Gamertell

Namco Bandai’s Tales of series hasn’t been developed in North America, Europe and other regions the way it has in Japan. We’ve never seen any of the DS entries (Tales of Tempest/Tales of Innocence/Tales of Hearts), didn’t catch the Game Boy Advance Narikiri Dungeon or Summoner’s Lineage spin-offs and weren’t… Continue Reading »

In light of this year’s Dreamcast anniversary I’ve decided to write up a guide for many of you who either are just diving into Dreamcast or rejoining the Orange Swirl Society. I’ll try to cover as many aspects as I can about the system but if I miss some burning… Continue Reading »

Today is one of those special days. It’s September 9, 2009. Seems ordinary enough, unless you look at it like this: 9/9/09. People are throwing special parties, the movie 9 opens in theaters today, Apple’s releasing the Beatles’ music catalog digitally today, Beatles Rock Band debuts and a select number… Continue Reading »

The Ft. Worth Star Telegram reports that Grapevine, Texas-based retailer Gamestop’s quarterly net profit dropped 32 percent for the company’s second quarter. GameStop CEO Daniel DeMatteo blamed the recession and a so-so gaming lineup in the first half of 2009. “Due to the effects of the recession and strong prior… Continue Reading »

Have you ever thought you had telekinesis? Well it turns out everyone does! I didn’t believe it myself until I tried out the new Mind Flex game by Mattel at Comic Con this year. I was introduced to a nice man who told me I was about to play a… Continue Reading »

Contrary to what we were reporting this time a year or so ago, the game industry is not recession proof.  Video games just took their biggest monthly sales drop in nearly a decade. Even GameStop, a company that has been able to do no wrong financially, is feeling it. In… Continue Reading »

The Dreamcast is an example of a console that its fans refused to let die. When Sega discontinued it outside of Japan, people purchased Boot Disks that would let them play import video games and imported. When licensed games stopped coming, people started creating and selling their own independent games.… Continue Reading »

TNT Games, an independent video game developer formed a little longer than a year ago. Made up of Dungeon’s and Dragons fans, this small company has already released its first title, Trinity Wars Prologue: Spine of the World, for the XBox 360 and is now working on its next title… Continue Reading »

The Chrono Trigger DS port, Final Fantasy Legend II DS remake and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Wii port are Square Enix’s most recent resurrections of popular games. The company has no problem milking successful Square or Enix games in an attempt to make more money and saturate the… Continue Reading »

The brains behind OnLive are confident in their ability to make OnLive work as planned but, unfortunately, we won’t be seeing the service at E3 2009. It seemed awfully strange that OnLive would miss out on one of the biggest gaming conferences in the country but OnLive’s Chief Operating Officer… Continue Reading »