I pre-ordered Heavy Rain from Best Buy and used all of my left over Rewards Zone certificates to cut the cost of yet another video game purchase down to a more manageable $40. I don’t see my situation getting any better over the next couple of weeks considering in March there’s going to be a ton of awesome releases coming our way that Matt mentioned previously. My game backlog is already full, but Heavy Rain has garnered a lot of press and buzz around the community for its “gameplay”, so I might slide this one to the top of the list.
Heavy Rain came out Tuesday, Feb. 23rd, and I just now get this e-mail from Best Buy about the delay? I figured I would be busy playing Bioshock 2, or the Borderlands Add-On DLC, or The Mis-adventures of P.B. Winterbottom, but this sure would have been nice to take a break from those and play the pre-quel episode BEFORE I actually get the game in the mail. I have literally been trying to download this prequel episode for two days now with no success. Thanks Best Buy. At least you let me know something! I’ve been tracking my package for Heavy Rain and it’s in my town, but I don’t know if it’s at my doorstep and they just haven’t updated their system yet. I’ll keep you guys posted. You guys have any issues or try to download this? Now you have an answer.
Well, that sure didn’t take long. After a trial run with trade-in kiosks and online services, Best Buy and Wal-Mart are throwing in the towel on the used game business. Both retailers were using the E-play service for the kiosks. E-play recently shut down operations and took Best Buy and Wal-Mart down as well.
Chris had a good experience using the Best Buy trade-in service, but I don’t think too many people were on board, which is why it’s now gone.
GameStop executives are wiping their asses with hundred dollar bills and swimming in rooms of gold coins over this news. Whether you consider them an evil empire or not, they’re still the only real game in town.
After a good year, my 3rd Xbox 360 finally died on me. I was enjoying MW2 on Veteran when all of a sudden my 360 died. When I tried to turn it on, I was greeted with the E74 error which I knew meant my Xbox had to be taken back to the store. Before I went to the store, I was told that they would need everything from my console so I proceeded to transfer my game saves to a memory card and re-formatted my hard drive so they couldn’t access any of my info (I don’t trust their employees).
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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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Setting up a new gaming system is hard people! Hard work I tell ya! Really flippin’ hard! We go out and buy that $300 next-gen gaming system, take it home to simply stare at it, and then beat the living piss out of it with a leg bone from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It sits there idly, looking pretty next to your TV setup. Trouble is, how the hell do you hook it up and play a game on it? I don’t know? All of these cords and buttons to press? It’s almost like trying to start a flying futuristic car! Do you you? Crap, call up the best Scottish scientist you know of! What? He’s too busy cloning sheep to have sex with? Geek Squad might know.
These white shirted Mormon looking dudes will come over to your house, take $130 dollars out of your cookie jar, setup your PS3, and then rape you in the ass without anal lube, free of charge in front of your kids. Why? Because they can. And they will.
The picture above is kind of blurry, but it states that the Best Buy Geek Squad will come and configure your gaming system, setup parental controls (don’t really need to), install all of the latest firmware updates (automated setup process for 20 minutes), setup local user accounts (takes 5 to 10 minutes) and get you online with a PSN account (takes about 20 minutes). Overall that’s about an hour or so of setup time. We’re looking at European car repair time/money ratio here people. Mechanics that work on Porches don’t get paid that much. Why does some pimply douchebag with a black tie who drives a shitty ass Beetle get $130 of my bones?
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Budget minded gamers like me are constantly looking for video game deals left and right. I have been subscribed to a few RSS feeds for quite some time now and I shop for everything from dorky/offensive t-shirts to geek gear and dragon dildoes. Through the Slick Deals RSS feed, I came across a great offer from Best Buy.com. Right now if you head on over to Best Buy online you will be able to get any 360 game of your choice for the online price (it can be any price mind you), and you’ll get the second one of equal or lesser value for 50% off.
Not only is that a great deal, it also works on pre-orders too. I myself just bought Batman: Arkham Asylum (which I was going to get anyway) and I pre-ordered Modern Warfare 2 for $30 dollars. Tax is added on after you enter your zip code, but shipping is free, so that puts the icing on the cake for me.
I only mention this because I feel like this is a great deal for my fellow Loot Ninja gamers, and want to spread the wealth, because I love you. I really really do. If you are looking to buy a few games around this slow time anyway, now might be the time to do so for a great price. You can tinker around with the shipping or pick-up option in store and it could save you a few extra dollars, but then you will have to deal with people. I don’t like to deal with people, so I chose the “ship to my front door” option. I can do that in my red hearted thong underwear if I want to. Best Buy apparently frowns on that attire in the store.
There is no telling how long this deal will last, so get on out there and get to buyin’!
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Now we all know that the Xbox 360 has its share of problems, most notably the RROD (red ring of death). For some people its very existence is a reason to never make a purchase. I can’t blame them really. After all, Microsoft knew the problem existed and decided to push the system out anyway, which is complete and utter horseshit. But there has always been a bit of a contrast provided by various companies to offset this questionable practice. This contrast has taken the form of PRP (product replacement plans). For $50-$80, you can get a 2 year replacement plan to cover any reasonable damage of occurrence to your system.
Unfortunately, 2 years to a retailer has its own definition.
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Anyone who is interested in getting a year of Xbox Live for 30 bucks should keep reading. Best Buy is having an online sale right now that allows you to get a 1 year card + 1 free month. I got this from Amazon last week for the same price but this is easier because you can do in store pick up. Here is the link for your shopping pleasure. It beats out of playing the 7 dollars a month as I was doing beforehand.
So you arrive at the airport just in time to find out your flight has been delayed by a few hours, what do you do? Buy a Nintendo DS Lite and brand new copy of Mario Kart of course! Best Buy Express vending machines have recently been spotted at the Atlanta International Airport which include various electronic items along with a bunch of popular Nintendo DS titles and the handheld itself. If you were ill prepared for your flight, you now have some options.
The products are priced right around the retail mark, there isn’t any airport price gouging on Nintendo products I guess. My main concern would be what to do if that Nintendo DS you just paid full price for gets stuck on it’s way out of the machine. This isn’t just a bag of Cheetos.
We have seen machines like these before that include other various electronics but it’s nice to see some gaming products readily available for your gaming pleasure.
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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.
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