We’ve already told you that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has made a lot of money. We just want to rub it in your face. In addition to the $400M the game made the first day of it’s release, over the next four days it made an additional $375 million. So, if you’re a [...]
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Broke Gamer: The Dark Meadow on Sale for Halloween
October 28th, 2011
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Well, it’s that time of year again. The time where you wonder why you’re already seeing Christmas ads everywhere, also known as Halloween. To celebrate All Hollows’ Eve, Phosphor Games is putting their game, The Dark Meadow, on sale on the Apple App Store for 3 bones (that’s $3). You can take advantage of this [...]
[BROKE GAMER] Amazon Kinect Bundle and More
June 21st, 2011
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Amazon just keeps coming through with the good deals. Their latest discounted sale today is an Xbox 360 4GB Kinect Bundle for $299.98. It’s usually priced at $299.99. You save one whole whopping penny! Okay, that may not seem like a huge savings. So to sweeten the deal, Amazon is going to throw in a [...]
Broke Gamer: HD Week on Amazon
June 14th, 2011
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The ever-so-popular online retailer, Amazon, is having an “HD Week” sale where a larger variety of items that would be considered to have definition that isn’t low are on sale. There’s stuff for your entertainment center, HD camcorders, blu-rays, and, of course, videogames! I’m sure you could have guessed that, because why else would a [...]
3DS Sets Sales Record
March 30th, 2011
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Nintendo has reported that the launch of the Nintendo 3DS has brought the largest first day sales of any Nintendo hand-held system to date. The exact number has not been revealed to us yet, but the U.S. sales figures for its first week will be released on April 14th once the NPD gets all the [...]
CES 2011: 50 Million Xbox 360 Units Sold With 30 Million XBL Users
January 7th, 2011
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We learned that Microsoft exceeded their goal for the amount of Kinects sold, and things don’t look bad for the Xbox 360 either. Microsoft president, Steve Ballmer, reported at CES 2011 that over 50 million Xbox 360 units have been shipped worldwide. Furthermore, he said there are 30 million Xbox Live accounts, which is 5 [...]
Broke Gamer: PopCap and Amazon Madness
December 29th, 2010
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PopCap Games is celebrating being in business for a full 10 years, and they are thanking the fans for their success by discounting downloadable games 50% until January 2nd. This discount, however doesn’t apply to game bundles of Bejeweled 3. Sorry, mom. Amazon.com is also having a sale on games, just because that’s what Amazon does. [...]
Broke Gamer: Mass Effect 2 DLC on Sale
December 28th, 2010
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There’s good news for all you Mass Effect 2 fans out there. You can get three DLC packs for the game for just 200 MS points apiece. For today’s Xbox Countdown to 2011 deal, you can purchase Kasumi – Stolen Memory, Overlord, and Lair of the Shadow Broker for the equivalent of $2.50 each. So [...]
Sony Manages to Move Millions of Moves in Mere Months
November 30th, 2010
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Sony, not wanting to be out-shined by Microsoft’s recent boasting, has issued a press release stating that they’ve shipped (as in not necessarily sold) 4.1 million PlayStation Moves worldwide since the controller’s release. While we don’t know how many Moves are actually in homes right now, at least we know how many Move controllers have left Sony’s [...]
Kinect Maybe Not Selling So Well in Japan
November 23rd, 2010
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The Japanese launch of the Kinect was just three days ago, but there are already murmurs of the sales not having a great start. That’s a bit surprising considering the success it’s had stateside. Taketo Matsuo has a weekly retail forecast for Mainichi Shimbun and is a merchandiser for Tsutaya, a store that sells books, [...]