As we dedicated gamers boldly step into the holiday season, our featherweight pocketbooks cowering in fear before the mountain of new games to play, the only question we need to ask ourselves is “Which first?” But for parents, awash in a sea of doubt and heresay spawned by video game studies, the question is not necessarily [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 3, 2008
Yesterday evening, The Consumerist reported a rumor that electronics retailer Circuit City would be closing a full one-fifth of stores nationwide. That report is rumor no more. Today, Circuit City has announced that 155 stores are expected to shut their doors tomorrow, November 4th, and reopen on November 5th to begin merchandise liquidation. 17% of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 2, 2008
Nintendo’s Wii Fit has already become a worldwide success story at retail, selling over two million copies in Japan alone. But for U.S. consumers, finding the oblong white box is an exercise in frustration; and according to the perennially outspoken Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter, Nintendo — and the weak dollar — are to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 14, 2008
At the 2008 ION Game Conference, there was a panel called “Real Money, Fake Money and Loot: Designing Economies for MMO Games” in which participants spoke about the economic game design issues that surround MMOs. The consensus opinion from the panelists was that the best way to combat gold farmers was to design an MMO [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 17, 2008
Kotaku reports that GameStop President Steve Morgan has just resigned, and will be leaving the company effective May 2nd, 2008. No successor has yet been named.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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