About Friggin Time: Komodo Adapter will let you use old controllers with your Wii (updated)
A press release sent by Innex today (May 14, 2009) announced the upcoming release of the Komodo Adapter, a “3-in-1 Virtual Retro Adaptor that allows gamers to connect NES, SNES, and N64 controllers directly to the Nintendo Wii video game console.” Now you can put your old controllers back in… Continue Reading »
Lunar: The Silver Star is being rereleased again
If you didn’t play the original Lunar any of the three times it was already released in North America, you’re in luck. There’s a very good chance that it could be coming to your PSP very soon. A Japanese enhanced port of Lunar: The Silver Star, being called Lunar: Harmony… Continue Reading »
Eight great games you may never have heard of (but should have)
Whenever people talk about the greatest games of all time, you hear the usual ol’ Halos, Final Fantasys and possibly Metal Gear Solids come up. Yes, these are great games but there are plenty of games out there that are truly great but get little or no recognition. In fact… Continue Reading »
Important Importables: Sakura Taisen
A long time ago, back in January 2009, Important Importables covered dating games for guys. The game Sakura Wars was brought up in the comments, along with a question why it wasn’t mentioned in the game round up. Today, Sakura Wars, better known as Sakura Taisen in Japan, gets the… Continue Reading »
Important Importables: Doraemon
When most people think of Japanese popular culture, the mascots come to mind. Characters like Hello Kitty, Godzilla and Pikachu who have become superstars due to games, toys, movies, stationary products and manga. Their popularity has become so great that they’ve become worldwide icons. While Hello Kitty tends to steal… Continue Reading »
Villains Rule: 11 games that let players be bad
Ah, villainy. A sacred and necessary vocation. After all, if there’s no antagonist, what’s the protagonist supposed to do all day, stay at home growing crops, raising animals and making friends with the neighbors? Inconceivable! Even when that situation arises, some ill-intentioned individual pops up and turns some earth goddess… Continue Reading »
Important Importables: The Journey to the West in games
Journey to the West may be a staple of Chinese literature, but it is a tale that has certainly received a lot of love in Japan. The Ming Dynasty novel tells the tale of a monk, Xuanzang, who has been tasked with a holy pilgrimage to India to retrieve Buddhist… Continue Reading »
Opinion: Game consoles have nothing to fear from OnLive
With the major announcement of OnLive, a gaming service that allows anyone to play any game on a TV, PC or Mac, speculation that major game consoles are finished has begun. It’s a bit premature, since the OnLive external beta hasn’t even begun and the service itself isn’t launching commercially… Continue Reading »
Adventures in Piracy: A look back at some memorable anti-piracy measures
For as long as there’s been video games, it seems like there’s been video game piracy. It’s sadly become a commonplace occurrence, with deserving developers and publishers becoming victims of disrespectful players who would rather steal than pay for a quality game. Some developers and publishers attempt to strike back.… Continue Reading »
A fond look back at A Boy and His Blob
A Boy and His Blob is a series with a lot of history. It’s all pretty much ancient history though. Before the announcement of the forthcoming Majesco Wii remake, the last we’d seen of the boy and the blob was the Game Boy game The Rescue of Princess Blobette in… Continue Reading »
Black Friday 2009
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Live Coverage of E3 2009
The Gamertell team brings us live coverage from the E3 Expo.
Important Importables
Jenni Lada brings us information about all of the groovy new gaming imports from around the world.




