Like most fanboys do before the release of a much anticipated game, I went searching for the best pre-order deal for Gears of War 2. I decided that I wasn’t really interested in a gold hammerburst and went for Best Buy’s pre-order item of a remote control centaur tank. I was aware the tank would be fairly small in stature and probably be made of the cheapest parts available, but I was sure that it would at least function properly. Man, was I wrong.
Best Buy’s pre-order deal was, if you ordered the limited edition of Gears of War 2 you would receive a free centaur tank. The offer was only good for the limited edition copies of the game. The tank wasn’t exactly the deciding factor on going with the limited edition version but it did have a slight bearing on my final decision. So, I plopped down the extra $10.00 plus sales tax. I arrived early at Best Buy on Friday morning just to make sure I received my incentive gift because Best Buy only had a limited number of the tanks which was clearly stated in the ad. I picked up my copy of the game and the free tank, just another satisfied customer.
Today is the day. Maybe you are even reading this from the car as you prepare your equipment to enter the dreaded line in anticipation for Fallout 3. If you reside in any of the northern states I would recommend to bring more than a blanket.
Bethesda Softworks and Best Buy have teamed up to bring you a midnight release of Fallout 3 in select cities. Lines will start forming around 3 P.M. local time today. Bethesda’s hometown Best Buy in Rockville, Maryland will be the flagship location with special festivities along with developer signings of your copy of Fallout 3. If you are no where near this location there are plenty of other metropolitan areas to travel to. This is one of the biggest games of the season so if you have any chance at making the midnight launch you should definitely go for it. A list of the select cities will be after the jump.
I made a trip over to Best Buy today to pick up Far Cry 2 for the Xbox 360 and decided to browse through all the gaming aisles to see what they had available. To my surprise, for the first time, I saw PSN cards. Both the $20 and $50 cards were available for sale with over 10 of each on the racks.
It took long enough, but you can now walk into your friendly neighborhood Best Buy and actually get these bad boys. Too bad they aren’t getting advertised as being available. I bet most of the gaming population has no idea.
You have probably traveled around and seen the Apple vending machines where you can buy iPods and accessories, but on Loot Ninja’s recent travels to the twin cities, a.k.a. Minnesota, Loot Ninja came across two vending machines it had never seen before. Right in the Minnesota airport there was a kiosk for Best Buy Express and another not too far away for Sony. There was actually a third one that had Elizabeth Arden products as well, but we weren’t as interested in perfume and cosmetics.
The Best Buy vending machine had an assortment of products that any frequent flyer may find a need for like headphones, chargers and video games. Inside there was a few Nintendo DS handhelds as well as Mario Kart and Mario Party for the DS at normal retail prices which was the real shocker, I was certain you would be charged a joy of buying in the airport fee but it was normal MSRP.
So it looks like Metal Gear Solid will also get some midnight launch love much like the other large anticipated titles before it. Curious to see how many will show up for this one since the PS3 is the most expensive of the three consoles. On June 12 you will see people line up to get their hand’s on some Solid Snake as soon as possible. I have to say that this title at first only mildly interested me until I saw the screenshots of this killer app. MGS4 will be able to boast some of the nicest graphics to date on any system, let’s just see how many cut-scenes are involved in this epic game.
I know that HD DVD is dead in the water now and the HD DVD players and movies are no longer being supported, but what I am talking about are the physical discs themselves? For about a few weeks after the announcement that BluRay was taking over as the predominant medium for Hi Def movies, we saw the prices on HD DVD fall and go on sale and then boom, they disappeared. Where the hell did they go? Did Best Buy and all the retailers burn them out of spite? You can’t find a physical HD DVD anymore, I wouldn’t mind picking up a few for cheap in a store.
Here is a prime example of why hiding in a box is a perfect idea for evading terrorists. No one ever looks into or at the unsuspecting box, pretty funny how the customers just walk by or even around it. This is also a prime example of why the service at Best Buy has gone ot shit, they are too busy making Solid Snake videos, enjoy!
No one is immune. It’s spreading like AIDS from Scuba…
I was at Best Buy this Saturday afternoon picking up a couple of Blu-Ray movies when I happened upon this sight. Now, I’m in Best Buy at least once a week for various reasons. Whenever I’m there, I always stop by the video game section. I can attest to this Xbox 360 working on Thursday.
This isn’t the fist time I’ve seen this Best Buy hit by the Red Ring of Death either. The funniest part was some kid, half crying, asking his mom why this Xbox 360 wouldn’t work. Sadly, I didn’t want to take his picture for fear of being labeled a pedophile. But trust me, it was funny.
Best Buy seems to have confirmed what we have all been wondering. Will there be a Game of the Year edition of Call of Duty 4 on the PS3? Well, the answer is yes.
According to the electronics retailer, the PS3 version with the Variety Map Pack will be shipping on April 24th, exactly 21 days after the Xbox 360 maps hit the Xbox Live Marketplace.
If you’re a PS3 owner and are looking to buy CoD4, it would be a good idea to wait a bit to get that extra content for free.
So you walk into Best Buy, you buy a 500 GB HDD to store God knows what on and it runs you a cool 300 bucks. You crack open a box and what do you see? 3 bags of beans. Beans. No HDD, just 3 bags of dusty ass beans. Needless to say, the couple was absolutely pissed. Best Buy claimed it was not their fault and the manufacture had similar sentiments. The couple had to go all the way to CNN and got a gift card for the amount as compensation for covering the story. This is becoming almost a monthly occurrence with consumers getting tea bagged and the stores claiming they did not have to help out. Who do you think pulled the prank? Probably someone in the stock room who is unsupervised. 300 bucks to a multi-billion dollar company is nothing but to a consumer its a really bad afternoon. I am waiting to buy a something and get a dick in a box. Every single holiday, a dick in a box.
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