Mike Fahey

Look At This Little Liquid-Cooled Gaming PC

Isn’t Digital Storm’s Project Spark adorable? Only 12 inches tall, yet they still managed to include a transparent side panel and LED-lit liquid cooling. Announced at CES 2018, Project Spark (not to be confused with Microsoft’s defunct game creation app) is boutique system builder Digital Storm’s latest attempt at packing as much PC power into…

Building A Lego Ship In A Bottle Seems Pretty Easy

Clever artisans have been building bottled boats since the 1800s, using either long-handled tools or folding mast and sail trickery to create striking works of nautical art. Due out in February, the Lego Ideas version is more of a build-a-bottle-around-a-boat deal. Works for me. TheLego Ideas program gives fan creators a chance to see their…

My Beautiful, Perfect Children Discovered A Way To Fit Three DVDs In One Xbox

Turning the discs over revealed why they weren’t coming out easily. They were stuck together with ... something. I don’t know.

A Split Keyboard Built For Esports

Split mechanical keyboards are a great way to reduce the arm and joint strain often caused by typing on a traditional keyboard. New gaming hardware maker Dygma wants to bring those benefits to the esports scene with the Raise, which they’re calling “the world’s most advanced gaming keyboard.” Split keyboards have been around for years,…

Razer Wants To Turn Its Gaming Phone Into A Laptop

The Razer Phone is a very powerful piece of Android hardware. The Project Linda concept, revealed today at CES 2018, is a dock for the Razer Phone that turns it into a 13.3 inch Android gaming laptop. Why not? It’s essentially a Razer Blade laptop, only instead of PC internals it’s powered by a Razer…

Swivel Grips Make Switch Joy-Cons Easier To Hold

Playing multiplayer Switch games with a single Joy-Con isn’t the best, especially for those with large hands. Nyko’s snap-on Swivel Grips make a big difference, while turning the Joy-Con into an alien fly creature. I have very large hands, so the already tiny Joy-Con feels much smaller to me than it might to the average…

Only One Joy-Con Was Harmed In The Modding Of This Switch

Nintendo’s Switch is an excellent gaming console, but it is noticeably not Watermelon Red and painfully un-transparent. Over the winter holiday I decided to fix both of those glaring issues. All it took was an inexpensive third-party shell replacement kit, and an extra set of Joy-Cons to replace the one I broke in the process.…

Activision Pulls Transformers Games From Steam And PlayStation Store

If you were planning on purchasing any Transformers video games on Steam or the PlayStation Network over the holidays, it’s too late. Activision’s pulled them all, along with 2014’s The Legend of Korra. The disappearance of War for Cybertron, Fall of Cybertron, Rise of the Dark Spark and 2015’s excellent Transformers: Devastation was first noted…

The Best Toys Of 2017 

Not every toy in 2017 was a fidget spinner or a tiny piece of collectible plastic in an unmarked box. Beyond the whirling kid distractors and blind box collectibles there were some outstanding things to play with this year. Just ask Roarin’ Tyler. I had a lot of fun with Toy Time in 2017, kicking…

Virtual reality just lost another big exclusive. Ubisoft’s cross-platform starship simulator Star Trek Bridge Crew, one of my favorite games of the year, has been patched to be playable without VR. That’s great news for Star Trek fans without virtual reality headsets, not-so-great news for VR in general.

Fahey’s Top 10 Games Of 2017

Here are Fahey's favorite games from the year of our lord 2017

Breath Of The Wild iMessage Stickers Make Texting An Adventure

There is nothing you have to say that cannot be said with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s new animated iMessage stickers. Released today on iTunes for $1.99, the official Breath of the Wild sticker set features 24 animations to use in place of ponderous words while texting with your friends or loved…

Hori’s PS4 Fighting Edge Controller Is A Beauty

Back in 2012 we reviewed Hori’s Fighting Edge for the PlayStation 3, a mighty beast of an arcade fighting controller with a fancy programmable touch panel. The PS4 version of the Fighting Edge is still a beast, but it trades the gimmicky touchscreen for brushed aluminum. It looks good. It feels even better. Being only…

Closers Is A Fine Beat ‘Em Up

Free-to-play episodic PC action MMO Closers is a complicated game, filled with complicated menus and all sorts of management minutia, but its core appeal is easy to summarize. Anime teens with psychokinetic powers battle an alien invasion. The rest can be sorted out later. In Closers, a popular Korean game that’s now in open beta…

The Witcher 3 Now Officially Runs At 60 FPS On The Xbox One X

When the Xbox One X launched in November, players discovered the console could run a completely un-patched disc version of The Witcher 3 at 60 frames per second. The Xbox One X update for the game dropped today, giving players a choice of 60 FPS performance or 30 FPS at 4K. Players who download the…

Lego Marvel‘s Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 DLC Doesn’t Mess With A Good Thing

You know the first 10 minutes or so of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, where Baby Groot dances while the rest of the team battles a giant space squid? That was pretty great. So great that Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 recreated it for its Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 DLC, “Mr. Blue…

One Of The Most Popular Mobile Games In The World Comes To North America

With more than 200 million monthly active players in China, Tencent’s competitive multiplayer game Arena of Valor (AKA Kings of Glory and Strike of Kings) is one of the most popular and profitable mobile games in the world. Today it launched in North America on iOS and Android. Who’s playing? Arena of Valor is a…

My Quest For All-Pink Gaming Gear Is Almost At An End

I love PC gaming. I love the color pink. I’ve spent years trying to bring those two loves together for a desktop threesome. Razer’s Quartz line made it happen. The color pink is soft and cheery, bubbly and welcoming. It’s happy, which is how I want to feel when I sit down for a 10…

L.A. Noire VR Is Great, Except For The Damn Hat

With on-screen hands used for everything from drawing weapons to flipping the siren on a patrol car, L.A. Noire: VR Case Files nails one of the main features I look for in a virtual reality port. But it also has this hat. L.A. Noire: VR Case Files takes a selection of cases from the non-VR…

What Snacktaku Ate In 2017

If we had known how 2017 was going to turn out, there would have only been one article this year—Our Emotions: The Snacktaku Review. It would have saved us a whole lot of typing, video editing and Tums. But snacking isn’t about why we eat—it’s about what we eat. Here’s what we ate in 2017.…