Mike Fahey

The Witcher Looks Lovely On Consoles Too

CD Projekt Red has released three new screens for The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf, showing off how adeptly the transition from PC to console is being handled. The thing I love about PC games being ported to consoles is the fact that I no longer have to worry about system requirements. The thing…

Tabula Rasa: Humanity Dies Tomorrow

The forces of humanity make a final stand tomorrow night, as Richard Garriot’s Tabula Rasa celebrates its final day with an all-out alien invasion. Be there tomorrow to witness the end of a particularly short era, as the chief baddies in massively multiplayer sci-fi shooter Tabula Rasa mount a full-scale invasion of just about everything.…

The ESRB Rates Wii Final Fantasy IV Sequel

The Japanese cellphone sequel to Final Fantasy IV looks to be heading to North America, as the ESRB rates Final Fantasy IV: The After Years for the Nintendo Wii. Once again the Entertainment Software Review Board ruins the surprise for everyone, as an entry appears for Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. Released in episodic…

Street Fighter IV PC This Summer, Possibly Bundled With Sticks

PC gamers eager to get their hands on Capcom’s Street Fighter IV will have to wait until this summer, with Capcom pondering the possibility of bundling the game with arcade controllers at retail. Capcom vice president of business development and strategic planning Christian Svensson, speaking to VideoGamer.com, names summer as the target release date for…

Threat Of Peace Is A Little Short For A Star Wars Comic

Something’s rotten on Alderaan as BioWare, LucasArts, and Dark Horse launch Star Wars: The Old Republic, Threat of Peace, the online comic book prequel to the upcoming massively multiplayer game. When BioWare first announced a bi-weekly online comic book series telling the back story behind Star Wars: the Old Republic, the combination Star Wars/comic book…

Spore Galactic Adventures Delivers Exploding Barrel Action

This new trailer for the Spore Galactic Adventures expansion proves that even after millions of years of evolution, a species just cannot live without exploding barrels. I’m actually rather excited to be able to take my Spore creations and do something a bit more game-like with them this spring, sharing Crecente’s opinion that, while each…

The City Of Heroes Mission Architect Explained

As the Issue 14: Architect update for City of Heroes draws closer to release, NCsoft drops new information and screenshots explaining how players will go about adding their own original content to the game. The Mission Architect for City of Heroes and City of Villains actually appears in game within buildings belonging to Architect Entertainment,…

Vote In The 2008 Xbox Live Arcade Awards

Microsoft is kicking off their second annual Xbox Live Arcade Awards, where players vote for the very best downloadable titles available on the Xbox 360. Did your favorite get nominated? Chances are it did, as the list of nominated games is chock full of instantly recognizable titles. For instance, in the Best Overall Arcade Game…

Gamestop Hopes Halo Wars Is Worth A Midnight Launch

It’s not very often that a real-time strategy title earns a midnight launch, but toss the word Halo in there and GameStop sits up and listens. GameStop is inviting Halo fans to “bring out their inner Warthog” during Halo Wars midnight launch events, held at more than 2,000 locations across the U.S. this coming Monday,…

Diablo III Bestiary: The Unburied

Blizzard has updated the Diablo III bestiary with a new entry and new screens featuring The Unburied, undead beasts born from the improperly cared-for dead. As you can see, The Unburied are large, shambling beasts made up of the discarded body parts of people disposed of unceremoniously in mass graves. Better yet, let’s let Diablo…

Stormrise: Real-Time Strategy From A Different Point Of View

A new trailer for The Creative Assembly‘s new real-time strategy game Stormrise shows off a dynamic camera system worthy of a blockbuster action title. While I enjoy the odd real-time strategy title, I’m not a huge fan of the overhead perspective so many games in the genre employ. I like to feel a little more…

New World At War Patch Brings “New” World At War Map

The latest patch for Call of Duty World at War hits the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 today, bringing with it a free daytime version of the Makin multiplayer map. Just a re-lit multiplayer map? Isn’t that a bit cheap? No, it’s not cheap – it’s free, and they’ve done a little more than simply…

Stoked Hits Store Shelves With Musical Accompaniment

It’s time for your lunchtime musical interlude, courtesy of this new trailer for Destineer’s snowboarder Stoked, featuring the music stylings of pop punk band Quietdrive with "Deliverance". Say what you will about pop punk music…how it all sounds the same and the bands generally look the same and probably smell the same…it’s still damn infectious…

Sega Lands On Planet 51

Sega taps the always lucrative computer-animated film tie-in market with Planet 51, the story of an astronaut who becomes the alien invader on a planet of little green men. Planet 51’s premise is simply brilliant. Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker lands on a supposedly uninhabited planet, only to discover the world is populated by little green…

Sam & Max Hit The Xbox Live Arcade

Telltale brings their dog and rabbity-thing adventures to a whole new audience, announcing both seasons of the award-winning Sam & Max series for Xbox Live Arcade. Telltale follows up their Wallace & Gromit Xbox Live Arcade debut with seasons one and two of the Sam & Max series of point and click adventure games. Originally…

Steampunk Cowboys On The Road To Damnation

Codemasters has released 10 new screenshots of their upcoming alternate-history shooter Damnation, serving up a heapin’ helping of that Western steampunk style. Yes, Damnation is indeed set in a steampunk world, even if the women aren’t wandering around in frilly dresses and the men don’t all wear top hats with monocles. There are other steampunk…

Lips Getting Better Scoring, Leaderboards, and Coldplay

March brings a slew of fixes, features, and fan favorites to the Xbox 360 karaoke game Lips, with an early March title update delivering improved scoring and international leaderboards, just in time for Coldplay. As a proud owner of Lips, I’ve often felt the game has given me far too much credit for my vibrato.…

League of Legends Gameplay Is Colorfully Chaotic

In case our feature on Riot Games‘ upcoming mod turned action-strategy game League of Legends didn’t adequately explain what the game was, perhaps the official gameplay trailer will. Even writing up a lengthy feature on the game and it’s evolution from the Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients into a full-fledged game didn’t give…

Free Realms Enters Closed Beta

Sony Online Entertainment‘s free-to-play, family-friendly massively multiplayer online game Free Realms enters closed beta testing today, with early registrations for April’s open beta now being accepted. Sony Online Entertainment welcomes the closed beta players into Free Realms today, where they’ll be able to explore the whimsical virtual world, raise pets, socialize, fight monsters, race cars,…

Creative Assembly: Fighting Piracy Is Pointless

What’s the point of fighting PC game piracy? According to Stormrise developer Creative Assembly Australia’s communications manager Vispi Bhopti, there isn’t one. Speaking in an interview with VideoGamer.com, Bhopti revealed that Creative Assembly had no plans for additional copy protection for the upcoming PC release of their new real-time strategy game Stormrise, explaining that pirates…