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These days, carriers seem to be gravitating towards "less for more" -- as in, giving users less while charging more. For those situated in the UK, however, Vodafone's offering up a new pay-as-you-go arrangement that actually smacks of value. The Red Freedom Freebee plans are pretty simple. For instance, £30 a month nets you unlimited texts and talk within the United Kingdom coupled with 1GB of data. Cough up £40 each month, and that data cap doubles to 2GB. A couple of cheaper plans are available for those who need little more than text messaging and enough data to keep tabs on their email, all of which can be seen in detail at Vodafone's site.
Since the very first iterations of video game consoles arrived in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the tough decision for gamers to make has been whether to make a more practical home computer purchase or whether to have some funby going with the consoles which they know are focused on delivering fun and excitement.
As the vision of console gaming was truly realised in the mid-1990s, with Nintendo, Sega and Sony breaking all consumer records in the console wars, thedivision became even more apparent. With the latest line of powerful consoles set to hit shops this Christmas and PCs becoming even more powerful and cost-efficient than ever before, what should a player’s next prospective purchase be?
Budget
Right from the outset, the difference in price can mean that a gaming PC is a non-starter.The very latest developments in graphics and sound don’t come cheap, meaning that you could be paying over £1,000 to get yourself started with a gaming laptop. The price points for the upcoming PS4and XBox One are around £350-£400, meaning that a much moreaffordable gaming experience can be had in the next few months.However, the lifespan of these consoles is certain to be a lotshorter than that of a properly teched and specced PC. Replacing the consoles outright will work out to be a lot more expensive thansimply upgrading your gaming laptop, meaning that the steep initial fees work out much more affordably in the long run.
Games
As the war of exclusivity wages on between the consoles desperate to sign up therights to release certain blockbuster games, these deals typically don’t extend to the PC – meaning that you can get your hands on just about any upcoming games which are suitable for play. PC games are cheaper to buy too because they are more easily and efficiently programmed than the proprietary coding which goes into console games. With a games library catering to all tastes as opposed to the more aggressive shooters and fighters seen on consoles, the gaming laptop should suit anyone who wishes to have a more casual gaming experience– as well as comfortably accommodating those who do wish to spill enemies’ virtual blood.
Leisure
While the consoles can also lay claim to more and more entertainment features which give them an added edge as the hub of the living room, gaming laptop users can also enjoy the same perks – streaming films, TV shows and music with the help of companies like LOVEFiLM and Netflix. However, one developing area of entertainment which only a laptop can provide is in online poker. Poker is fast becoming the best online experience imaginable – and it’s something which the consoles cannot yet offer due to their manufacturers’ restrictions and policies. With the freedom of choice afforded by a gaming laptop which cannot be enjoyed by Microsoft or Sony, anyone can log on and enjoy a real gameof poker with friends – whether for fun or for monetary gains. Sites like Ladbrokes.com are offering a more diverse way to play than the consoles cannot yet hope to match. Although consoles offer players the freedom of the universe, sometimes all you want to do is kick back at the virtualpoker table with friends – something which, of the two options,only gaming laptops can provide right now.
Dishonored and Skyrim: The Legendary Edition are co-headling the latest video game deals over on Amazon, each available for a limited time at a reduced price of $20 and $40, respectively. The Wii U version of Criterion's latest, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, is on sale for under $20 on Wii U, and down to $30 on other platforms.
Other notable game deals include Epic Mickey 2 for between $20 and $25 across multiple platforms, Saints Row: The Third for $25 and under, Zone of the Enders HD Collection for less than $25 and the Mass Effect Trilogy for $35 on Xbox 360. There are also hardware deals up for consideration: DualShock 3 controllers are $40; one year Xbox Live Gold subscription cards are $46; and other Xbox 360 accessories are all on sale.
If you feel like donning your savings spectacles, you can dive into the deals over on Amazon right now.
GameStop's seasonal special, the Summer Playcation, is live now and offers double in-store credit for any system trade-in, and 30 percent extra in-store credit on games, smartphones, accessories, tablets or media players. These deals run through August 18, as does an existing deal that nets the customer any new game for $10 or less with the trade-in of two eligible games.
Keep in mind this is not the Summer Placation, where we imagine GameStop would insult your mom and then offer up all games and systems for free, along with some kind words* about your heritage.
A host of cancelled Star Wars games were revealed in the LucasArts tell-all book, Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts.While published in 2008, the logos for 20 canned Star Wars projects is just now coming to light (thanks, AllGamesBeta). Interestingly, even then there was a tie-in for the unannounced-at-the-time Episode 7, planned with the subtitle Shadows of the Sith. A third Jedi Knight was planned as well, subtitled Brink of Darkness, but sadly never went anywhere.The logos run the gamut from slick to silly. I'm particular fond of the golden era noirish logo for Star Wars: Scum and Villainy, while you just know that Star Wars: Dark Jedi would have been that series' Shadow of Hedgehog.
Curiously, Disney has recently registered 40 domains for a new Star Wars project that isn't on this list, entitled Star Wars: Attack Squadrons (thanks, Fusible).Listed under LucasFilm, these consist of StarWarsAttackSquadrons.com,SwAttackSquadrons.net, and SwAttackSquadrons.org. We don't know if Star Wars: Attack Squadrons is even a game, as it could very well be a show, movie, theme park ride, or breakfast cereal, but suspiciously EA has owned the domain to the similarly titled Attack Squadron since 2000. It won't expire until March either.Being that Disney has licensed its Star Wars titles to EA, it seems likely that this project is a game. Both BioWare (Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect) and Visceral (Dead Space, Dante's Inferno) are developing mysterious new Star Wars games, so this could be one of them.I've contacted EA to see what I can dig up. I'll let you all know if I find anything.
Cowen and Company report based on Amazon data suggests Activision, Ubisoft franchises well-positioned for holiday success
A new generation of consoles doesn't necessarily mean a new franchise will top the annual best-seller charts. Cowen and Company's Doug Kreutz today released a report based on preorder numbers for some of the year's biggest titles, and it showed Call of Duty: Ghosts tracking ahead of all other major core game releases for the year, with new IP Watch Dogs the closest competitor.
The report described the firm's new "ordometer" preorder sales-tracking metric, which is intended to help predict how games will sell through the calendar year based on their preorder performance roughly 3-4 months before launch. The ordometer formula was designed using a regression analysis of the last five years' worth of actual NPD sales for major AAA releases in the August-December window against a number of variables, including Amazon's top-sellers data. Franchises like Madden, FIFA, and Skylanders were left off the list as Kreutz said certain genres (including sports and kids games) have preorder curves very different from the normal AAA title.
Kreutz noted that Ghosts is tracking behind last year's Call of Duty: Black Ops II (current figures have it selling about 73 percent of what Black Ops II did in its first holiday season), but still ahead of 2011's Modern Warfare 3. Ubisoft's Watch Dogs was next, estimated to sell a little under 70 percent of what Black Ops II did, followed by Grand Theft Auto V at just over 58 percent of last year's Activision shooter. Kreutz said the GTA V number "almost certainly understates total preorders to-date, since we have only been tracking the Amazon data since E3 but GTA V was initially available for preorder all the way back in November 2012."
Other estimates have Assassin's Creed IV and Battlefield 4 tracking ahead of their predecessors, while Diablo III appears posed for a reasonable transition to consoles, with Kreutz projecting 1.5 million copies sold this year. On the other hand, Take-Two's The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is launching next month but seems to have had difficulty generating preorders, with Kreutz expecting it to move fewer than 250,000 copies by year's end.
As for next-gen preorders, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One each had a trio of exclusives on Kreutz's list, with Killzone Second Front comfortably ahead of the pack for Sony's console, and Dead Rising 3 the strongest exclusive on Microsoft's new system. When it came to multiplatform next-gen titles, the PlayStation 4 held an edge on every game but one. Next-gen Call of Duty: Ghosts preorders picked the Xbox One version 59 percent of the time, but Ubisoft's Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed IV both tilted sharply in the opposite direction. Watch Dogs saw nearly 80 percent of preorders on PS4, with Assassin's Creed IV's next-gen preorders falling to Sony's system 71 percent of the time.
"One of the conclusions we have come to is that the importance of review scores is actually vastly overstated, at least as far as a predictive measure of sales," Kreutz said, adding "We believe that core gamers are actually well able to determine likely high (and low) quality games before launch due to the enormous amount of pre-launch press coverage and promotion that AAA titles receive, and that preorders are thus actually fairly predictive of a game's quality."
Kreutz said every now and then a publisher manages to goose preorders on a game that winds up being subpar quality, but adds, "we have never seen an eventual hit game preorder weakly but then get bailed out by a high Metacritic score. Bad preorders equal bad sales, pretty much always, in our view."
Minecraft has outsold Pikmin 3 in its first week on sale to become the UK all formats number one.A week-on-week sales rise of 74 per cent helped push Mojang’s world-builder to the number one spot, meaning that Nintendo will have to wait a little longer for Wii U’s first UK all format number one. Fellow firstparty Wii U release New Super Luigi U enters the chart in its first week at number 13, as Naughty Dog’s PS3 exclusive The Last Of Us, which has been the top seller for the last six weeks straight, drops to number three.The UK all formats chart for the week ending July 27, courtesy of Ukie/ChartTrack is below, with week-on-week sales in brackets and reviews through the links, where given.1. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (+74%)
2. Pikmin 3
3. The Last of Us (-16%)
4. Animal Crossing: New Leaf
5. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros
6. FIFA 13
7. Far Cry 3
8. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Edition
9. Tomb Raider
10. LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
Nintendo software and hardware dominated sales in Japan during the first half of 2013. The house of Mario shifted more games than any other publisher in Japan in the first six months of the year, with 3DS titles leading the way, according to data published by Famitsu (via Nintendo Everything). Software sales by company
Nintendo - 5.19 million
Namco Bandai - 3.48 million
Square Enix - 2.06 million
Konami - 1.20 million
Capcom - 1.12 million
3DS
Animal Crossing: New Leaf - 1.37 million
Dragon Quest VII - 1.21 million
Tomodachi Collection - 1.20 million
Wii U
New Super Mario Bros. U - 140,000
Nintendo Land - 110,000
Dragon Quest X - 70,000
Wii
Taiko Drum Master - 190,000
Mario Party 9 - 50,000
Wii Sports Resort - 40,000
PS3
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - 440,000
One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 - 390,000
Dynasty Warriors 7 - 320,000
Vita
Soul Sacrifice - 180,000
Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus - 130,000
Toukiden - 120,000
PSP
Sword Art Online Infinity Moment - 190,000
Pro Baseball Spirits 2013 - 150,000
Summon Night 5 - 120,000
On the hardware front, as of July 21, Media Create data (via NeoGAF) shows that 3DS had sold just over two million units this year, ahead of Vita (591,096), PS3 (509,093), Wii U (377,731), PSP (314,414), Wii (48,979) and Xbox 360 (16,404).
Also worth noting is that Nintendo's home console has just cleared one million lifetime sales in Japan, having released in the country in November 2012..
Mobile by Sainsbury's, a mobile virtual network operator affiliated with one of the United Kingdom's largest supermarket chains, is officially open for business. The MVNO, which operates on Vodafone's network, will be accessible to customers at all Sainsbury's outlets. Offerings include a pay-as-you-go Basic plan, with domestic calls priced at 8 pence per minute, data at 50 pence per day for 25MB, UK texts at 4 pence each and double Nectar points on top ups. From there, a trio of Bundle plans give you monthly access for £10, £20 or £30, with 200 minutes and 250MB, 300 minutes and 500MB and 800 minutes and 1GB, respectively. All Bundle plans include unlimited texts and double Nectar points. Head over to the source link or hit up your neighborhood Sainsbury's to join up.
Online retailer Amazon has redefined the conditions under which it now offers Free Super Saver Delivery.
Effective today the site will impose a minimum spend of £10 to qualify for free postage across a number of categories.
There are some exemptions however, most notable of which are video games. Also exempt are DVDs, Blu-rays, books and software. These exemptions will still apply even if customers make a mixed order of exempt and non-exempt products.
“Whilst the change will affect only a very small proportion of orders, it will allow us to offer you a significantly expanded selection of lower priced products,” a statement said.
“We continue to work hard every day to improve the delivery services that we offer. Another recent introduction is Amazon Lockers and collection points. These self-service delivery locations allow you to pick up Amazon deliveries at a time and location that is most convenient to you.”
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