Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare getting a direct sequel for 2009 holiday season
Despite nearly a dozen Call of Duty games released since 2003, fans just can’t seem to get enough of the intense first-person shooter series. To date, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare stands on a hill of its own, selling more than fourteen million copies worldwide, dozens of Game of… Continue Reading »
Activision Blizzard returning to E3 for 2009
It’s no secret that the Electronic Entertainment Expo has been in a state of flux for the past couple of years. These days the companies that don’t show up for the event make as much news as the companies that do. Conspicuous by its absence from E3 2008 was the… Continue Reading »
Christmas cards from game companies (2008 edition)
Each year I receive a stack of holiday greeting cards from various game and entertainment companies. Some come with small physical gifts (*cough* Sony *cough*) while others simply highlight a few featured game characters. This year, more companies have sent electronic cards and none have included a small gift (so… Continue Reading »
World of Warcraft: More than 11.5 million served
World of Warcraft has reached another milestone thanks, in part, to the success of Wrath of the Lich King. Over 11.5 million people paying to play World of Warcraft - isn’t that kind of crazy? Amazing. Blizzard announced this huge figure today, and also gave credit to the expansion for… Continue Reading »
Ghostbusters game coming June 2009
Afraid there was gonna be no one to call when ghosts were eventually going to haunt your video game console? Well fear no more gentle citizen, for Atari has officially announced that the upcoming Ghostbusters: The Video Game will be warming up the proton packs for June 2009. After the… Continue Reading »
Yeah Right: Blizzard swears Starcraft II trilogy not an attempt to “stretch it out and milk it”
So how did you feel about the announcement Blizzard made regarding their upcoming sequel to the decade old and still selling RTS game, Starcraft II, would be split up into three games, or at least one game and two expansions? Did you not care? Are you one of those players… Continue Reading »
BlizzCon 2008: World of Warcraft to get character upgrade microtransactions
Diablo III lead designer Jay Wilson and World of Warcraft (WoW) production director J. Allen Brack recently took to the stage at a BlizzCon 2008 press conference in California to answer fan questions about Blizzard Entertainment’s highly anticipated sequel and its ever popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) respectively.… Continue Reading »
BlizzCon 2008: Diablo 3 will not be subscription based
In an interview with Joystiq, Blizzard Vice President of game design, Rob Pardo, was asked about earlier reports from Julian Wilson on how Blizzard is looking to monetize Battle.net. Pardo mentioned that Blizzard is not looking to put Diablo 3 on a subscription-based pricing. “It’s clearly not an MMO, so… Continue Reading »
BlizzCon 2008: Starcraft 2 trilogy could span three years
As if it wasn’t bad enough that Starcraft fans learned the single-player campaign would be broken up into a trilogy, Blizzard Vice President of game design, Rob Pardo, had to make things worse. In an interview with Joystiq, Mr. Pardo was asked how long of a gap there would be… Continue Reading »
BlizzCon 2008: Blizzard may start charging fees for Battle.net
Joystiq reports that our worst fears have been hinted at. When asked, “Will Battle.Net remain free?”, at the Diablo III gameplay panel at BlizzCon 2008, Blizzard’s Julian Wilson gave Blizzard fans a startling answer: “We are looking to monetize Battle.Net so that we get to keep making these games and… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
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.



