Mike Fahey

Della Rocca Steps Down As IGDA Director

The International Game Developers Association is officially searching for a new head honcho, as long-time executive director Jason Della Rocca steps down in order to pursue a new venture. Della Rocca has served the IGDA tirelessly since 2000, overseeing the group’s growth from a 500 member-strong group to a 15,000 member force to be reckoned…

SouthPeak’s NYCC Plans Include Real Velvet Assassin

The 2009 New York Comic Con is kicking off this weekend, and SouthPeak Games plans on making their presence felt, throwing everything from space bears to live-action velvety assassins at convention goers. SouthPeak is showing off a wide variety of titles at the NYCC this year, from the cute and cuddly Roogoo Twisted Towers! for…

The First Resident Evil 5 Review Is In

The U.S. Official PlayStation Magazine has finished putting Capcom’s latest survival horror romp through its paces, delivering their final verdict on the eagerly anticipated Resident Evil 5. So how did it fare? In a massive seven-page review, OPM sings the praises of the latest entry in the epic saga of Resident Evil, paying particularly close…

Killzone 2 Demo On PSN This Week

PlayStation 3 owners will be getting a bit more time with Killzone 2 before release than originally anticipated, as Sony’s semi-official blog ThreeSpeech announces a demo for the eagerly anticipated game dropping this week. A demo for Killzone 2 will be hitting the PlayStation Network on Thursday, February 5th, several weeks ahead of the originally…

CellFactor: Now With More Post-Apocalyptic Snack Sausage Nipples

Immersion Games and Ubisoft have created a somewhat humorous machinima video with their upcoming downloadable first-person shooter CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars, featuring references to Cobra Commander, Osama Bin Laden, and yes – snausage nipples. CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars is a first-person shooter being released on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade early this year, which mixes…

The Fate Of Free Radical Has Been Decided

The final fate of Timesplitters developer Free Radical will be revealed this week, with a formal announcement from the company’s administrator ReSolve Partners to take place later this week. Free Radical went into administrator late last year, following several canceled projects and the dismal performance of their PlayStation 3 exclusive, Haze, earlier in 2008. After…

Madden NFL 09’s Super Bowl Prediction Eerily Accurate

The dust has settled and the Pittsburgh Steelers again return to Pennsylvania with some lovely new Super Bowl rings on their fingers, as prophetically predicted by Madden NFL 09. A yearly tradition, EA has been using the Madden football franchise to predict the outcome of the Super Bowl since 2004, when it forecast the New…

Weekly Wii Update – Snowboards, Sonic, And Space Puzzles

It’s Monday morning, and the Nintendo Wii downloadables delivery van is making its weekly rounds with a mix of alpine sports adventure, space-filling puzzles, and yet another installment of brazen blue hedgehog. Mixing things up today, we’ll kick things off with the solo Virtual Console title dropping this week, Sonic Chaos for the Sega Master…

EA Gets Ludlum, Starbreeze Does Bourne

Ludlum Entertainment has struck a deal with Electronic Arts, granting them exclusive worldwide rights to the works of author Robert London, with a new Jason Bourne game currently in development at Starbreeze Studios. Chronicles of Riddick developer Starbreeze Studios is already hard at work on a new Jason Bourne game as EA and Ludlum Entertainment…

DICE 2009 Puts Gabe Newell Behind A Podium

The 2009 Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain Summit has updated its list of speakers, and right at the top of the precariously teetering pile is Valve co-founder and president Gabe Newell. Newell will be on hand at the 2009 D.I.C.E. Summit to deliver a keynote address, which I presume will have something to do with Valve,…

New Madworld Trailer Adds Cheese To The Bloodbath

There’s a new trailer for Platinum Games‘ Wii slaughterfest MadWorld to go along with today’s impressions, proving that even the most violent of games can be diluted with a bit a over-the-top bad acting. Playing out as a parody of your average sports commentary television show, this MadWorld Death Watch trailer features a couple of…

Midway Finds New Chairman In Booty

Following the resignation of former chairman Peter C Brown, struggling Midway Games appoints president and CEO Matthew Booty as their new chairman of the board. Financially challenged or not, Midway sure knows how to work that Booty. First appointed as interim CEO following the departure of David F. Zucker in March of last year, Booty…

F.E.A.R. 2 Takes The Show To London

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is packing up their dramatic F.E.A.R. 2 marketing efforts and shipping them across the ocean for a Project Origin Live event, taking place in London on February 12th. Interested players who’ll be in the London, England, area on on February 12th can visit whatisfearlive.com and enter for a chance to be…

The Lich King Hero Classes That Might Have Been

In the latest episode of Blizzard’s Blizzcast, World of Warcraft lead game designer, Jeffrey Kaplan reveals that the Death Knight was one of three out of twenty-nine hero classes considered for the recent expansion. The Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack flooded the World of Warcraft serves with Death Knights, but it might not…

Wizard Outs Marv Wolfman As New DC Universe Online Talent

Wizard Magazine completely spoils Sony Online Entertainment‘s fun, outing comic book legend Marv Wolfman as the new DC Universe Online creative talent a week before the big reveal at the New York Comic Con. Sitting on the edge of our seats we eagerly awaited next weekend, when Sony Online Entertainment would reveal the comic book…

Dejobaan Games Announces Aaaaa – I’m Not Typing That Out

Dejobaan Games, the independent developers of the amazing The Wonderful End of the World, have just announced an intriguing base-jumping game that might just need a name change before we write about it again. The official title of Dejobaan’s base-jumping PC title, due out sometime this year, is AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! — A Reckless Disregard for Gravity.…

Video Games Are Working On The Railroad

What does a one-hundred and fifty-seven year old railroad company like Union Pacific turn to in order to reach out to new, modern-age employees? Why video games, of course. Searching for new ways to train an influx of younger railroad workers, Union Pacific employees Jon Jensen and Steve Bakuna turned to our favorite hobby, helping…

What Bethesda Learned From Fallout 3

While Fallout 3 is a resounding success, the game wasn’t without its flaws. Looking to the future of the Fallout franchise, Bethesada takes with them two very important lessons from their first attempt. As part of an interview with MTV Multiplayer, Fallout 3 executive producer Todd Howard very briefly mentioned two important lessons he learned…

The Blood Bowl Trailer Is Epic

Enough with the teasing! Cyanide and Games Workshop are done showing off individual teams and ready to show off Blood Bowl in all its fury and splendor in this official trailer. Rounding out a week filled with Blood Bowl team teases, Cyanide finally releases the full trailer for their video game adaptation of the classic…

EVE Expansion Breeds Tougher Enemies

EVE Online players had better start gearing up for battle now, as the Apocrypha expansion unleashes a whole new breed of tougher non-player character enemies upon the universe. Combat versus NPCs in EVE Online has generally been a rather simple affair, requiring the player merely target the enemy, start firing, and wait for them to…