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The big Nintendo release this week is Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins, available today. A 3DS prequel to the recent Wii U game, early reviews have praised the portable version's variety of missions, but have also criticized the various (annoying but not game breaking) technical hiccups found in the game. Which makes finding a deal for Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins all the more appealing and/or important, especially if you had your heart set on picking up the game at launch.
Thankfully, many online retailers are happy to oblige. Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins is available for around $30 from Amazon, Best Buy, Target (in-store), and others. Whether this can be considered a deal depends on whom you talk to - some retailers are listing $29.99 as the MSRP, some consider it a sale price. Either way, it's definitely better than the 3DS software norm of $40. Toys R Us goes a step further - not only is the game $29.99, you'll also receive 70% off a second game (priced $19.99 or less) with your purchase. You'll require a coupon (PDF link) if you intend to buy in-store, or use promo code 959912 during online checkout.
Along with offering the 3DS game for $29.96 with free shipping, Amazon is including a free Chase McCain Lego figure with the purchase of Lego City Undercover for Wii U.
With the Lego City Undercover deals out of the way, let's move on to the other sales and promotions of the week! Best Buy is offering Paper Mario: Sticker Star ($19.99 shipped) and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Mirror or Fate ($29.99 shipped) as part of their "action games" sale. I imagine Amazon will price match these offers eventually - here's a handy link if you want to check and see if they've done so. Toys R Us is offering a $15 gift card and free Batman action figure with the purchase of Injustice: Gods Among Us (in-store only with coupon (PDF link)). Finally, Target is temporarily discounting a number of titles for this week - their ad lists Just Dance 4 (Wii U, Wii) for $29.99 and Call of Duty: Black Ops (Wii U) for $49.99, with others in-store.If you were planning to take advantage of Club Nintendo's 3DS XL promotion, this would be the week to do it! Best Buy is taking $10 off 3DS XL systems, Target is taking $20 off, and Toys R Us is throwing in a $20 gift card when you purchase a 3DS XL with either Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon or Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity. The TRU offer is in-store only, but being so close to Club Nintendo's promo expiration date of April 30th, this is probably for the better - you may want to buy locally to be sure you beat the deadline. ...

Executive chairman Eric Schmidt has revealed that consumers will likely be able to get their hands on Google Glass in a year’s time.
During an interview with BBC Radio 4’s World at One, Schmidt commented that Glass was ‘probably a year-ish away’.
Schmidt explained that Google will be looking for feedback from thousands of current Glass users who’ve bought developer models. “Based on their feedback, we'll make some product changes,” said Schmidt.
Google’s chairman explained that wearers of the technology will have to take responsibility for keeping information safe and understand when and where it is not appropriate to record your surroundings.
"It's obviously not appropriate to wear these glasses in situations where recording is not correct. And indeed, you have this problem already with phones.
“Companies like Google have a very important responsibility to keep your information safe, but you have a responsibility as well, which is to understand what you're doing, how you're doing it, and behave appropriately and also keep everything up-to-date."

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Canadian doctors believe playing Tetris can help children with amblyopia strengthen their lazy eye.
The team at McGill University in Montreal studied 18 adults and found that wearing a special pair of video goggles while playing Tetris helped train both eyes to work together, and worked better than conventional patching of the good eye to make the weak one work harder.
Dr Robert Hess and his team now want to see if this method would be a better way to treat children with the same condition.
In the study, nine volunteers were asked to wear the goggles for an hour a day over a two-week period while playing Tetris. The goggles allowed one eye to see only the falling objects and the other to only see the blocks stacking up at the bottom of the screen.
Another group played the game for the same period of time, but had an eye patch covering their good eye. The results revealed that those who used both eyes had more improvement in their vision than the patched group.
Finally, the news all gamers have been waiting for - video games are good for your eyes.

http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...azy-eye/030789 ...

If you've got games, consoles, and peripherals gathering dust and cluttering up your minimalist entertainment center, today is the today to convert them to credit.

Gamestop has been the de factor black hole for trade-ins for longer than any of us can remember, but in recent years other retailers have jumped in to the fray. The paltry sums the big GS offers for your hard-earned discs have been a frequent lament, and while it's actually very possible to make a killing from Gamestop, the process isn't so transparent, and that's a PSA for another day.

The Amazon deal we're bringing to you today is dead simple. Trade in $20 or more worth of "games, consoles, and accessories," and get a bonus $20 credit. That is a serious deal. Games like the 360 version of Tomb Raider will net you $54 in credit after the bonus is applied, and some titles will actually cross the $60 event horizon. Yes, you'll make money on a game you paid full price for.

Shipping to Amazon is as low impact as possible, and FREE. What you will have to concern yourself with is that obviously, only new-ish titles are going to bring the big bucks. If you're sending in a legacy library, you may have to really stack them up to hit the $20 mark, as anyone who has ever traded at Gamestop knows.

We saved the best but most intensive part of the deal for last. If you're a fast player or the game in question is short, you can buy from Amazon, play, and sell back before the 27th, making money in the process. Naturally, having a Prime account would make this a lot more feasible by making the initial shipping to you faster.

Example: Buy Bioshock: Infinite for $50 with free shipping, play, ship by the 27th, get $56 (up to 36 +20) credit.

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Pre-orders of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 have already begun at AT&T, but the operator has been oddly silent about the actual date customers can expect to purchase one in stores and online. Now that T-Mobile and Sprint have both announced specific launch dates (April 24th and 27th, respectively), the largest GSM carrier in the country has followed up by declaring its intent to sell the flagship Samsung device on the 27th of this month. This is four days earlier than the anticipated pre-order shipment date, which means the HTC One has merely a full week to bask in the spotlight by itself. What's more, if you simply couldn't wait and jumped on those pre-orders, you'll get yours a full 48 hours early (read: April 25th). As expected, the GS 4 will be offered for $200 (16GB) and $250 (32GB) in both black and white.

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