Mike Fahey

Ezio Ages, Kills Gracefully in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

In this gorgeous cinematic trailer for Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Ezio shows no sign of being slowed down by old age, except for the odd hallucination of the assassin that came before him.

The Followers of Chaos Are Out of Control in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

To the uninitiated, the Chaos Marines in Warhammer 40,000 are just like the Space Marines, only purple with glowing red eyes. Perhaps it’s best we just leave it at that.

The Just Dance Plague Spreads to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3

Now that Ubisoft’s Just Dance series has dominated the Nintendo Wii, dance fever goes airborne with Microsoft’s Kinect and glowing lollipop-borne on the PlayStation 3 with Just Dance 3 Just Dance is a ridiculously popular series, with the two main games and spin-offs reaching thousands of players that otherwise might nbever have even considered playing…

Kaori Carves Up These New SSX Trailers

First came Elise, then Mac, and now a third original SSX character joins the cast of the 2012 refresh. Tokyo fun girl Kaori Nishidake adds a little black and purple to the slopes this January, and she is a wonder to behold. Like Mac and Elise, Kaori is one of the few SSX racers that…

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The Old Republic‘s Opening Cinematic Writes Checks the Game Can’t Cash

Even if BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic fails miserably, it will leave behind a series of extremely impressive cinematic trailers. How can a game possibly follow an opening cinematic this spectacular? The Sith have returned, the Republic is in grave danger, a Smuggler comes into his own, and war is waged with the same…

You’ll Get a Kick Out Of Crytek’s Ryse

They might not be able to spell for shyt, but Crytek sure knows how to put together a compelling trailer, like this one for the hardcore-aimed Kinect battler Ryse. It’s madness!

This is Your 2011 Summer of Arcade Lineup

Every year Microsoft selects a handful of Xbox Live Arcade games it considers the very best the platform has to offer and releases them once a week as part of the Summer of Arcade promotion. With Ubisoft’s From Dust and Fuelcell’s Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet making the cut this time around, we’re in for one…

Mass Effect 3 Brings the Battle Home in March

A good or possibly bad man goes to war on March 6, 2011, when Mass Effect 3 hits North America, with Europe feeling the aftershocks three days later on March 9.

When EA and Insomniac Collide You Get Overstrike

Set to debut any minute now at EA’s E3 2011 press conference, the developer of Ratchet & Clank and the Resistance games is taking their next big thing multiplatform, and this is it. This is Overstrike What is Overstrike? Let’s not steal too much thunder from the press connference and give you the short and…

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Kinect Makes Taking Your Kids to Disneyland Much More Affordable

Frontier Developments is giving parents around the world an amazing gift this holiday season: The ability to take their children to Disneyland for the price of the Xbox 360, Kinect, and Kinect: Disneyland Adventures As a soon-to-be father, the idea of a virtual Disneyland where I do not need sunblock, wads of cash, and more…

Watch a Very Intense Man Playing Kinect Star Wars

The man demonstrating Kinect Star Wars live on stage at Microsoft’s 2011 E3 press conference seems to be in danger of being swayed by the dark side. I sense much fear in him.

Dance Central Returns with Two Player Dance Battles

Harmonix took the stage during Microsoft’s 2011 E3 press conference today to lift the curtain on Dance Central 2, detailing some of the new features coming in the follow-up to the popular Kinect-powered body mover. It’s time for a dance off! Dance Central is a lovely game, but it was obviously pushed out in rather…

Mass Effect 3 Gets More Tactical and Conversational with Kinect

During Microsoft’s 2011 E3 press conference this morning, BioWare’s Dr. Ray Muzyka demonstrated how Microsoft’s Kinect could make the Xbox 360 version of Mass Effect 3 the one to own. Mass Effect‘s famous branching dialog system comes to life thanks to Kinect’s voice recognition. Each decision made can be made using your natural voice, unless…

When You’re Demoing Modern Warfare 3, It Helps to Have a Charged Controller

Check out nearly nine minutes of underwater Modern Warfare 3 action from Microsoft’s E3 2011 press conference, complete with a brief pause to reconnect.

A Very Special No One Cares Edition of The Nintendo Download

It’s the beginning of E3 week and the 3DS system update will launch a whole new way to purchase downloadable games from Nintendo later this evening, so here’s four puzzle games. Knock yourself out. There were to ways to handle this week’s Nintendo Download. Nintendo could have released something absolutely spectacular for WiiWare, DSiWare, or…

Kill Your Magicka Buddies on June 21

Up until now, Magicka has been a pretty friendly game, but that’s all about to change. On June 21, everybody dies when player-versus-player comes to town. PVP comes to Magicka by way of a free update on June 21, with Arena and Training Ground maps for everyone that’s ever spent money on a copy of…

Kinect Fun Labs Delivers Object Scanning, Life-Like Avatars, Personalized Bobbleheads, and More

Going live on the Xbox 360’s Kinect hub later this morning, Kinect Fun Labs is a series of gadgets that deliver enhanced functionality to Microsoft’s magical camera peripheral, including scanning in your face to create realistic avatars and unrealistic bobbleheads. While the official reveal isn’t happening for another hour and a half, the Xbox.com website…

Microsoft’s E3 2011 Website Outs Halo 4 and More

Microsoft’s E3 2011 briefing isn’t until 9:30 AM Pacific. Someone forgot to tell the Xbox.com guys that, because for a brief moment around 9:30AM Eastern, fans caught a glimpse of Halo 4 Dance Central 2, Halo 4, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Kinect Star Wars, and more appeared in name only this morning, the links attached…