Mike Fahey

Mass Effect iPhone Spinoff Launches

BioWare has released a pocket-full of Mass Effect on iTunes, where the colorful top-down action adventure Mass Effect Galaxy is now available for purchase. Mass Effect Galaxy isn’t just a side story in the Mass Effect Universe. On top of delivering the same deep dialogue system along with top-down shooting action, Galaxy also features two…

Mark Jacobs Bids Mythic A Fond Farewell

Former Mythic Entertainment head Mark Jacobs sheds a little light on the circumstances surrounding his departure from the EA-owned MMO developer in a farewell post on his personal blog. Jacobs'”All Things Must Come To An End” post mainly looks back on his time with Mythic, from the early days of Dark Age of Camelot’s pre-release…

Strong Dictator Skills Needed For Tropico 3 Beta

Kalypso Media is currently searching for dictator hopefuls to take over the banana republic of Tropico in the beta test for Tropico 3. Tropico 3 ditches the second game’s pirate motif in favor of a return to the original Tropico, with players once again stepping into the role of El Presidente, managing the day-to-day affairs…

TMNT: Smash Up Characters Flash By Your Screen

Has your favorite adolescent terrapin made the cut in Ubisoft’s upcoming Wii-exclusive, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up? Well of course he has. There’s only four of them, after all. It’s not as if you’d make a TMNT game with only Raphael in it, but look who else is in it! We have a generic…

THQ Working On Their Own Controller-Based Game

Performing a body slam from the top ropes onto the back of the bandwagon, THQ is readying their own game-specific control accessory, to be added to the pile in 2010. The news comes from an article in the LA Business Journal on the success that companies such as Activision have had with controller based games…

Trine Now In Convenient PC Demo Form

While we’ve still got a bit of a wait before Trine comes out on the PlayStation Network, we can play the PC version right now, courtesy of the recently released playable demo. The demo comes by way of SouthPeak Interactive, who’ve picked up the PC publishing rights for Frozenbyte and Nobilis’ 2D platforming physics-fest in…

Rock Band Next Week: More Foreigner, More Warped Tour

Issue number 16 of the Official Rock Band Zine has hit fans’ inboxes today, bringing with it news of three more Foreigner songs and another bunch of Warped Tour songs hitting the store next week. Following up on last week’s Warped Tour song pack comes Vans Warped Tour 3-Pack, adding Dear and the Headlights’ “Sweet…

The Official Wii Lightsabers

Why settle for cheap plastic imitation when you can have the cheap plastic real thing this fall, with the release of the official Star Wars Lightsaber and Clone Trooper Blaster accessories for the Nintendo Wii. Manufactured and distributed by Bensussen Deutsch & Associates, Inc., licensed by LucasArts and Nintendo, and marketed under BDA’s Power A…

Hustle Kings Brings Pool To PSN This Winter

Sony fills a void we hadn’t even realized existed on the PlayStation 3 this winter with Hustle Kings, one beautiful-looking game of billiards for the PlayStation Network. Pool is one of those games that people who aren’t involved with it on a regular basis quickly forget about once they finish playing, and video game pool…

Tour The Lovely Aion Beluslan Zone

NCsoft continues its series of zone reveal videos for its upcoming online roleplaying game Aion with a look at the frosty Beluslan Zone. The thing about Aion’s zones that I’ve noticed after watching all of these videos, is that just when you think you’ve figured them out, they go and change things up on you.…

GameStop Isn’t Worried About Trade-In Kiosks

News of retail giant Best Buy entering the used game market with automated trade-in kiosks failed to leave video game speciaty chain GameStop quaking in it’s boots. GameStop addressed Best Buy‘s plans at their annual shareholders meeting in Southlake, Texas on Tuesday, explaining that their years of customer service give it the winning edge over…

Film Producer Sues Midway Over Mortal Kombat Rights

Lawrence Kasanoff, the producer behind the Mortal Kombat movies, television show, and animated series has filed suit against Midway in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in order to make sure he retains series milking rights. The complaint filed by Kasanoff’s Threshold Entertainment seeks to protect the company from losing intellectual property rights to certain Mortal Kombat characters…

Battlefield Heroes Performs Covert Launch

The cartoonish, free-to-play, web-based iteration of DICE’s Battlefield series has quietly slipped out of beta, with Battlefield Heroes now available for anyone willing to partake. I’ve found no big launch announcement, and other than the new trailer on the front page of the site, it doesn’t seem like much fanfare is being made. If you…

Now You Can Buy Expensive World Of Warcraft Pet Statues Too

A custom made statue of your World of Warcraft character is certainly a fine thing to have, but what is your character without their loveable animal companions? Perhaps FingerPrints’ FingerPets can help. The company that brought us original 3D printed representations of players’ World of Warcraft is branching off into the pet business, offering three…

Serious Sam Reborn In HD For Xbox Live Arcade

Developer Croteam has worked up a new version of its CroTech Engine in order to deliver Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD to the Xbox Live Arcade. Scheduled for a late summer release, Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD is exactly what the name implies: the first entry in the tongue-in-cheek, over the top Serious…

Mytheon Trailer Casts The First Stone

The first trailer for Petroglyph’s Mythic gives us a bit more of an understanding as to what’s actually going on in the online action roleplaying strategy hybrid. Petroglyph shaves a little of the fuzz off of the original Mytheon announcement, which spent more time talking about microtransaction-based game that was creating an entire new genre…

The Big Daddies That Might Have Been

Taking an iconic video game character and reverse-engineering it as a prototype is a delicate task. Let’s look at a few of the concepts drawing that eventually led to the Big Daddy of BioShock 2. These concept art shots appeared yesterday on The Cult of Rapture BioShock website, they were presented as a way to…

Megan Fox Will Kick Your Ass At Mortal Kombat

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen co-star Megan Fox isn’t just about playing Guitar Hero. In an interview with What They Play, Megan talks girl games, the Super Nintendo, and potentially kicking your ass. Okay, let’s be realistic…your ass is most likely never getting close enough to Megan Fox for her to kick it, but in…

Worms 2: Armageddon Crawls To Live Arcade Next Week

When Team 17 tells us that a game is coming out “real soon”, they mean real soon, with the proper sequel to 1991’s Worms Armageddon hitting Xbox Live Arcade a week from today. Team 17 passed along the first trailer for the game just week, shooting out a follow-up email afterwards teasing a release date…

Mythic Employees Surprised By Jacobs’ Exit

Mythic General Manager Mark Jacobs sudden departure may have taken Mythic employees off-guard, according to at least one source close to the company. As reported earlier today, EA has restructured Mythic, placing it under the leadership of BioWare as part of a new RPG/MMO division of the company. BioWare’s Ray Muzyka will be heading up…