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| Bridging the Generation Gap with One
Big Street Fight |
| May 30, 2008 at 11:16am |
M. Bison: Evil overlord or
misunderstood nice guy?
While some social anthropologists and
historians like to categorize generations by "Baby Boomers,"
"Generation X" or "Generation Y," we take a different approach. We
throw anyone from the discovery of fire to the introduction of Pong
into the "Generation of the Great Darkness." Anyone who remembers
playing Ms. Pacman or Donkey Kong on a table console at Pizza Hut
would be in the "Pixelated Generation." And those of you
who are growing up playing on a next-generation console? Well,
you're the "Lucky Generation."
However, the most successful generations take the best points of all
the generations and apply them to their current situation. If you
don't remember your Mom dropping you off early at the movie theater
so you could play Street Fighter II, there may be a generation gap
between you and the "Pixelated," but
Street Fighter IV
could be the bridge that crosses that generational chasm. So before you older
guys nag the younger ones to get a job and a haircut, and before you
younger ones reply by screaming "I didn't ask to be born," squealing
your tires and driving off with the sub-woofer thumping, maybe you should
sit down together and talk about the days quarters and
joysticks.
Then when Street Fighter IV releases, perhaps you can sit down
together to reacquaint yourselves with some old friends and meet
some new ones, all in high-resolution detail. Together you can join Ryu and Co. as they scream unintelligible nonsense and Hadouken their
ways to victory. You can have a healthy debate over how much food gets
stuck in Zangief’s chest hair on a daily basis or how the evil M. Bison
is really just "misunderstood." Together, you can muse aloud about the
circumference of Chun-Li’s thunder-thighs. After all, there's no generational gap
that cannot be mended with acceptance, understanding and a good, old-fashioned street fight.
Street Fighter IV will arrive early 2009. Until then, check out our
Xbox 360 and
PS3
Street Fighter IV pages for the latest screenshots
and videos. |
| The Latest on Guitar Hero: Aerosmith's
Set List |
| May 29, 2008 at 4:58pm |
The Guitar Hero: Aerosmith set list is
growing.
We're still a month away from the release of
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith,
but some of our groupies couldn't wait. So
they sneaked into the Aerosmith dressing room and found a guitar
pick, a sweat-stained scarf and part of a torn, crumpled set list.
Actually, someone from Activision e-mailed us the list, but the
other way sounds more rock-and-roll.
Song choices will vary
according to the venue, ranging from Aerosmith's first gig at Nipmuc
High School to sold-out arenas. The songs include Aerosmith hits, as
well as Aerosmith-approved songs from other artists, which you'll be
able to play as Joe Perry, Brad Whitford or the Guitar Hero
stand-bys that you've come to know and love. We're told that a full list won't be
available until the game launches on June 29th, but here's what we
have so far.
Aerosmith Tunes: Make It, Uncle Salty, Draw the Line, Movin'
Out, No Surprize, Sweet Emotion, Livin' on the Edge, Ragdoll, Love
in an Elevator, Back in the Saddle, Beyond Beautiful, Dream On
Other Artists: Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes, Cheap Trick - Dream Police,
Joan Jett - I HAte Myself for Loving You, The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night,
The Clash - Complete Control, New York Dolls - Personality Crisis,
Lenny Kravitz - Always on the Run, Black Crowes - Hard to Handle
We'll let you know if our groupies uncover anything else before
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith releases June 29th. |
| You Mean They do This for Real? |
| May 28, 2008 at 4:58pm |
Shannon Tzikas, one of our District Managers, presents
driver Joey Logano with an Xbox 360.
We've always enjoyed playing NASCAR video
games. We were recently shocked and amazed to learn that,
apparently, there are people out there who do it for real. We
decided we should check that out, and we're
pleased to let you know that GameStop will be sponsoring 18-year-old NASCAR driver Joey Logano, beginning with his NASCAR Nationwide Series
debut this Saturday at Dover International Speedway. We'll also serve as his primary sponsor
of the No. 20 Toyota Camry during the series' next race June 7th at
Nashville Superspeedway and again September 7th at Richmond International Raceway.
We will continue to provide associate sponsorship for the remainder of
Joey's 18-race Nationwide Series schedule.
Last Saturday on his 18th birthday, we presented Joey with an Xbox 360 console and an advance
copy of NASCAR 09 so he can take a break from his hum-drum life of driving
180 mph with another car four inches from his bumper.
We look forward to Joey's debut this Saturday, and we've asked him to keep it at
around 55 mph to take advantage of the Camry's gas mileage. We're also looking
forward to the release of NASCAR 09 June 10th.
You can pre-order your copy online or at your local GameStop. |
| Madden Mondays Week
7: The Total Control Animation System |
| May 27, 2008 at 11:16am |
The play is not over yet. Give him a
stiff-arm and keep going. Click the photo for the
larger version.
Total Control Animation allows you to
give that extra effort. Click the photo for the
larger version.
Okay, so this is actually Madden Tuesday. We
apologize for the delay, but our holiday cookout got a little out of
hand. Did you know they make bratwurst with the cheese already in
it? Anyway, here is our post-holiday sneak peek at another
Madden NFL 09 feature.
but·ton mash·ing: The act of a gamer repeatedly pressing buttons, often in a
random order, in the hopes of achieving a desired result, usually associated with a
low rate of success, gnashing of teeth and use of colorful metaphors.
If there were a Webster's Dictionary of Gaming, you might find find a similar definition for
button mashing as listed above. It's an ancient technique passed down from console generation to
console generation. For years, gamers have waited for a more responsive sports game that would alleviate
the need for said mashing. Madden NFL 09 could be the game that breaks the cycle. EA SPORTS showed us
another part of Madden NFL 09's vast feature set, the Total Control Animation System.
Besides having a catchy name, this new animation system looks to change one fundamental flaw in sports
games past: the inability to break out of moves when the one you have initiated clearly isn’t working.
For example, how often have you triggered a spin move to evade a defender, only to have him wrap you
up with one hand? You think to yourself, "Hey, I’ll just stiff arm this clown and continue my
merry stroll to the end zone." That’s when the button mashing starts. Result: The whistle
hasn’t blown, but you know the play is essentially DEAD. Not anymore. The Total Control Animation
System will allow you to branch out of one animation and into another, giving you the
ability to perform combo moves even after you've been wrapped up. Now, be warned,
as Newton's Third Law of Motion will tell you, for every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction.
Total animation control applies to both offense and defense. Yes, you can follow-up a half-spin move with a juke and a stiff-arm, but all of this
will ultimately extend the play and lead to a higher risk of the
ball being stripped.
So when you think you're being sneaky and breaking out of tackles, just remember
that the defender may
actually be holding you up in an attempt to jar the ball loose.
To become a part of the new, non-button-mashing generation, you should
pre-order either the Standard or 20th Anniversary Collector's
Editions of Madden NFL 09,
which release August 12th. Remember to come back next Madden Monday
for another exclusive sneak peek at Madden NFL 09. |
| It's not the LEGO Years, Honey. It's the
LEGO Mileage |
| May 22, 2008 at 5:58pm |
Which Indy is which? We can't tell the
difference.
In Raiders of
the Lost Ark, when Indiana Jones is nursing some wounds after a
considerably rough
day, his love interest Marion Ravenwood jokes, "You're not the man I knew
10 years ago."
And, in true Indy form, he retorts, "It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage."
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opened in theaters today, and it
appears that both the years and the mileage have been kind to
Harrison Ford. We have to admit he looks pretty good for a
65-year-old man. In fact, we can hardly tell the difference between
the 1981 Indiana Jones, the 2008 Indiana Jones and the LEGO Indiana
Jones, although we've heard rumors that the LEGO guy had some work
done.
Although you can take in the
new movie adventure this weekend, you'll have to wait a few more
days
before you can run from giant LEGO boulders, have no time for love
with LEGO Wilhelmina 'Willie' Scott or ride your LEGO horse into the LEGO
sunset with LEGO Sallah, LEGO Brody and LEGO Dr. Jones, Sr. because
LEGO Indiana Jones: The
Original Adventures does not release until June 3rd. However, you can
pre-order your copy to get a free LEGO Indiana Jones T-shirt and a
code to unlock LEGO Mola Ram, who likes to rip out LEGO hearts. You
can also pass the time by counting the number of times we say LEGO
in this article. So reserve you copy of LEGO Indiana Jones now, and
have a LEGO day! LEGO. |
| We Get our Upholstered Little Hands on LittleBigPlanet |
| May 21, 2008 at 11:27am |
Sackboy can be
adorned in a variety of costumes.
In the movie Little Big Man, Dustin Hoffman's
title character was given the
name because, as his adoptive Cheyenne father said, "He is little in body, but his heart is big."
We were invited to the Sony
offices last week to play a demo of LittleBigPlanet, and
it looks like the gaming world is about to be impacted in a big way
by another little man with a big heart, or more accurately, a little Sackboy with a big heart.
We were first introduced to Sackboy, a burlap-covered rag doll of
sorts, who can be personalized with custom fabrics, colors, hats,
hairstyles and other accessories. We had hundreds of items for our
Sackboys to don, but we were told that players will start out with a
few options, and they'll have to unlock more as they go. We were also
shown how to use the PlayStation Eye to make a custom mask from a quick
snap shot of one of our players. After we
had settled on our assortment of masks, armor, pirate hooks and even tails,
our motley crew of Sackboys, Sackgirls and androgynous Sackpersons
was ready for action.
Your Sackboy's world is infinitely customizable.
We were not only able to control the movements of our Sackboys, but
we were also able to control facial expressions, arm motions and
head nods, enabling us to express a wide range of emotions, ranging
from downtrodden melancholy to delirious elation. One of the added
advantages of arm control is the ability to grab and drag a variety
of objects, and the ability to slap your opponents. While we would
have been content playing Sackboy slap fight for quite a while, we were told to move
on because we had much more to see and do.
Not only is Sackboy infinitely customizable, but his world is, as
well. We were able to create stone, wood, fabric and glass objects
to use as obstacles, bridges or even catapults in Sackboy's world.
We were also able to grab objects already in the game and duplicate,
rotate, size and color them as we saw fit. To get a feel for what's
available, you can choose more than 50 story levels to play in
before you start making your own. After we had built our
platform, we were ready to compete in a race to collect the most
bubbles. This obviously included more slapping. Most of the time we
competed, but at other times we had to cooperate to get past a
particular obstacle. We were told this combination of competition
and cooperation has been dubbed "coopertition" by the developers.
When you and up to three of your friends are finished "cooperpeting," you can save
the world you created and share it with other players in the
LittleBigPlanet community. In turn, you'll be able to play in and comment
on worlds that others have posted for sharing. It's this freedom of
expression and the ability to share it with others that could make
LittleBigPlanet more of a phenomenon than a game.
LittleBigPlanet will be available for PS3 this fall. Keep an eye on
our product page for more developments. |
| Do Over! Madden
Mondays Week 6: EA SPORTS REWIND |
| May 19, 2008 at 11:11am |
Do over! If only life imitated EA
SPORTS REWIND.
Click the picture above for a larger version.
We all have moments we'd like to do over in
life. If we had a nickel for every time someone around here said, "I
wish I didn't drink that whole bottle of pancake syrup," or I wish I
had known that 'beachball' was actually a Portuguese Man-of-War
jellyfish," we'd be living on our own private island by now.
Even more so in the sports world, we often hear competitors (both real and virtual)
saying, "I wish I could have that pitch back," or "I never should have thrown that ball."
Well, we won’t hear it as often in Madden NFL 09, with the all-new EA SPORTS REWIND,
which will allow gamers to literally put a play in reverse and replay a down. Think of it
as a Madden mulligan. Not unlike a super power, REWIND can be used for both good
or evil. (Think Mike Shanahan and his pre-snap field goal timeouts.) For players
looking to improve their games, this is a fantastic way to immediately learn from
your mistakes without having to wait until the situation presents itself again, like
in most sports games. Just click the REWIND button when a play ends, and watch your
players reverse track back to the line of scrimmage.
However, REWIND can also lead to a few broken friendships. For example,
suppose your best buddy has been talking trash for weeks about how he owns you.
So you say, "Ok, tough guy. I’ll take 3 REWINDS, and then let’s just see how
dominant you are." Five minutes later you’re laughing maliciously as you REWIND
his kick-off return for a TD. Needless to say, you probably won’t be going to
Sizzler together the next day.
Here are some important details regarding EA SPORTS REWIND in Madden NFL 09: Before the
game begins, each player may select 0, 1, 3, 5, or unlimited REWINDS to be used during
the course of the game. Rewinds may be be used on any play: Offense, Defense, & Special Teams.
They're not available during online games. Madden NFL 09 hits the streets August 12th, including
the historic 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition.
So click here or head to your local
GameStop
to reserve your copy. And remember, with great power comes great responsibility.
|
| Take in Some
Culture at the Theater this Weekend |
| May 16, 2008 at 5:10pm |
Down in front! You can get a better
look at GameStop Cinema by clicking the picture.
The run of summer adventure movies is already
starting. You might want to see everyone of them, but with the
rising price of tickets, the rising price of gas and the rising price
of the "I Can Readily Believe It's Not Butter" product the theaters
put on their popcorn, you may find yourself a little strapped for
cash.
If you want to save a few bucks and really impress your date, you
should put a package of Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn in the
microwave and cozy up to your computer monitor for an evening of
GameStop Cinema.
You'll find video trailers for some of the hottest
games, like Dragonball Z: Burst Limit, Mario Kart and Lost Planet:
Colonies. Plus you can find GameStop-exclusive videos for Alone in
the Dark, Grand Theft Auto IV, Army of Two and more. GameStop Cinema
is also the place to find coverage of GameStop events and
tournaments, like the Grand Theft Auto IV Liberty City Sweepstakes,
the FIFA Interactive World Cup or the guest appearance of Marvel
artist Gabrielle Dell'Otto.So take
in a little culture this weekend. Sit back, relax, turn off your
cell phone and enjoy the cinematic excellence of GameStop Cinema. |
| Customize Your NCAA Football 09 Cover |
| May 15, 2008 at 3:31pm |
Print out your favorite mascot and
slip it into your game case. Click the photo for the covers.
Now that all of the front covers for
NCAA
Football 09 have been determined, suppose you don't want to be
greeted by Darren McFadden, Matt Ryan, DeSean Jackson
or even Sparty the Spartan every time you pull out your game.
We have some relief available. You can choose your favorite college
mascot from this selection of custom covers,
print it out and slip
it into your game case. Some cutting is required. So be careful, and
don't run with scissors.
We don't have everyone's favorite mascot, but you'll find more than
40 of the most popular ones. We're sorry that we don't have
Appalachian State, Slippery Rock or Stephen F. Austin State
University, but there's always next year. NCAA
Football 09 is available July 15th. That gives you a little time
to draw your own mascots. |
| Winner takes $10 Grand in Grand Theft
Auto IV Sweepstakes |
| May 13, 2008 at 5:30pm |
Paulo Pinho, of Jackson Heights, New York, reacts to
pulling the $10,000 envelope from the lock box.
Kenneth Brand, of Brooklyn, New York, snagged the $5,000 prize in the Liberty City Sweepstakes.
Although we recognize the fun of pretending
you're a gangster in Grand Theft Auto IV,
we recommend that you find
a way to make an honest buck here in the real world. Paulo Pinho, of
Jackson Heights, New York, made 10,000 honest bucks simply by
turning a key, when he opened a safety-deposit box and pulled out
the $10,000 grand prize in the GameStop Grand Theft Auto IV Liberty
City Sweepstakes.
Last month, GameStop associates hid 1,000 safety-deposit-box keys around
selected GameStop stores in New York. The lucky ones who found a key
were invited to try it in the safety-deposit box during our April 28th
Grand Theft Auto IV launch event at the Broadway GameStop store in
New York City. Four randomly chosen entrants, who entered the
Liberty City Sweepstakes either by text message or online, were also
flown to the launch event and given keys.
Out of those 1,000 keys, 38 of them opened the locked box, which
held 38 envelopes, each containing a voucher for a cash prize
ranging from $100 to the $10,000 Grand Prize. Paulo picked the
$10,000 envelope, while Kenneth Brand, of Brooklyn, New York,
snatched up the $5,000 runner-up prize. Ten fortunate key holders
drew $1,000 envelopes from the box, six entrants won $500 and 20
more scored $100.
We'd like to congratulate Paulo and Kenneth for making 15,000 honest, easy bucks
in the city where anything can happen. We'd also like to extend our
congratulations to our other winners, including our national-drawing
winners: Mary Carter of El Paso, Texas and Glen Aguilar of Lakeland,
Florida both chose $1,000 envelopes; Maureen Navadomskis of West
Chicago, Illinois won $500; and Michelle Troutt of Watauga took home
$100. Plus, all four of our national winners and their guests were
treated to round-trip airfare, hotel accommodations and GameStop
goodies for their stay in the Big Apple.
It just goes to show you that people really do win at GameStop.
You can see our video coverage of the event on GameStop Cinema, as
well as footage from other events, GameStop-exclusive game trailers
and more. Make sure to check our sweepstakes page often. Someone has to win, and it might as well be you. |
| Madden Mondays Week
5: See All of the Action With the New Cam |
| May 12, 2008 at 11:16am |
A receiver may run out of the old camera's field of view. Click the photo for the
larger version.
The new action cam will keep all of
your receivers in view. Click the photo for the
larger version.
You may have run into this scenario in
previous versions of Madden NFL. Your receivers are spread out over
the field and an assigned route takes one of them just off of the screen.
You think he's open; so you pass that way. Since you can't see him,
you're not quite sure if the corner is barreling down on him, if he fell down, or if you're completing
a pass to the guy holding the down marker. The producers at EA SPORTS
have given us another inside scoop on the biggest Madden NFL camera
overhaul yet, the all-new ActionCam camera, which will put an end to
that problem.
Madden NFL 09
will feature a camera system that dynamically adjusts to keep all of
your players in view, eliminating the need to blindly pass off of
the edge of your screen and hope for the best. When you run a pass
play, the ActionCam automatically pans out, zooms in, and adjust
angles to keep all of your receivers on the screen.
Once you complete that pass, if the ball carrier happens to break away from
his defenders, the ActionCam will rock back and forth, zoom in and
follow the ball carrier, giving you that intense feeling that you're sprinting
alongside him. And if a defender happens to really lay into the ball
carrier, the Big Hit Camera will rattle the screen with the force of
the crunch. It's like having a tiny producer in your console that
constantly assigns the best camera angles.
For those of you who prefer the old camera angles, the Classic
Camera System will still be an available option. The new ActionCam
is just one of more than 85 improvements to Madden NFL 09, and it's
just one more reason you should check out either the Standard or 20th Anniversary Collector's
Editions of Madden NFL 09,
which release August 12th. Remember to come back next Madden Monday
for another exclusive sneak peek at Madden NFL 09. |
| Everybody was Car-Fu Fighting |
| May 9, 2008 at 3:32pm |
It's not road rage; it's just
successful Car-Fu.
The old Speed Racer cartoon's theme song
began with the words, "Here he comes. Here comes Speed Racer. He's a
demon on wheels." Then the opening visuals would show him bumping a
competitor's car off of the road and the car exploding in a fiery
plume — all to the accompaniment of cheery, Herb Alpert-esque
trumpets. What would be considered poor sportsmanship, road rage
or even vehicular manslaughter in our world was considered as
good-natured competitiveness in Speed Racer's world of stunt
racing.
The Speed Racer movie, which opens today, tries to capture that
video-game feel of drivers ramming each other off of the road to get
the trophy. Oddly enough, the video-game versions of Speed Racer are a bit more successful at capturing
that video-game feel, but they have the advantage of actually being
video games to start with. The games will allow you to experience
the combat style of driving as you smash, jump, flip and spin other
cars off of the track. They even have a name for this act of
using your car as a weapon: Car-Fu. That's the beauty of video games.
They allow us to get away with things that are normally frowned upon
in polite society. We're pretty sure that saying, "I was just
practicing my Car-Fu" won't get you out of a speeding ticket. That's
the beauty of movies, as well. They allow us to escape the
constraints of reality for a while and imagine that it's perfectly
normal for saw blades to come out of a car.
While supplies last, you can enjoy the escapism of both a movie and a video game.
A limited number of
Speed Racer
games for Wii
and DS contain a
ticket worth up to $7.50 for the Speed Racer movie. So order yours
now, or pick up a copy at your local
GameStop
to become a Car-Fu
master. |
| EA SPORTS Hits the "Add Fun" Button |
| May 8, 2008 at 4:55pm |
The simpler controls of Freestyle
games will allow you to jump right into the breaking of faces.
EA SPORTS has a loyal, hardcore following for
such games as Madden NFL Football, NASCAR and Tiger Woods PGA
Tour, but they found that some casual gamers have a hard time
picking up on the complex controls. In response, they
recently announced the launch of a new sub-brand of Freestyle games,
which are designed to allow anyone to jump right in and start having
fun.
The first of three Freestyle titles to launch this year will be
Facebreaker, which is set to release in September. We recently had a
chance to try out a demo of Facebreaker, and both casual and avid
gamers quickly adapted to the controls and enjoyed the arcade-style
action of breaking each other's faces. In fact, one of our 98-pound
Moms dominated the winner's circle for quite a few rounds before she
was finally taken out. We were also shown a feature for Facebreaker
that will allow you to upload pictures of yourself, or your arch
nemesis, to go to fisticuffs as virtually anyone or with virtually
anyone. We envision William Shatner and Patrick Stewart duking it out to decide who was the best Enterprise captain.
You hardcore gamers out there can rest assured that you core
favorites will still have the realism and total control that you've
come to know and love, but it never hurts to get casual once in
while. For a sneak-peek at Facebreaker, check out the video trailer
on our Xbox 360,
PS3 or
Wii
Facebreaker pages. |
| Slug Your Way to the 2008 All-Star
Game |
| May 7, 2008 at 5:26pm |
If you can knock' em out of the park on
MLB 2K8, it could earn you a trip to the 2008 All-Star Game.
We hope you've been enjoying our weekly
Madden Mondays blog posts, each featuring another exclusive peek at
Madden NFL 2009. However, since it is baseball season, we would be
remiss if we didn't mention America's favorite pastime.
So buy yourself some peanuts and Cracker Jacks, and get ready to slug
your way to the 2008 All-Star Game in the 2K Sports Major League
Baseball 2K8 Tournament. By the way,
did you know Jack Norworth, who composed the lyrics for Take Me Out
to the Ball Game, claimed he had never been to a Major-League
Baseball game at the time he wrote the song in 1908? However, he
admitted to owning a copy of MLB 1908, which ran on the
little-known Abox console,
which was apparently an actual wooden box with a baseball in it.
But we're concerned with 2008 right now. If you enter the tournament
and show off your MLB 2K8 home-run-derby skills at a Gamestop
near you, it could earn you a trip to the 2008 Major
League Baseball All-Star Game. Round 1 of the
MLB 2K8
Tournament begins this Saturday, May 10th. So head to a
participating store
before then to sign up. You can find
official rules and details
here. You can also order a
copy of
Major League Baseball 2K8
to start building up your slugging
percentage. |
| Madden Mondays Week
4: Returning Missed Field Goals |
| May 5, 2008 at 11:12am |
Would you attempt a field goal with
Hester in the end zone? Click the photo for the
larger version.
It's going right to him! Maybe you
should have punted. Click the photo for the
larger version.
In chatting with the Madden NFL 09
production team, we find that every year they are
challenged with a dichotomy of sorts. They want Madden NFL to raise
the bar in innovations and features, yet, in keeping with their
reputation for authenticity, the Madden franchise must remain true
to the overall game experience. That's why, no matter how many times
we ask, we won't see a running back activate his rocket boots to get
a first down. In fact, we're told that the list of the more than 85
new features for Madden NFL 09 does not contain rocket boots,
gravity guns nor mushrooms that make players grow to twice their
size.
However, sometimes innovations in gameplay easily lend themselves to
NFL authenticity. One of these Madden NFL 09 innovations is
the ability
to return missed field goals. Over the past couple of years, we've
seen in the real-world NFL how a seemingly insignificant field-goal
attempt can be turned into a momentum-changing, or even
game-deciding, touchdown return. Some of these are among football's
most memorable plays, like Nathan Vasher's and Devin Hester's
108-yard returns, or Antonio Cromartie's record-setting 109-yard
return last year for the Chargers.
This may change the way you think about that end-of-the-half 55-yard
field-goal attempt. If you look into the end zone and see Devin
Hester flapping his arms and practically salivating for the chance
to take your kick to the house, will you go for it or just take a
knee and regroup for the third quarter? You just might face that
exact scenario when the Standard and 20th Anniversary Collector's
Editions of Madden NFL 09 release August 12.
We'll bring you another exclusive sneak peek at another Madden NFL
09 feature next Madden Monday. |
| Experience the Magic of Your Local
GameStop this Weekend |
| May 2, 2008 at 4:54pm |
Could it be magic? Don't worry, it's just a
sale.
If you visit your local GameStop between now
and Sunday, May 4, you may experience a magical phenomenon. Just buy
two used games or accessories and "Poof!" You will get a third one
free! While at first glance it may appear to be something Doug
Henning would refer to as "the power of illusion," we assure you
that no occult powers nor even smoke nor mirrors are involved.
This offer is quite real. Buy two used games or used
accessories and you can choose a third used game or used accessory
of equal or lesser value at no charge. The details are on our
Trade-in Values page.
Have you ever wondered what happens to all of those magician's
assistants that go into those large boxes and then disappear? They
rematerialize inside one of our GameStop stores in southern Florida,
near the eastern tip of the Bermuda triangle. If you happen to know
a magician, this is a quick way to get to a GameStop store, but the
magician's assistants usually pick through all the good games. So
you should probably just walk, ride, drive or use some other form of
traditional transportation to get to the GameStop nearest you
this weekend. |
| We'll Put You on the Fast Track to
Ninja-dom |
| May 1, 2008 at 4:15pm |
We can't make you an official ninja,
but we can help you look the part or brush up on your ninja skills.
What does it take to become a ninja? Years of
training? Mastery of stealth and weaponry? Graduation from an
accredited ninja school? We're not sure what it takes to
become a real ninja, but we are sure you'll have a chance to look the
part or even get your hands on an Xbox 360 Elite console that looks the
part when you enter our "Are You a Ninja?" Sweepstakes.
Five lucky winners will receive an exclusive Ninja-Gaiden-2-branded Xbox 360
Elite gaming system and a copy of the Ninja Gaiden 2
video game for Xbox 360.
One lucky, but not quite as lucky, runner-up will receive the game
and a ninja suit, including a set of rubber shuriken stars and a
pair of rubber ninja swords. So It's a win-win-win-win-win-ninja situation!
Enter here for your chance to win.
Although we don't know the
minimum age to be a ninja, we do know that you need to be legally
considered an adult in your state to enter the sweepstakes, and you
need to be at least 17 to purchase Mature-rated Ninja Gaiden
2. Please look over the official rules here.
You can learn more about Ninja Gaiden 2 or
pre-order it online before its June 3 release. May destiny be with you in your quest for ninja-dom! |
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