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Amazon.com is ‘Platform Agnostic,’ Not Really Biased Towards PS3

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

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Amazon.com is ‘Platform Agnostic,’ Not Really Biased Towards PS3

In light of Joystiq's discovery last night that the PS3-biased Grand Theft Auto IV advertisement on Amazon.com had been changed to reflect its vanilla Xbox 360 twin, we too gave Amazon's public relations department a call, in the hopes of finding out more about the sudden switcheroo, and Amazon's policy towards such obvious bias. The [...]

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Amazon.com Displays Biased GTA IV Advertisement — New Marketing Trend?

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

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Amazon.com Displays Biased GTA IV Advertisement — New Marketing Trend?

Refresh the Amazon.com Video Games store a few times, and you'll probably see something rather revolting, if you happen to be a die-hard Xbox 360 fanboy: a blatant claim that Grand Theft Auto IV is "meant to be played on the PS3." But there's more to this than meets the eye.

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Warhammer Online Knocks Smash Bros. Brawl Off Amazon Bestseller List

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

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Warhammer Online Knocks Smash Bros. Brawl Off Amazon Bestseller List

Next Generation noticed something very peculiar at Amazon.com: Despite its release date of October 7th, 2008, Warhammer Online has apparently racked up enough preorders as of today that it's surpassed the formidable Super Smash Bros. Brawl to claim the top spot on the hourly-updated videogame bestseller charts.

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Grand Theft Auto Lets You Purchase Legal Music

Friday, March 28, 2008

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Grand Theft Auto Lets You Purchase Legal Music

We were right, Grand Theft Auto's radio stations are indeed going to be monetized; but not in the way we initially expected. Instead, Yahoo! Games has unveiled a new digital music distribution model built right into GTA IV.

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