Mike Fahey

Weekly Wii Update: Shooting, Bombimg, And Popping

Two old favorites from the TurboGrafx16 join a brand new Hudson puzzler in this week’s Wii downloadables update, with Bomberman ’94, Detana!! TwinBee, and Pop’Em Drop’Em SAMEGAME available now. Pop’Em Drop’Em SAMEGAME is a WiiWare puzzle game from Hudson (500 points), featuring everyone’s favorite color-matching blocks mechanic, with a couple of interesting multiplayer modes included…

DJ Hero Website Has Two Turntables And A Sign Up Form

Activision and RedOctane have thrown up an official web site for their upcoming music mixing rhythm game DJ Hero, complete with two turntables and a cheering Flash crowd. It’s more of a teaser website than anything else, with no sign of a logo and no information whatsoever. You’ve got your turntables situated in front of…

Alyssa Milano Discusses Her Sassy Ghostbusters Role

See Alyssa Milano discuss her newly revealed role in the upcoming Ghostbusters video games, while trying to avoid imagining her making out with Bill Murray. As revealed this weekend, Milano was tapped to play the lady part in the new games, replacing Sigourney Weaver, who apparently didn’t believe in the project hard enough. I’m having…

The Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack Happens On April 9th

Bungie teases, but Microsoft comes right out and says it. The Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack is officially coming out on Thursday, April 9th. We were pretty certain this was the case over the weekend, but you know how much we like to have solid facts to back up our solid rumors. Microsoft verified the…

Unreal Conversion Killing Floor Gets Retail Redux

Tripwire Interactive today announces Killing Floor, a co-op first-person survival horror shooter for the PC based on an Unreal Tournament 2004 conversion. A mad scientists specimens have broken loose and gone on a rampage through London, and it’s up to you and up to five of your friends to take on hordes of mutant enemies…

BioShock 2 Doing All Three Platforms At Once

Rather than the staggered release of the first BioShock, 2K plans on a simultaneous release across all three platforms for BioShock 2. Speaking to CVG, a 2K spokesperson has confirmed that the plan is to release BioShock 2 on the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 at the same time. This is great news for…

Frankenreview: Ready 2 Rumble Revolution

Atari brings the beloved Ready 2 Rumble boxing series to with Wii with Ready 2 Rumble Revolution, possibly the most egregious waste of Frankenreview chart real estate this year. The Ready 2 Rumble series follows a pretty standard formula. Take a bunch of colorful boxer stereotypes, mix in a few celebrity caricatures, and toss them…

Smash Cars Crashing Onto PSN

Small cars go big places in Smash Cars, the remote-controlled racer from TikGames and Creat Studios, coming later this year to the PlayStation Network. Smash Cars is a follow up to Creat’s 2003 PlayStation 2 game of the same name, featuring remote-controlled cars racing in real-world locations. This time around the action takes place on…

Students Protest Call Of Duty Dog Killing

Students at the Academy of Notre Dame in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, are up in arms over Activision’s Call of Duty: World at War for promoting the killing of deadly attack dogs. Breanna Lucci, the 19-year-old president of the private high school’s Animal Rights Club started a petition against seeing her brother shooting at dogs in the…

Carmen Electra And Jay Mohr Add Class To Leisure Suit Larry

A couple of relatively not safe for work videos demonstrate the Oscar-worthy voice acting performances of Carmen Electra and Jay Mohr in Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust. Box Office Bust, which was picked up by Codemasters after Activision Blizzard wisely dropped it from their lineup, features the return of Larry Lovage from the previous…

A Don’s-Eye View Of The Godfather II Multiplayer

See what the Don sees in these new screenshots from the free Don Control multiplayer mode, available at launch for EA’s The Godfather II. The Don Control mode lets one player on each side act as the Don, taking a bird’s-eye view of the action as it unfolds. As you can see from these screens,…

Publishers Unhappy With PlayStation Network Bandwidth Fees

According to MTV Multiplayer, the PlayStation Network Bandwidth Fee Sony charges for content downloads could have publishers thinking twice about what downloadable content they offer on the PlayStation 3. The PlayStation Network Bandwidth Fee, instituted on October 1st of last year, charges game publishers 16 cents per gigabyte of free and paid content download via…

PSP Greatest Hits Line Grows By 10

God of War: Chains of Olympus and Patapon are among the ten new PlayStation Portable titles joining Sony’s Greatest Hits lineup next month. Ten new titles receive special packaging and a special $19.99 retail price come April 5th as part of Sony’s 2009 PSP push. God of War, Patapon, and SOCOM: Tactical Strike are the…

Champions Online Solicits City Of Heroes Players

Champions Online developer Cryptic Studios has admitted to sending representatives into NCsoft’s City of Heroes in order to recruit new players to their beta program. Representatives from Cryptic Studios have been sending private messages to players in City of Heroes, inviting them to come participate in the closed beta test for their new online superhero…

German Retailer Drops Violent Games In Wake Of Shootings

Following last week’s tragic shooting rampage in Germany that left fifteen dead, German retailer Galeria Kaufhof is pulling violent films and games from their store shelves. Starting next month, Galeria Kaufhof will no longer stock games and movies carrying an 18-plus rating. This follows the shooting spree of 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer last week, whose Counter-Strike…

Champions Online Reveals The Underwater World Of Lemuria

Developer Cryptic Studios shows it’s not afraid to get its feet wet, with the introduction of Lemuria, a deadly underwater kingdom in the world of Champions Online. An aquatic kingdom accessible to player characters via a submarine, Lemuria is in the grip of a deadly civil war between the humanoids who follow King Arvad, who…

Welcome To The City Of Sinners And Saints

Take a look at the first trailer for the City of Sinners & Saints, where social networking and cel-shaded cartoon avatars collide. The City of Sinners & Saints is a virtual world, developed by Telos Productions, built with casual gaming and social networking in mind. Players can make friends, share photos, stand around dancing, or…

Runes Of Magic Launches Chapter 1: “Rise Of The Demon Lord”

After months of beta testing both open and closed, Frogster Interactive finally officially launches the first chapter of their massively multiplayer online game Runes of Magic. Runes of Magic Chapter 1: Rise of the Demon King is now live, so using the excuse of still being in beta to excuse the smattering of text still…

Demigod: Battling With The Vampire Lord

Enough screenshots, let’s take a look at Gas Powered Games real-time strategy game Demigod in action, as the Vampire Lord takes the field. It’s nice to get a feel for how the game actually plays, after pouring over screenshots for the past year. While the screens have certainly been impressive, they’ve never quite given me…

Dream Of Mirror Online Okays Same Sex Marriages

Aeria Games welcomes same sex couples to their free-to-play online game Dream of Mirror Online, easing restrictions that previous kept partners with similar chromosomes from experiencing the joy and benefits of their marriage system. Marriage in Dream of Mirror Online isn’t just about role-playing. Like many free-to-play games out of the Asian continent, getting hitched…