Mike Fahey

Steam Weekend Deal: Four Ubisoft Classics For $10

Steam concludes its week long sale salute to Ubisoft by offering four classic titles from the publisher for just under $10, including Beyond Good and Evil and the original Far Cry. The four Ubisoft titles – Beyond Good and Evil, Far Cry, Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, and IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 – generally sell…

The Amazing Race To Become The Average Game

CBS and Ludia have teamed up for an exciting race through exotic locales, developing video games based off the Emmy Award-winning reality show The Amazing Race. Ludia, the company that brought us Hell’s Kitchen, American Idol, and Where’s Waldo video games in the past, is looking to add another fair to middling television show adaptation…

Codemasters’ Dirt 2 Teaser A Bit Dirtier Than Expected

I’m not quite sure what a nearly naked woman taking a shower and cooking pork parts has to do with anything, but I suddenly feel like a little off-road racing. It’s definitely a teaser trailer; I’m just not sure what it is trying to tease. Arguably it’s for Colin McRae: Dirt 2, the off-road and…

No DRM For The Sims 3

Rather than anger their fanbase with intrusive digital rights management technology, EA has opted to stick with tried and true Serial Code protection for The Sims 3. After getting into a heap of hot water over the DRM included in the hit life simulation Spore, it’s probably a wise decision for EA to back off…

Next Week In Rock Band: Journey Under The Sea With Pat Benatar

There’s something for everyone in next week’s additions to the Rock Band Music Store, with classics artists Journey, Pat Benatar, and…SpongeBob Squarepants taking center stage. No, it isn’t some quirky new band called SpongeBob Squarepants. It’s three tracks from the animated sensation that’s dumbed down a nation – “I Can’t Keep My Eyes Off Of…

Square Enix Eidos Takeover Is Go

Tomb Raider publisher Eidos will officially become part of Square Enix in May, as shareholders cast an overwhelming majority of votes in favor of the propsed takeover. Eidos held their shareholders meeting yesterday, during which a vote was held to determine if the Square Enix takeover bid would be approved, with 85% percent of the…

Gamify Your Google With iGoogle Game Themes

Google makes web searching so much more exciting with the introduction of iGoogle video game themes, featuring art from Mega Man, Animal Crossing, Tomb Raider, Street Fighter, and more. The new themes were revealed last niught during a Game Developers Conference meeting that hardly anyone attended, possibly due to the invitation’s last-minute arrival and the…

Aion: Pretty People Doing Pretty Things In Pretty Places

Instead of video clips, today NCsoft teases anxious Aion fans with a batch of sexy screens and a three part history of the world of Atreia. There’s something for everyone in today’s batch of goodies for the upcoming massively multiplayer online game Aion: The Tower of Eternity, except of course people who wish to actually…

Thank Goodness For Honest Neighbors

To: Bashcraft From: Fahey Re: Whaddaya Make Of Nintendo’s Announcements? The Day Note is a few minutes late this evening, thanks to a lovely little mix up with Fedex and my until recently broken laptop. Seems my address was too long for one line, so the helpful delivery man didn’t read my apartment as 15-11,…

R.U.S.E. Cam-Vid Gameplay Spectacular

If the initial announcement and trailer for Ubisoft’s real-time strategy game R.U.S.E. left you confused, four videos worth of gameplay should clear things up quite nicely. Gametrailers caught this footage of R.U.S.E. being demonstrated at the Game Developers Conference earlier this week. They give you a nice little taste of how the game plays, while…

Original Call Of Duty Coming To Xbox Live, PlayStation Network

The original PC title that launched the Call of Duty franchise is finally getting the console treatment, as an ESRB rating reveals an impending release on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Not only does the ESRB rating for Activision’s Call of Duty suddenly include the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, the European review…

Mega 64 Becomes Kotaku

Adam’s interview with the boys from Mega 64 takes a turn for the worse, as the video game comedy sketch team transforms into Team Kotaku. It really is uncanny, how accurately Mega 64 portrays Crecente, Luke, Stephen Totilo, and N-Gage Croal, capturing the true spirit of Kotaku despite the fact that one of those four…

The Dead Space Team Talks Award-Winning Audio

Our own Adam Barenblat interviews the team from Dead Space after accepting their award for Best Sound at the 9th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. Dead Space was one of four games that received an award last night that wasn’t Fallout 3 or LittleBigPlanet, and rightly so. The sound in EA’s space survival horror shooter…

Fallout 3, LittleBigPlanet Win Big At GDC Awards

LittleBigPlanet walked away with four awards, but Fallout 3 came out on top at last night’s 9th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. For those of you who missed the liveblog, here’s the rundown. Despite Fallout 3 taking home the awards for Best Writing and Game of the Year, last evening’s festivities were all about Media…

The Cut Scene: Inside The Video Game Weapon Replica Business

Down the street from a Kroger shopping center and a Wal-Mart in Marietta, Georgia lies an arsenal. The Empire Swords shop looks unassuming enough from the outside, but once you step through the doors… Swords, axes, staves, and daggers line the walls. Racks filled with cruel-looking implements of destruction stand before giant sets of armor.…

Ratchet And Clank Go Back In Time This Fall

Ratchet and Clank triumphantly return to the PlayStation 3 this fall in Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, the continuing saga of the robot and Lombax duo. Some of the franchise’s biggest questions will be answered in A Crack in Time, as Ratchet and Clank discover the truth behind their origins and their…

Cartman Plays Judas For Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Behold the glory of purposefully obvious fake product placement, as everyone’s favorite obnoxious little fat-ass betrays the savior for a copy of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Last night’s new episode of South Park, “Margaritaville”, actually had a rather clever little plot, turning a commentary on the economic recession into a retelling of the story…

GameStop Reports Record 2008, More Stores Imminent

With business failing and stores closing all over the country, GameStop reports record sales and earnings for 2008, and expects the trend to continue this year with plans to open 400 more stores. With 2008 sales rising 24.4% over last year to $8.8 billion dollars, GameStop laughs at our puny economic recession. In the fourth…

One Billion Dollars Worth Of Rock Band Sold

MTV Games and Harmonix are likely overwhelmingly pleased to announce that North American sales of Rock Band have passed the $1 billion mark over the past 15 months, according to the NPD group. $1 billion is a very large number. It’s certainly large enough to put Rock Band at the top of the NPD’s games…

Sex-Rated Xbox Community Game Not All That Sexy

Sex-rated Xbox 360 community game Break One Out is a serviceable Breakout clone that rewards you with censored pictures of a naked woman. Video included. It had to start somewhere…I just wish it wasn’t here. Break One Out, created by Kaos nyrb, is a 30-level Breakout clone, with the blocks concealing pictures of someone named…