Coincidentally, as the weather gets colder in the Northeast, AAA games begin to surface. While this is a great excuse to stay inside, it can’t happen without the money to buy the games. While looking through my game collection, I noticed that I hadn’t played most of the games in at least 4 months or more. If I did play one of the games, it was merely to kill some time over summer vacation. After looking at both Best Buy and GameStop’s trade in values respectively, I learned that I could easily get over $160 for all of my games. By now most of you how we here at Loot Ninja feel about GameStop. To end up trading my games in with them was a huge surprise to me. Find out why below.
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Earlier this week it was announced PopCap games has raised $22.5 million in capital from Meritech Capital Partners. We covered it here. Many were shocked. Some awed. I am really not all that surprised. Don’t get me wrong, I care, a little tiny bit. Enough that I will take a few minutes of my time, and yours if you are reading this, to shed a little light on the situation and calm those fears that PopCap might be in trouble or changing drastically as some have mentioned.
PopCap makes some awesomely addictive games. Some are worse than crack. Matt knows, I know, you know. PopCap makes games so great that they are included in other games. So they make great games, which sell, which makes the money. Why do they need more money?
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Whoa, so PopCap Games managed to garner $22.5M in it’s first ever funding-round. If you don’t know who PopCap is, then you haven’t owned a cell-phone produced in the last 10 years. I think every single phoen I’ve ever had came with the Bejeweled Demo. Anyways, the Seattle based PopCap Games are the makers of such pick-up and play classics as Bejeweled, Bookworm, and Matt’s personal favorite, Plants vs. Zombies.
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After a romantic candle-lit dinner followed by a dip in the hot tub, my friend told me about the Best Buy trade in program. I went to the trade-in page and found out that it’s quite different from GameStop. There are three steps to the process: Estimate, Print/Ship, Receive a gift card. Instead of going into a store and trading your games in, everything is done online. The one exception are the trade-in kiosks, but those are not readily available.
The real question is if you get more money for your trade-ins. After a quick call to GameStop, I have a list of three games and their values at both Best Buy and GameStop.
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Anyone who doubts the clout that video games have on today’s consumer world need to talk to the folks at MTV. The “music” television powerhouse had just released a 2 year plan to invest half a billion, yes billion with a b, into the video game industry over the next two years reports gamedaily biz.
“As we take our brands narrow and deep to serve our targeted, niche audiences, we’re putting well over $500 million behind building our games business across all of the brands in our portfolio,” explained MTV chairman and chief executive Judy McGrath. “I’d like to see more game applications on some of our current big brands across the music group,” McGrath said, apparently referring to the potential for creating games based on the networks’ range of shows.
Long gone are the days of headbangers ball and beavis and butthead. Now we get to see spoiled teenagers flaunt their parents money or some tacky dating show. At least MTV is doing something I am interested in since they stopped showing The Head.
That rhyme was not intentional by the way. Damn it. Anyway, yahoogames reports that the UK will start a service at the UK based website, tournament.com that allows players to pay a small entrance fee in order to win various amounts of money. The entrance fees range from free for practice and $10 for buy in. The only game that is available now is Counter Strike and Half Life 2. The rationale behind this is simple:
“Gambling rewards a player based purely on luck, while Tournament.com is a service that rewards players based on their skill. They’re two very different models.”
We’re confident that [our anti-cheating software] is some of the best out there and we use a combination of different anti-cheating software developed by third parties in conjunction with our internally developed Tournament Anti-Cheat, also known as TAC.”To supplement our security, we also have admins who continuously monitor in-game play, making sure that everyone is playing fair.”
This seems to be the equivalent to the online poker craze that swept the nation a few years ago, although far more in depth. I see the only flaw being this. Sometimes luck is a good thing. There are no doubt some awesome players who will keep piling up the wins and laughing with your money. I hope the ranking system will take this into account.
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