“Do you mind if I take a leak before I kill you?” I am a sporadic gamer, and when I do play games, I play random ones. I’m not devoted to one game in particular; however, I do enjoy Madden NFL…a lot. Recently while playing, True Crime: Streets of LA, I noticed an interesting cut [...]

Earlier this week, news broke that Nintendo contract worker Jessica Zenner was fired for keeping a blog called “Inexcusable Behavior” where she made comments about herself (using the name Jessica Carr) and various co-workers (who were not named). Jessica considered the blog to be entertainment, but Nintendo took offense and fired her. Jessica has since [...]

The now infamous blogger and former Nintendo employee Jessica Zenner (alias Jessica Carr) will be joining the staff here at Ripten.com.

If the decreased number of sexy chicks at recent industry events has got you down, you can count on GameCock to pile them on after hours. We were fortunate enough to get an invite to their party at Fado Irish Pub this past Thursday night. I think they may have mentioned games…once or twice, including [...]

The Internet has put in some long hard hours on the issue, but Blazing Lizard’s first game promises to solve it once and for all—Pirates or Ninjas? Yes, Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball should do the trick. But how exciting can dodgeball get?

On a normal day, you’d find me spinning around in my office chair contemplating the meaning of life, the Mayan calendar, and global warming, but today the mailman came bearing gifts. Yes, today is a good day.

In the process of interviewing a representative from EA Tiburon at this years E3 regarding Madden 08, one of our writers (who is a big Patriot’s fan) jokingly asked if Bill Belichick would again be absent on the sidelines this year. As the representative began to explain the contractual reasons behind certain coaches being excluded [...]

In our recent phone conversation with EA Senior Product Manager, Jerrold Smith, regarding the upcoming Madden 08, we asked how a company who built its reputation on being detail oriented, so much so that their slogan “If it’s in the game, it’s in the game” became their claim to fame, now overlooks such things as [...]

Our artists are busy working on the King of the Game video game tournament and every once and a while we will give you a sneak peak at a few pages without spoiling the plot and revealing who comes out on top.

Here are our unpolished thoughts on Nintendo’s press conference. For everything else, check out our wrap-up later this week. Reggie is happy! E3 ’07 as coming out party. Video games take their place by movies and TY as a staple of entertainment. 69% of growth overall comes from Nintendo (Microsoft, 2%) At the moment DS [...]

The King of Kombat, Rajah of Rampage, and Baron of the Blitz — Midway Games — has unleashed their 2007 E3 lineup on us today.

The other day I had a dream that I was a kid again, just hanging out watching Sesame Street, everything was great. As the show came to an end The Count said this episode was brought to us by … you guessed it, the letter “e” and the number “3″. Never before has one letter [...]

We are working away on bringing our readers the “King Of The Game” series but wanted to share some early sketches with you in the mean time. Artwork by Kristoffer There will be 32 different characters competing for the recognition of being pixel for pixel the baddest that ever called a console home. If you [...]

Everyone was upset when E3 said goodbye, especially the giant statues. When the E3 we all know and love closed its doors for good, many of us needed to have our frowns surgically removed from our collective faces. So when we got word that Gamecock Media Group was going to be offering up a convention [...]

Here we go, division two of the “King Of The Game” Tournament. If you want to check out division one and read the tournament specifics click here, otherwise lets get on with it…