We haven’t updated the site in a while and, for this, I apologize. The reality of the situation is that we don’t get paid to do this, and have hard real life things get in the way. Moving to a new location–away from everyone we knew–has been hard on both Arthur and I in different ways. We’re both adjusting to our new work loads and social lives, trying to figure out where we’re heading, both professionally and personally. Let me make one thing clear to you though:

The site is not dead.

There, now that we have that cleared up…

What I can tell you–assuming someone out there is reading this–is that the site is going to change. We probably won’t update it but a few times a week, but our content will hopefully make up for that. I want to keep this blog around as a venue to give my own insights into gaming. I don’t, however, want this site to be in any way, shape, or form, comparable to a news blog like Kotaku or Destructoid. This is just a place to give our opinions or thoughts about games and gaming culture–nothing more.

So hopefully you–our very, very few faithful readers–will come back and read what we have to say and like it.

Chufmoney

The whole GameSpot-Gerstmann firing debacle really hit a lot of the enthusiast press hard. Since Gerstmann was fired, Frank Provo, Alex Navarro, and, as of today, Ryan Davis have left. GameDaily is reporting that Davis, eight year veteran of GameSpot, is believed to be leaving as a direct result of Gerstmann’s termination. If you want to read Davis’ blog, go to the GameDaily story and they have choice words from it.

If you want to read a really eloquent bit about how one notable person, 1up’s Site Director, Sam Kennedy, feels about the whole situation, go here. It is long, yes, but totally worth it. There is a reason that this man runs the best goddamn video game site that exists (Yes, I am biased).

The whole thing is just so, so sad. You couldn’t pay me any amount of money to work for GameSpot.

Chufmoney

Strange word comes from Videogamer.com that, at least in the UK, several retailers have decided to charge £10 more for the PS3 version of Devil May Cry 4 than the Xbox 360 version. Contrary to Sony marketing bollocks, the 360 still has both a higher install base and significantly higher game sales in the UK, so, maybe retailers are looking for a way to subsidize all the SKU changes and hardware stocking costs they’ve had to eat?

“We don’t set the prices of our games, that’s at the discretion of the retailer. In this specific instance, the process has resulted in a price difference, but the process itself is not something we completely control.”

High street specialist retailer GAME lists DMC4 with an RRP of £49.99 on PS3 and £39.99 on Xbox 360. Both Play.com and Amazon.co.uk list the same pricing.”

First of all, at current exchange rates, the 360 SKU of DMC4 costs the equivalent of approximately 80 dollars. This means that the PS3 version is selling for essentially $100.00. So, a moment of silence for our British gaming compatriots, because that is fucking insane. This also means you don’t get to bitch about games being too expensive anywhere on the internet.

Second, the more I think about it, the more I really do wonder if this is aimed at recuperating costs associated with the difficult retail costs associated with Sony’s rapidly transforming strategies for the PS3 over the last 12 months. At least here in the states, hardware price drops are frequently eaten by retailers (although people are welcome to correct me if I’m wrong, as this is the case at Frys, Best Buy, and Gamestop at the very least), and retailers already make next to nothing on hardware. Will other retailers in the UK and EU decide to follow suit?

-Aegies