After you heard what we had to say about Final Fantasy XIII , you may very well now be itching to finally get your own hands all over the thirteenth entry in the FF series from Square Enix. Lucky for you, dearest reader , we’ve got news of a couple ways to save some dough on your purchase this week.
If you’ve yet to play one of those rhythm games that exclusively features the work of a single band, but you’re dying to temper your expectations for Green Day: Rock Band , you should probably consider picking up the similarly-titled Harmonix opus that focuses on the career of the Beatles . In fact, you should do it right now — Amazon’s offering Beatles: Rock Band for $28.49 on all three major platforms as its Deal of the Day
PlayStation Home has expanded quite a bit in 2009, with 50 spaces and over 100 games now available within Sony’s virtual world.
Lots of the celebrities at last night’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2 celebrity benefit tournament didn’t know much about gaming, but Greg Grunberg is the exception. Even if he can’t dive deep into the differences between next-gen shooters, he at least knows the audience, having appeared on Lost and Alias and controlled minds as Matt Parkman on Heroes .
Listen, we know how hard Valentine’s Day can be on some of you jilted lovers out there, so we went ahead and got you a little something to keep you occupied tomorrow: A copy of ThatGameCompany’s microbiotic PS3 title, flOw . You can download it right now from the PSN for free, without having to deal with any cumbersome coupon codes.
Activision’s Guitar Hero business unit has a new boss , who’s not the same as the old boss — former COO Dan Haddad is taking over the post after CEO Dan Rosensweig left the company. Haddad was the head of Vivendi’s Sierra Online division back in the day, but started working with the Guitar Hero group after Activision merged with Viviendi back in 2007 . Rosensweig is off to join Chegg.com , a company that specializes in online textbook rentals and has recently put together more than $160 million in investor funding
EA Sports president Peter Moore recently restated the publisher’s commitment to golfer Tiger Woods in a blog post , despite the once pristine athlete’s incredibly public fall from grace .
We thought it only fair that, since we guided our American readers through some of Black Friday’s best game sales, we would guide our readers from the north to video game savings! Canada’s biggest shopping day of the season is December 26, referred to as Boxing Day. As stores attempt to fight their way out of the “red,” massive discounts are applied to everything from video games to cars. Boxing Day sales have now become Boxing Week Events, and this year is no exception.
Toys R Us will feature a “buy one, get one half off” game sale on all console and some Nintendo DS software starting the day after Christmas (that’s December 26) through January 2, 2010.
Hey Canadians! Yeah, you guys and gals huddled together attempting to maintain sustainable body heat.
