Gamertell

When I saw the initial unveiling of Project Natal at this year’s E3, I was impressed at Microsoft’s ability to harness the motion-control technology of Nintendo’s Wii and amplify it to include the human body.  In watching that demonstration, I wondered aloud, “What would happen if that technology became the… Continue Reading »

The PlayStation Home has been updated with three new spaces to new stores at the mall and more stuff than you can shake a stick at. And like a 3-year-old in the candy isle at WalMart, I’m hopped up on digital eye candy and screaming my head off for a… Continue Reading »

Scholastic Inc., a children’s book publisher, is in trouble for selling more then just books in its classroom book clubs. Everyone remembers getting those handouts in school from Scholastic Book Clubs (or Arrow for you older kids) where you could buy all those Goosebumps books. Well, now Scholastic is in… Continue Reading »

When Ron Stanley, a guest writer for The Washington Post, wrote an article reminiscing a time his nieces and nephews were banned from playing a video game or watching television, it was what the children did next that was surprisingly heartwarming. As he spoke of his six-year-old nephew trying to… Continue Reading »

As I read an article about banning certain words from our journalistic vocabulary by Gus Mastrapa of GameDaily I had to admit, he does have a point. “Let’s pretend I’m your editor for a second. Done laughing? Okay, how about we talk seriously about cliché and weak, meaningless words and… Continue Reading »

For all those gamers who have had to sit through parental rants claiming that video games will lead to their brains atrophying, help is now on the way thanks primarily to a study in the journal Psychology and Aging. This study (based on a sample size of 40 adults in… Continue Reading »

When gamers think of electronics and video game shopping in Japan, most people name Tokyo’s Akihabara as its epitome. However, not many may know that Osaka, Japan, has an Akihabara equivalent named Den-Den Town. Much like Akihabara, Den-Den Town is chock full of otaku goodness. Just a few years ago,… Continue Reading »

A Honolulu bus driver was recently suspended from driving after being accused of playing video games while on the job. As reported by KITV-TV, Denita Waltz shot a video of the bus driver during a trip from Pearl City to Punchbowl. Waltz accused him of playing a game while driving… Continue Reading »

The gaming population is on the rise, making up 72% of the entire US population, according to a new NPD report that was released last Wednesday (April 2, 2008). That figure is for the year 2007 and is up 64% from 2006. NPD found that 58% of all the people… Continue Reading »

The notion that dedicated consoles will eventually become obsolete is beginning to gain some support. The logic behind this belief is simple: video games are going to be available on umpteen devices and in forms never imagined before in the not-so-distant future. Sandy Duncan, former VP of Xbox Europe also… Continue Reading »