News: Supermarkets are the cheapest place to buy games
Added: 18.03.2013 12:01 | 9 views | 0 comments
On average you'll pay two pence less than when shopping online.
Citing Chart-Track data, the average price of video games in 2012 rose 3.2 per cent year-on-year to £26.45. However, shop at a supermarket and you'd pay an average of £25.50, two pence less than the average online price of £25.52. Online prices saw a huge price hike of almost £2 following the closure of the Channel Island Tax loophole.
Meanwhile it's the specialist and indie stores which remain the most expensive, charging an average of £27.82 per game. However, high-street retailers held a 42.5 per cent market share of all software revenue in 2012, followed by supermarkets...
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| News: Maxis admits SimCity could have offered offline mode
Added: 18.03.2013 9:27 | 11 views | 0 comments
Players discover code which forces the game to shut down when playing offline.
"I hate to disturb you when you're playing SimCity, but I'd like to offer some straight answers on the topic: Always-Connected and why SimCity is not an offline experience," wrote Bradshaw in a post titled Straight answers from Lucy.
Bradshaw continued: "Always-Connected is a big change from SimCities of the past. It didn't come down as an order from corporate and it isn't a clandestine strategy to control players. It's fundamental to the vision we had for this SimCity. From the ground up, we designed this game with multiplayer in mind – using new technology to realise a vision...
From:
www.videogamer.com
| Cities XL Platinum Platinum Trailer
Added: 17.03.2013 23:00 | 8 views | 0 comments
Cities XL Platinum seduces nearly one million players and invites you to join the fun as a modern urbanist, solving the daily challenge of managing an ever-growing city.
From:
www.gametrailers.com
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