Gamertell

Los Angeles Lakers’ star and 2009 NBA Finals’ MVP Kobe Bryant is the cover boy for Take-Two’s NBA 2K10. In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, he makes a pretty effective pitchman as well. Bryant told the LA Times this latest incarnation of digital basketball is so realistic… Continue Reading »

It’s time to once again get ready for the annual event of much gaming goodness known as E3 2009. Here’s a list of the announced company press conferences and keynote address. We’ll be Live Blogging several of these conferences, so watch the site for constant updates all week. For a… Continue Reading »

While gamers and their advocates have long since denounced California’s action as pointless, they gained a powerful ally in the LA Times. In and editorial titled “Violent video games: Who controls the joystick?,” the newspaper has taken the state of California to task for its efforts to legislate an action… Continue Reading »

If you thought listening to the disclaimers at the end of a commercial for medicine or reading the warning labels on the side of a cigarette pack is funny, then get a load of this. I read the report posted on CNet by Don Reisinger which indicates that on January… Continue Reading »

At the 2008 Tokyo Game Show, many Japanese developers admitted that western game development was beginning to surpass that of eastern development. So what do you do if you can’t beat ‘em? Hire ‘em. It seems that’s exactly what Square Enix plans to do according to Gamasutra. The developer posted… Continue Reading »

In an op-ed published last month, we covered California’s attempt to renew their anti-gaming campaign. The Associated Press covered the Court of Appeals hearing to overturn a court decision that said California’s anti-violent games sales law was unconstitutional. California Deputy Attorney General Zachery Morazzini asked the courts to uphold the… Continue Reading »

As reported by San Jose Mercury News, on Wednesday (October 22, 2008), the State of California will try to revive its crusade against violent video games. This will be contesting a law deemed unconstitutional in 2007. This decision will be reviewed by the 9th District U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.… Continue Reading »

According to a recent article published in the SouthTown Star and written by GateHouse News Service, online gamers may have been wrongly stereotyped. Of the 7,000 online gamers researchers interviewed who played EverQuest 2, a MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online game), they are not the overweight rotund teenage boys most people… Continue Reading »

BlizzCon 2008 is offering a free pay-per-view package to new DirecTV subscribers for its upcoming World of Warcraft tournament starting at 1:30 p.m. on October 10, 2008, and 2 p.m. EST on October 11, 2008, broadcasting live from the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA (USA). The DirecTV special promotion… Continue Reading »

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been deeply involved in his activism against violent video games. He gave his assent to California’s video game law (or anti-game law as many believe), which found legal force in 2005, only to be overturned by a federal court as unconstitutional. This, however, didn’t dampen Schwarzenegger’s spirits… Continue Reading »