The pre-order craze at Amazon has tapered off a bit for the PS4 and Xbox One, but the pace of that tapering off appears to be in Microsoft’s favor. A quick review of Amazon’s Video Game store shows that PS4 pre-orders are showing sharp declines, while Xbox One pre-orders are essentially treading water. Meanwhile, games […]
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Microsoft has tried its hand at music multiple times, from an Xbox DJ and music app that debuted years ago with J Allard mixing the tunes at E3 to the failed Zune hardware that eventually evolved into the Zune software that manages tunes and your Windows Phone updates. It’s funny how everything comes full circle,
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The Skylanders saga continues this year with the new Skylanders Swap Force game, and while Swap Force pre-orders at Amazon are always attractive, if you decide to get the next game at Target, we now know the pre-order bonuses you’ll receive for doing so. Starting today, people who pre-order Skylanders Swap Force at Target will
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Looks like you may want to get that Xbox One pre-order in after all…. In spite of comments from Sony executives that the company may not be able to fulfill all PlayStation 4 pre-orders or meet demand on the PS4 release date, it now appears that the Xbox One runs a greater risk of inventory
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The discussion about whether playing violent video games causes real-life gun violence has been raging for years. A new report today by Media Coalition Inc. is bound to fuel that fire, claiming that the harm of violent video games has “skewed the debate and fuels misguided calls for censorship.” Although the report’s headline focuses on
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All the talk before E3 was the battle looming between Sony and Microsoft going toe to toe with dueling press conferences. Sony seemed to have the last laugh, both literally and figuratively, with its press conference scheduled for the end of the day and the revelation that the PS4 would retail for $399, a full
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Forza Motorsport 5 and The Crew got a lot of attention at E3, but I couldn’t resist the all-out arcade fun of Need for Speed Rivals. I’ve been a fan of the NFS series for years now, and Rivals looks to put the NFS series on steroids. For 15 minutes of behind-closed-doors time at E3,
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We’ve covered a lot of Amazon pre-order news in the past week, from the PS4 pre-orders on Amazon either sold out or selling out to the massive resurgence of Xbox One Amazon pre-orders following the so-called “Xbox One-80” announcement a few days ago in which Microsoft reversed its policies with regard to DRM, online check-ins
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Battlefield 4 needs no introduction – unless you’re talking to gamers who are more enamored with single-player games than multiplayer ones. In that case, BF4 — if not the entire Battlefield franchise — may very well be foreign ground. Much like the Call of Duty series, the Battlefield games have a massive multiplayer following and
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It was clear that Xbox One pre-orders would pick up steam after yesterday’s announcement that Microsoft was reversing its course on the Xbox One DRM, used-game policy and online check-in requirement. What few stopped to consider was how much yesterday’s news would impact Xbox One games at Amazon as well. Since the news broke yesterday
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