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Best Buy To Sell Xbox 360 Games Before Official Launch Date?

Every per­son that calls him­self or her­self a gamer knows that the Xbox 360, Microsoft’s next gen­er­a­tion con­sole, is offi­cially launch­ing in North Amer­ica on Tues­day, Novem­ber 22. Poor Europe and Japan won’t see their launches until Fri­day, Decem­ber 2 and Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 10, respec­tively. The North Amer­i­can launch will be media frenzy, but Microsoft might have a solu­tion to both build the Xbox antic­i­pa­tion and lessen the arm­loads of young chil­dren eager to play on launch day. Sell the soft­ware early and let the peo­ple just buy the hardware.

29 October 2005 – 10:04 am | By Tan The Man | Posted in Articles | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Best Buy To Test Selling Pre-Owned Video Game Software

Best Buy Co. Inc. — the num­ber one elec­tron­ics retailer in the U.S. — is cur­rently test­ing the sale of used video games in a few of its stores. With more than 870 stores in North Amer­ica, Best Buy is try­ing to tap into the exist­ing used video game mar­ket esti­mated at $800 mil­lion (10% of total video game sales) this year.

2 October 2005 – 12:48 pm | By Tan The Man | Posted in Articles | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Japanese Moviegoers Will See First Male Penis On The Silver Screen

Later this month, Japan­ese movie­go­ers will be able to see male gen­i­talia on a movie screen with­out any cuts or edits for the Japan­ese pre­miere of Kin­sey. Films that have pre­vi­ously tried to push the bound­ary of cen­sor­ship were not saved for artis­tic mer­its and instead were regarded as pornography.

6 August 2005 – 2:01 pm | By Tan The Man | Posted in Articles | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Apple’s 2006 Problem And The Future Of ITMS

Apple has had tremen­dous suc­cess involv­ing its iTunes Music Store and its iPods. How­ever, next year might be dif­fer­ent because the license agree­ments that Apple has with the major music label expire. Many of the labels have wanted to raise the prices of each track, which Apple has resisted.

5 August 2005 – 5:18 pm | By Tan The Man | Posted in Articles | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Canadian Supreme Court Rules Posting How-To’s Of Illegal Doings Legal

Last Fri­day, July 29, 2005, the Cana­dian Supreme Court ruled that post­ing and sell­ing instruc­tions for ille­gal activ­ity such as “break­ing into houses, mak­ing bombs, and cre­at­ing false credit card num­bers” is legal — as long as you don’t do the ille­gal activ­ity your­self. Story here.

4 August 2005 – 1:48 am | By Tan The Man | Posted in Articles | Tagged , | Comments (3)

Sir Sean Connery Close To Retirement?

Story here from The Movie Blog. The great Sean Con­nery, the orig­i­nal James Bond, might be fin­ished mak­ing films. Sir Sean Con­nery is fed up with Hol­ly­wood and all the crap that gets green­lit and made. “I’m fed up with the idiots, the ever-widening gap between peo­ple who know how to make movies and those …

2 August 2005 – 1:40 am | By Tan The Man | Posted in Articles | Tagged | Comments (0)

AIMFight.com & The Real Reason Why Peer Directories Like MySpace Exist

The prob­lem with Friend­ster and The­Face­Book was that nei­ther was truly cus­tomiz­able, which is where MySpace suc­ceeds. How­ever, what is the real point to join­ing these direc­to­ries and adding all the peo­ple that you know?

29 July 2005 – 7:26 pm | By Tan The Man | Posted in Articles | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)