Nintendo Gal is accusing GameStop of taking a free demo for the Wii game Monster Hunter Tri and systematically refusing to give it out to customers, demanding they plop $5 for a pre-order in order to snag the disc. [More]
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Send Your Broken 360 To Hell With Class Via This Coffin
By 3.16.10
Many times when my Xbox 360s have broken I’ve wanted to send them off with a cremation that follows several steel-toed boot stomps. But if you’d like to make a point of protest to Microsoft while also treating your old buddy with care, you may want to invest in one of these Xbox 360 coffins. [More]
GameStop Let Me Return Opened Game It Sold Me As New
By 3.15.10
Chris, who says he was sold an opened video game that was robbed of its voucher for a free poster and passed off as “new” by GameStop, got a refund from the game retailer. Then he took his business to Walmart, bought the game new and unopened and got the poster voucher. [More]
Bioshock 2 Paid 'DLC' Is Already On The Disc
By 3.15.10
Video game press outlets, including Game Informer, are reporting that Bioshock 2’s $5 Sinclair Solutions Test Pack, which adds new characters, weapons and levels, is actually just code that unlocks stuff that’s already in the game. [More]
GameStop Opened Game, Removed Voucher For Free Poster, Sold It To Me As 'New'
By 3.12.10
Update: GameStop let Chris return the game for a refund. [More]
This Is Either A Sex Toy Or The New PS3 Motion Controller
By 3.11.10
Sony announced its strange-looking motion controller, the PlayStation Move, today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The game will be compatible with Tiger Woods 11 (insert sex joke here), among other games. [More]
Pre-Schooler Mistakes Gun For Game Controller, Kills Self
By 3.9.10
The Tennesseean reports a 3-year-old girl accidentally shot herself to death using a gun that resembled a video game controller after playing the Wii. From the newspaper’s story: [More]
Sony Finally Realizes iPhone Exists, Decides To Make PSP Phone
By 3.8.10
With its finger on the pulse of the industry, eagle-eyed Sony developers have uncovered secret knowledge that Apple has released a device that lets you talk on the phone, listen to music and download video games. And as a result, it has decided to give one of its next redesigned PSPs the ability to call, text and email, the Wall Street Journal reports. [More]
The Post Office Keeps Losing My GameFly Video Games
By 3.4.10
Josh tries to keep up with the hamster wheel of video game releases through GameFly, the Netflix of gaming, but the USPS can’t seem to get the game envelopes to him. His story brings to mind the troubles GameFly has long had with the Postal Service. [More]
Madden Fans, EA Has Plans To Further Exploit You
By 3.3.10
EA Sports president Peter Moore, whose Madden monopoly has gamers in a chokehold, isn’t happy with just being the only game in town. According to a Joystiq report on Moore’s statements at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference Monday, Moore said in so many words that he hopes to further nickel-and-dime Madden players with downloadable content. [More]
Sony Says It Has Un-broken Your PS3s It Broke From Afar
By 3.2.10
After somehow managing to break just about every older PS3 out there by letting its network crash, Sony claims it’s fixed the issue and everyone can start playing their stations again. [More]
Mac Users, Things May Be Getting Steamy
By 2.26.10
Although Apple’s App Store may be getting considerably less steamy, the opposite is true of gamers who use Macs for console games. Kotaku reports Steam, the digital distribution platform that lets you buy games on demand, may be headed Macward, usable on OS X. [More]
Giant Redesigned DS Coming In March, Could Be Second-Tier Kindle
By 2.25.10
The jumbo-sized DS redesign, the DSi XL, which came out in Japan in November, will make its way to the U.S. March 28 and cost $190. [More]
Make A Yo Momma Joke In Xbox Live Profile, Get Suspended
By 2.24.10
M. had his Xbox Live account suspended for making a mom joke that probably wouldn’t even have gotten his name on the board in third grade. His bio read “I like pie… URmoms PIE.” [More]
Call This Number If Your Xbox Has Broken Multiple Times And You Need Your Replacement Pronto
By 2.24.10
While submitting his busted Xbox 360 for repair, Ben stumbled upon a valuable piece of info for those whose have suffered multiple system breakdowns: A special phone number that expedites the shipping your refurbished replacement console, provided you have your reference number and the extension of a CSR who helped you with your problem when you called 1-800-4MY-XBOX. We first reported the secret number (1-888-236-0927) two years ago. [More]
GameStop Offering 50 Percent More Trade-in Credit
By 2.23.10
Normally it’s a walk of shame for gamers to lug a pile of games to GameStop to get pennies on the dollar in cash or trade-in credit for stuff they probably didn’t finish and overpaid for. But a deal going on right now for the proverbial “limited time only” offers 50 percent in bonus trade-in credit for your games. [More]
Stay Online While You Play Assassin's Creed 2 On PC, Or Ubisoft Will End You
By 2.19.10
Ubisoft is so bent on stopping piracy that it has turned itself into a virtual nanny, peeking over your shoulder at all times to verify that your PC copy of Assassin’s Creed 2 isn’t a torrented file. Shacknews reports that if gamers go offline while playing the game, they’ll have to stop immediately and no recent progress will be saved. [More]
Sony Blocks Online Play On Used Copies Of PSP SOCOM Game
By 2.18.10
Video game publishers generally aren’t too happy that companies such as GameStop reap huge profits from buying and selling used games, and Sony has devised a way to hobble the system from sapping away sales of its newest PSP shooter — slap DRM on the game’s online mode. [More]
