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Amazon Takes A Shot At GameStop With Release Day Delivery

Amazon has launched a new service guaranteeing delivery of pre-ordered games on their release day for an additional charge of $5.98. While you can pre-order a title on GameStop.com and pick it up on the day of release in a physical store they charge an additional $9.99 for one day delivery that ships out on the actual release date rather than arrive on your doorstep. Order Gears of War 2 and you’re out $10 bucks to get it the day after release.

If you don’t want to brave the sweating crowds at your local GameStop, deal with pissed off, blue-shirted clerks at BestBuy or just consider Wal-Mart an extension of Hell’s ninth circle (and it is) it’s a pretty compelling deal. If Amazon can get their their pre-order schwag offerings in order it will be game over. Expect an announcement from GameStop in T-minus 24 hours.

[1Up via Kotaku]

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GameStop Leverages Chemicals And Fairy Tale Creature To Boost Profits

Shacknews posted up this shot of a press kit sent out from GameStop. The letter, ostensibly written by an ogre named Edgar, urges the reader to trade in games for a $15 (or more!) rebate on the purchase of a new game. The Little Trees car fresheners are to inspire yearnings for that elusive “new game smell.” The entire package implicitly states, “GameStop thinks you’re a fucking retard. Analyze our 10-K and you’ll see that we make bank on re-selling trade-ins. Now smell this.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Hulk Exclusive Skin Offer Refers To Actual Skin

Want to play The Incredible Hulk as the new crimson version of everyone’s pissed off gamma-irradiated superhero? You have to buy the Xbox 360 version, and even then, only at GameStop. The announcement, on Marvel.com, didn’t hint at any other exclusive Hulk skins. If you’re hoping for the original square-headed grey Hulk for the DS, the Lou Ferigno live action Hulk for the PSP, the smart Hulk for the PS3 or even the sword-stripper boots-and-tiara version of World War Hulk for the Wii you are shit out of luck.

[Marvel via N4G]

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Xbox 360 Version Of GTA IV Doubling Up On PS3 At GameStop

According to report on Level Up, the majority of gamers buying Grand Theft Auto IV from GameStop are picking the Xbox 360 version over the PS3 at a clip of two to one. Specifically GameStop reported selling 64% of its inventory on the 360 as opposed to 36% on the PS3 over the first week of sales. Even though the numbers sound like a crushing victory, the guys at Sony aren’t fazed. Peter Dille, Sony’s VP of marketing, points to the fact that the GTA IV sales numbers are a little low when you consider that there are seven Xbox 360s for every three PS3s lurking out there. Give this story a few more weeks to develop, then MGS 4 will hit, then Gears 2… hell, everyone should drop the term console and just call the struggle for supremacy as the sequel wars instead.

[Level Up]

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