Game News 2.0

Game.co.uk are shutting down the trade in part of the business.

Really is an end of an era. Only option now are the scum bags in CEX.

Yup, sold my ps5 there for 50 quid less than I paid for it. And I've a few more things I need to sell there. And a few older games I'll probably pick up there. I think they provide a good service. I wouldn't buy stuff there that you can get cheaper, new, elsewhere, obviously.

Ace Combat 7 is 4 years old today (Thursday)!

I assume we're having a site wide celebration?? :D

Must be nearly time for a new one now, not just a Switch port!

The more I think of this, the harder it is to slam CEX. There's a retro gaming shop near me in wexford town that do trade ins but the guy running it is absolutely passionate about games so he tries to make it reasonable but honestly it looks like he's just about ticking over. If you're trying to make a business out of trade-ins you really do have to be a bit brutal about prices and unfortunately that just never seems to go down well. I understand the logic but I still don't like the prices I'd be dealing with normally.

To be fair, I was never big on trading in games, but a huge part of my youth was spent walking around the 2nd hand section of gamestop/game looking for a game I could actually afford that I may enjoy. But even that seems less and less common. Why do that when you can get (albeit a few years old) great games online for under a tenner in the sales

I remember when I was 9 and trading in a Gamegear game (Alien Syndrome) at the only place I knew that traded games. The name escapes me but it was in Waterford, near the Apple Market. I knew he always traded in for half of what it was new. Knowing this, he asked what I paid for it. It could have been £20 new so I told him £30 and he believed me and gave me £15. I'm pretty sure the guilt of that little lie ate me up enough to bring it up in confession!

I'm talking about times when they sell things for over the RRP just because it is in limited supply. The PSVR was one instance where they offered people an over-cost price and then sold it for well over the RRP. They had people snapping them up and walking right into CEX as they offered them a way to make €50 and then CEX would bump it again to rip off consumers.

That's not allowing people to trade in stuff they are finished with. That is plain old price gauging/scalping.

It's a wonder MS have not acquired Remedy.

May 21st release date for Hellblade 2.

If I ignored copyright infringement against me today it doesn't stop me suing that person another day or someone else down the road. You also can have a copyright to something and just sit on it, you don't need to publish or release anything again to retain it. If Disney had just made the 1 Mickey Mouse cartoon it'd still be copyrighted and still expire as it did recently (they might not be around but their copyright would).

This is about the trademark.

Trademarks are different, you have to actively defend them or it can be used against you. You also have to use them or lose them. In this case just filing is enough to show they are defending. If it gets thrown out that's great, them using an R based logo isn't going to cost R* anything in missed sales or consumer confusion and the case being thrown out is cheap.