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Best Buy Is Making This Man Destroy A Vintage NES Deluxe Set [Update: Saved!]

Reddit user ipoopinthesink, an employee at Best Buy, says he was handed a rather strange item to recycle as part of the retailer’s “Renew Blue” program, where people’s old electronic gear can be brought in and disposed of properly. It’s a very fancy, very desirable NES Deluxe Set, a vintage limited edition package which included not just a Nintendo Entertainment System but two controllers, a Zapper and ROB.


The 360′s $50 Price Drop Is For Two New Bundles—But It Isn’t Limited To GameStop

With big thanks to our partners at Dealzon, we know a little more about this $US50 price drop on Xbox 360 configurations. The big detail is that the cut isn’t limited to just GameStop. “These are new bundles, supposedly released Oct. 9, and are now selling for $US250 at Best Buy, Amazon, and Gamestop, instead of $US300 that was expected through last week,” says Dealzon.


Apparently You Can Murder People In The New Madden

The next Madden will have all the usual features: tackling, audibles, hot routes, in-depth playbooks, canoe pursuits, and slow-motion chain kills.


Stop Preordering Video Games. Please.

It’s not hard finding things that are wrong with the video game industry these days. From rip-off DLC to paid-for cheats to games that are sold essentially incomplete, consumers are increasingly getting short shrift.


Wired For Great Sound, Just Not For Convenience

Making a consumer recommendation on a video game is rather simple: new ones typically cost $US60, so the question is whether the thing is worth that. Hardware and peripherals are a bit trickier as a manufacturer can pile on features and conveniences, jacking up the price but, inevitably, making a recommendable luxury.


Is Diablo III Coming Out February 1? Best Buy Seems Pretty Sure

According to an elaborate display that popped up in a Best Buy in Rochester, Minnesota, Blizzard’s eagerly-anticipated third entry in the Diablo series is hitting stores in a little over three weeks. Yikes.


Now’s A Great Time To Pick Up Those PlayStation 3 Add-Ons You’ve Been Eyeing

Have you purchased add-ons like controllers, headsets, or glowing balls-on-sticks for the PlayStation 3 in the weeks leading up to Christmas? Why would you do that? Didn’t you know Sony’s Play Days sale was coming?


Wii-Owning President Obama Doesn’t Care If The Xbox Version Is Better

Somewhere inside the Beltway today, copies of Just Dance 3 for the Wii and The Sims Plus Pets rode in a presidential caravan with the nuclear football. That, gang, is core game cred.


This GameStop Trolling Brought To You By Best Buy

There are certain disadvantages to locating your game-centric retail store next to a big box electronics outfit, as this lovely Best Buy sign so aptly demonstrates. It’s enough to make a guy trade in all his games for a refrigerator.


Man Threatens To Blow-Up Store That Ran Out Of Modern Warfare 3

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years as a video game consumer, it’s that terrorists threats don’t speed up restock. It’s a lesson Colorado’s Loromin Sar missed, allegedly threatening to bomb a Best Buy and shoot its employees for not having his copy of Modern Warfare 3 in stock.


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