Mike Fahey

Is My Champion Super-Heroically Hot Or Not?

Cryptic Studios makes a game out of the vast character customization options in their upcoming superhero MMO Champions Online with the addition of a new “Rate My Champion” section on their website. It’s basically “Am I Hot Or Not?” for the superhero set. Characters generated in the beta version of Champions Online appear in the…

BFG Begins Taking Orders On Their New, Expensive Gaming Rigs

Need a state of the art gaming PC? Got $3,000 to $8,000? No? Then you probably don’t want to head over to www.BFGSYSTEMS.com, where the BFG’s new Phobos systems have just gone on sale. Most people know BFG for their graphics cards, but they’re looking to make a splash in the high-end gaming / home…

Cursed Mountain Screens Are Cursed, Mountainous

New screenshots for Deep Silver’s upcoming survival horror title Cursed Mountain go great lengths to showing just how cursed this particular mountain may or may not be. What the screens actually do is give us a look at Cursed Mountain’s expansive scale and some of the unique enemies you’ll come across on your journey to…

Riddick Waxes Philosophical On Desperation

If this new "Desperation" trailer for The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena doesn’t get you excited about Starbreeze’s upcoming continuation of the Riddick saga, then this probably isn’t the game for you. In the trailer, the Diesel-powered Riddick ponders the nature of desperation, or does the best that he can considering the limited…

Ubisoft Imagines Petz In Their Early 2009 Lineup

As part of Ubisoft’s 3rd quarter sales report, the company posted their release schedule for the first three months of 2009, filled with iPetz, Jace Power, and a heaping helping of imagination. With news that the eagerly anticipated survival title I Am Alive has been pushed back, seemingly within the last day, Ubisoft’s earlier 2009…

First Tomb Raider: Underworld DLC Coming February 10th

The first of two new chapters in the Lara Croft saga comes exclusively Xbox 360 next month, as Eidos announces a February 10th release date for the Tomb Raider: Chronicles Beneath the Ashes DLC. First announced back in October of last year and originally slated for a December release, Beneath the Ashes finds Lara returning…

Oh Yeah, Silent Hill And DDR Are On The iPhone Now

Despite both titles having been available for a couple of weeks with dozens of customer reviews each, Konami today announces the launch of Silent Hill: The Escape and DanceDanceRevolution S Lite for the iPhone. It seems to be a growing trend that iPhone game announcements trail behind the actual release of said games by a…

Crystal Defenders Leaps From iPhone To Consoles

Square Enix pioneers the art of the iPhone to console game port, announcing that their Final Fantasy Tactics-themed defense game Crystal Defenders is coming to WiiWare, xbox Live Arcade, and the Playstation Network. The entertaining yet rather simplistic iPhone game Crystal Defenders will first make the leap to WiiWare as Crystal Defenders R1 on January…

The True Puzzle Quest: Galactrix PC Demo

If the flash demo of D3publisher’s upcoming space-age Puzzle Quest follow-up wasn’t enough for you, head over to Big Download for the full 128mb PC demo of Puzzle Quest: Galactrix. Rather than just place you in the middle of the same fight over and over again, the PC demo for Puzzle Quest: Galactrix contains the…

Spengler’s Hair Is Fabulous In New Ghostbusters Screens

Anyone can make realistic-acting ectoplasmic goo or tortured undead spirits, but these new Ghostbusters screenshots show that Terminal Reality has managed to overcome the biggest challenge of the film to game translation – Spengler’s hair. Harold Ramis’ hair in the 1984 movie Ghostbusters was years ahead of its time, and quite frankly I wasn’t sure…

Monsters Vs. Aliens – The Trailer Of The Game Of The Movie

Activision has released a trailer for their movie tie-in with the upcoming Dreamworks Animation 3D feature film Monsters vs. Aliens, and it actually doesn’t look half bad. Sure, it’s a movie tie-in, but lately Activision’s movie tie-ins have managed to be somewhat enjoyable. Kung-Fu Panda in particular was a game I could actually play all…

Watch The First Four Minutes Of Assault On Dark Athena

G4 got their hands on the first four minutes of Starbreeze’s Chronicles of Riddick follow-up, Assault on Dark Athena, featuring our favorite psychotic killer doing what he does best – lurking in shadows. No one lurks quite like Riddick, the finest role Vin Diesel has ever portrayed outside of The Iron Giant. In Pitch Black,…

Video Games Are One Of The 10 Things We’re Still Buying

Financial publication Forbes takes a look at some of the things people are still willing to spend money on in the face of the recession, and of course, our favorite hobby makes the cut. The economy might be tanking, but we still need our stuff. Without our stuff, what would we be? Stuffless…and no one…

Frankenreview: Lord Of The Rings: Conquest

Pandemic Studios took the winning formula from the Star Wars: Battlefront series and applied it to the Lord of the Rings fantasy universe to create Lord of the Rings: Conquest. It sounds like such a sure thing, doesn’t it? Epic fantasy battles recreating moments from the beloved fantasy books and movies. All EA and Pandemic…

I Am Alive In March

Ubisoft’s mysterious survival title I Am Alive for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, is apparently due out by the end of March…so hopefully we’ll know something about it by then. I Am Alive, originally scheduled for a 2nd quarter 2009 release, is a survival game developed by Cold Fear developers Darkworks, that takes…

The Ultimate PS3 Red Alert 3 Trailer

Since the PlayStation 3 version of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is the "Ultimate Edition", that makes this video the Ultimate Red Alert 3 launch trailer. Let’s watch. Okay, well perhaps it isn’t all that ultimate, but it gets the job done, mentioning the Blu-ray disc they’ve packed with delicious C&C:RA3 goodness while giving…

It’s The The Final Fantasy XIII Countdown

Square Enix revisits that most annoying of video game news teases, the countdown clock, promising a “new vision” of Final Fantasy XIII soon to be revealed to the world. We’ve been annoyed by countdown clocks since the first early human crawled out of the goo and said, “Hold on a sec”, but when it’s Square…

Playing Madden Makes You Smarter…About Football

A survey conducted by the University of Oregon’s Warsaw Sports Marketing Center has indicated that playing EA Sports Madden NFL can teach you important life lessons about football. The survey queried more than 15.000 NFL fans, testing their knowledge in categories ranging from game situations to the rules and business of sport. On average, NFL…

Plain Sight Open Beta Launches, Robots With Swords Kill Themselves

Beatnik Games has officially launched the Open Beta for Plain Sight, the multiplayer online PC game that pits bouncing robot against bouncing robot in a sword-swinging fight to the finish. The subtitle for Plain Sight is “Kill Yourself”, and there’s a god reason. You are a robot, killing other robots for points. The more points…

Capcom Signs Deal For Monumental Online Multiplayer Game

Capcom has announced a development deal with UK-based multiplayer online game developer Monumental Games to create a multiplatform title to be released and published by Capcom later this year. Details are scant about the deal between Capcom and Monumental, the developer behind online games Football Superstars and the upcoming hunting MMO Hunter’s World. A brief…