Amazon offering $10 gift card with purchase of New Super Mario Bros. Wii
New Super Mario Bros. Wii has the potential to be the biggest title of the year on Nintendo’s console and Amazon is offering $10 off a future game purchase if purchase the game through them. New Super Mario Bros Wii is not just a straight port of the classic platformer.… Continue Reading »
Family of woman who died during contest to win a Wii awarded $16 million
The Los Angeles Times reports that earlier this week (October 29, 2009) a Sacramento jury awarded $16 million to the family of Jennifer Strange, who died in a ill-fated 2007 radio contest that asked participants to “Hold Your Wee for a Wii.” The mother of three died from water intoxication… Continue Reading »
Gamertell Review: Ju-On: The Grudge for Wii
Ju-On: The Grudge is faulty on many levels but I’m willing to forgive many of them because of the subtitle “Haunted House Simulator” thrown across the box. Have you been to any of the haunted houses that spring up in wooded areas and old schoolhouses at this time of the… Continue Reading »
Miyamoto says next Wii might be more wee
In an interview with Popular Mechanics, gaming legend Shigeru Miyamoto talked about what he feels will be the natural evolution of the Wii and its various control devices. They have the technology. They can rebuild it and make it better, cuter and, yes, smaller than before… Continue Reading »
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom welcomes Dead Rising’s Frank West
The wild and wacky collection of characters in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars has added the power of the press. Frank West, the photojournalist at the center of the shopping mall zombie outbreak in Capcom’s Dead Rising, is throwing his Servbot hat into the ring. Frank showed off his combat… Continue Reading »
Padres pitcher credits Wii Fit with helping his weight loss
Forget about steroids or any other performance-enhancing substances. The way to improve your baseball game is by playing the Nintendo Wii. San Diego Padres pitcher Heath Bell considered himself to be in pretty good shape, after all, he’s a professional athlete. But when he stepped onto the Wii Fit Balance… Continue Reading »
Nintendo downloads: Empire Strikes Back edition
I know we’ve taken a bit of a hiatus on the Nintendo Download front, but fear not - we’re back and better than ever. Especially because today, one of the coolest, most badass (in the dorkiest way) games for the SNES came out. Yeah, I’m talking about Super Empire Strikes… Continue Reading »
Gamertell Review: Wii Sports Resort for Wii
Wii Sports Resort may at times come off like a tech demo for the new Wii MotionPlus accessory, but is there anything wrong with that? By offering nearly 1:1 motion capturing, reflecting motions in a 3D space, the Wii MotionPlus brings a level of control to your WiiMote that simply… Continue Reading »
Gamertell Review: Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil for Wii
Here we are with Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil. The game is 13 years old, although only 7 years older than the Game Cube remake it more closely resembles. Sadly, Resident Evil is showing its age. Not in appearance, mind youthe game actually looks quite goodbut in how it feels.… Continue Reading »
The Conduit is latest high-profile Sega game to hit low sales ceiling
It’s one of the biggest paradoxes in gaming right now. Hardcore gamers with Nintendo Wiis have clamored that there are no titles released for them. But three Sega titles catering to that niche have met with cool sales so far in 2009. Sega’s first-person shooter The Conduit is the latest… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
Live Coverage of E3 2009
The Gamertell team brings us live coverage from the E3 Expo.
Important Importables
Jenni Lada brings us information about all of the groovy new gaming imports from around the world.



