Mike Fahey

Fight Night Round 4 Is Stylin’

EA shows off some of the different fighting styles represented in Fight Night Round Four. It’s really quite amazing to see the different techniques and styles used by competitors in a game that can be simply described as hit the other guy until he falls down. For those of you who’d rather not get into…

Tiny Lego Battles Screens Possibly Contain Lego

This box art for TT Games‘ Lego Battles strategy game for the Nintendo DS is about as exciting as the screenshot gallery gets. Translating the Lego Castles, Pirates, and Space sets into a real-time strategy game is a brilliant idea, but when you shrink the whole thing down to function on the Nintendo DS, you…

Neverwinter Nights 2 Finally Explores The Mysteries Of Westgate

Neverwinter Nights 2 players will finally get their chance to explore one of the Forgotten Realms’ most infamous cities as Atari readies the Mysteries of Westgate for release at the end of this month. The first “Adventure Pack” for Neverwinter Nights has been completed since late 2007, but due to some copy protection issues with…

Risen Sets The Mood

Gothic developer Piranha Bytes grants us a look at the environments and atmosphere to be found in their next big role-playing title, Risen. Risen takes place on a volcanic tropical island, which explains why one could easily confuse the opening of this “Mood” trailer with an old Far Cry video. The similarities soon end, however,…

The Days Of Arcade End With Lode Runner

The Days of Arcade come to an end this week, as Microsoft rolls out the last in a series of top-quality Xbox Live Arcade titles this week in the form of Lode Runner. Lode Runner is a recreation of the PC gaming classic platformer by Douglas E. Smith, loving brought into the current generation by…

PSP Update 5.5 Makes It Easier To Shop

It’s a whole new world of shopping convenience tomorrow on the PlayStation Portable, with the 5.50 system update making it that much easier to browse the PlayStation Store. Dropping tomorrow, the 5.50 system update for the Sony PSP allows unregistered users to browse the latest games, demos, and wallpapers in the PlayStation Store. You’ll still…

Stalin Vs Martians Strategically Delayed

Mezmer Games has announced that their upcoming historically accurate real-time strategy game Stalin vs Martians is coming out a bit later than originally intended, in order to apply another layer of polish. While the official announcement didn’t say exactly when Stalin vs Martians, originally scheduled for release this week, would be available at a digital…

Warhammer Online Looks Beyond The Sands

Warhammer Online players are one more step closer to the Land of the Dead this week, as Mythic launches their Beyond the Sands live event. The war between Order and Destruction takes a southward turn this week, as artifacts unearthed in the southern deserts bring with them the wrath of the servants of the undying…

Jumpgate Evolution Is Completely Full Of Ships

Codemasters has released new screenshots and concept art featuring the true stars of NetDevil’s Jumpgate Evolution – the ships. When you spend the majority of your time looking at the rear end of a space ship, you’re going to want an attractive rear end to look at. Looking through these screenshots and concept art of…

The Nintendo Download: Dr. Mario Prescribes Wonder Crystals

Call the doctor, Mario-whoa-o. This week in the Nintendo Download we get a tiny dose of Dr. Mario; a tiny taste of Final Fantasy; and a heaping helping of Winder Boy. Dr. Mario makes his tiny triumphant return this week in the DSiWare title Dr. Mario Express (500 points), the downloadable version of the classic…

Halo 3 And Fable II Bundled Together

It’s two great tastes that taste great together next month, as Microsoft introduces an Xbox 360 Elite with Halo 3 and Fable II bundled together inside. Arguably two of the console’s most defining game experiences come together in the Xbox 360 Game Of The Year Bundle, available in limited quantities beginning next month. You get…

Woot: Get A 20GB 360 For $139.99

Shopping deals website Woot just posted one hell of a deal on a refurbished Xbox 360 that will probably disappear by the time you read this, but still. It’s 2:30 AM on the East Coast, and Woot has recently updated with a refurbished Xbox 360 Pro system with a 20GB hard drive for the ridiculously…

Wolfenstein Opening Chock Full Of Dead Nazis

The opening cinematic for the new Wolfenstein starts off quietly and ends like any good Wolfenstein video should – with dozens of dead Nazis. The opening cinematic is filled with tons of heroic action, courtesy of America’s number-one weapon against the Nazi regime, special agent B.J. Blazkowicz. I love the fact that the clip reinforces…

GameStop Shares Dip Despite Financial Assurances

The March NPD results indicated a year over year decline in game sales, and retailer GameStop felt it in their stock prices, despite a statement issued today reaffirming its 2009 financial guidance. GameStop stock has taken a bit of a dip today, currently trading at around $28.84, nearly 3% lower than yesterday’s closing price of…

SOE Assures Parents It’s Okay To Play Free Realms

In advance of the release of their family-friendly online multiplayer game Free Realms, Sony Online Entertainment has release a booklet explaining the benefits that games like Free Realms offer children. “Let The Kids Game” is the title of the booklet, now available via SOE.com and WhatTheyPlay.com, which details all of the good that can come…

Tour Aion’s Lovely Morheim Zone

NCsoft’s latest zone tour video for Aion: The Tower of Eternity ice, sand, lava, forests, and 50% more heim than any other massively multiplayer online role-playing zone. Having not actually played Aion I don’t suppose I can really comment on the heim levels of any particular zone, but people don’t generally name online game zones…

Battlestations: Pacific Ups The Cheesecake Factor

Eidos sexes up World War II quite a bit, with the inclusion of award-winning burlesque artist Miss Polly Rae as aircraft nose art in Battlestations: Pacific. Originally used as a method to mark friendly aircraft, nose-art eventually became a way for pilots to express their individuality, evoking memories of a more peaceful time to help…

City Of Heroes Players Create More Content Than Devs In 24 Hours

Only one after NCsoft released their player-created content focused Issue 14: Architect update, and players have already crafted more than 20,000 mission arcs. In a letter to the community posted on the official City of Heroes website, Matt “Positron” Miller revealed that within the first 24 hours of the new updates’ existence, players in both…

Sacred 2 Blessed With A Console Release Date

cdv Software and Ascaron Entertainment deliver Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners to the world of Ancaria in mid-May, announcing the official release date for Sacred 2: Fallen Angel. North American Xbox 360 owners are definitely getting their hands on Sacred 2 come May 12th, and while the official press release doesn’t list the PlayStation…

GOG.com Goes Postal

CD Projekt’s DRM-free classic PC game service GOG.com ditches class in favor of crass with the addition of Running With Scissors infamous Postal series. The folks at GOG have been quite busy since we last checked in with them, adding new games to the service left and right. The past month’s additions include Earth 2150,…