Mike Fahey

PlayStation Home’s Xi Comes To A Close

Sony’s PlayStation Home alternate reality game Xi is coming to a close, and the door to the story’s dramatic conclusion now stands open for all. After a couple of months worth of teases and mini-games, Xi is finally winding down. Now anyone, regardless of how much they’ve participated in the ARG, may enter the final…

Xbox Live Community Games Renamed

Buried in the official announcement of XNA Game Studio 3.1 is news that, come late July, Xbox Live Community Games would be getting a much-needed name change. Goodbye Xbox Live Community Games, and hello Xbox Live Indie Games. The name is being changed in response to community feedback, in order to increase understanding and promote….here,…

Fox And Friends Finally Addresses Fallujah Game

Despite the odd leading questions and attempts to evoke emotion in a mother who lost her son, today’s Fox and Friends roundtable debate on Six Days in Fallujah wasn’t much of a debate at all. The Fox talk show gathered together Atomic Games president Peter Tamte, game advisor Capt. Read Omohundro (retired), and Tracy Miller,…

Red Faction Guerrilla’s Smashing London Promotion

Promoting the release of Red Faction Guerrilla in London, THQ yesterday packed a car with 100 copies of the game, chained a sledgehammer to it, and let nature take its course. Sounds like a completely appropriate and amazingly creative way to promotion the new Red Faction game, in which smashing things with a sledgehammer accounts…

NBA Live 10 Cover Has A Magical Center

EA couldn’t wait until the finals were over to name the NBA Live 10 cover athlete, naming Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard as their poster boy. Dwight has been having a pretty good year, what with Orlando currently battling the Lakers in the NBA finals and winning the 2009 NBA Defensive Player of the Year…

Guitar Hero 5 Combo Screens

These latest screenshots for Activision’s Guitar Hero 5 not only show off the game’s new art direction, but also the ability to play any combination of instruments. Four drum kits make for one crowded stage. Still not quite sold on this feature. I think part of the fun of the game in a social setting…

Gaming Instead Of Sleeping Makes You Tired

A research study at the University of Arkansas has indicated that excessive gaming interferes with sleep. Thank goodness that mystery has finally been solved. Research studies sound like a great deal of fun. You get to arbitrarily assign values and definitions and then cull data based on those arbitrary assignments in order to get obvious…

Dungeons & Dragons Online Not Going Free In Europe

Yesterday’s news that Dungeons and Dragons Online would be switching to a free-to-play model this summer only applies to North America, much to the chagrin of European fans. Following Turbine’s announcement that the game would soon be going free-to-play in North America, European operator Codemasters posted a message on the European site for the game,…

World At War Map Pack 2 Tomorrow

The second Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack drops tomorrow for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Here’s the trailer for the most interesting bit – the Shi no Numa zombie map. Shi no Numa is the map that proves that Japanese World War II soldiers can be the living dead, as can…

Mythic Delivers Code-Laden Human Skull

Of all the packages I was actually looking forward to today, a human skull emblazoned with a secret code for an in-game Warhammer Online item was definitely not one of them. Being a member of the video game press is fun, especially when simulated human remains wind up on your doorstep. My cats really appreciate…

EverCracked! The Phenomenon of EverQuest

Continuing the 10th anniversary celebration for EverQuest, Sony Online Entertainment is debuting a full-length documentary on the game at this year’s SOE Fan Faire, with Jace Hall adding flavor. While I find the story of EverQuest’s origin interesting enough without Jace’s particular brand of humor, perhaps the attendees at the SOE Fan Faire in Las…

Fixing Prototype PS3 Install Issues

A small number of PlayStation 3 owners are having trouble installing Prototype on their consoles. Here’s how to trick your PS3 into letting you play, straight from Activision support. Some PS3 owners are experiencing an error that tells them there is not enough space on their hard drive to install Prototype. Activision is working on…

Ngmoco Says No-Go To iPhone 3GS Exclusives

Leading iPhone game publisher Ngmoco has no plans to release exclusive games for the newly announced iPhone 3GS, instead offering a more creative way to take advantage of the new model’s increased graphical power. MTV Multiplayer, the website that used to be Totilo’s playground, spoke to Ngmoco co-founder Neil Young on the subject of the…

What Games Are We Tweeting About?

Interested in finding out what titles have gamers Tweeting like crazy? Look no further than Tweet My Gaming, a new website from the creators of GamerDNA. Tweet My Gaming is a site that provides a constant feed of video game tweets from everyone who tweets them. It tags video game names and then captures any…

America’s Army 3 Invades Steam

The third installment of America’s Army is now available for pre-loading on Steam one week ahead of its June 17th release date. Yes, America’s Army 3 is only a week away from release, and right now you can pre-load the game/recruitment tool on Steam so you’re ready to drop into the action as soon as…

Edge Of Twilight Has Come A Long Way

When I last set my non-fuzzy eyes on Fuzzyeyes’ Edge of Twilight I was a bit disappointed. After seeing the latest trailer, I am absolutely ecstatic. This is exactly what I was talking about when I compared the look and feel of the original screenshots to something out of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Planescape…

Battlestations: Pacific Volcano Map Pack Erupts Tomorrow

The first set of downloadable content for Battlestations: Pacific hits Xbox Live, with two hot new maps burning up the Pacific front in the Volcano Map Pack. The two new maps share a volcanic theme, hence the name of the downloadable pack, available tomorrow on Xbox Live and June 25th for Games for Windows Live…

Crystal Dynamics Loses Another 25 Jobs

San Francisco-based Crystal Dynamics again feels the lash of layoffs, as Eidos confirms with Kotaku that around twenty-five employees have been let go from the Tomb Raider development studio. We first heard stirrings of these new layoffs earlier this week, receiving several tips from people purporting to be former employees or friends of former employees.…

Things Dying In Starcraft II

For some of us, playing StarCraft competitively is a beautiful ballet of dying over and over again, so it’s good that Blizzard is working hard on making death interesting in StarCraft II. The latest update to the Developer’s Corner section of the official StarCraft II web page showcases this video, kicking off with a Protoss…

Eduardo Toasts WiiWare This Monday

The long wait is over, as Semnat Studios announces Eduardo the Samurai Toaster is coming to WiIWare on Monday, June 15th. Let us celebrate with screens, as a toast would be in poor taste.