Mike Fahey

Valve Sues Activision Over Sierra Monies

Valve and Activision are doing the legal two-step, with the former suing the latter over royalties from a 2002 lawsuit against Sierra. On April 6th of this year, Valve was awarded a $2,391,932 judgment against Activision as the result of a 2002 lawsuit against Sierra Online. The original lawsuit, which we reported on way back…

Batman’s Absolutely Brutal In Arkham Asylum

Batman shows off his ferocious fighting moves in this latest trailer for Eidos and Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Asylum. It really looks like they’ve nailed down Bruce Wayne’s signature combat style, though I suppose it isn’t too hard mixing up a little bit of everything. The sheer brutality of the fighting is the more impressive thing…

World At War Map Pack 2 Introduces Imperial Zombies

Activision and Treyarch bring Japanese Imperial zombie killing to World War II in June, with the release of the second map pack for Call of Duty: World at War. Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 2 delivers three new multiplayer maps and one new zombie map to Treyarch’s World War II shooter. Fight…

Canada Joins U.S. Piracy Watch List

We warned you, Canada. The ESA dropped us a line today to inform us that our neighbors to the north have officially made the U.S. Priority Watch List for failing to protect intellectual property. The ESA applauds the United States Trade Representative‘s decision to add Canada to “the list”, citing the numerous times the game…

Need For Speed Undercover’s New DLC Is Boss

EA pulls up with two new bits of downloadable content for Need For Speed Undercover today, with a free Challenge Series and a slightly less free Boss Car pack for the taking. The free Challenge Pack introduces two new modes to Undercover – Highway Wars and Highway Checkpoint – the former being a race through…

Naruto Grows Up On The PSP

The Shippuden invasion continues this fall in Naruto Shippuden: Legends: Akatsuki Rising, bringing team-based teen ninja battles to Sony’s handheld. Players join a slightly older, slightly wiser Naruto and friends as they search for Gaara, who has been kidnapped by the dreaded Akatsuki organization. Will Naruto be able to free sand boy before the Akatsuki…

Former Diablo III Devs Crafting iPhone “Life Companion”

What project could be compelling enough to cause three major members of the Diablo III team to jump ship from Blizzard? Only the members of iPhone developer Booyah! know for sure. Booyah! is a company that was formed last year by former members of the Diablo III team, who parted ways with Blizzard soon after…

Post-Apocalicious Fallout 3 Broken Steel Screens

Bethesda must be in a good mood, as they double their normal amount of screens in this latest batch of pics from Fallout 3’s Broken Steel downloadable content. Between this latest set and the batch released following the event in England, one thing becomes abundantly clear: someone at Bethesda is really good at taking screenshots.…

Fable II See The Future’s Future Foretold

Lionhead promised news today, and they’ve delivered, revealing the release date for the upcoming See the Future downloadable content for Fable II and a new episode of Inside Lionhead to boot. Those eager to See the Future of Albion have only two more weeks worth of waiting to down, as Lionhead announces a May 12th…

The Sims 3’s Online Feature Set

EA delivers all the details on the online and community features coming your way when The Sims 3 weasels its way onto your computers this June, with a whole new town available at launch. That’s right, in addition to the city your sim resides in, the town of Riverview will be available for download on…

How Not To Address Homosexuality In Gaming

BioWare’s censoring of homosexual terms on the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums was not a wise move, but they certainly weren’t the first video game company to struggle with the issue of homosexuality. And they almost certainly won’t be the last. Homosexuality has long been a controversial issue amongst gamers, developers, and publishers alike.…

The Story Behind The Conduit

"How can mankind fight a war that the enemy has already won?" asks the latest trailer for Sega’s first-person shooter The Conduit. The new trailer explores the story behind The Conduit in timeline form, giving us a quick synopsis as to what happened over the course of six months that ended with our protagonist running…

Killing Floor Now Available For Pre-Purchase

Killing Floor, the co-op survival game by Georgia’s own Tripwire Interactive is now available for pre-purchase through Steam, with a discount in store for those who order early. Killing Floor is the evolution of an Unreal Tournament 2004 conversion that sees players teaming up to battle hordes of infected creatures rampaging through London. Players can…

BlazBlue Limited Edition Is Very Blue Indeed

Behold the ultimate blueness of Aksys Games’ newly revealed limited collector’s edition of BlazBlue. Both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Arc System Works’ latest 2D fighter are getting the big box treatment by Aksys. The set not only contains a very pretty box and the game itself, but a 2-disc, 42-song soundtrack…

inFamous Engineer Talks Trophies And Stunts

Sucker Punch software engineer Chris Heidorn stopped by the PlayStation Blog today to discuss the trophies to unlock and stunts to perform in their upcoming superhero game inFamous. Chris goes into great detail about the stunts included in the game, which are sequences of events and combinations of powers used to kill the enemy creatively.…

SOE Delivers More DC Universe Doomsday

Announcing the appearance of Superman killer Doomsday once apparently wasn’t enough for Sony Online Entertainment, who today deliver new screenshots and renders of everyone’s favorite Kryptonian mutant in DC Universe Online. I’m not sure why they didn’t just release this artwork along with the video they passed along back in February, which got the comic…

Widescreen Games Halts Work On Console Witcher

While not exactly confirmation of yesterday’s cancellation rumor, French developer Widescreen Games has announced the suspension of development on The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf due to “financial problems”. With CD Projekt Red mum on the rumors of the game’s cancellation, French development partner Widescreen games have issued a press release addressing the fate…

Ubisoft Makes Red Steel 2 Official

Ubisoft finishes what Nintendo Power started as they officially announce Red Steel 2, offering few new details on the Wii MotionPlus-enabled sequel to the Wii’s original first-person shooter. The announcement mainly centers on the fact that the game was created from the ground up for the Wii MotionPlus, and will be Ubisoft’s first title to…

Lionhead Teases Tomorrow’s Fable II News

Why put off announcing something until tomorrow when you can announce the impending announcement today? That’s the apparent philosophy of Sam Van Tilburgh over at Lionhead’s Fable II development blog, who promises some sort of announcement and new content to arrive on the morrow. I’m picking up through the grapevine that tomorrow there is going…

Ultima Online Enters The Stygian Abyss

Now in its twelfth year of operation, Ultima Online gears up for the Stygian Abyss expansion, which adds the game’s largest dungeon and a new playable race – the gargoyle. The Stygian Abyss expansion gets its name from Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss, the 1992 PC game that saw players exploring a vast dungeon in…