Mike Fahey

Champions Online Cares Where Your Force Beams Come From

In the latest edition of their Champions Online Q&A feature, developer Cryptic details how powers in their upcoming superhero MMORPG can be tweaked by players for a more customized hero. A big issue for me in City of Heroes, which was also developed by Cryptic, was the fact that I had a superhero with a…

Square Brings Disgaea 3 To Europe In February

For the Disgaea fans to cheap to import or too unversed on the English language to read this article, Square Enix is delivering Disgaea 3 to European PlayStation 3 owners next month. Squeenix plans on liberally distributing the latest Nppon Ichi prinnyfest, Disgaea 3, throughout PAL territories come February 20th. The latest game in the…

MySims Line Expands With Inevitable Kart Racing And Party Games

EA begins to slowly work the MySims brand into the ground with the addition of two all-new and completely predictable games for the Wii and DS – MySims Party and MySims Racing. Yes, the adorable little MySims are ripe for exploitation, so here comes a mini-game compilation and a kart racer! MySims Party features more…

Skate Early With The Skate 2 Demo

Skateboarding fans eager to experience the second game in EA’s Skate series will find satisfaction in the coming week, as the company announces a Skate 2 demo for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The Skate 2 demo features both single player modes as well as two of the game’s online party play modes –…

Skate 2 Online Does Not Feature Wizards And Warlocks

/ In this latest Skate 2 developer diary-style video featurette, online producer Brian Lindley reveals new online multiplayer modes for the game before storming off set and ultimately killing a guy with eldritch energies. Brian does a fine job of detailing Skate 2’s new online features despite being obviously uncomfortable in his role of straight…

Learn To Knit The Wii Way

In response to my failed attempt at knitting during the Kotaku Holiday Podcast, reader Austinpoet offered a link to KNiiTTiiNG, a project that teaches players to knit using the Nintendo Wii. Call it Knitting Hero. KNiiTTiiNG is a collaboration between artist Rachel Beth Egenhoefer and scientist Kyle E. Jennings. Rachel’s interest in the intricate hand-movements…

New Trailer And Screens Herald Battlestations: Pacific Website

Eidos has just launched Battlestations.net, the community-focused website for their upcoming follow-up to Battlestations: Midway, Battlestations: Pacific, and they’re celebrating by bombarding fans with new screens and trailers. The Battlestations.net website will play host to new screenshots, movies, developer blogs, podcasts, and just about everything Battlestations: Pacific you can imagine. Fans will be able to…

Subway Teams With Konami To Promote Healthy DDR Sales

From now until the end of March, succumbing to that damnable “Five Dollar Foot-Long” jingle could net you some plastic DDR crap and a $10 coupon good towards your next living room-eating dance pad game. In the name of promoting healthy lifestyles in children, Subway has teamed with Konami in order to include DanceDanceRevolution toys…

Australian Silent Hill: Homecoming Ban Lifted

One of many titles banned in Australia last year due to a rather wonky classification system, Konami’s Silent Hill: Homecoming has now been granted a rating of MA15+, clearing it for launch. As we’ve touched on in previous stories, Australia’s game classification stops at MA15+, lacking the R18+ rating that particularly violent films are afforded.…

Capcom Focus Testing In San Mateo Friday

If you’ll be in the San Francisco Bay area this Friday and seek to experience the exciting world of video game focus testing, Capcom could have just the opportunity you’re looking for. Capcom is holding a round of focus testing on Friday, and unless they’ve suddenly decided to go into the soft drink market, that…

Earthrise Beta Sign Ups Rise

Announced at the beginning of last year, Masthead’s upcoming post-apocalyptic MMORPG Earthrise is now accepting applications for the battle between oppressive order and anarchic freedom. Earthrise takes place years after a cataclysmic third world war. A new society has arisen, populated by clones and controlled by a government that enforces its idea of Utopia by…

SCEA: Holiday PlayStation 3 Sales Jump 130%

Despite an 18.8% drop in year to year PlayStation 3 sales in November, Sony Computer Entertainment America states early internal data puts them at a 130% increase over pre-holiday PS3 sales. Although November saw relatively disappointing PS3 sales and analysts were expecting numbers to be slightly lower than or right on track with last year’s,…

Slimmed Down Free Radical Very Attractive To Buyers

Having recently shed 140 employees worth of weight, the slimmer, more manageable Free Radical is drawing a great deal of interest from various parties, with sale news expected later this month. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Cameron Gunn of administrator ReSolve Partners indicates that interest in the recently trimmed company is very high, with multiple parties vying…

Ashcraft Talks Arcade Mania!

Over at Game Set Watch there’s an exhaustive interview with our own Brian Ashcraft about his book, Arcade Mania!, containing more insight from Ash than I generally see over the course of a year. Ashcraft is the night guy, so I generally roll into work right as he is hitting bed, and have finished up…

New Ninja Blade Screens And Ninja Blade Facts

Microsoft has releases a storm of new Ninja Blade screenshots showing off just how silly Ryu Haybusa would look without the mouth piece of his Ninja Outfit. Sure the action looks intense and the enemies look immense…none of this matters when your main character looks like he rode the short bus to ninja school. The…

EA Bring Family Game Night To Xbox Live

EA continues its onslaught of Hasbro titles this spring as the company reveals plans to flood Xbox Live Arcade with classic board games via the Hasbro Family Game Night channel. Rather than release Hasbro Family Game Night as one complete package as they did with the Wii release, EA instead plans on releasing the games…

Eduardo The Samurai Toaster Officially Journeys To WiiWare

After being outed by an ESRB rating late last month, indie developer Semnat Studios officially announces the development of a WiiWare version of Eduardo the Samurai Toaster. Yes – Samurai Toaster. Eduardo the Samurai Toaster is a side scrolling 2D shooter featuring frantic, hand-drawn graphics that put the power of toast at your fingertips. It’s…

Chrono Trigger, Shenmue, Mega Man, and More Coming To VGL

Tommy Tallarico looks to freshen up the Video Games Live experience a bit in 2009, with plans to add several new games to the concert’s line up, including Mega Man, Shenmue, and Chrono Trigger. Portuguese gaming blog RumblePack got an exclusive from Tallarico during a recent Video Games Live performance, with the diminutive composer spilled…

More Littlest Pet Shop On The Way, Still Just For Girls

EA continues to capitalize on its lucrative agreement with Hasbro, with Littlest Pet Shop Spring for the DS bringing even more adorable big-headed animals that boys aren’t allowed to play with to Nintendo’s handheld. Utilizing the cute and extremely collectible nature of the Littlest Pet Shop Brand, EA allows “girls” to add to their collection…

Prince Of Persia Producer On Shadow Of The Colossus Similarities

In response to MTV Multiplayer’s views on the subject, Prince of Persia producer Ben Mattes delivers his take on the striking similarities between his game and the PlayStation 2 classic Shadow of the Colossus. Just before Christmas, Stephen Totilo of MTV Multiplayer ran an article pondering whether concepts and mechanics shared by Ubisoft’s new Prince…