Mike Fahey

Play Resident Evil Zero On The Wii This December

Resident Evil fans can experience the prequel to the franchise all over again in December, when Capcom releases Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil Zero on the Nintendo Wii. I never played the Gamecube version of Resident Evil Zero, which tells the story of rookie S.T.A.R.S. member Rebecca Chambers and ex-Marine Billy Coen as they discover…

Modern Warfare 2 Footage Sparks Outrage In Australia

Leaked footage of gameplay from Activision’s Modern Warfare 2 has the Australian Council on Children and the Media calling for the game’s MA15+ to be reconsidered, effectively banning it from sale. The skippable scene of terrorist atrocities in Modern Warfare 2 first came to light via leaked footage on YouTube early yesterday. News travelled quickly,…

Team Fortress 2 For $2.49

By the time this post goes live, you have approximately 40 minutes to purchase Team Fortress 2 on Steam for only $2.49. Why are you still reading this? I’m going to go ahead and assume that since you decided to read further you either already have Team Fortress 2, it’s past 2PM Pacific time when…

A Very Team Fortress 2 Halloween

The spirit of Halloween has infected Valve’s Team Fortress 2 Team, spawning a Haunted Hallowe’en Special update, complete with new achievements, a ghost-infested new map, exploding pumpkins, and scary hats! Today through November 2nd, Valve invites the spirits of the dead into Team Fortress 2 in the form of terrifying paper bag hats. The masks…

Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” Comes To Rock Band – In South Park

Last night’s episode of South Park featuring the boys playing Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” in Rock Band once again proves that every song is better when Eric Cartman sings it. The Japanese are ruthlessly slaughtering whales and dolphins, and only Stan Marsh can stop them, not that his friends give a damn. They’re too busy…

The LocoRoco Midnight Carnival Begins Today

$14.99 worth of tilting and rolling goodness hits the PlayStation Network today, as Sony releases LocoRoco Midnight Carnival for the PSP. LocoRoco Midnight Carnival is the latest installment of the painfully adorable LocoRoco series, featuring 16 new stages, competitive and co-op multiplayer modes, mini-games, and three bonus stages. The game also introduces the Boing! maneuver,…

Champions Online: One Million Heroes Strong And Growing

According to developer Cryptic Studios, Super Crecente is just one of more than a million superhero characters created since the launch of the massively multiplayer Champions Online. Atari and Cryptic announced the one million character milestone today, using the figure as an example of the strong reception Champions Online has received from both fans and…

DJ Hero DLC Is A Tad Bit Pricey

DJ Hero is barely out the door and already there are new downloadable tracks, with 50 Cent, Queen, Gorillaz, and Public Enemy hitting Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network today – for $3.00 apiece. DJ Hero developer FreeStyleGames’ Chris Lee gave IGN the skinny on the first round of DJ Hero DLC, revealing a price…

Dress Your Xbox Avatar In University Pride

Display your love for your favorite institute of higher learning with the Xbox Live Avatar Marketplace University Collection, as long as yours is one of the top 30 U.S. Universities. If Georgia made the cut, odds are your favorite did too. Disruptive Media Publishers today announces the release of the University Collection on the Xbox…

D3Publisher Brings More Blue Dragon Stateside

Create your own character and adventure with Shu and friends in Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow, coming to the U.S. Nintendo DS this spring, courtesy of D3Publisher. Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow is set two years after the original Blue Dragon and a year after the previous DS installment, Blue Dragon Plus. Instead of controlling Shu, the…

Pimp Your Ride With The Bad Company 2 Limited Edition

The Limited Edition of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has been announced, delivering four vehicle upgrades and two classic Battlefield 1943 weapons at no additional cost. The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Limited Edition isn’t a collector’s edition, weighed down with useless trinkets for an inflated price, but rather a limited version of the regular game packaged…

Avatar: The World Of Pandora

Director James Cameron and the developers behind the video game adaptation of Avatar discuss the world of Pandora – paradise for the Navi, and something much darker for the invading humans. As Cameron puts it, Pandora is really the garden of Eden, and humanity is here looking for apples. Behind all of the special effects…

World Of Warcraft Almost Makes PUGs Worth It

Blizzard drops details on the new dungeon and raid system for World of Warcraft, which brings with it cross-sever instancing, daily random dungeons, and special rewards for taking part in a pick-up group. Pick-up groups, or PUGs, are the bane of many an MMO player’s existence. Rather than grouping with your guild or folks you…

SOCOM Fireteam Bravo 3 Delayed Due To Marketing

Sony is pushing back the release of SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3 for the PSP until January, when the global marketing team gets finished telling the world about it. The third entry in the Fireteam Bravo series of PSP games was originally scheduled for a release next month, but the rest of the…

Do You Strive For Gamerscore Completion?

An interesting feature over at Gamasutra looks at the percentage of players who actually achieve a perfect Gamerscore in popular Xbox Live titles. Do you play until the last point is awarded? Gamasutra acquired data on the top 13 Xbox Live Games for 2008 from Microsoft Game Studios user research expert Bruce Phillips, which he…

Cryptic Talks Champions Online’s Blood Moon

Zombies and werewolves run rampant in Cryptic Studios’ Blood Moon event for Champions Online. In this video the developers discuss the special events taking place during the free-for-all weekend. As a long-time MMO player, I love the way developers tend to go slightly crazy when it comes to Halloween events. I used to get all…

Call Of Juarez Console Versions Patched

Ubisoft dropped us a line today to let us know that both console versions of Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood have patches waiting for them, improving multiplayer connection and balancing. PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood players might want to give online multiplayer another go today, as the latest…

Guinness Records Longest Tekken 6 Winning Streak

A new game releases, and the Guinness Book of World Records is there, awarding the world record for longest winning streak on Tekken 6 to Mr. Eliot Smith-Walters, A.K.A. Shadow Force. Shadow Force won 68 consecutive best-of-three matches at the London MCM Expo over the weekend, losing only 9 rounds and racking up 25 perfects…

Miyamoto Wishes There Was More Star Fox Love

Oh Japan, why must you make Miyamoto sad? The legendary game designer recently spoke to MTV Multiplayer about his disappointment with the performance of the Star Fox series in his native land. While the majority of Shigeru Miyamoto’s works enjoy huge success in Japan, there is one franchise that has been steadily declining in popularity.…

World Of Goo Birthday Sale Final Results: America Represent

2D Boy‘s pay-what-you-like sale on World of Goo has ended, with statistics showing that Brazilians are generous, PC gamers are cheap, and posting mid-point results is an excellent way to up your price averages. On October 13th, developer 2D Boy launched a birthday sale for World of Goo for the PC, Linux, and Mac, allowing…