Some purchasers of the Fable II Limited Edition last week were surprised to find the promised DLC codes absent from their packages.
Now Microsoft has set up a system to get the codes out to LE owners, which can be found here, but be warned - Microsoft is keeping an eye out for those trying to scam the system by requesting codes without having purchased the LE. Lionhead community manager Sam Van Tilburgh states:
"Microsoft’s first concern is to get content into the hands of LCE customers in North America who did not receive a code in their retail package. There will be people that try to game the system - we are tracking requests and gamertags associated.
We are focused on ensuring that our North American LCE customers impacted by this retail issue are quickly taken care of and receive their codes in a timely manner.
We are incredibly sorry and apologize to anyone frustrated by this process. We have been focused on ensuring ... More »
Microsoft is suing shipping company DHL for allegedly losing 21,600 Xbox 360 consoles in a Texas train derailment, according to court documents.
In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle, Microsoft said it is seeking more than US$2 million in damages from DHL for two containers of Xbox 360 consoles that sustained "impact damage, wetting, pilfering and shortage" after a derailment near Duke, Texas.
The Xboxes were en route from a Microsoft office in McAllen, Texas, to Long Beach, California, for eventual delivery to Hong Kong at the time of the loss, which occurred on Oct. 13, 2007, according to court papers. Flextronics Industrial in Hong Kong was the intended recipient.
Microsoft claims that DHL has refused to compensate it for the loss, even though the delivery service "negligently breached its duties as a common carrier, handler, bailee, warehouseman, agent, or in other capabilities," acc... More »
During a nearly one-year period, Frank Buchanan allegedly made about 192 purchases on two credit cards at various stores.
What was out of the ordinary, however, was that the 30-year-old Buchanan also allegedly had about 183 refunds on those cards.
The rural Albert Lea man's transaction history, authorities say, demonstrated an obvious purchase-return pattern mainly involving video games at multiple stores in numerous southeastern Minnesota and northern Iowa cities, including Austin and Rochester, according to a criminal complaint filed this week in Mower District Court.
Overall $23,178 in refunds was credited to Buchanan's accounts during that period, the complaint says.
Buchanan's alleged scam consisted of buying video games from stores, repackaging the containers with blank replica game discs, returning the fraudulent games for a refund and selling the original games on eBay, an online-auction site. From October 2006 to J... More »
To quote west79: Hi, I would like to inform everybody that the European PSN Store version of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue has some serious issues about the terms of service user agreement.
First of all, for playing you need to have your PSN Account connected to the network like Warhawk, yes, it means you can't play it offline.
In other news the game can't be shared between different accounts. It's linked only to the PSN user that bought the game itself, while the license doesn't inform the user about this before buying, unlike Warhawk as you can see in this picture I took.
This past weekend, the Dreamcast.com site relaunched, inviting all owners of the now-defunct console to enter in their DC serial number along with other personal details to get a @user.dreamcast.com email account. Some assumed that the site was launched in preparation for the console’s 10th anniversary.
Needless to say, we were skeptical, seeing as an IP lookup on the site revealed that it was hosted on a shared server in Orlando, Florida.
Sure enough, the site is indeed a phishing scam designed to harvest registration details. Speaking to Japanese website Mainichi, SEGA confirmed that it does not own the Dreamcast.com domain name anymore. The company is considering to take further action against the fraudulent site.
The Grapevine-based video-game retailer is probably the best-known buyer and seller of used games, and that side of the company's business has angered a lot of people.
Gamers, for one, are ticked that the company generally offers just a couple of bucks to repurchase games that originally sold for $50 or $60. The other factions peeved at GameStop right now are the actual game publishers and developers, who don't get any revenue when GameStop resells a used game rather than a new one.
The first group, the gamers, has a (slightly) legitimate point, but the second group needs to stop being such a greedy bunch of idiots.
Shopping blog Consumerist .com ran a long exposé this week from an anonymous GameStop store employee detailing all the ins and outs of working and shopping at the chain.
When it came to the issue of buying used games, the employee noted that GameStop's low-ball prices ... More »
Another massive list of releases! We have Guitar Hero III, Manhunt 2, Battalion Wars 2, Hellgate London, Virtua Fighter 5, Dementium and the list goes on.
Wii Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
Manhunt 2
Battalion Wars 2
The Simpsons Game
High School Musical: Sing It!
Hooked! Real Motion Fishing
Samurai Ghost
Ben 10: Protector of Earth
Super Air Zonk
Showtime Championship Boxing
NDS The Simpsons Game
O.M.G. 26 - Our Mini Games
Shrek: Ogres and Dronkeys
Dementium: The Ward
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
Napoleon Dynamite
Ben 10: Protector of Earth
Ed, Edd & Eddy: Scam of the Century
Cars Mater-National
Super Collapse 3
Ratatouille Food Frenzy
Barbie as The Island Princess
Panzer Tactics DS
Dr. Suess: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Bee Movie Game
Garfield Gets Rea... More »
(0) 
