used games
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Will Take-Two Follow EA In Its Pursuit Of "Original Purchasers"?
2:00PM Michael McWhertor | Electronic Arts has recently upped its efforts to dissuade gamers from purchasing used copies of games in the form of rewards for “original purchasers” of games like The Saboteur, Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2. Who’s next? Take-Two? More »
Hands On
The Day Gamers Took Over Reselling: Epilogue
1:30PM Owen Good | Last week, I wrote about Glyde, the reseller flooded by gamers at its November launch. Because of Glyde’s shipping model, the time required for delivery and payment seemed to be a drawback. So how’d Glyde do with a real sale? More »
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12:30PM Owen Good | When it quietly went online for pre-launch testing early last year, Glyde was a reseller marketplace built with a mid-western, middle-aged book or music lover in mind. Then the gamers found it and practically took over. More »
The Day The Gamers Took Over Reselling
12:30PM Owen Good | When it quietly went online for pre-launch testing early last year, Glyde was a reseller marketplace built with a mid-western, middle-aged book or music lover in mind. Then the gamers found it and practically took over. More »
Features
5:40AM Stephen Totilo | Buy a game. Play it. Decide whether to keep it or sell it back. That’s the current cycle of a gamer’s gaming life. In the near future, that third choice may evaporate. You may soon never sell a game again. More »
The Games You Won’t Sell, The Games You Can’t Sell
5:40AM Stephen Totilo | Buy a game. Play it. Decide whether to keep it or sell it back. That’s the current cycle of a gamer’s gaming life. In the near future, that third choice may evaporate. You may soon never sell a game again. More »
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Walmart, Best Buy Close Down Trade-In Kiosks
12:30PM Owen Good | E-Play, the company providing kiosks for used game trade-in pilot programs has suspended operations, ending Best Buy and Walmart’s short-lived experiment in the used games business. More »
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Which Games, And Consoles, Had The Best Resale Value In 2009?
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Research data published this week has revealed the games, consoles, publishers and genres with the best resale values for 2009. More »
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New Digital Store To Sell “Pre-Owned” Games
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Green Man Gaming, a company based in the United Kingdom, is about to launch a digital download shopfront for the PC with a difference, claiming its store will be able to offer “pre-owned” digital sales. More »
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Stolen Video Games Help Catch A Predator
10:20AM Owen Good | A Delaware man is looking at some time in the slammer for failing to register himself as a sex offender, and he would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling video games. More »
Culture
Battle Orphan Diseases With Your Used Games
6:00AM Mike Fahey | Why buy and sell your used games to the benefit of some retailer when you can donate and buy used games from DonateGames.Org, where all proceeds go towards helping children and their families fight rare and neglected disorders. More »
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