Mike Fahey

Gimli And Gollum Voice Risen

It’s a Lord of the Rings reunion on the PC and Xbox 360, as Andy Serkis and John Rhys Davies join the voice cast of Piranha Byte’s next big role-playing game, Risen. No stranger to portraying digital creations, Andy “Gollum” Serkis will be portraying someone named The Inquisitor in Risen, which sounds fairly ominous and…

Command & Conquer 4 Crawler Moves Out

This Command & Conquer 4 Crawler mobile base was made for walking, and that’s just what it’ll do. And one of these days this base is gonna walk all over Nod. The Crawler is the GDI’s main unit in the fourth and final installment in the Tiberium Saga, providing all the amenities of a static…

Ultima Online’s 8th Expansion Dated

Ultima Online turns twelve-years-old next month, making it the perfect time for Mythic to release the game’s 8th expansion pack, Ultima Online: The Stygian Abyss. Ultima Online channels the classic first-person dungeon crawler Ultima Underworld on September 8th, with the Stygian Abyss expansion adding in the game’s largest dungeon to date. They’ve filled it with…

Aion’s Closed Beta Closes This Weekend

This weekend marks the very last closed beta session for NCsoft’s Aion, so if you were looking to give the game a try before the open beta flood, now would be the time. Players who preorder Aion receive a code good for access to all closed beta events leading up to the open beta and…

Spyborgs Gets Pushed Up, Celebratory Webisode Commence

Capcom’s cyborg secret agent game is now hitting stores a week earlier than anticipated, and the company celebrates with the release of the first cheese-flavored animated webisode for Spyborgs. In a season full of delays, Capcom pushes up a game for a change, moving Spyborgs’ release date from September 29th to September 22nd. Capcom punctuates…

High Voltage Traps Ghostbusters Engine

High Voltage, the developers behind the Wii-exclusive first-person shooter The Conduit, have signed up for a lifetime license to the Ghostbusters-powering Infernal Engine, gearing up for some Xbox 360 and PC development. With The Conduit out of the way and a couple more Wii projects being polished off, High Voltage Software is now ready to…

Section 8 Allows PC-Hosted Xbox 360 Severs

The Xbox 360 version of Timegate’s Section 8 is getting a multiplayer boost, allowing players to create their own dedicated Xbox 360 server on their PC. Upon the launch of Section 8 on September 1st, Timegate and publisher Southpeak will have free X Server software available for download, which allows players to create their own…

Bushnell’s Battleswarm Enters Betaswarm

Battleswarm, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell‘s online PC game that pits real-time strategy players against first-person shooter fans, is now allowing players to sign up for beta in advance of next month’s release. Battleswarm seems to be coming along well for a game we only heard about just last month. That’s probably because the title, being…

More Capcom Classics To PS3 Soon

Following up on a story from this morning, Capcom has released a list of classic games coming “soon” to the PlayStation Network, with just about every major Capcom property represented. It’s a much smaller list than the one we got at the end of 2008, but it’s a fine collection of Capcom Classics nonetheless. The…

Blizzard Taps Razer For Official StarCraft II Gear

Blizzard has teamed up with PC peripheral manufacturer Razer to create a line of tournament-grade accessories for next year’s hottest real-time strategy title. It’s interesting that Blizzard is going to Razer to create official peripherals for StarCraft II, seeing as they’ve maintained and still maintain a strong relationship with the Steel Series folks. I suppose…

The Story Of Section 8

Timegate has just released this stylish developer diary explaining the setting and story of Section 8, the upcoming shooter for the Xbox 360 and PC. Section 8 is all about guys in power armor shooting at each other, and that’s a story concept I can really get behind, but Timegate apparently thinks you need a…

Muramasa: The Demon Official Website

Ignition Entertainment ramps up the hype on Wii exclusive Muramasa: The Demon Blade, launching a brand new website complete with wallpapers, character bios, and everything a shiny new website needs to thrive and flourish. Ignition sure does up a nice video game website. I loved what they did for The King of Fighters XII, and…

Xbox 360 Triumphs Over PS2 In Nielsen Ratings

Microsoft claims victory over the PlayStation, as the latest Nielsen ratings indicate that the Xbox 360 is the first current-generation console to top the PS2 in terms of minutes played per month. According to the graph provided by the Niesen website, which we explored earlier in terms of Wii usuage, the Xbox 360 actually came…

Warner Bros. Wants To Revolutionize Online Mortal Kombat

A job posting seeking a senior software engineer for the next game in the Mortal Kombat franchise indicates that new franchise owner Warner Bros. is focusing on online play in a big way. Unless of course Warner Bros. is keen on tossing about the term ‘revolutionize’ willy nilly, the new owners of the Mortal Kombat…

The Road To Champions

In this developer diary for Champions Online, Cryptic explores the secret origins of the company and how it wound up creating a superhero MMO. I love videos like this, personally. As much as I enjoy playing the games themselves, I find the stories behind the formation of the companies that create them fascinating. Having a…

ESRB Rates Dino Crisis, More Resident Evil For PS3

New entries popping up at the ESRB ratings board website might indicate impending releases for Dino Crisis and two Resident Evil titles as PSone Classics on the PlayStation 3. Dino Crisis, Resident Evil 2, and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis have of course been in the ESRB.org database for a good long time, but they’ve each…

Mad Catz Does Modern Warfare 2

Where there is a potential multi-million selling video game, Mad Catz is there, having signed a deal with Activision to produce branded controllers and accessories for Modern Warfare 2. Mad Catz loves branding accessories, especially when it comes to big titles, and there most likely won’t be a title bigger than Modern Warfare 2 this…

Dragonica Online Nails Down Open Beta Date

THQ*ICE is gearing up for the North American open beta test of their first massively-multiplayer online offering, Dragonica Online, with special items and events lined up for players willing to put it through its paces. Dragonica Online is a 3D game with 2D platforming action, strong enough for a computer but easy enough to play…

Three Capcom 360 Platinum Hits, One Box

What would you do if Capcom bundled together Lost Planet, Devil May Cry 4, and Dead Rising into one release at a lower price? Capcom is hoping you’d buy it. Coming September 8th, the Platinum Hits Triple Pack takes the three Platinum Hits titles and squishes them together into one piece of confused game box…

Yu-Gi-Oh Tagforce 4 Has More Cards Than Ever Before

Konami Digital Entertainment is packing more than 3.500 cards into Yu-Gi-Oh 5D’s Tagforce 4, the next version of the popular card battling series for the PlayStation Portable. I’ve been following the cartoon series on and off for a few years now, but Yu-Gi-Oh 5D’s is where I stopped. The latest series hasn’t so much jumped…