I remember a day where if you bought something for $100, you got to keep it. That's not the case with Age of Empires Online Season Pass. Gamer Gavel's PostalGamer service is looking to take down Gamestop by offering publishers a piece of the trade-in pie. To everyone's suprise, social gamers spend money on cheats rather than hats. More doom is being cast on the Vita... The handheld that hasn't come out yet. All that plus more on this Mashcast.
Question of the Week:
Would you be more inclined to use PostalGamer's trade-in service since they give a cut to the publishers?
Hosts: Jarret Redding, Robert Hill-Williams
Theme: "Insert Coin" by Chris Geehan of Hyperduck Soundworks
Show Notes:
Age of Empires Online Season Pass
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/17/age-of-empires-online-season-pass-offers-all-and-future-availabl/
PostalGamer
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/36532/
Social Gamers spend on shorcuts, not decoration
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-08-15-wooga-social-gamers-spend-money-on-shortcuts-not-dEcoration
MW3 to support dedicated servers on PC
http://4mash.com/18j
Investors want Nintendo to make iOS games
http://www.destructoid.com/investors-want-nintendo-to-make-iphone-games-208539.phtml
3DS sells 215k units in Japan after price cut
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-08-16-3ds-sells-215-000-in-japan-following-price-cut
Nintendo patents Massively Online Single Player game
http://mashthosebuttons.com/2011/08/nintendo-patents-massively-online-single-player-game/
Vita Dev kit to cost 1,900 euros
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-08-17-vita-dev-kit-to-cost-1-900-plus-vat
Tablets pushing out handheld consoles
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-08-15-playstation-vita-launch-will-be-a-car-wreck
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2011-08-16-crytek-dedicated-handheld-consoles-losing-ground-to-tablets
