Gamertell

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 »

I was browsing the net as usual to keep myself abreast of all the game industry news when my friend and fellow Gaian told me about a journal he found on Gaia Online announcing that Gaia was laying off members of its staff. I couldn’t find that journal but at… Continue Reading »

When Kate Hourihan of TriplePoint PR sent me a message asking if I wanted rock the mic like Justin Timberlake or Elvis Presley I had to check out what’s new at Gaia Online’s Celebrity Snare. The Celebrity Snare, which opened September 2008, allows Gaians to purchase virtual items from famous… 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 »

You may have read in an earlier story here on the tell that the Dark Knight video game was axed .  Alas, there is faint hope for the caped crusader fans that a game exist and indeed is in the works.  Our lovely friends over at Kotaku have scored an… Continue Reading »

Haven’t caught all of the Gamertell news this week?  Here’s your chance to catch up on this week’s top 10 articles! Nintendo sues Japanese firms over R4 and similar devices“Today (July 29, 2008), Nintendo and 54 Japanese software makers filed a lawsuit against five Japanese companies which have been distributing… Continue Reading »

It’s the end of the week and E3 2008 has officially ended and now it’s time to sit back, relax, and take in all the announcements made by the big three: Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft.  Click through for an in-depth breakdown of the good and the bad of each company’s… Continue Reading »

If you’ve been keeping up with video games in politics, you may or may not already know about HB1423, a bill being proposed in Massachusetts that would block the sale of violent games to minors. While there has been much debate amongst politicians since its introduction, best-selling author Stephen King… Continue Reading »

Canadian-based Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) has invested the sum of $1 million dollars in Silicon Knights, the creators of the upcoming Too Human  or the development of a videogame prototype. So far the only words coming out of Silicon Knights is that they have described the unknown projects as… Continue Reading »

In what could be considered another nail in the coffin for HD DVD, Netflix, the world’s leading Internet DVD renter, announced in a statement released on its web site that the company will be going exclusively Blu-ray over HD DVDs. While Netflix currently carries both formats, HD-DVD and Blu-ray, Netflix… Continue Reading »