Tag: Buy
iPhone confirmed as a serious games machine – SEGA's Monkey Ball sells 300,000 in three weeks
SEGA, maker of the legendary Super Monkey Ball series, told moneyman blog the Wall Street Journal that it’s sold 300,000 copies of Monkey Ball via the App Store in the 20 days since launch. At $9.99 a pop, that’s one hell of a cash cow for all involved.
“It gives iPhone a justifiable claim to being a viable gaming platform, ” said Simon Jeffery, president of Sega’s US arm. It also means Nintendo and Sony might…
Saddam Hussein's Rolls Royce is (was) on eBay
Every dictator loves a Rolls – and Saddam’s fantastic Corniche was, until a few hours ago, listed for sale on eBay for £185,000.
Coming in a superb purple – no doubt to help mask blood stains of the peasants – the car was apparently bought from the Iraqi government by Surrey-based car dealer…
Andy Murray's ultimately ineffective Wimbledon racquet for sale on eBay
Good old Andy Murray. He gave us a few moments of hope, before Bravely Crashing Out At Quarter Final Stage (TM) as British sporting heroes tend to do.
If you want to forever own a piece of sporting nearly-history, you can – Andy and war injury charity Help for Heroes have teamed up to flog one of his racquets on eBay…
Actual images of Guitar Hero Mobile – and it's out now
Guitar Hero’s everywhere. On everyone’s consoles. On the DS. On the news. In blenders. And now it’s actually available in miniature format, should you have a decent enough mobile phone to handle it.
And it looks like that. That picture there. No, the one to the left. The one of the phone? See that thing on the screen? Yes? Good! That’s what GH III looks like running on a mobile phone. That’s also the frame rate it’ll run at on my ancient Nokia, too…
Motley Crue to release new single via Rock Band
What is it with ageing rockers and cutting-edge music distribution schemes? Last month we revealed that Def Leppard was releasing a single via Guitar Hero III, now “The Crue” is releasing its new track exclusively via rival music game Rock Band.
Motley Crue’s single is called ‘Saints of Los Angeles’ and it’ll appear on the American Rock Band download list next Tuesday, for the equivalent of 99 cents – on both Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation…
Mobile phone music "too complicated" for most users
mum who can’t be bothered working out how to buy, organise and listen to digital music on her mobile phone – 66% of people simply have no interest in using their phones for buying music.
With most saying it’s too expensive and too awkward to put tunes on their phones, only a rather pathetic 14% of the 1800 people surveyed by Jupiter said they gave a rat’s arse about buying full tracks via their mobiles…
Every Dreamcast game ever made up for auction – it is your duty to enter the bidding war
Hopefully it isn’t necessary to explain to you the significance of SEGA’s Dreamcast. It was the best console ever, especially as Electronic Arts didn’t release any games for it so there was no FIFA/Madden/NHL to trudge through every year – just 100% SOLID GOLD SEGA and SEGA-approved arcade magic.
Anyway. One man has acquired an original copy of every Japanese Dreamcast game ever released. Which, to be fair, most gamers should’ve done themselves during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
But if you didn’t do your duty at the time – and therefore inadvertently contributed towards today’s dismal gaming scene – you can now make amends by buying every Japanese DC game in one bulk lot – for the never-to-be-repeated bargain price of $19,999.99.
Unlikely partnership of the day: Dixons and Interflora selling roses and daffodils to geeks
Someone at Dixons has had an idea. The idea is to channel its presumably overwhelmingly male audience off to Interflora, in order to relieve their guilt at spending £60 on a new wireless router when the old wireless router still worked perfectly well.
Dixons Flowers is the disappointingly dull name for the venture, and here’s how they describe it:
“Whether you want to make a romantic gesture, say thank you or relieve your guilt…
IBM adds advert serving to DVD spec – film watching is DEAD as a hobby
In a move that sounds like they’re trying to kill off DVD on purpose and force everyone to turn to one of those boring new HD formats, IBM has patented an advert delivery system that can pause DVDs so you have the pleasure of watching an advert.
It’s like they’ve examined the strengths of the DVD format, then created a feature designed specifically to destroy it…
The… Amazon… Shipping Box… Robot…
Your company is NOTHING in Japan without a friendly mascot. Here’s Amazon’s attempt at hitting the big time – the Amazon Shipping Box Robot. It is the most incredible thing you will see on the internet today, as long as you haven’t been Googling “Gemma Atkinson bra” for the last hour with Safe Search turned off.
This is such a staggering toy we have NO OPTION but to break out the full-width image embedding code. You know it’s an important thing when that happens.
