayonetta has gotten enough attention. It’s smoking-and-sliding Vanquish star Sam Gideon’s time…

Warface Squeezes Crytek’s Demanding CryEngine Into The Switch

The free-to-play and ridiculously named competitive shooter Warface is the first CryEngine game to grace the Nintendo Switch. How’d the developers cram a CryEngine V-powered game onto Nintendo’s modest hardware? By modifying the hell out of it and limiting it to 720p docked and 540p handheld. Developed by My.Games in-house studio Allods Team, the folks…

I’m Not Sure I Like Snack World But I Keep Playing Anyway

I do not enjoy questing in Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl Gold. It’s boring and repetitive, killing the same creatures on the same maps for underwhelming rewards. And yet I’ve been playing for eight hours and can’t seem to put down my Joy-Cons. What’s keeping me playing? Is it the puns and poop jokes? It’s…

Big-Headed Bloodborne Action Figure Is A Bitty Badass

Most video game characters who receive Good Smile Company’s Nendoroid treatment, giving them tiny bodies and massive heads, end up looking somewhat adorable. Turns out if you make the Bloodborne Hunter’s head larger, it just makes his ragged tricorn hat that much more imposing. The secret to the Nendoroid Hunter’s suave success is that the…

The Final Fantasy VII Remake Opening Is A Little Longer And A Lot Prettier

The opening movie for Final Fantasy VII starts with a field of stars, fades into Aeris, pulls back to reveal the city of Midgar, and then follows Cloud and Barret’s train to its destination. The Final Fantasy VII Remake opening does that too, only prettier and with a lot more Midgar. As iconic as it…

Untitled Goose Game And Control Clean Up At The 2020 DICE Awards

A short but delightful game about a rambunctious waterfowl took home top honors at last night’s DICE Awards, joining games like Overwatch, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Fallout 4 in the pantheon of Game of the Year award winners. Meanwhile, Remedy’s Control snagged four awards of its own. Untitled Goose Game…

Azur Lane: Crosswave’s Warships Chat A Lot More Than They Fight

Azur Lane: Crosswave, out today for the PlayStation 4 and Steam, is a spin-off of mobile hit Azur Lane, known for side-scrolling shoot-em up action and its anthropomorphic anime warship women. Crosswave is indeed full of cool-looking boat people, but its short spurts of 3D combat leave a lot to be desired. Azur Lane: Crosswave’s…

The New Razer Blade Stealth Is The Tiny Gaming Laptop I Always Wanted

When Razerintroduced its 13-inch Stealth laptop in 2016, I didn’t do a review. I was told it wasn’t a gaming machine, strictly a productivity device. The latest Razer Blade Stealth, outfitted with Nvidia’s Geforce GTX 1650 mobile graphics, can play PC games capably without taking up too much space. It’s exactly the tiny gaming system…

Sega’s New Sakura Wars Game Launches Worldwide April 28

Released in Japan this past December, the soft reboot of Sega’s long-running steampunk mecha series, simply titled Sakura Wars, is set to release on PlayStation 4 on April 28. It’s an action role-playing game. And a dating sim. And a visual novel. It’s Sakura Wars, and Sakura Wars is great. For those unfamiliar with the…

The CG-animated Dragon Quest movie is now streaming on Netflix. It’s called Dragon Quest Your Story in the West, and it’s something to watch once you’ve finished Locke & Key, Bojack, and the latest season of Sabrina

Hatsune Miku’s Switch Game Is Out In Japan With A Fancy Playable Demo

Back in the less-wild, more lawful days of region locking, a new game featuring virtual songstress Hatsune Miku coming out on a Nintendo system in Japan meant a run on import shops. But the Switch is region free, and anyone with an easy-to-setup Japanese eShop account can hop online and grab Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA…

Need For Speed Series Returns To Criterion As EA Repurposes Ghost Games Studio

Following a four-game run with Swedish developer Ghost Games starting with 2013’s Rivals, the Need for Speed series is back in the hands of Burnout developer Criterion Games. According to a Games Industry report, Ghost Games, the subsidiary formerly known as EA Gothenburg, is reverting to its original name and being repurposed as an engineering…

‘Art’s Dream’ Is A Stunning Showcase Of What’s Possible In Dreams For PS4

“Art’s Dream,” which was created by Media Molecule to demonstrate the versatility of PlayStation 4 creation tool Dreams, is a two-hour point-and-click adventure, platform puzzler, brawler, side-scrolling shooter, vehicle shooter, and more. All that, plus it’s got four musical numbers. Early adopters of Dreams have been putting Media Molecule’s robust set of creation tools to…

Funcom’s April Fool’s 2019 prank turned real game, Conan Chop Chop is no longer coming out on February 25. The cartoony hack-and-slash game has been pushed to the second quarter of 2020 so developer Mighty Kingdom can *reads through press release* um, finish making it.

Neopets Might Be Finally Getting An Animated Series

How has Neopets, the once wildly popular kid-friendly virtual pet website, gone more than two decades without an animated series? It’s had toys, video games—hell, it was owned by Viacom from 2005 to 2014. Whatever the case, current Neopets owner Jumpstart Games has teamed with Beach House Pictures to make a cartoon happen. Announced yesterday…

Space Channel 5 VR Comes Out Later This Month

It’s been 18 years since Sega’s dancing reporter starred in her own rhythm adventure. After nearly two decades of cameos, Ulala gets her groove back on February 25 with the release of Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash for PlayStation VR. As our own Brian Ashcraft learned last year in an interview with…

The Pokémon Trading Card Game enters the Sword and Shield era today with the release of the first expansion based on the Switch game. The Sword & Shield expansion introduces Pokémon V, special pocket monsters with the ability to evolve into Pokémon VMAX, including Dynamax and Gigantamax Pokémon.  

Video Game Characters As Horrific Rubber Ducks

There is a line of toys called Tubbzthat consists of rubber ducks cosplaying as video game and pop culture characters. Today Numskull Designs announced wave two of the line, featuring characters from Street Fighter, Sonic the Hedgehog, Doom, Resident Evil, and The Last of Us. I find them quite disconcerting. I like a good PVC…

Unassuming Cube Transforms Into Awesome Lego Robot

Making a box out of Lego bricks is easy. Making a smooth cube using flat Lego pieces slightly more challenging. Creating a smooth cube with cool decorations that transforms into a small robot with a ton of personality, as Lego engineer Moko has? That’s master builder stuff. Moko’s Cube-Robo, via The Brothers Brick, is a…

The Wheelchair Portion Of Wolfenstein: The New Colossus Is Some Bullshit

In the opening level of 2017’s Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, a critically injured B.J. Blazkowicz navigates a captured German U-boat in a rickety wheelchair. Having spent the past year and a half confined to a wheelchair, I have some thoughts on the sequence. For starters, it’s total bullshit. I am by no means a…