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While watching horror movies on Halloween is a perfectly acceptable way to celebrate the holiday, it’s also a hands off approach. You’re a spectator, not an active participant in the action. You could always go out to a good haunted house, but those can be far away and quite expensive.… Continue Reading »

Researchers from the University of Iowa conducted a study to analyze the relation between gaming for prolonged periods of time and attention levels when performing certain tasks. The results indicated that the group that played games more than 40 hours a week had significantly less proactive attention - the kind… Continue Reading »

The Resistance series was one of the first franchises to grace the PS3. Both Fall of Man and its sequel have been well received by the general public and Resistance: Retribution on the PSP followed suit. We really haven’t started thinking about the inevitable Resistance sequel yet but apparently Insomniac… Continue Reading »

Paleo Entertainment shot itself the foot with the original version of Drug Wars, Merchants Of Brooklyn (MOB), by releasing it uncompleted. After changing the name to Drug Wars and implementing several fixes, the company hoped to have a worthwhile final product. The story’s the same, a multiplayer component has been… Continue Reading »

Drinking and gaming. We saw it happen with Halo and World of Warcraftand now a beverage company is trying to help juice up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Monster Energy drink has teamed up with Activision for a cross-promotional effort that the companies hope will help keep gamers from… Continue Reading »

Just hearing the title Modern Warfare 2 sends signals of excitement to most anyone’s brain. The buzz is so huge around MW2 that my local GameStop’s have countdown timers up over a month before the game even comes out. As we know how much you love to see or hear… Continue Reading »

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 »

Game-to-film translations begin with an uphill battle to, well, not suck. Universal Studios’ adaptation of Bioshockhttp://www.gamertell.com/gaming/tag/bioshock/ has hit some major stumbling blocks, including a change in director. The movie treatment of the hit Take-Two game was initially to be helmed by Gore Verbinski, director of the Pirates of the Caribbean… Continue Reading »

If this one doesn’t tug at your heart strings, I don’t know what will… Continue Reading »

C.O.R.E.‘s a tad delayed. Well, more than a tad. It was originally supposed to come out in 2008, but fell victim to multiple delays. Finally, NoWay Studio and Graffiti Entertainment have released this highly anticipated first person shooter. Unfortunately, it isn’t exactly what everyone expected. That isn’t to say it’s… Continue Reading »