You know those jerks who talk over movies in the theater and you want to pelt them in the head with a frozen beverage? Well, Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame have made a career doing this and have zero head concussions (they’ll admit to).

The boys started a group known as RiffTrax where they take modern movies including Jurassic Park, Twilight and a google of others, making jokes – or “riffs” – during the movie. RiffTrax will be doing a live show Aug 19, 2010, featuring the 1938 cult classic, educational anti-marihuana film Reefer Madness.

Gamertell recently spoke with the three masterminds behind RiffTrax who had a lot to saw about their craft…

BlizzCon 2008 is offering a free pay-per-view package to new DirecTV subscribers for its upcoming World of Warcraft tournament starting at 1:30 p.m. on October 10, 2008, and 2 p.m. EST on October 11, 2008, broadcasting live from the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA (USA).

The DirecTV special promotion can be subscribed to only through the BlizzCon website and is available only to those living in the United States that subscribe to service before September 30, 2008, and activate it before October 9, 2008.

Current DirectTV subscribers can…

Microsoft is once again it is apologizing. No, not for consoles bursting into flames, again (at least, not that we know of). This time, Microsoft has the unfortunate problem of too many Xbox Live users glogging the network. I know – so much money coming in for a paid service and still connections are failing.

In an effort to make amends, Microsoft is going to allow every Xbox Live subscriber to download one XBLA (Xbox Live Arcade) game for free. The details are still a bit sketchy as to whether or not it will be any game, one from a list of games or a single, predetermined game.

Click through for the official note from Xbox Live’s General Manager, Marc Whitten…

For people who cannot visit E3 in person – which is 99.99% of the world – all the blogs and writing in the world cannot portray the experience as well as video. After all, it is insane (see, even I still try).

Cable channel G4 is trying to keep the E3 love alive with live broadcasts of the big three press events – Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft – a first for the Expo. In the past, you were luck to get a slow web stream videos of one or two of the conferences a few hours later. G4 will also provide a live stream of the conferences on its web site.

Of course, with the new format, E3 won’t be nearly as exciting to watch on TV since…