Mike Fahey

Toast Your Cursed Existence With The Legendary Lich King Stein

Why raise a crude tankard to World of Warcraft‘s number one villain when you can raise an 18 carat gold-plated Lich King stein instead? 3 Point Entertainment is now shipping out their commemorative Rise of the Lich King pewter steins, and to commemorate the occasion they’ve also created a limited run of “Legendary” Lich King…

Ether Saga Online Now Officially Online

After months of testing that may have seemed like playing a launched game to the uninitiated, Perfect World‘s Ether Saga Online is finally declared fit for launch. Ether Saga Online is another one of these extremely adorable Asian MMO titles, this time based on the classic Chinese story Journey to the West, which I was…

inFamous Home Space Brings Shocking, Graffiti

The promised PlayStation Home space for Sucker Punch‘s inFamous goes live tomorrow, allowing visitors to leave their mark with both electricity and spray paint. The inFamous-themed Abandoned Docks of Empire City arrive with several new activities for players to participate in. There’s f course the requisite shooting bad guys with lightning mini-game, which allows you…

What Does Blizzard Want With The Word Cataclysm?

Three new entries in the U.S Patents & Trademark Office website indicate that Blizzard is extremely interested in the word Cataclysm, but why? Blizzard should just give up on quietly filing trademark applications. The moment one hits, somebody has it linked, print-screened, and posted on the internet, so a company as wise as Blizz has…

Fallen Earth Welcomes You To The Apocalypse

This guitar heavy debut trailer for the post-apocalycious Fallen Earth depicts an MMO world the likes of which we’ve rarely seen. I say rarely, because the post apocalypse is nothing new to video games. I’m almost certain I’ve spent nearly as much time exploring the ruins of civilization as I have casting spells at scantily…

Kotaku’s 2009 Summer Reading List

Summertime is here, and it’s time to hit the beach, splash in the waves, and bask in the sun with a little ultra-portable gaming, courtesy of Kotaku’s 2009 Summer Reading List. While video game publishers aren’t quite as afraid to release new titles during the summer months as they used to be, there is still…

Gambit Graces Ultimate Alliance 2 Artwork

New box art for Marvel Ultimate Alliance two seems to indicate that a certain ragin’ cajun might be making an appearance in the upcoming sequel. Every character gracing the latest Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 box art, now popping up at retailers around the internet, has been announced as a playable character in the game, except…

Finally, Grease: The Video Game

News that 505 Games and Paramount Digital are bringing the musical Grease to the Nintendo Wii gives me chills – which could be multiplying. 505 Games is overseeing development on the new project, which looks to be an all-singing, all-dancing party game that takes advantage of both the Wii’s motion sensing controls and a microphone.…

Celebrate Your Independence With Double Gears 2 XP

What better way to celebrate Independence Day weekend than sitting inside an air-conditioned house gathering twice the normal experience points in Gears of War 2? With Title Update 4 dropping just in time for America to celebrate its independence from British tyranny, which seems a bit silly now that we look back, now is the…

Band Of Bugs Thrusts Your Avatar Into Battle

Be a part of an elite insectoid military force next week, when NinjaBee introduces Xbox 360 avatar support for strategy title Band of Bugs, along with an entirely new game released as DLC. Developer NinjaBee delivered one of the earliest avatar-supporting Xbox Live Arcade titles in A Kingdom for Keflings, and now they’re putting your…

Square Enix Mystery Solved – The Four Warriors Of Light

Square Enix’s mystery countdown title is a mystery no longer, as scans from the latest Weekly Shonen Jump reveal The Four Warriors of Light: A Final Fantasy Anecdote. At least that’s the way the game’s name translates according to our own Brian Ashcraft, who pored over the scans to glean what information her could. The…

THQ And Jakks Square Off Over WWE License Renewal

It’s a no holds barred legal struggle between partners Jakks Pacific and THQ over when and if they should renew their licensing agreement with the WWE, set to expire at the end of this year. Jakks Pacific has gone ahead and notified World Wrestling Entertainment of their intentions to renew to license to create video…

And The StarCraft II LAN Petitioning Commences

Angered by news that Blizzard has decided to leave LAN multiplayer out of StarCraft II, fans are doing what fans have done in such situations since the dawn of time – signing a letter. The “LAN in StarCraft 2 Please” petition isn’t really all that much of a petition when you get right now to…

Spectrobes Now In Convenient Novel Format

Disney continues to stand behind their answer to the Pokémon, releasing a series of junior novels based in the Spectrobes universe. Disney’s enthusiasm for the series they had created from the ground up is admirable, and there tenacity is something to see. They aren’t just fostering a video game franchise, but attempting to sow the…

Vandal Hearts: Flames Of Judgment Falls Into Winter

Konami’s downloadable strategy RPG Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment looks to have slipped from its September release window, now listed with an ambiguous winter release date. When I spent some hands on time at E3 2009 with the prequel to the original Vandal Hearts on the PlayStation, I was told that the game was due…

Resonance Of Fate Trailer Showered With Spent Bullet Casings

Sega is bringing tri-Ace’s Resonance of Fate is eventually coming to North America, and by the looks of this gameplay trailer we might not have enough bullets. I’ve not seen much of Resonance of Fate, formerly End of Eternity, outside of the Americanized butt rock trailer McWhertor posted back in May. It actually looks rather…

Maloof Money Cup DLC Rolls To Skate 2

We’ve got some fresh screens from the Maloof Money Cup Pack for EA’s Skate 2, bringing the world’s largest skating championship to your console on July 9th. The Maloof Money Cup is the largest-pursed event in professional skateboarding, and EA is bringing both the park and the thirll of competition to both the PlayStation 3…

Acclaim Re-Develops The Chronicles Of Spellborn

Acclaim is hanging out their “Please Pardon Our Re-Development” signs on their MMO The Chronicles of Spellborn, transforming it into a free-to-play, transaction-based game by next year. We’ve heard of patching, or major content updates…heck, we’ve even heard of an MMO game getting Star Wars Galaxied, but re-developed? That’s what Acclaim is called the process…

Second Skin Coming To DVD In August

Second Skin, a documentary about virtual worlds and their inhabitants that we’ve been keeping tabs on since it started casting in 2006, is finally coming to DVD this August. Pure West’s Second Skin looks the lives of gamers and virtual world residents as they live out their lives playing World of Warcraft, Everquest, and of…

PlayStation Network Undergoing A Bit Of Maintenence

The PlayStation Network has been giving readers a bit of trouble today, so we dropped a line to Sony to get the down low on the down time, most of which should be behind us. Both North America and Europe seem to have been affected by the PlayStation Network outage, though only Europe received any…