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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 21:41:45 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: Ubisoft looking at F2P on &#34;Next-Gen consoles&#34;</title>
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  <dc:creator>beemoh (MARK)</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Retailers frequently stock World of Warcraft, so I can't imagine they'd turn their nose up at another MMO that starts at boxed- if anything, they'd probably be more receptive to something microtransactiony because they can then sell the points cards, much like they do with the Facebook games, or tie it in with that &#34;GAME Wallet&#34; thing they started shortly before the event.

Exciting times either way- it's going to be interesting to see what happens when the two business models are crashed into one another.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 21:34:24 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: &#34;Games retail needs Pre-Owned&#34; - Blockbuster</title>
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  <dc:creator>Duane</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[The amount of money charged by publishers doesn't really help retaillers. Blockbuster stores have two types of &#34;pre-owned&#34; stock, ones that are traded in by customers (who are normally trading in their old, unplayed games against new titles) and ones that are transfered from being rental copies to being &#34;PRP&#34; (I've no idea what that means, we're also supposed to take Online Passes out of the boxes before they're rented out so we can give them to customers who buy the ex-rental ones), we're asked to sell the PRP copies before the &#34;Pre-owned&#34; copies.

Thankfully in our store we at least try and keep a balance between the two, which I've voiced is what games problem was all along, we've a decent amount of new copies of games released from about September onwards and a few that have been lying around since before then, if those are bought and the company has them in stock still then we automatically get replenished. I've no idea how GAME did their business in regards to restocking on new items, but we also transfer stock out to other stores if we have too many copies of a particular game pre-owned (i.e. Warhammer Space Marine, which we had about 20 copies of at one point).

Obviously this all depends on management really, both at a store level and as a company, our manager tends to listen to her staff, she's also quite fussy over the quality of whats taken in on pre-owned so we don't tend to have many games now that are tatty and clearly &#34;used&#34;.

I've been critical of Blockbuster within the walls of the store I work at, especially in regards to games retail and in particular when GAME first had trouble stocking particular titles with Blockbuster seemingly slow to take advantage and not carrying enough stock, but I'll give them credit they've created &#34;Champion&#34; roles for both films and games and assigned store staff members to them (I'm one) who feed information to both our District Managers and the rest of the stores in the district that we operate in.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:39:13 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: 17th May 2012: Making Do</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[17th May 2012: Making Dowhile the rest of the gaming world is off playing Diablo 3, I am the wrong side of poor to be able to justify it for a couple of weeks. Instead, because it's kind of the same thing (like when I bought Fatal Fury on the Megadrive because Street Fighter 2 was £60 and FF was £8 in the local video shop), I loaded up Dungeon Siege 3. It meant redownloading it, which was stupid as I have the disc for it, and let me tell you, it is NOT the same thing. And to add salt to the wound my game saves have vanished, possibly over-written by the new install, possibly deleted when I uninstalled. The game is a steamworks and I have steam cloud saves, which were probably an hour further back than they should have been]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:47:13 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: Lost Planet spinoff &#34;EX Troopers&#34; gets first trailer</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Lost Planet spinoff &#34;EX Troopers&#34; gets first trailerThis is quite interesting- the fourth title in the Lost Planet franchise has been announced well ahead of the third game's release, and it's a cel-shaded spinoff for PS3 and DS, subtitled EX Troopers.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:58:18 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: &#34;Free-2-Play the only sustainable model&#34; - Turbine</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[&#34;Free-2-Play the only sustainable model&#34; - TurbineAfter the success of making both Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online Free-2-Play, Turbine have stated that it could be argued that Free-2-Play is &#34;the only sustainable model&#34; for most MMO's.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:48:20 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: French sex toy company move to console Diablo 3 widows</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[French sex toy company move to console Diablo 3 widowsProbably the strangest news I've heard this morning, but French sex toy firm Absoloo have started up a new campaign to appease Diablo 3 widows. I've no idea if this would work outside of France, but anyone wishing to claim a free sex toy (and happens to be female, no news on if they're trying something similar for gay men who find themselves in a similar situation) has to post a picture of themselves holding a copy of Diablo 3 on the companies Facebook page in order to receive a code to claim their free Rubber Wand of Penetration.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:39:44 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: New Black Ops 2 trailer to air during Champions League fin</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[New Black Ops 2 trailer to air during Champions League finalActivision have released information stating that a brand new trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will air during Saturdays UEFA Champions League final between Chelsea and Bayern Munich. Theres no news on what to expect from said trailer, but it will go out on both ITV1 and Sky Sports 1 HD at the same time.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:33:50 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: Blockbuster offering extra credit for Max Payne 3 buyers</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Blockbuster offering extra credit for Max Payne 3 buyersBlockbuster have announced a new trade-in offer for people planning on buying Max Payne 3, with advertisements also placed throughout the national press.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:02:39 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: Moshi Monsters to get a second DS outing?</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Moshi Monsters to get a second DS outing?In news that will surprise absoluetly no one who has paid attention to the upstart company Mind Candy and their Moshi Monsters product, the company is planning a sequel to the incredibly popular Moshi Monsters: Moshling Zoo.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:34:38 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: Katase, Nomura and Nojima discuss the development of a leg</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Katase, Nomura and Nojima discuss the development of a legendAndriasang have an interesting translation of an article on the development of Final Fantasy VII detailing the roles of staff members where Yoshinori Kitase, Kazushige Nojima, Tetsuya Nomura aswell as giving an insight into some of the inspirations that led to the final product.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:27:42 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: Cave COO resigns</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Cave COO resignsIt always seems like when Cave appear on bitparade just recently its bad news. 
This time its no different really, with the news emerging that the companies Chief Operating Officer Miko Watanabe has resigned from the company.
His resignation will take effect from May 31 and is believed to be for personal reasons, although he will keep hold of his Representative Director role until the company holds its annual shareholders meeting in August.
Cave have also strived to make it known that Ito Mashito (Representative Director, CEO and President) will become the company's sole Representative Director following the resignation of Watanabe.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:20:22 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: Go behind the scenes of Epic Mickey 2 with Warren Spector</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Go behind the scenes of Epic Mickey 2 with Warren SpectorIn this Behind the Scenes video for the upcoming Wii, XBox 360 and PlayStation 3 title &#34;Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two&#34;, Warren Spector and other members of the development staff talk you through the various abilities that Mickey and Oswald will have at their disposal.Enjoy!]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:10:28 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: New The Last of Us Trailer</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[New The Last of Us TrailerNaughty Dog, developers of the Uncharted series, have released a new trailer for their upcoming survival game &#34;The Last of Us&#34;]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:57:36 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: Microsoft strike deal with ASDA for &#34;Jubilee XBox 360&#34;</title>
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  <dc:creator>beemoh (MARK)</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Classy.

And by &#34;classy&#34;, I mean &#34;horrible, kill it with fire&#34;.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 08:48:43 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: 11th May 2012: Game Complete</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[11th May 2012: Game CompleteYep, Witcher 2 is done, and very good it was too. I stand by that the final chapter is a bit of a mess, and there feels a lot less to do, but I got a couple of good fights at the end so it's not all bad.The plot, it turns out, is fairly simple (all about grasping for power) but the way it's presented at times is really confusing. It'll also be interesting to see what carries over in to the 3rd game, I sold a book that I could have kept, I hope I dont regret that come the 3rd game]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 07:26:10 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: 8th May 2012: Showdown</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[8th May 2012: ShowdownI know what I forgot to mention yesterday, the Dirt Showdown demo. I played it the other day and had some problems with the framerate, I'm not sure how common it is but I was getting a solid but slow framerate when in race. They put out a patch the other day which may or may not have been to fix that, but when I loaded it up again it was running nice and smooth.
It's not a very good demo truth be told, one short track to represent the variety of race types in the game. It seems fine, but there's a reason I've not done a First Play of it, simply you cannot draw conclusions from it.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 05:07:02 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: 7th May 2012: Game Complete</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[7th May 2012: Game CompleteWhoops, been a bit too long since the last update, but then in some ways I've not played enough to warrant posting.I did finish Asura's Wrath over the weekend, it's decent, but my fondness for it waned as I got closer to the end. It's not that the gameplay becomes worse, you're still just doing the same brawling, blasting and QTEing as the rest of the game, it's more that what you're seeing becomes less interesting.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 05:21:48 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: 30th Apr 2012: White Rabbit</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[30th Apr 2012: White RabbitLast post I mentioned that I was hunting a rare pokemon in Pokemon Black, his name is Tornadus and can control the weather. Pretty powerful right? Well no actually, he's got the defensive attributes of a small child, and his attack isn't much better. I'm on the road to the Elite 4 (Victory Road I believe), which is a reasonably tough dungeon, so hopefully he'll pick up a few levels and his stats will jump, but as things stand he's gone as soon as I get the legendary mon.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:54:40 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: 26th Apr 2012: Game Complete</title>
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  <dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[the only move I've got that does that is an electric attack, but he's weak to electric and it kills him (faints, whatever).

I haven't tried it again yet, might look in to it tomorrow night]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:19:50 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SITE: Fez</title>
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  <dc:creator>BITPARADE</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[FezI'm beginning to get kind of tired of the indie scenes insistence on using pixelated 8-bit/16-bit inspired graphics. We get it, you're &#34;cool&#34; you don't need to rely on light rendering and other really technical things to make a good game. It just reminds me of the people you see walking around wearing &#34;replica&#34; NHS glasses in an &#34;ironic&#34; way. So yeah, I was all set to really find myself becoming annoyed at Fez.]]></description>
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