Sony: They think it's all over...it is now.

Well you are no doubt already aware of the major balls-up at Sony HQ with regards to the PSN outage and compromisation of PSN users personal data given that it's been on pretty much every major television news channel, radio show and online site so I'll just post this instead for your entertainment.

The Dirty Little Secret about the Alternative Vote System

 
May 5th. Vote NO to AV.

Mortal Kombat: Legacy-Episode 2 (Web Series)

Mortal Kombat: Legacy-Episode 1 (Web Series)

The King of Fighters

No particular reason for this post, I just happen to like, did I say 'like'? I meant love The King of Fighters series; the only 2D beat 'em video game to rival Capcom's efforts, (although KOF's 3D efforts whoop Capcom's into submission).  Also, no other fighting game has quite the cast of characters, each boasting their own unique fighting style with perhaps save for Ryo who looks and plays like Ryu & Ken from Capcoms Street Fighter and as a parody has ended up as bumbling fool Dan in the SF series.  Ryo's still an awesome character nevertheless.

THE KING OF FIGHTERS '98 ULTIMATE COMBO EXHIBITION

THE KING OF FIGHTERS: MAXIMUM IMPACT 2 COMBO EXHIBITION

THE KING OF FIGHTERS XII COMBO EXHIBITION

The end of UK Resistance

Popular games journo Gary Cutlack has officially called time on his popular video games blog UK Resistance. The blog, which was a winner at the first ever Games Media Awards in 2007, has for a long time been a favourite amongst industry insiders for its glorious combination of brilliant writing, high-level offensiveness and outright foolishness.

It would seem the following statement gives reason to the decision for Gary to close the doors on UKR:

“a general feeling of disconnection from a games industry that no longer accommodates, or reflects our needs”.


I wouldn't have ever called myself an avid reader of UKR, but when I did partake in it's anarchy it never failed to entertain.
 
Anyway, here's a link to the site if you're curious http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/ and below is the closing vid from UKR featuring a brief look back over the last 15 years or so.
 

GAME give another good reason for the much needed demise of bricks & mortar, high street games retail

FROM EUROGAMER:

Eurogamer has uncovered evidence that staff at GAME were told to buy Nintendo 3DS consoles and games from supermarket rival Tesco on launch night to sell them in-store as pre-owned.


An internal document, below, reveals that staff were encouraged to make use of Tesco's eye-catching launch bundle offer for the 3DS on Thursday night.

Tesco sold the console for just £175 when bought with any 3DS game for £34.90.
"Whilst we are unable to competitively match this offer in terms of a mint price," reads the document, "it offers a great opportunity to gain 3DS consoles and games for your store's pre-owned stock."

The idea was to use cash from GAME tills to buy a 3DS and game for £209.90 – Tesco's bundle price, and trade it in to GAME for cash at the same price.

£1049.50 was authorised for removal per trip to Tesco – which equates to five bundles. "Your store can do this trip multiple times," reads the document.

The 3DS hardware would then be sold at "the same price as mint due to expected supply shortage".

Game's in-store Nintendo 3DS price is £219.99. Second hand 3DS units are sold between £5 and £10 cheaper.

It is important to note, however, that the document insisted the pre-owned stock only be sold once mstock runs dry, and staff not "up-sell" it to customers.

While the document advises that buying stock from Tesco is a non-mandatory "mission", one GAME staff member told Eurogamer the store he works at was reprimanded for not taking part.

A GAME spokesperson told Eurogamer: "Some of our stores wanted to move quickly last weekend to build their pre-owned stocks of 3DS at the same time as their local competitors, so we gave them a process to do that.

"It was not mandatory, and happened in small volumes."

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However GAME choose to dress this latest antic of theirs up it's wrong as it deprives genuine customers the chance of picking a bargain. Want a new 3DS?  Well if the predicted shortages do come about then GAME will have plenty of them, albeit at a much higher price.

New prices for second hand goods is it now, GAME? Assholes.

Saints Row: The Third-New Screens