Bioshock 2 gets new release date
2K Games announced that heavily anticipated sequel Bioshock 2 is coming February 9, 2010. The return to the underwater community of Rapture was originally slated to release in November 2009 but Take-Two pushed it out of a holiday season crowded with blockbuster games. November 2009 features 800-pound gorillas including Call… Continue Reading »
Take-Two reaches $20 million settlement over Hot Coffee
Starbucks’ prices look positively reasonable when you consider how much a little “Hot Coffee” cost Take-Two Interactive. The Grand Theft Auto publisher announced on September 1, 2009, that it has reached a $20 million settlement with investors in the class-action lawsuit filed over the Hot Coffee scandal surrounding Grand Theft… Continue Reading »
Kobe Bryant stars in NBA 2K10, now with more realistic jaw jutting
Los Angeles Lakers’ star and 2009 NBA Finals’ MVP Kobe Bryant is the cover boy for Take-Two’s NBA 2K10. In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, he makes a pretty effective pitchman as well. Bryant told the LA Times this latest incarnation of digital basketball is so realistic… Continue Reading »
GameStop wants to set you up like a mob boss
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has been given a good amount of praise since its release but its sales figures were not as high as we may have thought. Chinatown Wars only sold 89,000 copies in the United States during the first 18 days of release and Nintendo believes the… Continue Reading »
Talk of the Nation teasing Grand Theft Auto IV for year-end broadcast
National Public Radio is taking a mental holiday on December 31, 2008, with most of its shows airing 2008 highlights and recaps. For the year ender of Talk of the Nation (check local listings for broadcast times), hosted by Neal Conan, NPR has been promoting a pop culture recap featuring… Continue Reading »
Rockstar to bring DS owners down to Chinatown in March 09
Car related theft and carnage have been conspicuously absent on the DS for quite some time. After all, the PSP received two Grand Theft Auto games (Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories), so it stood to reason the DS was due. Then, at… Continue Reading »
Take-Two financial report confirms Bioshock 2, GTA: Chinatown Wars
Take-Two Interactive released its Q3 2008 financial report today (September 4, 2008) which showed promising results. Besides the companies rise in net income to the tune of $51.8 million, Take-Two confirmed two big titles for its fiscal 2009 year which starts November 1, 2008,and ends on January 31, 2009: We… Continue Reading »
Rant: Stop blaming, banning videogames for real-world violence
Grand Theft Auto IV was recently removed from store shelves in Thailand by the order of New Era Interactive, one of Asia’s largest game distributors. The reason is that Polwat Chino, a 19-year-old boy, killed a taxi driver while trying to recreate a scene from the game. Ah. Yet another… Continue Reading »
Take-Two press conference recap
Take- Two’s press conference (10:45 a.m. PT, July 16, 2008) was shaping up to be an exciting start to day three of E3 considering they weren’t going to talk about a movie for an hour (I’m looking at you Capcom). With the announcement of the Grand Theft Auto series coming… Continue Reading »
Execs form blandly named online music game company, Music Video Games
Two industry old-timers have combined to launch Music Video Games & Trade (MVG), a music games website. The website, which will cater to music fans and casual gamers, is the result of the joint efforts of David Warhol, president of video game studio Realtime Associates, Inc., and Vincent Bitetti, a… 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.



