On Black Friday, Microsoft made off like a bandit, reportedly outselling Sony's home console three-to-one thanks to substantial price cuts across the board on Xbox 360 systems -- and no doubt, because of a number of offers at online retail as well. But even if you missed the $400 Xbox 360 Lancer package at Amazon, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 28, 2008
If you took my advice and woke up this morning at your leisure, secure in the knowledge that online retailers would keep the Black Friday deals going all day long, well -- you might be a little pissed right about now. $10 copies of FF Tactics PSP? Gone. Xbox 360 Arcades with free refurbished 20GB [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 28, 2008
On Black Friday, there's no such thing as instant gratification. You line up in the freezing cold of an early November morning, race into the store in hopes of securing one of the loss leaders on offer, and then sift through the wreckage of what remains to see if there's anything (or if you're lucky, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Today Microsoft announced that they, too, are getting in on the Black Friday sales by cutting the prices of multiple Xbox LIVE Marketplace items. After posting the full list on his blog, however, Xbox’s Major Nelson was faced with another issue entirely: angry gamers not in the US. As we already knew, once again Microsoft’s latest [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 26, 2008
With Thanksgiving upon us, many avid shoppers in these United States are already psychologically and physically preparing themselves for the madness that is Black Friday. Frequently (albeit inaccurately) purported to be the busiest shopping day of the year, this Friday, millions of Americans will flock, lemming-like, to their local malls and shopping centers to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Update: Several GameCyte readers are having friction with Chase National Bank in sorting out the several confusing offers available at this time. Caveat emptor, and you can read full details in the comments below. Original Story: Pop quiz: Which is the cheapest current-gen home console? If you said the $250 Nintendo Wii, you'd be wrong -- it's [...]
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
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