Mike Fahey

21st Century Digital Rock Band Warped Tour Pack

As expected, Harmonix has delivered the details on next week’s initial Warped Tour track pack, with tracks from five Warped tour bands and a triple shot of Maroon 5 on the side. “21st Century Digital Boy” is really the only song here you need concern yourself with. Bad Religion‘s anthem got so much play time…

Wolfenstein’s Altered Present A Large Problem

Yesterday’s introduction of the lithe, stealthy Assassin enemy for the next Wolfenstein game is balanced by the raw, brutal fury of the Altered. The Altered might not be nearly as impressive as the invisi Nazi-ninja Assassins, but they look to make up for it in terms of raw power. Every first-person shooter these days needs…

Bionic Commando Rearmed Made Easier With Trophies

Was Bionic Commando Rearmed just too hard for your delicate gaming skills? The same update that brings trophy support to the PlayStation 3 will make the game just a little bit easier. Now that they’ve gotten the full sequel out the door, Capcom and developer Grin have been hard at work tweaking and fixing the…

Play Xbox Live Magic: The Gathering Live Against Game’s Creator

So you think you’re a pretty good Magic: The Gathering player, but are you good enough to take on the creator of the game in Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers? The newly released Xbox Live Arcade title is getting not one but two special play sessions this month, starting with a Game…

One Million Downloads For World At War Map Pack 2

As if there was really ever any doubt, Activision has announced that the second map pack for Call of Duty: World at War saw more than one million downloads during its first weekend of availability. Attribute it to rampant zombie madness or just plain love. The second map pack for Call of Duty: World at…

How Well Will Your PC Run Street Fighter IV?

Interested to see how your PC will run Street Fighter IV? Capcom has released a benchmark program ahead of the game’s release next month, giving you ample time to find out for yourself. System requirements are nice, but there’s nothing quite like having a good old, resource hogging benchmark program at your fingertips. Depending on…

2K Sports Congratulates Kobe With Box Art

2K Sports today congratulated the Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant on his fourth career NBA championship today, revealing the fan-voted cover for NBA 2K10 in the process. As reported previously, 2K Sports had asked fans to vote on their favorite of four covers for the upcoming NBA 2K10, each featuring Lakers’ star Kobe in a…

Dungeons & Dragons Online’s New Store

Dungeons and Dragons Online is going free-to-play in North America this summer, and Turbine has released the first screens of the new DDO Store, where they hope to make up those subscritption fees. There’s certainly an interesting mix of items to purchase in the new DDO store. You’ve got your basic essentials, like potions and…

Warped Tour Song Packs Coming To Rock Band

The latest newsletter for the 2009 Warped Tour urges fans to be on the lookout for two new track packs for Rock Band, featuring tour artists The Devil Wears Prada, Bad Religion, and more. According to the newsletter, the two new Warped Tour track packs will be hitting the Rock Band store on June 23rd…

Realtime Worlds Aiming To Expand

Following a very successful showing of APB at E3 2009, Crackdown developers Realtime Worlds are kicking off a major recruiting drive, aiming at employing more than 300 game industry professionals by early 2010. Realtime Worlds isn’t going to let their disappointment with Microsoft keep them down. The Dunde-based developer has picked up some new office…

Sega Aligns Western Markets Under Mike Hayes

The departure of Sega of America COO Simon Jeffery has sparked worldwide leadership consolidation for the company, with Sega of Europe President and COO Mike Hayes now presiding over North America as well. Here’s how things are working now. Sega of America and Sega of Europe CEO Naoya Tsurumi is now responsible for Sega operations…

Sgt. Johnson Reports For Halo 3: ODST Pre-Order Bonus Duty

Who would you rather have at your side against in a Master Chief-less battle against increasingly difficult waves of enemies than Sergeant Major Avery J. Johnson? Yes, grizzled UNSC hero Sgt. Johnson may not have fared so well in Halo 3, but Halo 3: ODST takes place before the final installment of the trilogy, meaning…

Dressing Up In Pangya PSP

Tomy takes us through some of the multifarious ways you can dress up your adorable anime golfers in the upcoming Pangya: Fantasy Golf for the PlayStation Portable. It might be some sort of horrible disease I contracted while working security at local anime conventions many years ago, but for some reason I enjoy the game…

Frankenreview: Red Faction: Guerrilla

The free citizens of Mars rise up against their Earth Defense Force oppressors in Red Faction: Guerrilla, taking the destruction of the first two titles to all-new heights. Things have taken a turn for the worse since the ending of the first Red Faction game, which saw the Earth Defense Force arrive to aid Martian…

Namco Museum Essentials Brings Namco Bandai Home

Namco Museum Essentials is coming to the PlayStation Network net month, bringing with it an updated version of arcade classic shooter Xevious and a Namco Bandai space in PlayStation Home. Namco Museum Essentials is essentially what one would expect, repackaging Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig Dug, Dragon Spirit, and Xevious for download via the PlayStation Network. And…

Wolfenstein Introduces The Invisi-Nazi Ninja

Behold the Veil Assassin, a Wolfenstein enemy that combines the agile movement and stealth of the ninja with the snazzy dress-sense of the video game Nazi. Every first-person shooter needs an enemy that can disappear and reappear at will, and the Assassin here fits the bill quite nicely. He has sort of a Karl Ruprecht…

Xbox Live’s Return Brings Xbox Live Issues

Xbox Live has just successfully completed an entire day of downtime. Unfortunately, the current uptime isn’t quite as successful, with missing games, failing downloads, and unredeemable code issues abounding. Microsoft flipped Xbox Live’s on switch late last night, and while the snazzy new look of the Xbox.com website distracted many of us for a spell,…

Augmented Reality Game Fights Zombies With Skittles

The Georgia Tech Augmented Environments Lab has come up with a game that combines the joy of shooting zombies with the deliciousness of Skittles. The cleverly-titled ARhrrrr is a concept demonstration for an augmented reality mobile phone game that pits players armed with guns and Skittles bombs against an invading army of zombies, all superimposed…

The Sad Story Of Two Homeless Sims

Meet Alice and Kev, a father/daughter pair of homeless Sims, struggling to survive in a Sim city that wants nothing to do with them. Alice and Kev are the creation of UK game development student Robin Burkinshaw, who decided to see how the old poverty challenge idea from The Sims 2 played out in the…

Pre-Order Aion, Score A Snappy Chapeau

NCsoft has dropped details on the North American pre-order program for Aion, and while the exclusive beta access and priority character privileges are nice, it’s all about the winged hats. The pre-order exclusive Black Cloud hat is the cherry on top of the pre-order goodness to be had by simply reserving your copy of NCsoft’s…