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Gears of War 2 Lancer Pre-Order Available at Amazon

Monday, August 11, 2008

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Ever get the feeling that people weren’t taking you serious as a badass? Perhaps an older brother is constantly picking on you, even though you’re both well into your thirty’s? Thankfully a product is now available that will show everyone just how macho you really are. Exclusively though Amazon.com, Epic Games and Microsoft are proud to [...]

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Amazon Launches Checkout Online Payment Service

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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In a move that rivals online payment leader PayPal and sidels up next to (and possible out-runs at launch) Google Checkout, Amazon has announced the launch of their new online payment system aptly named: Amazon Checkout. The kicker that makes this service have longer legs out of the gate than Google’s offering is that every single [...]

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Amazon - 120 Bags of Chips for $35

Monday, June 23, 2008

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From Dealsea Amazon has 60-Pack of chips for $25.20. Buy 2 (120 bags) for $50.40 - $15 off with promo code CHIPDSCT (Exp 7/11) = $35.40 with free shipping.

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Amazon is/was Down

Friday, June 6, 2008

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Wow what caused that to happen? Amazon has been down for about 20mins, came back up briefly and is dead again right now around 11:08am PST. S3 and EC2 both seem to be running fine though, so maybe it’s just the store front? I wonder what caused Amazon to go down that wouldn’t/doesn’t effect eBay or [...]

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Finding a Comprehensive List of New & Future Video Games

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

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NOTE: This article may invoke feelings of “No Shit Sherlock” in some of you, I’d encourage you to post those feelings as comments… maybe even a “You are a FAG!” would help… those are always appreciated and helpful to everyone reading. This tip is a little obscure, but it’s one that has driven me crazy for [...]

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Amazon to Offer Games for Download

Monday, February 18, 2008

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Hrrm… job posting from Gamasutra suggests that Amazon is working on downloadable game service to compete with Valve’s Steam, EA’s service and isn’t there another already? Direct to Drive or something? I have no idea why Console are so popular.. people LOVE 9 competing choices for the same service… it’s SUPER AWESOME *tugs on hair*

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Amazon S3 Suffers Quick, Massive Outage

Friday, February 15, 2008

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Ruh-roh… Marc Chung sends in news that Amazon’s huge S3 storage service went down for 3 hours this morning. While it seems like a petty issue, Amazon uses the service to host most of their own content, in addition to entire companies/websites running off of S3 like Twitter and SmugMug. Looks like things are back up [...]

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DRM’ed Music is Dead - Long Live Amazon!

Monday, January 14, 2008

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Todd Swarthout sent in news about the kickass announcement that Amazon’s MP3 service now offers DRM-free music from all 4 of the major music labels as of January 10th! Sony BMG Warner EMI Universal Music This is in a followup to the news we reported on Amazon recently securing contracts with Sony BMG and Sony BMG, before that, decided DRM [...]

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Sony Offers DRM-Free Music on Amazon’s MP3 Service

Sunday, January 13, 2008

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New York Times reports that Sony continues to lead the anti-DRM charge (did I just write that?!) and has announced that it will start offering DRM-free downloads of it music on Amazon’s MP3 service. The beauty of this decision is that Apple’s DRM-laden music from iTunes only plays on their associated iPod devices (and iPhone), [...]

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Amazon Game Blow-Out Sale (Up to 50%)

Friday, December 7, 2007

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VE3D had the scoop on a game blow-out sale, for all platforms, that Amazon was having. Some games, mostly the PC games, are heavily discounted down to about 50%, but there are plenty of games for the PS3, XBox 360 and Wii that look tasty on the list. My quick picks for you guys (this list [...]

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Amazon $199 HD-DVD Player + 10 HD-DVD Movies

Thursday, November 22, 2007

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Just got this in the mail. Amazon is running a $199 deal which includes a Toshiba HD-A3 ($169 by itself, or $99 from some retailers fufilling the $99 A2-backorders earlier) and 10 HD-DVD movies you can choose with the order. The HD-A3 doesn’t do 1080p, but should serve it’s purpose as a value HD-DVD very [...]

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It’s the little things in life…

Monday, July 31, 2006

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… that put a smile across my face: Oh well, maybe if I add a CD or Book I’ll get Super Saver shipping?

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