Mike Fahey

Split/Second Preview: Race Track Go Boom

E3 2009 gave us another opportunity to get our hands on Disney’s explosive, course-altering reality show racer, Split/Second. What Is It? Split/Second is a racing game that takes place over the course of a season of an imaginary reality TV program. Players race on giant set pieces rigged with explosives, which they can trigger once…

Play Doctor With House

While we were busy paying attention to Sony and Nintendo last Tuesday, Legacy Interactive quietly announced a video game that will kill your console nine times before finally saving its life. Yes, House is getting his own game for the PC, Nintendo Wii, and DS, courtesy of the company that brought you Mean Girls and…

PixelJunk Shooter Preview: Hot And Cold-Running Co-Op

Sure we had some PixelJunk Shooter single player impressions, but what about the co-op mode, newly playable at this year’s E3? We’ve got you covered…in hot lava. What Is It? Why, it’s PixelJunk Shooter, the latest model in the PixelJunk line of quality PlayStation Network titles. Rescue trapped miners while exploring the way lava and…

Armada of the Damned Is All About Choices

I briefly sat down with Alex Peters, Propaganda’s game director for Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned, who stressed the importance of choice in Disney’s upcoming action role-playing game. The game is an action RPG on an epic scale. How epic? Alex name checks games like Oblivion, Dragon Age, and Fable, saying that…

Jumpgate’s E3 Trailer Is Sci-Fi Epic

This is a time for heroes…for champions…for men with deep voices and British accents to herald the coming of NetDevil’s Jumpgate Evolution. Don’t you wish you could just play a game trailer instead of the actual game? I mean, I enjoyed my hands-on time with Jumpgate multiplayer during the show, but it wasn’t nearly as…

What’s Next For Free Realms?

With insane amounts of people flocking to Free Realms, what does Sony Online Entertainment have planned to keep them all occupied? I probed Senior Producer Andrew Sites and PR specialist Ryan Peters for answers. Soccer Those soccer fields scattered about the map aren’t just there for show. Well, I suppose they are for now, but…

Not Enough People Want A G1 Transformers Game

Checking in on Activision’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I chatted for a bit with a game producer, who explained the sad business truth behind the lack of a Generation One Transformers video game. While the Revenge of the Fallen game contains numerous references to the original Transformers series, with Aerialbots, Protectorbots, episodes of the…

G.I. Joe Preview: The Rise Of Contra

He’ll fight for freedom wherever there’s trouble, and the E3 show floor is no exception. We went hand-to-hand with EA’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra for the Xbox 360. What Is It? G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is EA’s game adaptation of the film adaptation of the cartoon adaptation of the 80’s update…

Venetica: E3 Pretty I Didn’t See

I was really excited to finally see DTP Entertainment‘s Venetica in action at this E3, but they didn’t show it to me, so here’s some screenshots. It’s probably my biggest disappointment of this E3. I’ve been following Venetica since the game was first announced. It’s an action role-playing game starring the daughter of death, Scarlett,…

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Preview: There’s A Light

E3 2009 marks the first time Konami let us get our hands on Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for the Nintendo Wii, and while the hands-on were brief, they were definitely illuminating. What Is It? Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a retelling of the first game in Konami’s Silent Hill series. You’re still Harry Mason; you’re…

Taste Hot Monkey Vengeance!

Prepare to meet your frosty, carbonated maker in this E3 trailer for Telltale’s Tales of Monkey Island. Brings back memories, doesn’t it? That’s Dominic Armato voicing Guybrush there. He’s the original voice actor for the character, and it shows. Who else could pull off a line like, “Here comes Guybrush Threepwood’s glowing sword of hot…

Jumpgate Multiplayer Preview: Shades Of Descent

We descended into the depths of a hollow space station to try out the player-versus-player combat in NetDevil’s Jumpgate Evolution. What Is It? What do you mean, what is it? It’s Jumpgate Evolution, the massively multiplayer online space shooter that’s so thick and rich you can play it with a joystick. Rather than sticking to…

Telltale Tells Tales Of Monkey Island

With LucasArts busy recreating The Secret of Monkey Island, Telltale is bringing us Tales of Monkey Island, an episodic adventure that picks up where the fifth Monkey Island game left off. Yes yes, I realize there was no fifth Monkey Island game, but don’t tell Tales of Monkey Island that. Telltale walked me through the…

MAG Preview: Generic Action Game

At the Sony booth during E3 2009 I got a chance to become a part of something much bigger than myself, stepping into the shoes of a soldier in Zipper Interactive’s MAG – Massive Action Game. What Is It? MAG stands for Massive Action Game, and that’s exactly what it is. Up to 256 players…

ModNation Racers Impressions: LittleBigRacer

Sony’s “Play Create Share” initiative picks up speed with the debut of ModNation Racers for the PlayStation 3, a kart racing title that lets you build the track, the kart, and the racer. United Front Games has plenty of experience building racing games, and they want to deliver that sort of power to the player.…

Saw Preview: Should I Be Enjoying This?

At Konami’s E3 Booth yesterday I got my first chance to play the video game adaptation of the smash hit horror film series Saw, leaving me questioning the limits of my violence tolerance. What Is It? Saw bridges the gap between the first two Saw movies, placing the player in the role of Danny Glover’s…

The Grinder E3 Trailer

From the creators of Hunter: The Reckoning comes the trailer for The Grinder, the four-player co-op first-person survival horror game for the Nintendo Wii. Looks pretty damn good for a Wii title, doesn’t it? High Voltage seems to be positioning themselves as the premeir source for more mature games on Nintendo’s console, and they’ve certainly…

The Grinder: The Wii’s Left 4 Dead?

Long before Left 4 Dead, High Voltage did four-player survival horror with the Hunter: The Reckoning series, and now they’re doing it again with The Grinder. High Voltage Software’s art director Matt Corso introduced me to their new Wii title The Grinder today by asking me if I remembered Hunter: The Reckoning. I did. Corso…

Gravity Crash Preview: Retro Evolved

If any downloadable game deserves the subtitle Retro Evolved, it’s the PlayStation Network’s Gravity Crash from developer Just Add Water. What Is It?: While Geometry Wars might have gotten the pure twitch shooting down pat, Gravity Crash focuses on a much more finesse-based sort of shooter style. You pilot your spaceship around beautiful HD-vector graphic…

Free Realms Still Growing Insanely Quickly

First they hit one million players within weeks of release. Then they hit 2 million a week and a half later. Where does the Free Realms population stand right now? I stopped by the Sony Online Entertainment booth (to see if I could get a little mining in) and talked to Senior Producer Andrew Sites…