Mike Fahey

Lego Masters Is A Magnificent Showcase Of Building Talent

The American version of Lego Masters debuted on Fox last night, pitting 10 teams of creators against the clock, each other, and host Will Arnett’s sense of humor as they attempt to construct elaborate Lego builds. Even the creations that fail are extraordinary. Lego Masters is like the Great British Bake Off, but players work…

Death Stranding Action Figure Carries All The Cargo

The standard edition of Good Smile Company’s big-headed figure of Death Stranding’s Sam Porter Bridges comes with a couple of cargo cases, his terrain scanner, and the cutest little BB pod you ever did see. The “Great Deliverer” edition comes with two additional head pieces, sunglasses, and a grand total of 21 pieces of cargo,…

The Fable Card Game That Survived The Death Of Lionhead Shuts Down In March

Remember Fable Fortune, the card game that famously survived the closure of Fable creators Lionhead Studios? After two and a half years of operation, it’s shutting down for good on March 4. It was heartening to see a Fable game continue on after Microsoft shuttered Lionhead back in 2016. Mediatonic and Flaming Fowl Studios’ card-based…

Pretzel Pop-Tarts Aren’t Nearly As Bad As They Sound

Here at Snacktaku, we’re big fans of Kellogg’s popular line of filled cardboard breakfast rectangles. We have tried and tested many varieties—basic, peanut butter, soda-flavored, Jolly Rancher—and we’ve come through only slightly scathed. Now Kellogg’s is making the tops of Pop-Tarts caramel-colored and sprinkling them with salt. Fine. We’ll bite. Pretzel Pop-Tarts is Kellogg’s taking…

The Best Rhythm Game Controller Is A Keyboard, Specifically This One

To make up for all those times I used a console gamepad to play first-person shooters on PC, I’ve purchased a mechanical keyboard specifically designed for playing rhythm games on the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. It’s called the K28 Keyboard Style Controller, and it is almost perfect. A mechanical keyboard is the absolute shizz…

New Book Celebrates The Art Of The Atari 2600 … And 7800

Bitmap Books, publisher of outstanding tomes filled with gaming history and pixel art, is gearing up for the release of the latest book in its “Visual Compendium” series.Atari 2600/7800: A Visual Compendium covers Atari’s game console history at its highest and lowest points. The Atari 2600 was the first video game console to dominate American…

Fire Emblem Heroes’ New Monthly Subscription Adds Exclusive Characters And Gameplay Perks

  Can you believe it has been three years since the launch of the mobile Fire Emblem gacha game and Nintendo’s only just now gotten around to offering a monthly subscription? Launching on February 5, the Feh Pass provides a variety of benefits to players willing to shell out an additional $9.49 a month. It…

The Latest Magic: The Gathering Game Is A Decent Card-Based Tower Defense

If you want a pure Magic: The Gathering video game experience, stick with Arena. Netmarble’s Magic: Manastrike, out now for iOS and Android, has two players dropping card-based creatures and spells into a two-lane battlefield in order to destroy their opponent’s towers. I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it. Call it tower defense…

Let Waddle Dee Have An Apple, You Monsters

I know Waddle Dees are Kirby’s enemies, minions of King Dedede, but that isn’t stopping my heart from breaking over the sad face on Good Smile Company’s new Waddle Dee figure. Like Good Smile Company’s popular Kirby figures, two of which are being re-released in conjunction with this latest addition to the line, Waddle Dee’s…

New Mortal Kombat Animated Film Releasing In April

Arriving on digital platforms April 12 with Blu-ray and DVD on April 28, Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge will tell the story of the original arcade battle between Outworld and Earthrealm, before things got more complicated. Things were so simple during the events of the original Mortal Kombat. It was just warriors of Earth versus…

The ultimate version of the original Disgaea is now available on mobile devices. Disgaea 1 Complete mobile has all the content of the console version plus an auto-battle feature and the ability to fast-forward battles up to eight times normal speed. Get it on iTunes or Google Play for … $32.99? Yikes.

Monster Hunter Is A Perfect Crossover Game For Dragalia Lost

Mobile role-playing games love their crossovers, and Nintendo’s Dragalia Lost is no exception. It’sfiddled about with Fire Emblemand messed around with Mega Man. Today the free-to-play action RPG launches its most appropriate crossover yet. The Dragalia Lost x Monster Hunter event combines a game about collecting dragons with a game about hunting them. The Mega…

Warcraft 3: Reforged Isn’t Much Of An Upgrade

The remastered version of Blizzard’s real-time strategy classic Warcraft 3 launched yesterday, and while I’m nowhere near as disappointed by the lack of enhancements and upgrades as the folks over at the official forums, Warcraft 3: Reforged certainly hasn’t impressed me. Warcraft 3: Reforged was meant to be a much more ambitious remake of Warcraft…

Star Trek Online turns 10 next month, and it’s still going strong. The latest update, Legacy, launches today on PC (consoles on March 3), with adventures starring Michael Burnham from Star Trek: Discovery and Seven of Nine from Star Trek Picard. Enjoy the trailer, with voiceover from the late, great Leonard Nimoy.

New Liquid CPU Cooler Plays Animated GIFs, Because Why Not

PC hardware maker NZXT has just announced the latest additions to its line of liquid CPU coolers, the Kraken X-3 and Z-3. The X-3 has a bright LED ring and rotates so the logo can be repositioned. The Z-3 comes with a 2.36-inch, 24-bit color LCD screen capable of displaying images, computer data, or animated…

Putting Together Bandai’s Pokémon Models Is Fast, Fun, And Mildly Horrific

Earlier this month Bandai and Bluefin announced the North American release of Bandai Spirits Hobby’s Pokémon models kits, starting with Pikachu, Eevee, and Mew this spring. Last night I assembled all three. It only took me about an hour, and I was only slightly traumatized by Pikachu’s hollow plastic face. The PokePla kits are perfect…

Torchlight Spin-Off Is Now Officially A Numbered Torchlight Sequel

Announced in August 2018 as a free-to-play shared-world action RPG, Torchlight: Frontiers is now Torchlight III, a premium PC action RPG that developer Echtra Games considers a true successor to Torchlight I and II. According to Max Schaefer, founder of Echtra Games and co-creator of the original Torchlight with the now-defunctRunic Games, the change from…

8 Fancy Atari-Branded Gaming Hotels Set To Be Built Across The U.S.

The current incarnation of Atari, France-based Atari SA, is far removed from the company founded by gaming pioneers Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney back in 1972, but the name and logo still carry plenty of weight. So much so that the company has signed a deal with a U.S. real estate developer to create eight…

There’s A Perfectly Good Reason A Switch Was On Stage At The Grammys Last Night

When Tyler the Creator accepted an award for Best Rap Album for Igor during last night’s 62nd annual Grammys, he was joined on stage by his mother, longtime friend and collaborator Jasper Dolphin, and Jasper’s Nintendo Switch. “I was playing Pokémon,” said Jasper on Twitter. Fair enough. It’s not like he could have just left it…

Disco Elysium‘s New Hardcore Mode Sounds Like A Bad Time

“You will fail more,” reads the first bullet point in the official announcement of Hardcore mode (and widescreen support!) for magically delicious PC RPG Disco Elysium. I did not think that possible, yet here we are. Every dice roll is harder to hit. Prices for healing pharmaceuticals are inflated, while money is more scarce. Smoking…