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Oh, yeah, that’s right. We’re covering the crud our of the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (aka CES 2010). We’ll have live blogs of press conferences, interviews, product previews and photos of the tiniest game-related gadgets you to oogle. Just head over our dedicated Gamertell at CES 2010 section and… Continue Reading »

Hats off to Guitar Hero III, the first ever game to reach one billion dollars in sales. It only took 26 months to do it too. Activision, the publisher of this phenomenal game, announced that the Guitar Hero franchise reached over a billion dollars in revenues (according to data from… Continue Reading »

FROM GADGETELL - The Consumer Electronics Show is the highlight of our year.  We get to fondle all of the shiny new toys that most people won’t be seeing for months, sometimes even years.  Unfortunately the Gadgetell team has departed Las Vegas, and our live coverage of the show floor has come to… MORE »

Halo has gone from being a mere video game to a full scale phenomenon and the engine shows no signs of stopping. Its third installment has sold an amazing 8 million copies and sold $170 million worth of games in the US in its first 24 hours. In his keynote… Continue Reading »

Due at least in part to developing a Beatles-themed music game (and building a Fort Knox-style complex to house money raked in from said game), Harmonix will not release a Rock Band game in 2009. That word came from Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopolous during an interview at Billboard’s “Digital Music… Continue Reading »

It’s fitting that the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) takes place in Las Vegas, because at this show we learn which companies have gambler’s instincts. Sony went all in betting that Blu-ray technology would win the next-gen video disc wars, adding Blu-ray capability to its PlayStation 3 consoles. Microsoft, on the… Continue Reading »

It’s very difficult to have a game that relies so heavily on extra downloadable content such as Rock Band 2 on the Wii after seeing what its PS3 and Xbox 360 counterparts have to offer. Since the Wii doesn’t have a hard drive, owners have been forced to buy SD… Continue Reading »

We shouldn’t count the PC market out of the casual gaming market just yet. This generation has rammed motion controls into our brains courtesy of the Nintendo Wii and Lenovo is hoping to capitalize on the idea. The company has revealed the IdeaCentre A600 All-in-One Desktop that comes with a… Continue Reading »

FROM GADGETELL - Click for a larger image. Toshiba has finally made good use of the cell processor—one of the most powerful chipsets (you may know it from the Sony PlayStation 3 processor). This will bring some amazing features into your home such as simultaneous HD viewing (up to 4 channels at once),… MORE »

FROM GADGETELL - We have begun to prep for the Steve Ballmer press conference. This is going to be interesting since Bill Gates has given the CES opening keynote for over 10 years. We have seen Steve going absolutely crazy in the past: screaming, yelling, and sweating beyond control. More recently he has… MORE »