SLee and Topher

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Amazon Prime: How to Get Your Pre-Order on Release Date

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When you pre-order a game, you want it on release date. Part of the benefit of pre-ordering is that you can still play your game on the day it comes out without having to camp out at the store until midnight or make an excursion that day to get it. Why fight the crowds when you don’t have to?

Until recently, this wasn’t a challenge. You could just pre-order your game on Amazon, choose “Release Date Delivery” as your shipping option, and for just 99 cents your game would show up at your doorstep on release date.

Not anymore.

Amazon has made some changes and the 99 cent option isn’t available anymore. Here’s how to get around that.

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GameFly Commercial’s Faulty Logic

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GameFly Commercial's Faulty LogicYour video game console is more than a gaming machine. Thanks to apps and add-ons, it can be the center of your home entertainment system. Hulu is a perfect example. For a nominal monthly fee, you can stream tons of content from Hulu for less than you would pay for cable or satellite television service.

My wife and I have been watching quite a bit of Hulu lately, and they’ve been showing this GameFly commercial [Read more…]

New FIFA Soccer 13 Trailer from GamesCom

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Of any sports sims, soccer is my favorite. The game is complicated enough to be challenging but simple enough to be elegant, even with high levels of detail and accuracy. While the sports simulation games get more and more complex, it’s harder for other sports games, such as American football, to not be overly complicated. EA does a good job with the FIFA series of keeping the complexity in the sweet spot while still continually increasing the realism of the games.

In this new FIFA Soccer 13 trailer, we see some of the new graphics and capabilities your players will have in this year’s version of this perennial favorite. [Read more…]

Multiplayer Video – Call of Duty: Black Ops II

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The Call of Duty series has become practically synonymous with first-person shooter multiplayer. As the single-player campaigns shrink in duration with each new title, the multiplayer is almost the only thing keeping you interested. Of course everyone expected Treyarch to bank on the proven formula with their newest episode, and we now have video evidence to prove it. This new video of  Call of Duty: Black Ops II multiplayer action should whet your appetite.

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