Mike Fahey

Velvet Assassin Trailer Evokes Disturbing Mental Picture

What was presumably meant to be a sexy and inspiring trailer for Replay Studio’s Velvet Assassin instead manages to bring to mind the disturbing image of Sir Winston Churchill in a bloody nightie. Sir Winston Churchill’s famous June 4th, 1940 speech, commonly referred to as “We will fight on the beaches”, was one of the…

Weekly Wii Update: The BIT.TRIP Begins

A new game made to look old and a newly re-released old game join the Nintendo Wii line up this week, with BIT.TRIP BEAT and Summer Games II available for purchase today. BIT.TRIP BEAT(WiiWare 600 Wii points) is one part Pong, on part rhythm game, where they player controls a paddle with their Wii remote,…

New York Times on RE5: The Truth About African Zombies

The New York Times’ resident game writer Seth Schiesel kicks off his review of Resident Evil 5 with a lengthy discourse on the racism controversy, invoking the one truism about zombies everyone keeps forgetting. Seth brings the whole Resident Evil racism debate to a close by reminding us that anyone can become a zombie, and…

Man Solicits 11-Year-Old For Naked Pictures Via PS3

A Kentucky man has been arrested today for allegedly convincing an 11-year-old Houston girl to send him naked photos using his PlayStation 3 console. Anthony Scott Oshea of Somerset, Kentucky, was taken into custody by local authorities, charged with with three felony counts, including promotion of child pornography and online solicitation of a minor, after…

F.E.A.R. 2 Toy Soldiers DLC Is Gigantic And Free

Monolith and Warner Bros. addressed pricing concerns for their upcoming F.E.A.R. 2 multiplayer Toy Soldiers Map Pack today, revealing that the downloadable content would be released completely free of charge next month. The Toy Soldiers Map Pack, announced on Wednesday, is a multiplayer add-on for F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin that adds a number of new.…

Stormrise: What Does Verticality Mean?

So what do Sega and The Creative Assembly mean when they hype verticality in their upcoming real-time strategy game Stormrise? The latest developer diary explains it all. Basically, verticality means just what it sounds like. Rather than the flat-surface combat of your more traditional real-time strategy game, Stormrise lets you get up above and/or down…

Frankenreview: Resident Evil 5

Deadly hordes of bloodthirsty biological weapons rampage across Africa in Resident Evil 5, the latest entry in Capcom’s classic survival horror franchise. Resident Evil makes the jump to current generation consoles in this fifth installment, which features the return Chris Redfield as a Bio-terrorism Security Assessment Alliance agent investigating an incident in the African desert.…

New Tekken 6 Screens Come With Learning

The latest screens for Tekken 6 come complete with a convenient fact sheet detailing what some of your favorite characters have been up to since the last King of Iron Fist Tournament. I find it rather funny that Namco Bandai felt we needed a quick reference to know what characters like Nina Williams, Hwoarang, and…

Bioshock 2 Features Co-Op, Doesn’t Feature Big Daddies [Update]

The 2K Games forums are ablaze with Bioshock 2 rumors from the latest issue of Game Informer, with 2 player co-op and a distinct lack of Big Daddies among the game’s new features. According to forum posters, Bioshock 2 takes place seven years after the original game, with protagonist Jack Abbott chasing the Big Sister…

Xbox Live Deals Discounting Fable And Alien Hominid

While we’re waiting for Lionhead’s next batch of downloadable content for Fable II, Microsoft slashes the price of the original next week, with an Alien Hominid HD discount following soon after. The Xbox Deal of the Week soldiers on next week with “the beloved RPG classic from Peter Molyneux”, Fable. The Xbox Original is being…

Even Runes Of Magic’s Trailers Channel World Of Warcraft

Free-to-play massively multiplayer online game Runes of Magic continues to dress itself up as World of Warcraft’s developmentally disabled younger sibling in the trailer hearkening it’s impending official launch. Runes of Magic’s Taiwanese developer Runewaker Entertainment would of course call it an homage, but the trailer celebrating the March 19th launch of the game in…

Rock Band Gets Totally Funked Up

Rock Band celebrates some of the best music to ever grace our undeserving ears next week, with the Get the Funk Out 01 track pack. The Get the Funk Out 01 track pack features three songs that are nearly synonymous with the funk genre. Even if you think you’ve not heard Earth, Wind & Fire’s…

ESA President Calls For Stronger Texas Game Industry Incentives

Entertainment Software Association president Michael Gallagher has issued a plea to the Texas state government to strengthen tax incentives for software companies residing in the Lone Star state. Gallagher explains that the ever-expanding Texas game development community is every bit as important to defining the state’s rich cultural history as the music that the upcoming…

Freshly Picked Risen Screens

The team behind the Gothic series have picked a winning batch of screenshots to represent their upcoming PC and Xbox 360 role-playing game, Risen. Piranha Byte’s Risen was revealed last August before the Leipzig Games Festival in German, and since then…well, we hadn’t heard much. So far we know that the game takes place on…

The Chronicles Of Spellborn Closed Beta Slowy Opens

Acclaim has begun slowly letting people into the North American closed beta test for The Chronicles of Spellborn, with the beta client now available for those hoping to get in early. Here’s how the closed beta is working. The first round of testers get in today, hand-picked from Acclaim chats, David Perry’s twitter and Historian’s…

Bayonetta Passing Out The Bad Hair Days

Every day is a bad hair day for the creatures that go up against Bayonetta, as these new screens from Platinum Games‘ upcoming witchy action title readily demonstrate. There’s not much more I can say about Bayonetta that hasn’t already been said. It’s what happens when the creator of the Devil May Cry series Hideki…

The First Trailer For Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles

Today Capcom officially announced Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles for the Nintendo Wii, and we got our hands on the first trailer, sort of. Okay, so it’s technically the first trailer for Biohazard: The Darkside Chronicles, but it’s essentially the same thing. Just pretend the Japanese text is a strange code you have to decipher…

Toronto Killzone 2 Ads Pulled Due To “Menacing Head”

Complaints about images of war and violence have caused Sony to pull around 300 Killzone 2 advertisements from bus shelters in Toronto, Canada. School teacher Davis Mirza is partially responsible for the ads being removed, having emailed Sony Computer Entertainment Canada after seeing shocking images of a “menacing head with glowing eyes” and scenes of…

Shocking New G.I. Joe Screens

New screens have surfaced for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, EA’s game of the movie of the cartoon of the toy. The shots depict Snake Eyes doing various things, because Snake Eyes is pretty much G.I. Joe’s main draw. The rest of the original toy characters just looked like the extended cast of The…

Red Alert 3: Uprising’s Yuriko Campaign

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Uprising is now available. and EA has released this helpful video detailing the Yuriko campaign, which turns the real-time strategy title into a dungeon crawler. By far the most interesting addition is the Yuriko campaign, which follows the story of the little psychic Japanese girl who was kidnapped as…