Mike Fahey

GameTap Remembers Sonic The Hedgehog’s Better Days

Did you know that Sonic the Hedgehog‘s boots were inspired by Michael Jackson? You will after watching all four parts of GameTap‘s exhaustive retrospective on everybody’s favorite spiny blue mammal. From his birth as a desperate attempt to steal some of Nintendo’s thunder by artist Naoto Ōshima and programmer Yuji Naka, to his latest rash…

Scout Update Delivers Two New Team Fortress 2 Maps

In the second daily reveal of new content coming in the Team Fortress 2 Scout class update, Valve reveals two new player-made maps being added to the game’s atlas – Watchtower and Junction. Following up yesterday’s announcement of the Scout’s new ranged weapon, The Sandman bat, Valve introduces fans to the two new player-created maps…

Sega Escalates War With New Stormrise Units

Things get ugly in the latest series of screenshots revealing the units of Sega’s upcoming console real-time strategy game Stormrise, as both the Sai and the Echelon bring out their heavy hitters. Compared to the sheer amount of power contained in the seven new units for Stormrise released today, the first and second unit updates…

Jonathan Blow Lowers Price On PC Braid

A day after Stardock started accepting preorders for Jonathan Blow‘s Braid for the PC at $19.95, the independent developer has announced a five dollar price drop in the interest of reaching a wider audience. Worried that the $19.95 price point for the PC version of the popular and innovative Xbox Live Arcade title Braid would…

See The Burnout Legendary Cars In Action

Check out the new Burnout Paradise Legendary Cars in action, with four new videos showing off the vehicles inspired by Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Knight Rider, and The Dukes of Hazzard. If you weren’t sure about picking up the Burnout Paradise Legendary Cars when they hit the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace tomorrow,…

Frankenreview: Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost And The Damned

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and the Damned expansion takes the all new Liberty City that Rockstar Games introduced last year and gives it a biker gang makeover. Not so much a makeover, but a whole new story from a different perspective, with the main character Niko Bellic replaced by Johnny Klebitz, a member…

Expiring Email Accounts Can Eat Your Xbox Gamertag

Microsoft is investigating a problem with expiring email addresses that is causing some Xbox Live users to abandon their Gamertags and start fresh, losing any progress they’ve accumulated over the past few years. It seems that certain Windows Live ID email addresses that you need to have in order to set up an Xbox Live…

Raiden Makes The SCENE In New Metal Gear Online Expansion

Konami has just announced the third expansion pack for Metal Gear Online, SCENE, which delivers new maps, new gear, and everyone’s favorite reformed bad ass cybernetic ninja to the popular online shooter. Yes, Raiden makes his appearance in the SCENE update for Metal Gear Online, bringing Vamp along with him for the ride. The dynamic…

Eve Online Apocrypha Trailer Makes Eve Look Interesting

The trailer for the upcoming Apocrypha expansion to CCP’s massively-multiplayer space opera Eve Online manages to make the game look at least 10 times better than it actually plays. The trailer does an excellent job of highlighting Eve Online’s strengths while skipping over the game’s weaknesses, which I suppose is what a good trailer is…

GameStop Kicks Off DSi Reserves Tomorrow

Now that the Nintendo DSi North America release date has been announced, it’s time for our nation’s game retailers to rise to the occasion and start taking our money. GameStop has it covered. Following Gamervision’s lead, a quick call to my local store revealed that preorders for Nintendo’s next-generation DS will start tomorrow morning, with…

New World Of Warcraft Raid Dungeon Is Voltron Epic

Blizzard has posted the first details on Ulduar, the next raid dungeon to be introduced in World of Warcraft patch 3.1, which features vehicle combat against an army and at least one Voltron reference. Ulduar is actually two separate raid dungeons in one, with the first part consisting of an epic battle between your large…

Noby Noby Boy Updates Coming

With Noby Noby Boy making its small yet stretchy debut tomorrow on the PlayStation Network, creator Keita Takahashi talks about the quirky little game’s update potential. In an interview with Eurogamer, Namco Bandai‘s Keita Takahashi reveals that downloadable content is already in the works for his new PlayStation Network title, Noby Noby Boy, with a…

Mega64 Takes Elite Beat Agents To The Streets

The guys at Mega 64 are up to their old tricks again, this confusing the non-gaming public with a live-action performance of hit Nintendo DS rhythm game Elite Beat Agents. Sometimes I have a hard time figuring out if Mega64′ series of live-action video game performances is a work of genius or a work of…

Next Week On Live Arcade: Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

Next week we’ll be able to choose between three different flavors of Puzzle Quest: Galactrix, with the game hitting Xbox Live Arcade a day after the PC and Nintendo DS versions ship. The Xbox.com page for Infinite Interactive and D3 Publisher of America’s follow-up to 2007’s fantasy roleplaying game / puzzle game mash-up has been…

Nirvana Stumbles Blindly Onto Rock Band Wii

Wii Rock Band owners get a healthy does of angsty mumbling today, as seven old tracks from grunge pioneers Nirvana make their way onto the Wii Rock Band Music Store. The new Nirvana songs for the Wii versions of Rock Band are the same as the ones that appeared on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation…

Screens And Scenes For Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja 4

Naruto becomes a young man in next months Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja 4 for the PlayStation 2, and Namco Bandai celebrates his growth with a trailer and new screenshots. Ultimate Ninja 4 marks the first North American video game based on the popular anime program’s Shippuden series, which kicks off with an older Naruto returning…

Team Fortress 2 Scout Update Hitting Hard Next Week

The next Team Fortress 2 class update is only a week away, as Valve officially announces a February 24th release date for the Scout update, with new features revealed on a daily basis. Yes, the speedy Scout is finally getting his due next week, and Valve has launched the official website for the class update,…

StarCraft II In The Final Stretch

Dustin Browder, lead developer for Blizzard’s StarCraft II, took some time out of his busy schedule yesterday to assure visitors to the game’s official forums that the game was “in the final stretch.” Browder, who posts on the official Blizzard forums under the handle Cavez, actually posted a Frequently Asked Questions article in the forums…

Nude Moments In Gaming: the Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

With the recent excitement surrounding the inclusion of full-frontal male nudity in Grand Theft Auto 4’s downloadable content, we take a look back at the best and worst nude moments in recent gaming history. Why limit the list for recent games? Because games only recently started giving us the real goods, that’s why. This isn’t…

ArenaNet: There Is No Guild Wars 2 Delay

ArenaNet’s Mike O’Brien clears the air regarding the perceived delay of Guild Wars 2, the follow up to NCsoft’s immensely popular free-to-play online roleplaying game. In an open letter to Guild Wars fans, O’Brien points out that Guild wars 2 never had a firm release date attached to it, so there really is no delay,…