Mike Fahey

Mass Effect 2 Makes A Guest Appearance At GDC

The second game in Bioware’s planned Mass Effect trilogy makes a special appearance at GDC in March, where the company will present a panel discussing the Iterative Level Design Process of Mass Effect 2. While we won’t call it an official announcement – we’ve long known that Mass Effect was only part one of a…

Gouken And Akuma Face Off In New Street Fighter IV Trailer

It’s brother against brother as diabolical Street Fighter villain Akuma takes on his sibling in an all-out battle to the death in this brutal new trailer for Capcom’s Street Fighter IV. Done in the same sketchy style as previous trailers for the game, the new trailer features a fight between Akuma (Gouki in Japan) and…

Sony Calls Out 360 And Wii For Peddling Add-Ons

In a rather pointed media alert distributed yesterday, Sony illustrates why they believe the PlayStation 3 is the most complete console entertainment experience, complete with a handy table to highlight the competition’s shortcomings. Sony’s statement in the alert echoes points tossed about in forum flame wars all across the internet. The Xbox 360 has no…

Square Enix To Deliver Ubisoft Games To Japan

Square Enix continues to further their global agenda today as they announce an agreement with Ubisoft to distribute the French publisher’s titles throughout Japan. The agreement with Ubisoft marks Square Enix’s second deal to bring western titles to Japan, having recently agreed to publish the WiiWare title LostWinds from the UK’s Frontier Developments in the…

The EA PlayStation Home Sports Complex In Motion

Here’s the trailer to go along with EA’s official announcement of their first venture into PlayStation Home support, the activity-filled EA Sports Complex. My first reaction to the news that EA was building an interactive sports complex within PlayStation Home was basically, “Great, more places to stick ads”. Having seen some of the mini-games they’ve…

Barack Obama Backs The Wii

Sure, video games are raising our children and you can’t vote with a Wii remote. Now that the voting is over, President-elect Obama finds time to kick back with a little Wii Sports bowling. In an article in the New York Times in which our soon-to-be President predicts a Florida win over Oklahoma in tonight’s…

EVE Online: Acpocrypha Expands Horizons This March

CCP draws back the curtain today on EVE Online: Apocrypha, the 10th free expansion for their popular space MMORPG, delivering whole new regions of the universe to explore. Using the tried and true giant wormhole mechanic, Apocrypha will open up unexplored areas of the universe to adventurers brave enough to explore them. With new regions…

GameStop Claims Triumph Over Recession, Holidays Sales Up 22%

GameStop stands proudly in the snow, one foot atop the neatly decapitated recession monster as it proudly proclaims its triumph over the failing economy, with holiday sales up 22% over last year. Is the gaming industry recession proof? Maybe not as far as development studios are concerned, but from a retail perspective things are looking…

Snowy Fallout 3 DLC Screens, Now With More Ninja

Bethesda is back to their old three screenshots at a time tricks, delivering three chilly new screenshots from their upcoming Operation Anchorage downloadable content for Fallout 3. The three appropriately snowbound screens are helpfully titled as what they depict. The water screenshot depicts your character staring out over the water; the base screenshot shows off…

Nyko Waves Their Wand At CES

Debuting along with a few Wii charge kits at CES 2009, The Wand is Nyko’s answer to the Wii Remote, featuring the ability to electrically replicate vibration feedback and control in attached devices. Nyko’s The Wand is a Wii remote alternative that features the company’s all new Trans-Port technology. While current attachments to your standard…

Red Alert 3 Launches PC Uprising In March

The epic saga of Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 continues this March with Uprising, a PC-exclusive standalone expansion that takes the single-player campaign to a whole new level. Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising picks up where the original game left off, with the Soviets dealing with their utter defeat, the Empire of…

Godfather II Ships In Late February, Pre-Orders Get Exclusive Mobster

EA and Paramount Digital have announced the official ship date for their second game in The Godfather franchise, with a multi-talented pre-order exclusive mobster joining the crew of those who join the family early. Players will be able to act like a mobster and think like a Don come late February, as the Godfather II…

Tetris Spells Trauma Relief

Researches at the Oxford University in England have discovered that the effects of traumatic stress can be dampened by something as simple as playing a bit of Tetris. 40 healthy volunteers were exposed to a film containing a series of traumatic graphic images of injuries. Half of the subjects were given the game Tetris to…

Uwe Boll Receives Four Razzie Nominations

The Golden Raspberry Awards are the anti-Oscars, celebrating the worst that film has to offer, so it comes as no surprise that our favorite video game movie director Uwe Boll be nominated for four. According to Larry Carroll of the MTV Movie Blog, Boll appears four times on the 2008 Razzie ballot, with nominations for…

GameCrazy Offers Street Fighter Coinage For SFIV Pre-Orders

Take a gander at this special, limited edition commemorative Street Fighter IV coin, available exclusively to folks who pre-order Capcom’s next big fighting game from retailer GameCrazy. The commemorative Street Fighter 20th Anniversary coin is a thing of joy and wonder, encompassing everything it means to be a coin, while still commemorating an event. It…

Saint’s Row 2 Hits Steam

The nice folks at Valve have just informed us that THQ’s open-world gangbanger simulation Saint’s Row II is now available to download and play on your PC via Steam. Yes, along with your local PC game dealer, Saint’s Row 2 is now available for download on the Steam Service for the low price of $39.99,…

Ubisoft Makes Grey’s Anatomy Game Official

Though most likely perturbed by having their fun ruined by the ESRB last month, Ubisoft has gone ahead and made Grey’s Anatomy for the Nintendo Wii, DS, and PC official. The Grey’s Anatomy games sounds like a cross between Trauma Surgeon and a an adventure game, with players taking on the roles of their favorite…

Creat And Tikgames Bring Cuboid To PSN

Creat and Tikgames are combining gamers’ craving for puzzles with their deep-seated love of geometric shapes, resulting in Cuboid, a new puzzler coming soon to the PlayStation Network. In a post over at PlayStation.Blog, Creat Studios producer Olga Sokolova discusses the new 3D puzzle game, available “soon” on the PlayStation Network for $9.99. Cuboid is…

50 Cent Takes Cover In New Blood On The Sand Clip

Isn’t he supposed to be Bulletproof? A fresh new video and screens from THQ’s 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand show off the game’s cover system, which involves Fiddy shouting expletives between firing weapons. At first I was a bit taken aback by the cover system, which as I said revolves around calling the enemy…

Bioshock Could See Upwards Of Five Sequels, Story Willing

While wary of “cashing in” on the franchise, Global President of 2K Christoph Hartmann suggests that Bioshock could follow the Star Wars saga, generating sequels as long as the story holds out. Now of course he isn’t guaranteeing five more Bioshock games, but Hartmann says that if the innovation is there and the storyline is…