Despite accusations of poor deals, Amazon’s Prime Day promotion proved the haters wrong and out-sold the retailer’s best Black Friday event. The sale, which was only available to subscribers of Amazon’s eponymous 79/year service (which provides free next-day delivery and instant video streaming among other benefits), ran for just one …
Read More »Here are the Amazon Prime Day game deals
Amazon’s day of discounts exclusive to its Prime scheme is now underway. Amazon Prime Day sees products being discounted over the course of 24 hours, boasting better deals than Black Friday. To be eligible to take part in the discounts, you need to sign up to Amazon Prime, a scheme …
Read More »First Amazon Prime Day video game deals appear
Ahead of Amazon’s members-only Prime Day sale tomorrow, the promotion’s first video game offers have started to appear. For those not in the know, Prime Day is much like Amazon’s highly popular Black Friday sales – except you have to be subscribed to the retail giant’s 79/year service (which counts …
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Read More »Amazon’s ‘Prime Day’ will have ‘more deals than Black Friday’
Online retailer Amazon is to celebrate its 20th birthday on July 15th with what it promises to be a massive sale. Called ‘Prime Day’, the promotion is described as a global shopping event” and will apparently have more deals than Black Friday”. However, the catch is that it will only …
Read More »US Amazon Prime members can now get video game discounts
Fast delivery, video streaming – and now there’s another reason for Amazon customers to sign up to the expensive Prime membership scheme. Destructoid reports that Amazon has begun offering Prime-exclusive discounts on a number of products, including video games. Qualifying items carry the message: "Members of Amazon Prime qualify for …
Read More »First item sold on Amazon Mexico was Fire Emblem Ike Amiibo
Yesterday (June 30th) Amazon officially opened its Mexican website, and the first purchase was none other than an Ike Amiibo. That’s according to CNN Mexico’s Twitter account, who said (via the translation tool): ‘A curious fact, the first product that was sold [on] #AmazonMexico was an Amiibo of Ike for …
Read More »Twitch hosted 21m unique viewers during E3 2015
Twitch has released an infographic showcasing the video broadcasting network’s viewer engagement during E3 earlier this month. The site brought in over 21m unique viewers throughout the week surrounding the event, with 840,000 peak concurrent viewers. That’s up significantly from 12m unique viewers and 400,000 peak concurent viewers last year. …
Read More »Rare Replay is Amazon’s most-pre-ordered game announced at E3
Amazon has revealed the Top Ten most pre-ordered games revealed at this year’s E3. On top are two Microsoft titles – game anthology Rare Replay comes in at No.1, while Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is second. Then its two titles from Bethesda – the new Doom title and Dishonored …
Read More »Following one cancellation, now another Batman Arkham Knight SKU has been delayed
There’s yet another problem with one of the special edition versions of Batman: Arkham Knight. Last week it was reported that the game’s 169 Batmobile Edition has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances that greatly compromised the quality of the Batmobile” vehicle that was the star of the bundle. Now …
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