Mike Fahey

Observer Explores the Scary Side Of Cyberpunk

The image above is that of a woman trapped at the moment before her violent death, endlessly repeating the combination to a secret door she’ll never reach. It’s just one small sliver of the sci-fi mind-fuckery that awaits in the Rutger Hauer-voiced cyberpunk horror game Observer. Developed by Bloober Team, the studio behind Layers of…

The Next Naruto Game Lets Players Make Their Own Damn Ninja

Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Strikers might be a weird online multiplayer battle arena game instead of a traditional fighter, but it does one thing those other Naruto games don’t. It lets players make their own ninja. You can never have too many. Sure, there are dozens and dozens of characters in Naruto that players are…

Lego’s 2017 Holiday Set Is Just Waiting For A Train

It’s that time of the year again, when adult Lego fans with children old enough not to destroy everything they touch find out what they’ll be adding to their Lego holiday display this season. Last year we got an amazing train. This year we get a place for it to stop. The Winter Village Station…

Fire Emblem’s greatest heroes get their Musou on when Fire Emblem Warriors for Nintendo Switch launches October 20. It’s the latest step in Koei Tecmo’s plan to make everything Dynasty Warriors. It’s a good plan.

The Crew 2 is coming to you via land, sea and air on March 16, 2018 on Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Ubisoft revealed the released date via this speedy trailer, along with a link for players to sign up for future beta access. Here is that link. Vroom.

Hyper Clack Retro-Style Mechanical Keyboard Review: Not So Super

Hyperkin is a company known for its retro emulation consoles and affordable gaming accessories. It is not a company known for high quality mechanical keyboards, and the Super Nintendo-inspired Hyper Clack is not going to change that. The Hyper Clack mechanical keyboard is a retro-styled input device designed to appeal to the old school gamer,…

What We Mostly Didn’t Like About The Defenders

The Defenders mini-series made its Netflix debut Friday, bringing together Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Daredevil and Iron Fist as Marvel’s street-level super team. We assembled Gita Jackson and Mike Fahey to discuss what worked, what didn’t, and how horrible Danny Rand is. So horrible. The Defenders Spoilers Follow Fahey: So, Gita. I was following your…

Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 is going to be all over the place. And time, for that matter. The Gamescom trailer for November’s sequel takes us on a tour of the game’s locales, from the Old West to New York City (regular and noir version), Asgard to Nowhere.

PlayStation Classic Fear Effect Gets A Modern Makeover

Following last year’s successful Kickstarter campaign for Fear Effect Sedna, French studio Sushee’s next project is a complete remake of the 2000 original. Fear Effect Reinvented is coming to PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC next year. The original Fear Effect is a 2000 PlayStation game by now-defunct Kronos Digital Entertainment, in which a trio…

The HTC Vive is now $599, receiving its first official price drop since the virtual reality headset launched last year at $799. That puts the Vive at $100 more than the Rift/Touch combo, though the latter is current on sale for a limited time for $399. (Updated with latest Rift pricing)

A Device That Turns Almost Any Camera Into A Webcam

Game capture hardware maker Elgato made streaming a little bit fancier this week with the release of Cam Link, a $129 USB device that allows users to use any camera with an HDMI output as a webcam. Plus it also does game capture. It’s pretty nifty. Packaged in a box with a quick start guide…

2014 Steam hit Spintiresis coming to consoles. Spintires: Mudrunner, due in October for PS4, Xbox One and PC, upgrades the original off-road driving simulator’s graphics while adding a sixth sandbox map, a challenge mode and 13 new vehicles.

The Pillars Of The Earth Game Adds Choices To The Book’s Dramatic Moments

In the first chapter of Ken Follett’s bestselling novel The Pillars of the Earth, mason Tom Builder and his family are journeying through snowy woods when his wife, Agnes, enters labor. The tragic events that follow serve as the opening to Daedalic Entertainment’s adventure game adaptation. Released this week on Steam, Xbox One and PS4,…

The Lego Powerpuff Girls are adorable, and they’ll be hitting Lego Dimensions on September 12, alongside Teen Titans Go! and Beetlejuice. These are the last scheduled releases for the toys-to-life game for the time being. Ending on a high note, I’d say.

Razer Gear Looks Really Nice In White

I’ve been reviewing Razer accessories and hardware for ages, and aside from the odd license tie-in and those rainbow headsets, they’ve mostly had one thing in common—they’ve been black. Well now we’ve got the Mercury line, so bright and white they look like the restless spirits of real Razer products. Razer’s actually gottwo new color…

Pinball FX 3 Is All About Cross-Platform Competition

Coming soon to Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, the third installment of Zen Studios’ pinball platform will focus on community run tournaments and multiplayer match-ups. Today the studio announced which console and PC platforms can play together, as well as which Pinball FX 2 tables players can import into Pinball FX 3. When Zen…

Wrapping My Nintendo Switch In Wood

Back in June I made my PlayStation 4 look old and classywith a wooden cover by a company called Toast. It was fast and easy. Doing the same thing to my Nintendo Switch took a little more doing. Toast makes covers out of actual wood veneer for all sorts of devices, from smartphones (we can…

Tips For Playing Agents Of Mayhem

Saints Row spin-off Agents of Mayhem is out today, and it’s a very different game than its over-the-top, gang-banging, devil-taunting predecessors. It can be daunting, but worry not — we’ve got tips. Here are some helpful suggestions from getting the most out of the struggle between the heroic agents of MAYHEM and the global terrorist…

H1Z1: Just Survive, the companion game to H1Z1: King of the Kill, is now simply called Just Survive, separating it from the H1Z1 universe. The rebranding arrives with today’s massive update, which introduces player-built strongholds to the game. Check out the update notes here.

The Secret World Is Getting A TV Series

Funcom’s supernatural conspiracy MMO recently got a reboot, and now it’s getting its own television show. Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil and G4C Innovation have teamed up to produce a live-action TV series based on The Secret World. Or Secret World Legends. Whichever. Set in the modern day and revolving around a power struggle between a…