This news should be causing more than a few smiles in Redmond as the news that the Xbox 360 beat out Nintendo's Wii and Sony's Playstation 3 when it comes to worldwide sales for the first time ...
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With the torrent of game sales we saw back during the holiday season, I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that my backlog has grown to the point that, well, I'm terrified of it--and it's about to ...
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Next to Valve's Steam games platform the biggest seller of games, both digitally and physical media, would have to be Amazon so when they release their top sellers list everyone in the business pays attention.
While some of ...
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Post-Christmas Day sales in 2011 are expected to see a 60% rise in store traffic over 2010. According to research firm ShopperTrak, there's a simple explanation: Boxing Day falls on a Monday.
Boxing Day 2010 was a Sunday, ...
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Gamers have already been treated to an onslaught of deals throughout this month alone from a variety of publishers, and now it's Capcom's turn. The company announced today that, starting right now, they're kicking off a big ...
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EA, banking on the assumption that you haven't spent all of your money already, has kicked off a "Green Monday" sale that sees basically everything on Origin at 40% off; the catch being that it's for today ...
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Officials at GPS manufacturer TomTom have announced plans to cut 10% of their workforce in an attempt to reduce costs as they struggle to compete in a changing market that has largely shifted from standalone GPS units ...
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Sony will be joining in on the summer sale fun with a sale of their own, starting July 12 on up until July 19. For regular PlayStation Network members, you'll be able to get 30% off on ...
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Well, it's that time of year again - time to pull out your cash and purchase a bunch of games on Steam, half of which you'll likely never play. Well, maybe that's just me.
Enter Summer Camp, this ...
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How many times have we read a headline to a post on a news site and literally want to shake the person that wrote it because it was just so inanely ridiculous?
It seems that these stupid types ...
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Fancy putting your slippered feet up and conducting your Black Friday shopping from home and doing something awesome for your chums? If so, Valve's Steam service has an, er, friend-friendly sale on from November 24th through 29th.
The ...
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As you prime your wallet/purse for the madness of Black Friday next month, Target is holding a decent sale on videogames that lasts from this Sunday through the whole of next week. If you pick up two ...
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Times are good once again at Microsoft. The new Xbox 360 S, a slimmer model of the old Xbox 360, recently arrived Stateside and promptly outsold every other home console in the US during June - except ...
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We first heard about a new official Twitter account called @earlybird a few weeks ago. The idea is very much like what Dell has been doing on Twitter for sometime - offering special deals on products via ...
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Remember Modern Warfare 2? Of course you do, because if you have opposable thumbs and live on Earth, you've probably played it. The 2009 shooter became the "biggest entertainment launch ever" after obliterating records for number of ...
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We've been seeing a lot of press recently crowing about how there is a very good possibility that the iPad could end up outselling Apple's own Mac computers and close in on the iPhone. In fact John ...
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Well duh! Gotta love these studies relating to tech that are always coming out that spew forth numbers that anyone with half a brain would have already figured out on their own. Much like this study from ...
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A couple of excellent little sales for us gamers, so I thought I'd squash them into one post.
First up, if you're still holding out on BioShock 2 because you want to play the first game, Amazon has ...
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TomTom has reduced the price of its iPhone app from $99 to a more relatively reasonable $49, a price labeled as "introductory" and available until at least December 28th.
$49 is still exorbitant for an iPhone app, and ...
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Black Friday, Black Shmiday. This weekend, Target is offering low prices on a slew of games, in the kind of deal you'd expect to only find on America's favorite shopping day of the year.
From this Sunday, there's ...
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In case you don’t live in America, or you do and choose to ignore social calendars, this week holds the holiday of Thanksgiving on Thursday, a mixed-message celebration of the arrival of the Pilgrims, and is followed ...
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Home Depot is getting in on the Black Friday hysteria, offering some pretty impressive Black Friday incentives for people who love crowds and hate sleep.
While there isn't an ad per se, BlackFriday.info has a huge list of ...
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