Important Importables: Long live the Dreamcast
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 »
Gamertell Exclusive: Interview with Timothy Porter of TNT Games
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 »
10 Square Enix ports and remakes we wouldn’t mind seeing
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 »
E3 2009: Here’s why OnLive won’t be attending E3
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 »
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 »
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Important Importables
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