Cheapskate
Cheapskate: My Afternoon With GameStop
Written by Russ Crandall   
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 18:46
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Truth be told, I don't like going into GameStop. I don't like being pressured to pre-order games, but mainly I just don't like how much they charge for used games compared to how little they give for trade-ins. That being said, I had a pretty good time at the store today.

I took 11 Xbox 360 games to trade in, ranging from good (Tales of Vesparia) to really bad (TimeShift). They're having a deal where you get an additional 50% on used game trade-ins, so I made more than I usually would have. 50% more, actually. What's even better is that there was a list of used games and if you brought two of those to trade in, they'd give you $40 towards Final Fantasy XIII; it just so happened that I had two of those games, and they would have only netted me $24 even with the additional 50% trade-in value.

All in all, I traded in 11 games that I'll never play again and I got Final Fantasy XIII, Heavy Rain, $24 in credit, and I renewed my GameStop "Edge" card for a year. Not a bad trip at all.
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Cheapskate: 50% off Xbox 360 games at FYE
Written by Russ Crandall   
Sunday, 07 March 2010 21:56


There's this chain of stores that I had never seen until I moved to the DC area, and it's called FYE: For Your Entertainment. They basically sell video games, music and movies for slightly-outrageous prices. While at the mall today I noticed that they were selling a butt-ton of Xbox 360 and PS3 games for 50% off, so I investigated. I walked out of there with FEAR Files ($10), Perfect Dark Zero ($6) and Earth Defense Force 2017 ($5).

On a podcast, I recently vowed not to buy shitty games even if they were on sale, and this is my defense: 50% off games don't count. I have no idea how long the sale is going on, but it may behoove you to check out your local FYE in the near future.
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Cheapskate: Peggle Nights for free!
Written by Russ Crandall   
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:57


PopCap Games has quite an offer going right now. If you sign up for their newsletter, you can gift a copy of Peggle Nights (PC or Mac) to a friend. In other words, if you have two email addresses floating around, YOU can be that friend.

I read about this offer last night, and I didn't plan on writing about it, but then I played a bit of Peggle Nights and decided that everyone deserves to play it. For free. It usually costs $20.
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Indie Love Bundle - Six Games for $20 - 8 hours left!
Written by Russ Crandall   
Friday, 19 February 2010 15:30


If you have money, and you like video games, be sure to go to this site right now and check out the Indie Love Bundle. It features six award-winning games for $20, and two of them (Eufloria and Machinarium) were discussed on our last podcast. Four out of six work on the Mac, and all six work on the PC. The sale ends in eight hours, so thumb-twittling is ill advised.
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Cheapskate: BF1943 for $10 on XBLA this week
Written by Russ Crandall   
Monday, 15 February 2010 12:11


Just in time to get pumped up for the release of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Microsoft is offering the XBLA title Battlefield 1943 for the reasonable price of $10, down from the reasonable price of $15. If you haven't tried it out yet, I'd say go for it. There's a lot worse things you could spend $10 on. Like TimeShift.

Details can be found here.
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Cheapskate: flOw for Free!
Written by Giang Cao   
Saturday, 13 February 2010 02:58
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North American PS3 owners should boot up the PSN store ASAP, because for today only thatgamecompany's flOw will be made available for free. Look for the make.believe promotion banner on the front page of the store and click through to find the free game. Do it now, because it's for today only.

After downloading it, you can dim the lights, take a deep breath and relax as you... wait - what do you do in this game again? Something about plankton I think. Plankton is good for you, right? Or is that just for whales? I don't think there are any whales in this game. Whale fail.

The offer ends unti 9pm 2/13 and is for N.A. users only. Unfortunately, it looks like they're actively blocking "outsiders" from downloading the free game. I think they call that racism.

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