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Best Buy.  Toys “R” Us.  And now online retailer Amazon is digging into the trading of used games market.  I’m sure GameStop is all smiles on this.  It’s currently in beta but this program will allow you to send in your games and receive an Amazon gift card deposited into your account. You can even check [...]

I don’t suppose this is any surprise to anyone is it?  Activision welcomes more to the Guitar Hero family by adding Guitar Hero Greatest Hits and Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits.  These are working titles for now so the names could change. Guitar Hero Greatest Hits Guitar Hero Greatest Hits is coming to Xbox [...]

Well if you’ve been interested in curving the bullet, you might want to head out and grab the demo for Wanted: Weapons of Fate.  The Xbox LIVE Marketplace has been buzzing with pretty good demos lately to potentially map out future game purchases.  If you’re not the curving bullet type, then why not grab a [...]

Combat. Comraderie. Cash.  The boys are f@#$n back!  Salem and Rios appear to be headed back for more action in a sequel to Army of Two.  I got a package today from EA that contained a pretty pimped out t-shirt plastered with Army of Two 2 and the words “SUBMIT” on the front.  There’s also [...]

There have been rumors about on the immenent demise of THQ’s Volition development house but it seems those rumors and speculation weren’t exactly true.  Volition of course are the makers of the Saint’s Row series and other titles.  I got word from THQ clearing up some of the confusion. Here’s the skinny from Julie MacMedan, Vice [...]

Let’s talk about surprises shall we?  Starbreeze and Atari pulled a pretty huge surprise today releasing a demo for the much anticipated remake/sequel, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. In Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, you play as Riddick, the most ruthless criminal in the universe, who has been captured by [...]

Oh how I love the smell of new things that are really so small I shouldn’t even point out but because I like being unique amongst millions of Xbox LIVE owners, I felt it was my duty to make note of it.  Enough rambling? Ok, for all of you Xbox LIVE Gold Members out there [...]

I thought I’d poke some fun at the boys and girls over on Xbox.com by pointing out that the recently released Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack is the most expensive thing I’ve ever seen on the Marketplace.  It’s currently listed at 99,999 Microsoft Points.  Perhaps this will be the ultimate map pack that kills all [...]

Recently Microsoft decided to bring back its Deal of the Week promotion for Xbox LIVE Gold members only where certain items in the Xbox LIVE Marketplace or Xbox LIVE Arcade receive a bit of a discount in point price.  Last week Braid dropped from 1200 Microsoft Points to 800 Microsoft Points as part of this [...]