Mike Fahey

Jumpgate Is Codemasters’ Biggest Beta Ever

With more than a quarter of a million beta sign ups in North America and Europe, Net Devil’s space combat MMO Jumpgate Evolution is the biggest beta campaign Apparently I am not the only one with a craving for action-packed, massively-multiplayer online space combat. According to Codemasters, more than 250,000 individuals have signed up for…

Capcom Has Its Marvel VS Capcom 2 Mixtape Covered

Capcom shows off the cover to its Marvel VS Capcom 2 hip-hop mixtape today, with a limited-edition vinyl version of the soundtrack up for grabs at the San Diego Comic-Con this week. As we mentioned back in June, Capcom has teamed up with some of hip-hop’s greatest talents to produce a downloadable mixtape, replacing the…

Chiptune’s Finest Celebrate Weezer

Online record label Pterodactyl Squad has released a free 8-bit Weezer tribute album, featuring some of the biggest names in chiptune paying homage to the band’s greatest works. I’ve been listening to this album all day now, and several of the tracks are really digging in, most notably Bit Shifter‘s “The World Has Turned and…

The Ultimate Street Fighter Art Collection

From the biggest rivalries to the biggest…other rivalries, UDON leaves no facet of Street Fighter history untouched in SF20: The Art of Street Fighter, ” the most complete collection of Street Fighter artwork ever.” SF20 features more than 1,500 illustrations from the franchise’s 22-year history, from the original Street Fighter arcade game to Tatsunoko VS.…

Mechner Pens Prince Of Persia Prequel Graphic Novel

Series creator Jordan Mechner once again plumbs the depths of the Prince of Persia mythology, penning an anthology graphic novel to serve as a prequel to the upcoming feature film. The Prince of Persia graphic novel anthology, due out in April of next year, features six short stories authored by Mechner and serves as a…

The Earth Falls In September

The year 2156 arrives 147 years earlier than anticipated, as the post-apocalyptic massively-multiplayer online game Fallen Earth gears up for a September launch. Fallen Earth is a skill-based MMO that combines the experience gain and skill advancement of traditional online role-playing games with the accuracy and fast action of a first-person shooter. The game is…

Fallout 3 Mothership Zeta Screens Kill Aliens Dead

The hero from Vault 101 does battle high above the post-apocalyptic planet in this latest set of screenshots from Fallout 3’s Mothership Zeta downloadable content. I’ve got to hand it to Bethesda. These three screens are certainly unlike anything I ever expected to see in Fallout 3. That Oblivion engine sure is versatile, depicting the…

Oh Look, Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll

Well this one took us almost completely not by surprise! Sega’s countdown clock has ended, revealing a trailer for Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll for the Nintendo Wii. Sega didn’t exactly cover their tracks well, what with the trademark application and the words “Super Monkey Ball” listed in the code for the mysterious countdown…

The Saboteur Infiltrates December

Pandemic Studio’s espionage thriller The Saboteur has managed to make its way into EA’s 2009 holiday lineup, but only just barely. December is generally a bad month to release video games, but this year could be an exception. With a great many of the big titles we were expecting in the fall being pushed to…

The Beatles: Rock Band Track List Expands To 25

The list of officially confirmed songs for The Beatles: Rock band grows to twenty-five this morning, as today’s trailer reveals are joined by seven more tracks by way of official EA decree. It’s been a busy morning for The Beatles: Rock Band. First the trailer dropped, bringing with it eight new songs, from “Paperback Writer”…

Jedi Temple For Sale, Cheap!

If your Xbox 360 version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is missing an action-pack adventure inside a ruined Jedi Temple, Microsoft can hook you up with one this week at half price. It’s time for the Xbox Live Deal of the Week, and this time around it isn’t half bad. The Jedi Temple Mission…

Brutal Legend’s Eddie Riggs In All His Sculpted Glory

How can you truly call yourself metal if you don’t have a 17 inch Brutal Legend Eddie Riggs figure leaping dramatically from your mantle? Sculpted lovingly by Mark Newman and splashed with color by Tom Vukmanic, this official Eddie Riggs statue depicts Jack Black’s video game alter ego at the height of his power, leaping…

Retro/Grade: A Shooter In Reverse

Rick Rocket just saved the universe, and now he has to do it all over again…in reverse. This is Retro/Grade, coming to the PlayStation Network from developer 24 Caret Games. Retro/Grade takes conventional shooter mechanics and reverses them. You pilot your ship around the screen, avoiding enemy fire while making sure your ship is in…

Dante’s Inferno Comic Premiers At Comic-Con (Updated)

EA and DC Comics have teamed up to create a comic book mini-series based off of the upcoming Dante’s Inferno video game, with preview copies available at the San Diego Comic-Con later this week. DC Comics adds another video game license to their Wildstorm imprint with Dante’s Inferno, the action-adventure game adopted loosely from Dante…

Mad Catz Brings Exclusive Street Fighter Sticks To Comic-Con

The San-Diego Comic-Con is all about exclusive goodies, and in that spirit Mad Catz is hawking a limited number of exclusive Street Fighter IV arcade sticks and pads to show attendees. Visitors to the San-Diego Comic-Con this week will have a chance to pick up one of 500 of these exclusive Street Fighter IV accessories,…

Rabbids Go Home On The DS

The Nintendo Wii couldn’t contain the Raving Rabbids‘ first solo game, so Ubisoft is bringing Rabbids Go Home to the DS as well, with extra-added functionality for those who’ve upgraded to the DSi. Featuring the same storyline as the Wii version, Rabbids Go Home DS trades in the console’s Katamari-esque collecting gameplay for a puzzle-adventure…

Preview The Next 360 System Update

Microsoft is inviting thousands of Xbox 360 owners to help beta test the next big Xbox 360 system update, and your chance is just a modest survey away. As they did with the New Xbox Experience last year, so Microsoft is doing with the next big system update, inviting users by the thousands to test…

World At War Map Pack 3 Deploys In August

It’s another set of three normal maps and one zombie map in Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 3, coming to consoles next month from the fine folks at Treyarch. Three screens accompanied today’s announcement, showing off the three regular multiplayer maps coming as part of World at War’s third dose of downloadable…

New WoW Races Hinted At By Halloween Masks?

A set of four Halloween masks discovered in the latest test patch for World of Warcraft has players debating over whether or not they’ve uncovered the next two races for Blizzards massively-popular MMO. The four masks in question, shown above courtesy of But Wait, There’s Lore, depict a goblin male and goblin female, which are…

Virtual Carlos Santana Wails In Guitar Hero 5

Rock, salsa and jazz fusion spring to life in Guitar Hero 5, which will feature the guitar legend Santana in all his 3D-rendered glory. A live version of Santana’s “No One to Depend On” will be featured in the next version of Activision’s band game, and an eerily-lifelike Carlos Santana will be on hand to…