These days times are, as we probably all know, pretty tough. Money’s coming up short, jobs are being dropped all over the place, companies are going under and worst of all, our gaming habits are being threatened by the money that we don’t have to buy anything new.
Naturally, as specialists in providing community service, Sarcastic [...]

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Shock and awe. Just simply shock and awe. I’m lost for words..alright, who am I kidding? I’ll spin a good 400 words of this* by complaining a bit about things as usual. But still, this is, from Sony’s point of view, some pretty big news. The PS3 has, for the first time in what feels [...]

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I’ve noticed a lot of people are down these days. It might be love, work, or family related, but depression is depression. I try to find ways to get people out of their funk, and here’s one solution. I know when I’m a funk, the right song can bring me out of it.
Get jiggy with [...]

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The pressure’s building on Sony to cut the price of the PS3, a console which is, without a doubt, pretty frikkin’ expensive. It’s already seriously undercut by the 360 and the Wii and I’m willing to bet that the console would probably sell far better if it was just that little bit cheaper.
Sony are refusing [...]

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Wow. And I thought we were looking at a time of smaller prices. Rather than go for, as I – and Bobby Kotick – had thought, a bunch of price cuts in a bid to attract more sales of consoles and games, Nintendo are going the other way and raising the price in the UK.
It’s [...]

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ActiBliz CEO Bobby Kotick is not a man known for playing a lot of games. However, his lack of gaming smarts is made up by his market smarts; after all, his complete familiarity with business sense (milking the f**k out of every franchise he can get his hands on, in layman’s terms) has propelled Guitar [...]

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A couple of weeks ago Burnout Paradise was given its second piece of pay-for DLC, the movie & TV inspired Legendary Cars Pack. While kinda cool, I couldn’t recommend them to fellow gamers in good conscience, because EA have a serious issue with charging reasonable prices for their downloadable content.
When I checked out Criterion Games’ [...]

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GameStop, as many a gamer know, are the masters of extortion. They’re experts in taking your games from you faster than you can say “good value,” deposit a couple of measly bucks in your hand and tell you to “have a nice day” in half that time. Next thing you know, you’re outside the shop, [...]

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The Bargain Hunter never seems to leave the UK these days. Maybe it’s because you’re not telling him about any US bargains you’ve seen by emailing yamster [at] sarcasticgamer [dot] com, and I recommend that you do. One can only take so much of the terrible weather before getting bored.
Anyway, the community’s very own Whodini1 got [...]

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In the current economic climate, things are tough. Really tough. Mickey Rourke tough. That’s why, based on the hunch that things will get better before they get worse, I’m turning this article into a semi-regular feature titled “Desperate Measures,” since these are desperate times. I would have called the column “Desperate Times, Desperate Measures,” but [...]

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Over at GamesIndustry.biz, Sony have unleashed the hate on its rival consoles with a seriously smug press statement, bigging up the PS3’s extreme value for money because it’s an “all-in-one” console. By comparison, they say, the Wii and the 360 are horribly expensive when you look at what you purchase outside of the console itself.
Oops. [...]

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More market casualties as the economic downturn worsens, and once again, because nobody seems to be interesting in emailing me bargains (that’s yamster [at] sarcasticgamer [dot] com) it’s the UK the Bargain Hunter is touching on again. This time, it’s multimedia store Zavvi, who have just closed a handful of stores across the country and [...]

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It’s a bit of a sad day. 1UP as we know it will cease to exist very soon as it has been bought from Ziff Davis Media by UGO Entertainment, who have immediately set about making some changes in the staff. Mainly by laying 30 of them off. Ouch.
Hit the jump for the info on [...]

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