If we have learned anything from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it’s that Internet-based media is infiltrating the market faster than ever. GameStop, a popular brick-and-mortar game retailer, has grappled with translating its model to an online world for quite some time. As the general market abandons physical media, what is the company to do? That’s where Shawn...
If a recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stands, the days of buying and selling used video games could come to a screeching and dramatic halt in no time flat. The whole problem beings with a ruling where an eBay seller resold some used copies of some architecture software. Since Tmothy Vernor bought the the copies of AuoCAD from AutoDesk at a sale, he felt that he was...
Somewhere along the line the past few years, retailers and video game companies came up with the bright idea that there should be some sort of bonus to consumers for pre-ordering a video game. Not a bad idea in and of itself, but the idea then got turned in to, “Why not have different bonuses at different retailers?”, and that is when I think this whole idea went off the rails a bit....