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.
I know, I know, another format war related post, but alas, this is news. I also just set the record for the most commas legally used in a sentence. Anyway, as the death of the HD-DVD seems to become an inevitable truth, Best Buy has decided to pick a favorite child:
Because we believe that Blu-ray is fast emerging as that single format, we have decided to focus on Blu-ray products,” Brian Dunn, Best Buy’s president and chief operating officer, said in a statement.
The reason behind this, you better sit down…Best Buy believes that the consumer will benefit from a single HD format. Well, shave off my pubes and punch me in the face.
[via reuters]
So I said I was back on Wednesday. Technically, I was. Problem is, I came home from my honeymoon to a dead laptop. I spent the better part of 2 days recovering data and reformatting this bitch and I’m at about 95% now. Enough that I can get email and do some coding when needed. So if you’ve been wondering (or thanking the good Lord) why you haven’t seen me around in a few days, there’s your reason.
So on to funnier topics… I almost got arrested at Best Buy when I went in to buy Guitar Hero III for Xbox 360. I walk in like any normal person and pick up the game off the shelf. Note that they keep the games in those crazy plastic cases so you can’t steal them. I take the game to the check out counter and the cashier opens that crazy plastic case and takes the game out. He goes “Hmmm the game looks open.” The plastic seal and sticker was cut all the way down the side and top. He pulls the case open a bit and there’s no game in there. Monkey man cashier gets on the horn to management who whisk me away to a back room for interrogation. Ummm, what the fuck just happened. After being searched and yelled at, they finally accepted my argument: if I was going to steal the game, why the hell would I bring the empty case to the counter? I got no apologies, and after 5 minutes, I was finally allowed to buy the game. If I wasn’t getting reward zone points I would have gone off to another store to buy the game.
So kids, moral of the story: make sure the game inside that crazy plastic protection case hasn’t already been stolen.
I know what you were thinking? What do I buy my father for Christmas. The Complete Third Season of Martin is now available. To sweeten the deal, you can also get the first or second season for only $19.99 when you buy the third for $29.99($21.99 this week at Best Buy). Here is the link to give you a headstart. You’re very welcome.
Our favorite anatomically incorrect seeker of justice is at it again. Chuckles, the pseudonym for the man whom we do not speak of, is filing a lawsuit against Besy Buy reports Gamepolitics. His rationale is that Best Buy is willingly selling mature rated video games to minors via their website because there is no identification checks and balances system. It is common knowledge that a minor cannot possess a credit card and using one is enough proof of age. I do not know who keeps funding this dipshit but I do know that Best Buy has a lot more money. Sometimes the rich do win and in this case, I hope they do.
Another tidbit from the “Department of Redundancy Department”, Chuckles has decided that he does endorse the ban on Manhunt 2, the once AO rated, now Mature, gore fest reports Gamepolitics. Does anyone really give a shit? Since when did not endorsing something matter? I don’t endorse wearing condoms, but does that in any way slight the condom selling world? Does Trojan care that I pull out and pray? Nope. Nor do we care. We will see Little Chuckles clad in a mustache and glasses trying to buy this game and eventually sue Rockstar. Its like the diplomat of some jerk ass country condemning what America does. We hear you dude, but we are not listening.
Much to my surprise, I picked up today’s paper and the weekly Best Buy circular dropped out. There was a huge HD-DVD deal for the Xbox 360. Here is the offer from Best Buy that includes a mail in rebate for 5 movies, there is also a HUGE surprise.
You get Season 1 of Heroes, in HD-DVD….for FREE. This is a $99.99 value and the show absolutely kicks ass. The ad says it is good from Oct 21-27.
I have been putting off buying this for sometime with the apparent death of the HD-DVD format, but with new exclusive studio contracts and the rumors of a future Xbox 360 with a built in HD-DVD drive, this deal seems too good to pass on. Granted the movies you can choose from are less than spectacular, its still a deal considering the price of a stand alone HD-DVD player.
Since I’ve had a rough couple of weeks, I decided to give myself a birthday present. I went over to Best Buy and picked up a nice white Darth Vader PSP. Yay for me.
I’m pretty impressed so far. It’s light as hell and has a lot of streamlined features. I’ll have pics and a review of the new PSP coming soon. So for now, happy birthday to me while I go play some more Socom and Syphon Filter 
Haven’t decided what to do with my chunky black PSP yet… maybe I’ll give it away to one lucky reader…
After just over 5 months, my Xbox 360 Elite has kicked the bucket. I get disk read errors on every disk I put in the tray, whether it’s a game, movie, or audio disk. Good times.
This marks my 6th Xbox 360 to die since launch day. Yes, my 6th. F’ing ridiculous.
I know some people are going to jump all over this in comments saying I treat it badly or whatever, but that is far from the case. My Xbox 360 has it’s own shelf in the entertainment center, with full ventilation from the front and rear. The power brick also sits on the shelf fully ventilated. The console is never moved when playing (in fact, it’s only moved a tiny bit once a week to dust). The console is kept perfectly clean, as are my other systems. I haven’t had any problems with my PS3 (save long install times) or my Wii. Never had problems with my PS2, Xbox, or Gamecube before that.
I guess I’ll be making a trip to Best Buy this afternoon to get this thing swapped out. Maybe #7 will be a lot luckier than the first 6 consoles I’ve gone through. At least I didn’t get the red ring of death again this time.
Every time we say his name, he just gets more power. This is officially the last time you’ll see me say Jack Thompson. From now on, the law buff will be known as Chuckles, because every time he does something, the entire gaming world gets a laugh.
So Chuckles decided to rock out another “sting” operation. He previous sent his son in to a Best Buy to pick up a copy of BioShock. His son isn’t yet 18, which is what he’s trying prove. However, he’s going after 2K Games for the problem instead of Best Buy. 2K Games doesn’t control a retailer’s action. They brand the game as mature and it’s up to the retailers to enforce the sales. The new “sting” operation involves Halo 3.
Chuckles sent his son into a South Florida Target store to buy a copy of Halo 3, which he was able to do on the first try without an ID. Granted, this shouldn’t happen. But again, Chuckles isn’t going after Target, he’s going after Microsoft. Because somehow the gaming industry is responsible for this happening at retailers. Are they also responsible for R-rated movies and CD’s with Parental Advisory stickers being sold to minors as well?
This editor can only hope Chuckles stops his antics and gets put in his place pretty soon.
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