Mike Fahey

Everybody Was Fairytale Fighting

Why simply explore the beloved fairytales of your childhood when you can carve a bloody path through them in Playlogic’s Fairytale Fights? Fairytale Fights a hack and slash platformer due out this coming holiday season on the Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3. Players control a washed-up Fairytale character intent on saving a colorful fantasy…

Oh, So Dead Rising 2 DOES Have Multiplayer

A tangled web of lies finally unravels as Capcom’s Keiji Inafune confirms that Dead Rising 2 will indeed have multiplayer. We’ve known that the game would contain multiplayer since Mental Mill’s Laura Scholl announced at the Game Developers Conference last month that Dead Rising 2 would support 6,000 zombies on screen at one time during…

Klonoa Crosses A Cave Six Different Ways

Namco Bandai shows us not one but six different ways for Klonoa to cross a dark cave in the upcoming remake of the original PlayStation game. When I saw that Namco Bandai has passed along six different gameplay videos for Klonoa, I didn’t expect six different short shots of the hand-eared mutant kitty thing crossing…

RPG Dream Team Delivers Steampunk Nostalgia To The DS

From the creators of Dragon Quest V, Final Fantasy III and IV for the DS, Thousand Arms, Fatal Frame, and Grandia comes Nostalgia, an original steampunk role-playing game for the Nintendo DS. Released in Japan as Nostalgeo no Kaze, Ignition Entertainment and Tecmo join forces with Matrix Software and Red Entertainment to bring the game…

How To Quit Your Game Development Job

Game developers – they always have to make a game out of everything, including quitting their job as a game developer for 2K Australia. Farbs will no longer be working for 2K Australia come June 5th, having resigned his position in order to work full time creating games like the most excellent ROM CHECK FAIL.…

Free Realms Launches With Flying Squirrel

What better way to herald the launch of Sony Online Entertainment‘s new family friendly online game Free Realms than a launch trailer narrated by a flying squirrel with a mohawk? He might actually be a sugar glider or some other airborne mammal, but Chatty does a fine job of explaining the various merits of Free…

Fallujah Developer Surprised By Cancellation

Yesterday it was revealed that Konami had decided to cancel realistic Iraqi war game Six Days in Fallujah. Today, developer Atomic Games responds. In their official statement, Atomic Games expresses surprise over the cancellation, driving home just how abrupt a decision this was on the part of publisher Konami. We were informed on Thursday night…

The Witcher Canceled On Consoles?

The future of the console version of CD Projekt’s console port of hit PC role-playing game The Witcher is in doubt, as rumors rise regarding Rise of the White Wolf’s cancellation. The rumor first surfaced at Polish site Polygamia, which simply stated that reliable sources had informed them that The Witcher: Rise of the White…

Everybody Loves PhysX

NVIDIA went a little press release crazy this morning, announcing that Sega, Capcom, GRIN, and 8monkey Labs have all turned to NVIDIA’s PhysX technology to make their games better. At the forefront of their four press release rampage is the announcement that Sega has licensed both the PhysX technology and NVIDIA’s APEX technology to serve…

Dr. Kawashima Brings Brain Training To PC

Dr. Ryuta Kawashima brings brain training to the PC next month in Namco Bandai‘s Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima. Published by Namco Bandai Europe and distributed by Atari, Brain Training with Dr. Kawashima takes the same sort of brain training exercises we’ve seen in the Nintendo DS Brain Age series and brings them to the…

City Of Heroes Issue 15: Anniversary Has Many Faces

City of Heroes turns five tomorrow and NCsoft celebrates with the announcement of the appropriately titled Issue 15: Anniversary. Issue 15 is all about returning enemies and looking good enough to take them on. Both heroes and villains score a high-level mission arch featuring powerful foes returning from the past, with cosmetic additions that will…

Burnout Cops & Robbers Pack Priced

A brand new way to play Burnout Paradise online is coming this Thursday, and Criterion Games has revealed the price you have to pay for getting mixed up with the Cops & Robbers scene. The Burnout Paradise Cops & Robbers pack introduces a ton of new police-themed makeovers for your favorite Paradise City rides, along…

New Boxers Enter The Fight Night Round 4 Ring

Manchester England’s own Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton headlines the latest batch of screenshots featuring sweaty men hitting each other in EA’s Fight Night Round 4. How many boxers can you name in the latest roster reveal for Fight Night Round 4? I can make out Hatton, Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao from the Philippines, and that’s about…

Former Take-Two COO Lands At Realtime Worlds

Take-Two Interactive‘s former Chief Operating Officer Gary Dale has snagged himself a new gig, stepping in as CEO of Crackdown developer Realtime Worlds. Dale’s departure from Take-Two interactive was announced in January of this year, with personal reasons cited as the cause of his departure. His last official day at Take-Two was April 15th, and…

Introducing The King Of Fighters XII

Here is the intro trailer for King of Fighters XII, so you can just press start and skip it once the game is finally released. After watching the intro a few times now, you probably could have just skipped it anyway and not have missed all that much. The seizure-inducing graphics flashing by the screen…

Petroglyph And Trion Team For Online Strategy Title

The strategy game veterans at Petroglyph have teamed up with online game developer Trion World Network to create a new massively-multiplayer online real-time strategy game. Petroglyph is the developer behind Star Wars: Empire at War, risen from the ashes of RTS pioneers Westwood Studios of Dune 2 and Command & Conquer fame. In short, news…

The Fate Of Six Days In Fallujah

Six Days in Fallujah might be down, but it’s not yet out, with developer Atomic Games telling Kotaku to expect to a statement soon regarding the fate of the controversial shooter. While Konami may have dropped its plans to publish the “game-amentary” in the face of public backlash, it’s quite unlikely that developer Atomic Games…

The ESA Nabs Crave, KOEI, and Playlogic

The Entertainment Software Association continues to play “gotta catch ’em all” with small publishers, adding Crave, KOEI, and Playlogic to its ever-growing roster. It still amazes me that the ESA has an ever-growing roster following the rash of companies leaving last year, but the ESA continues to take smaller publishers into the fold. Just last…

Free Realms Goes Free Tomorrow

After only a few weeks of closed beta testing, Sony Online Entertainment has taken down the servers for Free Realms in preparation for tomorrow’s official launch. “It’s your world and nothing’s impossible,” exclaims Free Realm’s theme song by Southern California trio The Dares, and apparently that includes one of the shortest closed beta tests in…

Prototype’s Story In Convenient Montage Format

If you want to tell the back story of Radical Entertainment’s Protoype while still remaining cool and mysterious, then you’re going to need a montage. A back story montage! The developers certainly add to the air of mystery surrounding the virus infecting the citizens of New York City and the origin of the game’s protagonist,…