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Stepping Up: Game suggestions for Facebook users ready to play console or handheld games

Facebook has already become a viable gaming platform, filled with all sorts of casual, browser-based games players can add to their profile and account and play as they wish. But what happens when Facebook users become bored of the casual games they’re playing? The casual games on Facebook are quite entertaining and all, but after a while their simplicity can cause their users to become tired of following the same routine to succeed.

That’s where console, handheld and computer games can step up. Many of the Facebook casual games, like YoVille, Mafia Wars or FarmTown, are incredibly similar to existing major releases. Facebook users can easily transition to the game that corresponds to their favorite Facebook applications, and hopefully find something that will hold their interest and perhaps even help them find other games they may enjoy.

Gamertell is taking look at some of the most popular game applications on Facebook today, and pairing them up with comparable major releases, in the hopes of expanding the horizons of casual, Facebook gamers…

E3 2009: Tomy attends with ninjas in tow

E3 2009 is going to be a milestone for Tomy USA. This is the first time the company will be attending the convention! Congratulations! The company’s going to be showing off three games at the event, all of them eagerly anticipated by the company’s fans.

Tomy USA’s biggest property is undoubtedly Naruto, and the company is focusing on it at the event. It is bringing two Naruto fighting games, both based on Naruto Shippuden, the most recent arc of the popular manga and anime series.

Here are the three games attendees will be able to ogle…