Mike Fahey

Star Ocean: The Last Hope PS3 Really Is International

Looks like the PlayStation 3 version of Star Ocean: The Last Hope International got its expanded name for a reason, shipping simultaneously across the globe in February. We knew it was coming to Japan, and now we know it’s coming everywhere else, as Square Enix announces a February 9th North American ship date for Star…

City Of Heroes Just Got A Lot More Colorful

Heroes and villains can now take each other out with all the colors of the wind as the latest free update for City of Heroes, Issue Power Spectrum, goes live. Power Spectrum isn’t all about changing the color of your character’s powers. The new update also brings a new scalable difficulty system for missions, a…

Brutal Legend: Introducing Kabbage Boy

Surprise! The introduction to Brutal Legend contains a cameo appearance from the band Kabbage Boy! What? You’ve not heard of Kabbage Boy? Come on, you have to have heard of Kabbage Boy…what, you’re serious? Everyone who is anyone has heard of Kabbage Boy! Hell, even Tim Schafer has heard of them, and he’s pretty damn…

PSN Gets Bigger, Badder Lost Planet 2 Co-Op Demo

PlayStation 3 owners finally get a shot at the Lost Planet 2 co-op demo next week, with two exclusive missions helping make up for the wait. Xbox 360 owners have been taking down the giant Akrid boss in the Lost Planet 2 co-op demo since August 26th, but their gloating will soon come to an…

Gaming’s Creepiest Couples

From the Marcus and Dom bromance in Gears of War to Midna riding around on Link in Twilight Princess, Crispy Gamer explores some of the creepiest couplings in video game history. Crispy’s list of the twelve most uncomfortable pairings is video game history is pretty much spot-on, echoing my own sentiments at every turn. If…

Free Fallout 3 Premium 360 Theme For DLC Fans

Have you purchased all five packs worth of downloadable content for Fallout 3 on the Xbox 360? If so, then this premium theme is yours free come October 1st. Bethesda would like to send their fans a big thank you for sticking with them on the Xbox 360 Fallout 3 downloadable content front. Even after…

Spore Creature Creator Goes Flat

Have you ever wanted to smash your Spore creations flat? EA’s newly-released Spore Creature Creator 2D saves you the trouble. Spore Hero for the Wii and Spore Hero Arena for the Nintendo DS are still several weeks away, so EA offers up the Spore Creature Creator 2D to help keep fans occupied until October 6th…

3 Million Enlist In Combat Arms

Nexon America is growing in leaps and bounds, and its greatly due to the success of Combat Arms, the free-to-play online multiplayer FPS, which recently surpassed the three million registered user mark. Nexon America’s revenue for August was up 32% over the previous year, and if the company’s celebratory press release is any indication, Combat…

XNA Studio Adds Zune HD Dev Support

To coincide with the retail launch of the shiny new Zune HD, Microsoft has released extensions for XNA Game Studio 3.1 to aid indie developers in creating games for the mobile media player. It won’t be long now before the Zune HD is swamped with indie game titles, thanks to these new extensions freely available…

Star Wars Galaxies Servers Closing

Sony Online Entertainment’s free character transfer service for Star Wars Galaxies was so successful, they’re closing a dozen severs next month. That’s right, free character transfers are so popular that everything must go by October 15th! Go from the twelve closing servers to the remaining thirteen, that is. From the SOE forum post on the…

Spyborgs Webisode 2: Webisode Harder

When we last left our intrepid half-human heroes, armless guy and ninja girl were hang gliding, Kinetic was missing, and Jackal was nowhere to be found. The Spyborgs action continues in webisode 2! It looks like Capcom has toned down the corny dialog a bit in the second webisode for its upcoming Wii beat-em up.…

DC Universe Online: Visit Scenic S.T.A.R. Labs

The Austin Game Developers Conference kicks off today, and Sony Online Entertainment celebrates with new DC Universe Online Screens featuring S.T.A.R. Labs, Metropolis General, and some random DC guys. Not sure that I really see a theme here running between all five screenshots. There’s S.T.A.R. Labs in two or possibly three of the shots, but…

Create And Share Your Own 2D Sonic Levels

PlaySega.com has recently launched a flash version of the original Sonic the Hedgehog, complete with a level editor that allows fans to create, share, and play their own Sonic levels online. The Sonic the Hedgehog level editor, a creation of Mediatonic, lets VIP members of PlaySega create Sonic levels relatively easily. Using a simple interface…

WoW Cataclysm: The Abyssal Maw

Blizzard has updated the webpage for the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm expansion with a look at the aquatic realm of the water elementals, the Abyssal Maw. The Abyssal Maw is an important area in the Cataclysm expansion. So important that Blizzard has created a whole new swimming combat mechanic to make it work. The elemental…

Try Darkest Of Days On Your Xbox 360

For those of you who’d rather not blindly buy into a new intellectual property no matter how cool its premise is, time-traveling FPS Darkest of Days now has a demo up on Xbox Live. Darkest of Days is a first-person shooter from developer 8monkey Labs and publisher Phantom EFX featuring a time-travelling protagonist who must…

Runes Of Magic Gets Flooded With Elves

Frogster’s free-to-play Runes of Magic turns the page today with Chapter II: The Elven Prophecy, opening up new lands and filling the world of Taborea with scantily-clad, mailbox dancing Elves. The Elven Prophecy went live around 3AM Pacific, with players flocking in droves to get their hands on the first new playable race for Runes…

Dragon Age Novel Saga Continues

The epic tale that began in The Stolen Throne continues in October as Tor Books releases Dragon Age: The Calling, further expanding the Dragon Age fiction beyond the video game. In The Stolen Throne, Dragon Age: Origins lead writer David Gaider told the story of Maric’s mission of vengeance to reclaim the throne from those…

Skate 3 Rolls Out In 2010

The third entry in EA’s growing skateboarding franchise is coming in 2010, with rival street crews vying for prime Port Carverton turf in Skate 3. So how is EA’s Skate franchise evolving in the face of Activision’s new peripheral-based entry in the Tony Hawk franchise? This time around it’s all about the community and teamwork,…

Follow League Of Legends On Facebook, Get A Beta Key

Riot Games wants to build a huge following for League of Legends, and its willing to flood the closed beta of the game with Facebook users to make that happen. Riot Games wants 40,000 folks to follow the League of Legends Facebook group, or become fans, or whatever it is you Facebook people tend to…

Rage Of The Gladiator: Naginata

Behold Naginata, the ninja-flavored combatant featured in the upcoming first-person WiiWare gladiatorial combat game Rage of the Gladiator. We’ve not had a chance to mention Ghostfire Games‘ Rage of the Gladiator on Kotaku yet, so what better way than with the debut of the game’s ninja boss, Naginata? He joins the already revealed human, Minotaur,…