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more about #usedgames Taggart6 wishes you happy holidays!!!: Needs to be more competitive. The initial offering is very limited and the pricing is easily beaten. It's great that this is for charity, but good i... more » thejtrain: "to the benefit of some retailer" Holy crap, this again? The used market is more than just GameStop. The used market is more than just GameStop. The... more » MotherBrain: i'm very close to a person which has a very rare disease. a big hug and thank you to anyone who can help and spread the word on rare diseases. more » Friedhamster: I'd be more than happy to buy a few titles if the prices were actually competitive. It's hard for me to justify spending almost $10 more (not includi... more » danthraxxx: Did anybody else glance over the article title and only see "BATTLE ORPHANS" ? For a second, I thought Japan might have come up with a new fighting ga... more » Terrorsaur - Five Six: I am a bit confused. What exactly constitutes an orphan disease? more » (Santa) Goldwings: This year I'll be going to MS hospital with 3 other people to donate a whole bunch of toys and electronics. While they might not be the newest models,... more » Psudonym: I did some research on progeria once, a very sad disease. That Google Chrome's spell checker doesn't even seem to recognize the word is itself telling... more » Xagest: Donation towards medical research has always bothered me. Take this scenario into consideration. People donate tons of cash to cancer research. Le... more » Zombeezee: Seems like this charity would be like any other...where 6 months down the road you'll find out that they were pocketing huge profits for themselves. H... more » Asbestos_Underwear: Do we have a quote from Valve or Bobby Kotick on that topic? more » Hey_Blinkon: I'd never knock the charity, as it is a great thing, but the information is a little misguided. Orphan diseases get A LOT of attention in biotech bec... more » Mad as a Hatter: well if you online shoppers didn't come into the store thinking you were better than every other customer and somehow get special rights i wouldn't mi... more » Agentmage2012: As someone who may or may not work at game stop... I just wish we could penalize the chumps who dont bring games in with boxes, None of you know the a... more » Ebendrath: All this moaning and groaning, this bitching and whining yet half of you who join the gamestop hate ban wagon use it for games just like I do. Someti... more » adamgreeney: If it makes you feel any better, the Gamestop I work at has stopped taking any games without cases. It's our call, but it pisses us off as well. more » Sir-Lucius does anything for Dethklok: I really wish Gamestop would just let up print cover art in stores. Manuals there's not much we can do about. I understand collector's wanting to be c... more » laser beams: gamestop is pretty sly- i would never buy anything used from them online. ever. the only thing i've ever ordered from their online store was a new S... more » bakagaijin: I never understood why they buy used games from customers without cases or manuals. And I really don't understand how people lose cases or instructi... more » Orionsaint: Gamestop will never be able to compete with Amazon & Ebay. more » -
#charity
Battle Orphan Diseases With Your Used Games
Why buy and sell your used games to the benefit of some retailer when you can donate and buy used games from DonateGames.Org, where all proceeds go towards helping children and their families fight rare and neglected disorders. More » -
#gamestop
GameStop Promises Manuals, Covers for Used Games Bought Online
This might sound like extra credit for doing nothing, but hey, it's a guarantee. Buy a used game online, GameStop supplies the art and the manual. No more generic game cases on your shelf. More » -
#pspgo
PSP Game Price Check: Playstation Store Vs. Used UMD
As of last week the Playstation Store is the only place PSPgo owners can go to pick up their games. Just how do the prices of the Sony-operated online store compare to the prices of the same games sold as used at retailers? More » -
#usedgames
Game Crazy Exec: Used Games Drive 20 Percent of New Sales
Speaking to IGN, Game Crazy's director of used games, Marc Mondhaschen, said the company did a study for "a very large vendor" and found that credit from trade-ins covered 20 percent of their sales over four weeks. More » -
#tradeins
Toys R Launches Game Trade-Ins Nationwide - Update
The trade-in program Toys R Us was testing back in March seems to have tested well, as the retailer launches said program nationwide today, accepting used games from the Atari 2600 on up.
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#electronicarts
EA Exec: 'PS 3.5', 'Xbox 560' will Precede Next Gen
Electronic Arts' Chief Creative Officer (pictured), in an interview, said that Sony and Microsoft, "nearly expired crossing the finish line as they launched their consoles," and don't want to build the next generation any time soon. More » -
#feature
$40 For That Old Thing? How Used Games Are Priced
Not content to pay any old price for a used game, Kotaku recently attempted to figure out how big stores decide what to charge for old games.
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#ea
Dragon Age Pre-order Scheme Gains +1 Against Used Sales
Electronic Arts wants to ensure that you buy BioWare's Dragon Age: Origins new, not used, by offering a pre-order incentive program that throws in two pieces of downloadable content. EA's even priced that downloadable content for the latecomers. More » -
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#bestbuy
GameStop Strikes Back At Best Buy In Used Game Price Wars
Retailer GameStop has responded to Best Buy's plan to price match new games at used game prices as expected—by slashing prices on used games. But like Best Buy's pricing scheme test, this is extremely limited. More » -
#retail
Best Buy Now Matching GameStop's Used Prices On New Games
Electronics retailer Best Buy is firing a shot at competitors GameStop and Game Crazy, offering a price match guarantee on video games that would match prices on new titles against other retailers used prices. Yeah, that is awesome. More » -
#surveysays
Game Play, Used Game Sales Rocket During Recession
The number of hours that gamers play is at an all time high over the past few months, according to a new study from Nielsen. More » -
#numbers
Pachter: Used Games Sales At 100 Million Annually In U.S., Not A Threat
Gaming's most-quoted financial analyst shared some unconventional wisdom about used games today. More » -
#usedgames
GameStop Isn't Worried About Trade-In Kiosks
News of retail giant Best Buy entering the used game market with automated trade-in kiosks failed to leave video game speciaty chain GameStop quaking in it's boots. More » -
#usedgames
Best Buy Testing Used Game Market Waters
Electronics retailer Best Buy is stepping on a few GameStop toes in Texas this week, using the state as a test bed for game trade-in kiosks and used game sales.
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#rumor
GameStop Easing Off On Used Games Push?
Used games sales are the lifeblood of GameStop's revenue, so previously owned titles aren't going anywhere. But according to new internal communications, the push to put a used game in the hands of someone seeking a new game may soften. More » -
#charity
Donate Your Used Games To Needy Children
Which is worth more, a $15 trade-in credit or getting your used games into the hands of children who would never get a chance to play them otherwise? More » -
#financials
GameStop Reports Record Quarter As Used Game Sales Flourish
Video game retailer GameStop reports record sales and earnings for first quarter 2009, with a slight drop in new game sales bolstered by a significant rise in used products. More » -
#law
Law of the Game: GameStop Practice Appears Deceptive
Legal game site, Law of the Game, has weighed in on GameStop's policy of selling games they let their employees play as new, unplayed, titles.
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#gamestop
GameStop Sells Played Games As New, Sources Say, Practice Could Be Illegal
The alleged practice of GameStop lending new copies of games to employees at their stores and then later selling those games as new, unused copies, may be a violation of federal law. More » -
#drugsarebad
Man Finds Ecstasy In Used Copy Of Grand Theft Auto
A man purchasing two used Grand Theft Auto titles from a store in Gloucestershire, England, over the weekend got more than he bargained for, to the tune of four tablets worth of the drug ecstasy.
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