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Opinion: PlayStation Move could be a hard sell for casual gamers
Let’s first examine Sony’s angle from a marketing perspective. Sony has seen how successful the Wii has become with motion controls and wants to capitalize on the Wii’s greatest strength. That strength is providing easy to play motion control based games which appeal to a broad range of consumers.Taking this fact into account, Sony developed a logic it hopes will be successful: Copy the competitor’s style with prettier games.
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Battles break out in Summer 2010 with BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
Aksys has announced that it will be bringing BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, the sequel to BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, to North American PS3s and Xbox 360s in Summer, 2010.
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Groovin’ Blocks now available on the Playstation Network
Groovin Blocks, the gem busting music puzzle game, is now available for download on the Playstation Network.
Square Enix reveals new Final Fantasy XIV details
With Final Fantasy XIII recently released, Square is already putting the finishing touches on the next entry in the franchise: Final Fantasy XIV. FFXIV will be a massively multiplayer online role-playing Game (MMORPG) set in the world of Hydaelyn. The story revolves around different guilds - remnants of an alliance… Continue Reading »
Important Importables: Vanillaware
In this week’s Important Importables, we’re going to look at one of my favorite Japanese video game developers, Vanillaware. The company may not be one of the most prolific developers out there, but they do make some of the most gorgeous video games available. In a way, that works out… Continue Reading »
Curly Brace steps into the spotlight in Cave Story
We here at Gamertell are incredibly excited for Cave Story‘s Wiiware debut, and Nicalis’ news makes us even more excited. It turns out that Curly Brace isn’t just going to be a supporting cast member in the Wiiware adaption! She’s going to actually be a playable character! There isn’t any… Continue Reading »
Spring 2010 Xbox 360 update adds USB flash drive support
Xbox 360 fans will be pleased to know that more save options, other than Microsoft’s Memory Units and hard drives, will soon be available. Joystiq has discovered that Microsoft is working on an Xbox 360 system update that will allow users to save data to USB flash drive storage devices.… Continue Reading »
Xbox Live Update for the week of March 14 through March 20, 2010
A wave of nostalgia washes over us in this week’s update as the big release is the Xbox Live update of classic Nintendo 64 shooter Perfect Dark. This game was another FPS smash by Rare and is often called the spiritual successor to the groundbreaking GoldenEye 007. The Xbox Live… Continue Reading »
Gamertell Review: Lazy Raiders for Xbox Live
Lazy Raiders takes a very simple control scheme and turns it into a complex sequence of brainteasers. Your main character, the archeologist Dr. Diggabone, is too lazy to actually walk around the tombs he’s raiding. So you have to help by tilting the various mazes using the left thumbstick to… Continue Reading »
GameStop carrying Xbox 360 Elite Spring 2010 bundle, too
The Spring 2010 Xbox 360 bundle is no longer an Amazon.com exclusive. Amazon recently started listing a new bundle that includes a black Xbox 360 Elite console, Forza Motorsport 3, Halo 3: ODST, a 120gb hard drive, a black wireless controller, a black headset and all the necessary cords and… Continue Reading »
Play Batman: Arkham Asylum in 3D May 11, 2010
Square Enix Edios isn’t going to deny North America more Batman: Arkham Asylum goodness. The company has just announced that the Game of the Year Edition, which initially was going to be a European and Australian exclusive, will be released in North America. Just it’ll be released in North America… Continue Reading »
Nintendo publishing Wii-exclusive Samurai Warriors 3
Nintendo picked today, March 16, 2010, to announce that Samurai Warriors 3 is coming to North America. Yup, Nintendo’s working with Tecmo Koei to bring us the Wii-exclusive entry in the Samura Warriors series. It’s nice to see companies work together for the greater good. Samurai Warriors 3 came out… Continue Reading »
Pogoplug adds support for offsite backup, streaming media to an Xbox 360 or PS3
FROM GADGETELL - The Pogoplug offers a convenient way to be able to backup your files and also have access to them from any Internet connection as well as share select files with others. I have been using one for a few weeks now, and have a review coming soon. But today, Pogoplug… MORE »
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Important Importables
Jenni Lada brings us information about all of the groovy new gaming imports from around the world.





