New Skylanders: Giants bundle demands your money a month early at GameStop

GameStop Announces Exclusive Skylanders Giants™ Offers

GameStop, the world's largest multichannel retailer of video games, has exclusive offers to further enhance your Skylanders Giants™ experience. The Scorpion Striker Battle Pack is available now for purchase at GameStop a full month before it's available at other retailers.

This new battle pack retails for $24.99 and features:

Series 2 Zap character
Hot Dog character
In-game Catapult item
Three trading cards
Three sticker sheets with secret codes
Customers can also get one of four free Skylanders Giants Sidekick characters when they purchase $29.99 or more of Skylanders Giants characters or packs from GameStop from Jan. 16 through Jan. 31. This offer is only available at GameStop while supplies last.

With Skylanders Giants, players can take their favorite characters to new heights as ancient giants join the Skylanders in battling against a dark new threat. Customers can purchase the Scorpion Striker Battle Pack while supplies last at GameStop stores nationwide or online at www.GameStop.com.

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Throw some of your money at Best Buy's big summer sale

by Jessica Conditt on Jul 23rd 2012 6:00PM

It's pretty clear Best Buy knows exactly what it's doing with this giant game sale: It's the Monday following the final hours of the Steam Summer Sale, and many gamers are already suffering from the first stages of withdrawal. They crave cheap games, marked down to ridiculous prices with the flimsy excuse of "it's hot outside."

The Best Buy Summer Gaming Blowout offers more than 100 games and accessories on sale this week, including console versions of Assassin's Creed Revelations, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Just Dance 3 for $10 each, Gears of War 3 for $15, Metroid: Other M for $5, and many more massive discounts.

Best Buy doesn't offer a ton of PC games, but does have Sid Meier's Civilization V: Game of the Year Edition for $20, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for $10, and a few new Sims titles on the cheap. For those itchin' for a post-Steam-sale fix, this might just be your Best Bet.

[Thanks, Turtle Bird.]

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Rock Band Weekly: Train, Yellowcard, Eddie Money

by Alexander Sliwinski on Apr 27th 2012 10:00PM

Next week's Rock Band DLC features singles from Eddie Money, Train and Yellowcard. You'll either kinda like these tracks or swear Harmonix is straight-up trolling the community. We leave it to you to decide. Xbox 360 / Wii / PS3
Available: May 1, 2012
Individual Tracks "Two Tickets to Paradise" - Eddie Money (160 MSP / 200 WP / $1.99)*"Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" - Train (160 MSP / 200 WP / $1.99)*"Only One" - Yellowcard (160 MSP / 200 WP / $1.99)*Pro Guitar/Bass expansion available (80 MSP / 100 WP / $0.99)

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Angry Birds wins a prize for making money through merchandising

by Jessica Conditt on Feb 14th 2012 2:30AM

Rovio, the people sprinkling stale bread behind Angry Birds, received the Property of the Year prize at the 12th annual Toy of the Year awards (yeah, that's totally a thing). Rovio won based on the massive amount of Angry Birds physical merchandise it's released over the past two years, which includes plush toys, backpacks, clothing, phone cases and bacon. OK, not bacon, but Rovio has branded almost every other item imaginable.

"Our physical goods business has great momentum just now," Ville Heijari, Rovio's VP of franchise development, told Develop. "It's especially interesting to see many app and social game devs emulate the merchandising strategy that Rovio has been pushing with Angry Birds for the last two years."

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