Gamertell

With the current world economic issues affecting the game industry, Microsoft has now begun to clean its own house by trimming some of the supposed fat from its developer portfolio. Microsoft has already shut down several of its first-party studios including FASA, ACES and Ensemble and now it appears Rare… Continue Reading »

The massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) Fallen Earth‘s alpha testing game is going to begin this week, on August 14, 2008, and People who stop by GameSpot and sign up may have the chance to participate. So far, over 130 people have posted to apply for an alpha or beta… Continue Reading »

In the global fight against terrorism numerous government and private organizations have kept their ears to the ground, trying to prevent the next 9/11. Now it seems that Bethesda Softworks, a Maryland based developer which created the Elders Scroll series, has unwillingly become part of terrorists’ war on the Western… Continue Reading »

Hot on the heels of the groundbreaking success of Grand Theft Auto IV, THQ said in an interview with Reuters that they are pushing back the release of Saint’s Row 2 from August 2008 to October 14, 2008. THQ’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Bob Aniello, told Reuters that… Continue Reading »

With the June 2008 release date of the next installment in the Metal Gear Solid series just, there has been a lot of assumption that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of Patriots will be the last in the series. That might not be the case. In a recent interview with… Continue Reading »

And the corporate consolidation of media continues - Kotaku is reporting on CBS’ acquisition of CNET networks cache of sites, including gamespot. Apparently, CNET’s board of directors unanimously agreed to the merger, and the transition is slated to occur by the third quarter of this year. From the post: “Upon… Continue Reading »

It looks like Rockstar is finally getting wise about releasing its games with numerous bugs and serious glitches. After years of putting out titles such as Grand Theft Auto, which always came along with a series of major technical problems; from frequent crashing, visual glitches or simply that entire levels… Continue Reading »

On Thursday (January 31, 2008), Gamespot anointed Ricardo Torres as its newest Editor-in-Chief, a position that hasn’t been filled since previous EIC Greg Kasavin left to work at Electronic Arts in January 2007.  Upon taking the job, Torres told GameDaily, in an interview, that he wants to win back the… Continue Reading »

According to a recent ars technica post, game retail giant Gamestop will be changing its focus to court mainstream consumers. The chain will now devote sections of its stores to casual and “family” gaming, and indicated that the interest in casual gaming (brought on primarily by the success of the… Continue Reading »

Further fanning the flames of the firing of Gamespot’s Editorial Director Jeff Gerstmann, freelance writer Frank Provo is calling it quits from the site Here’s his open post about it, grabbed right from the site before it’s noticed and likely removed: Farewell, GameSpot It’s true, I’m no longer contributing to… Continue Reading »