“If you are a person who uses Bitcoin you know it’s not always easy to find places where you can use the digital currency,” begins a new announcement on the Microsoft website. The options just became a fraction more varied as Microsoft announced it now accepts Bitcoin as payment for some of its products.
If you own a suit of armor, have a black belt in martial arts, or just don’t care about desecrating a sacred American tradition with pure greed, the barbaric annual event known as Black Friday may be for you. Advertisements and circulars from all the major big boxes are just beginning to be purposely leaked, and here are a few of today’s newly-announced deals you can look forward to seeing in the video game department…..
The last few years have been rough for Microsoft, especially in the game console department. It took them a while to figure this out, but your core audience responds better when they aren’t completely ignored in favor of soccer moms and octogenarians. It might not have been the best strategy to throw that loyal audience under the bus for a new breed of consumer who will purchase one game for themselves and then leave. It might have been erroneous to announce plans to tether every purchase to one machine, even for discs, and then have to frantically reverse direction after the response was so incendiary. It also might have been a bad idea to set the price of your new console $100 above your main competitor just so you can shove in a decapitated Johnny 5 head that doesn’t apply to any game they’re interested in, can’t be turned off, and watches them in their sleep.
If you own a suit of armor, have a black belt in martial arts, or just don’t care about desecrating a sacred American tradition with pure greed, the barbaric annual event known as Black Friday may be for you. Advertisements and circulars from all the major big boxes are just beginning to be purposely leaked, and here are a few of the newly-announced deals you can look forward to seeing in the video game department…..
What’s in store for Xbox and what, in this journalist’s humble opinion, needs to be done to ensure that they stay on top of the hardcore heap?(more…)
This week, Target® guests can grab cool savings on games, gaming accessories and iPod favorites. Through Target’s Electronics Trade-In service, exclusively offered in over 1,490 Target stores nationwide, guests can trade in used iPhones, iPads, iPods, Nintendo DS units, cellphones and video games and receive credit good for most Target purchases. Guests can receive additional savings and 5 percent off nearly all Target purchases when they use their Target REDCard.