Mike Fahey

Metal Gear Creator Gets Lifetime Achievement Award

Metal Gear series creator Hideo Kojima is being honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Game Developer’s Choice Awards, held during the Game Developers Conference next month. Each year the Game Developers Choice Awards single out one member of the gaming industry whose contributions helped shape what video games are today, awarding them…

Blizzard Dates BlizzCon 2009

Blizzard has officially announced their fourth annual BlizzCon fan convention, calling for fans of World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Starcraft to converge on Anaheim, California, for the August 21-22 event. Blizzard can’t seem to decide on a month, with the first and third BlizzCon fan conventions taking place in October, and the second and now…

Dragonball: The Movie: The Game: The Trailer

IF you thought the screenshots of the PSP video game based on the live-action catastrophe Dragonball Evolution were bad, wait until you see the game in motion. Now to be completely fair, Namco Bandai didn’t have a whole lot to work with when tasked with coming up with a video game based on the live-action…

Burnout Paradise Legendary Cars Priced To Move

Now that we know that the Burnout Paradise Legendary Cars are being released this Thursday, it’s time we learned how much we have to pay for a slice of 80’s automotive history. So how much will you have to pay in order to tool around Paradise City in a reasonable facsimile of K.I.T.T. from Knight…

Gameloft Moves 200 Million Mobile Games

Mobile gaming giant Gameloft proves just how giant they are today, announcing that they have sold more than 200 million mobile games since the company first launched back in 2003. While Gameloft is one of the world’s leading publisher of mobile phone games, they owe the majority of their 2008 sales to the Apple App…

Will You Be Buying Commodore 64 Virtual Console Titles?

Nintendo’s very clever clues lead us to believe that Commodore 64 games are heading to the North American Virtual Console. Which titles, if any, are you looking forward to playing on your Wii? With over 18 Commodore 64 titles already released on the European Virtual Console, it’s a safe bet that we’ll get a good…

Sacred 2: How German Metal Band Blind Guardian Got Involved

In this behind the scenes video for Ascaron’s Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, Blind Guardian vocalist Hansi Kürsch explains how a German heavy metal band gets into a video game. Apparently the answer is to give up hope altogether. Hansi reveals that Blind Guardian had been trying to get into a video game – any video…

Watch The Watchmen Invade PlayStation Home

Paramount Pictures is readying a major marketing push into Sony’s PlayStation Home service for the upcoming film Watchmen, with exclusive footage, a filmmaker Q&A session, and of course, Watchmen costumes for your avatar. The film adaptation of Alan Moore’s classic comic book series The Watchmen is a major deal for Paramount, and no on is…

This Week On Live Arcade: Death Tank

Old school gameplay gets an upgrade this week on Xbox Live Arcade, as Snowblind Studios releases Death Tank, a shiny new take on the classic tank-on-tank angle shooter. What’s an angle shooter, you ask? It’s any game that involves calculating the angle of projectiles based on terrain velocity in order to efficiently dispatch your foes.…

Toy Fair 2009: LittleBigPlanet Toys In Captivity

Geekanerd has posted several Toy Fair 2009 pictures of the LittleBigPlanet action figures recently announced by Sony, showing that even dirty pirates deserve a little sackboy loving. As promised by the PlayStation blog, visitors to the 2009 International Toy Fair in New York over the weekend caught a first glimpse of the 2 inch action…

EA Sports Spawns Sports Toy Line

After more than two decades of encouraging us to sit on our asses playing sports video games, EA Sports and Toy Island team up for a line of sports toys that actually promote outdoor play. The new multi-year agreement between EA and Toy Island will produce a wide range of interactive sports toys bearing the…

See Movie Chun-Li Kick Generic Thug Ass

Witness as the Legend of Chun-Li from the upcoming feature film slowly grows, as star Kirsten Kreuk beats up some random guys you wouldn’t want to run into in a dark alley. Of course Chun-Li runs into them in a dark alley, but she apparently has the moves to make it in a dark alley,…

New MadWorld Screens Display Stark Contrast

Here’s a whole slew of brand new screens for the upcoming brutal Wii brawler MadWorld, featuring entirely new black and white images, completely different from the preciously released black and white images…we think. I almost pity the public relations person who has to send out new screenshots for Sega and Platinum Games‘ MadWorld as it…

Metal Gear Solid 4 Goes Platinum In March

After an incredibly successful first run in the Europe, Konami is re-releasing PlayStation 3 blockbuster Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots at a reduced price as part of the PlayStation Platinum budget line. Hideo Kojima’s swan song for Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, is getting a re-release on…

The Weekly Wii Update Has a Secret

This week’s Nintendo Wii update not only includes Evasive Space for WiiWare and NES shooter Life Force on the virtual console, but also a secret surprise clue that we need your help to decipher. Nintendo’s weekly announcement of new content for WiiWare and the Virtual console today came complete with news of a “fun surprise”…

Time Warner Supports Square Enix Eidos Bid

The Square Enix takeover bid for UK publisher Eidos Interactive solidified even further today, as 20% Eidos shareholder Time Warner throws its support behind the Japanese company’s offer. Once thought to be a front runner to buy out the company themselves, Time Warner is now backing Square Enix‘s recently revealed bid to buy out Tomb…

Can Screenshots Help Explain What Noby Noby Boy Is?

Can a set of new screenshots explain what exactly what is going on with Noby Noby Boy for the PlayStation Network where creator Keita Takahashi of Katamari Damacy fame failed? Nope, they most certainly cannot. Nice use of frogs though. Were I a big fan of frogs, I would be camped outside the PlayStation Store…

Star Wars: The Old Republic Takes On The Hutt Home World

BioWare has revealed the latest playable planet for their eagerly anticipated massively-multiplayer roleplaying game Star Wars: The Old Republic – Nal Hutta, home of the slug-like ancestors of Jabba the Hutt. Of course the original Hutt home world was Varl, but when the slimy Hutts killed that planet with pollution they moved in on the…

Halo Wars: Making Console Real-Time Strategy Work

The third in a series of video documentaries covering the upcoming Xbox 360 game Halo Wars features members of the development team explaining how to make a console real-time strategy game that works. Having obviously not paid enough attention during the early days of Halo 3 development, I was a bit surprised to learn that…

Massage Your Love Over Xbox Live

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the natural evolution of the Rumble Massage program we posted last month, Remote Masseuse, a Xbox Community Game that lets you reach out and massage someone via Xbox Live. Where Rumble Massage allowed you to use your Xbox 360 controller as a personal massager, Remote Masseuse lets folks activate…