Post Tagged with: "corporate greed"

Sorry, The Last Boss Fight Costs Extra — Some Devs Willing to Ship Incomplete Games

A few days ago I published an article talking about the impact of used game sales and rentals on developers. The piece revolved around comments made by Frontier Developments’ founder, David Braben and his idea to create two price points/versions of a game — a model he compares to the film industry. I really disagreed [...]

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Rock Out With Your … Dates Out? Rock Band 2 Console Release Dates Leaked

According to Kotaku, a “friendly retail tipster” sent them a few photos of what appears to be their retail screens — showing off the release dates for the Rock Band 2 game on each console. The images point to the 360 version hitting stores 9/14, PS3 on 10/19, and Wii on 11/18. Of course, all [...]

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Bend Over Dude, You’re Getting A Dell

Manufacturers strive to create innovative products and we as consumers work day and night to afford them. We exit our vehicles and are greeted by the open arms of big box retailers housing shelf after shelf of electronic excess. We fork over handfuls of hard earned cash for microscopic phones and wafer thin laptops. Each [...]

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