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Zeevious

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Your local Best Buy really doesn't have a choice.

It was an official announcement of the corporate offices, unless that was reported here incorrectly.

I'd contact the regional or district manager. A store manager may not want to give you a $100 gift card, so discouraged you from getting it. I've found Best Buys customer service to be, at best, very variable including interpreting the requirements of an offer. You may just have gotten the wrong representative.
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6506d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

I hope you had Best-Buy price match to get a $100 gift card from them.

They announced they would match Wal*Mart's deal last week.

If you didn't, go back, they will retroactively price match within 30 days of purchase.

It is too good of a deal . . . I believe they are clearing out these models before higher capacity models are introduced at E3, these may even be starting at 299.

6506d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

But not move ONE single extra console?

Have you SEEN the reports that every single retailer with MGS bundles is sold out?

I like seeing this competition!
It ends up with lower prices & better games for all of us.

Who know's, E3 in July could see the 360 at the top of it's game but let's give credit where it's due, and right now it's due.

6507d ago 1 agree1 disagreeView comment

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and stop bothering me about it.

6507d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

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I have the Shroud of Turin, holy condom edition

and it's nothing like it.

6507d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

and your totally getting bubbles for that.

Duh, duh, DUhhhhhh...

THE BUBBLES IN THAT POT OF WATER!

MwahhHahaHaHahaaa!

;) - Nah' I meant the other bubbles...I'm not THAT evil.

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(Not getting my Red Lobster menu...at all.)

6507d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

I've found you, and I've got the . . .

Duh, duh, DUhhhhhh...

DRAWN BUTTER!!!

Make your peace for I shall show as much mercy as I did for your minions in Oblivion -- Which is absolutely none!

MwahhHahaHaHahaaa!

6507d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

This seems to lack more than a little unbiased journalism.

The first speaks for itself:
http://www.sptimes.com/2007...

Second up...Written based on what; not a PS3:
http://www.tampabay.com/fea...

Note the publication date, June 5, 2008, and the import...

6507d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

Then went there forth in their blindness, and said unto themselves...

We shall go then, yo' upon the News that is for Gamers and seek out thy Zeevious, who playeth the creation of that which is Gears of War II, thusly...for all that is holy.

Then, going to the Divine thread of Amazon, they did lay down their disagreement, thus.

Four times, ye' it was four, as it was foretold in the setup instruction manual, page 4.

And lo' it came unto Zeevi...

6507d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

You're right...

It does take a certain integrity to provide a quality product & cancel ones that don't live up to the standards of your reputation.

Focusing those resources to improve stronger games shows much more of that dedication than: 'We'll publish anything, ANYTHING and you'll buy it...YOU'LL BUY IT!' (insert generic evil overlord's villainous laugh)

I'm sure the first thing some will say is 'Wish they learned that before Lair & Haze, huh?...

6507d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

The Getaway was only listed in PRE-production just 45 days ago!

Seriously, what did they suspend work on here...some storyboards, drawings and the game logo?

I think the PS3 & 360 should compete but with their games, console features, price, just about anything but Cheap Shots.

Does a cheap shot do anything but make the person taking it seem cheap ?

Compete with a cheaper console...NOT a cheap shot.

6507d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Then what motivation, exactly would prompt such an unusual statement?

What would motivate Microsoft to SPONTANEOUSLY make a public announcement just days after Sony announced ending development on 2 game projects, that it never would end development on it's game projects?

No relation to Sony's announcement at all?

...and then your parsing the whole thing into sentence fragments and grasping...trying to explain some explanation to the cancellation or &quo...

6507d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

I'm sure it's going to take longer, but I read the meaning of that Singulus article differently.

Thanks for giving me a different perspective on the numbers. It really is an issue of one thing's greater, but in context may still mean a smaller gain.

I was never a proponent of the ridiculous format war, but soon the entire US is switching to all digital broadcasts...that means lots of people buying all digital HDTV's, and with the bundling, $299 PS3's (after $100 gif...

6508d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

ReBurn,

If your referring to my comment you are mistaken about my experience.

You're also mistaken about frame buffer/Photoshop image comparisons.
Though terminology may vary, the technology behind many common scaling methods originated with still-frame raster image processing research. The most common techniques are NOT different technologies as you are stating, they are simply operating on an image in different mediums.

As a simple proof of this ...

6508d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

. . . and 9 out of 10 of my crackHo's agree!

Only 12 hours left though, so WHAT are you doing HERE?

Z-Daddy needs a new MGS bundle.
So get out there and EARN Bytch!

;)

6508d ago 5 agree0 disagreeView comment

Who cares...isn't it the game that counts?

I say:
If you stop to count the pixels you're missing the game.

6508d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

You may need to re-evaluate or upgrade your tools.

With Photoshop, Gimp or many free, low-cost video & photo editors you can achieve previously impossible results, with the right methods. Just switching to a Laczos3 interpolation will improve even an inexperienced editors results.

A technology called 'Super-resolution' can now be used to go beyond upscaling and replace lost still & active frame information.
The process is mathematically intensive which ...

6508d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

...Til' Blu-Ray's not for sale anymore and the Fat Lady Sings.

Fortunately, if that day comes it will be in incredible DTS-HD 7.1 uncompressed pure-digital surround.

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Still listening...and I can't hear her yet.

6510d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

*Lazy*, (I'm too lazy to type your whole name)

Doesn't that mean it could take longer to replace DVD's & that the adoption rate is in fact greater than DVD's (21 vs 17) at this stage in the market?

Substantially greater according to Singulus, reported here. (almost 20% higher)
http://n4g.com/industrynews...

If the market is twice as large that means the adoption rate is...

6510d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Especially how far they have developed Forza, just looking at versions 1 & 2. Clearly they focused on coming as close to the GT experience as they could, and succeeded in just about everything.

I think just from the perspective of competitors, Forza will stay on the 360 & GT on the PS3.

Either way, each platform has a great driving experience.

6510d ago 7 agree2 disagreeView comment