Gamertell

On a typical Sunday, November 15, 2009 afternoon, a teenager in Buffalo Grove, Illinois decided that he wasn’t about to just take his Xbox ban lightly. After a 15 year old boy had been told by his parents that part of his punishment for misbehaving to have his Xbox taken… Continue Reading »

The Microsoft Xbox 360 has not earned a reputation for reliability. Console manufacturers are always hard to pin down on failure rates, but a survey by CNET UK provides an interesting sampling. A whopping 60 percent of the 1,128 gamers responding to the survey said their Xbox 360 had failed,… Continue Reading »

With the recent trend of video game companies offering complements and add-ons for games, digital downloads are becoming an increasingly lucrative market. As with other entertainment properties, more and more video game companies are shifting parts of their businesses to creating and delivering this form of content. The ability to… Continue Reading »

Big news for Xbox 360 owners, Microsoft has officially released the Xbox 360 Wireless N Networking Adapter in North America. It works the same way as the previous Wireless Network Adapter, allowing Xbox 360s to connect to wireless internet by plugging into the USB slot, only it now has support… Continue Reading »

The industry seems sharply divided on how much of an impact digital downloading will have on the future of game sales. There has been speculation about whether the next Xbox or PlayStation will even feature any kind of disc drive. EA Sports President Peter Moore doesn’t think it’s time to… Continue Reading »

In an interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Gizmodo pulled out a revealing tidbit concerning the possibility of Blu-ray being playable on the Xbox 360 game system. Microsoft, which had sided with HD-DVD and then HD digital downloads in the late, great high-def format war of 2008, has basically flipped… Continue Reading »

Members of Xbox Live’s preview program will receive the much discussed update that will add Facebook, Twitter and Zune Marketplace this week. That way you won’t even have to leave your console to follow Gamertell on Twitter. But those aren’t the only things included in that update. Microsoft’s “Major Nelson”… Continue Reading »

There’s a new Xbox 360 system update available today, and everyone must install it. Well, not everyone, I guess. If you don’t have your Xbox 360 hooked up to the internet, it isn’t mandatory for you. But everyone else who does will either be asked to download and install once… Continue Reading »

I can’t deny it any longer. I have all the telltale signs. I have Avatar: The Last Airbender on my Gamefly queue. I’m working on mathematical equations as to how to kill 53,000 zombies on Dead Rising and 53,000 infected on Prototype. Sometimes it’s the simple things in life that… Continue Reading »

That’s right, vampire fans. True Blood, HBO’s awesome vampire-meets-southern gothic TV series is in the running for a videogame adaptation. According to 1Up, HBO has filed “a trademark registration for the property in relation to games with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.” For “television receivers or with video or… Continue Reading »