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Black Friday 2009: Half Price Books promotions
Anyone who’s stepped into a Half Price Books store knows that you can find used video games, half price PC games and even used video game strategy guides on sale at reasonable prices. While the store never offers traditional Black Friday sales, they do offer special promotions to customers who stop by and make a purchase during the busiest shopping days of the year. The Half Price Book special offers for Black Friday 2009 have…
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Black Friday 2009: Sears’ video game sale offerings
Sears’ 2009 Black Friday ad scan has leaked onto the internet and, while there aren’t as many video game deals as there were in the Kmart ad, there’s still a lot to look over.
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Black Friday 2009: Kmart’s sale offerings
Kmart’s 2009 Black Friday ad has been leaked, and there’s a great selection of video games on sale. There are also some notable video game bundle offers that include systems and games, and HDTVs to play the games on.
What you should be playing this Halloween: Silent Hill 2
The Human mind is very interesting piece of biological equipment. The way we think, interpret, and create. How our brains use electrical impulses to make it all happen. And yet, the Human mind is also one of the most terrifying things in existence. The way our mental psyche can succumb… Continue Reading »
Important Importables: 100 interesting games you must import to play
Hey everyone! This is a momentous day for Important Importables. Today marks the 100th column. Who’d have thought, right? Anyways, to celebrate today, I’m listing my 100 all time favorite games that you can only get by importing. These are titles that aren’t available in North America, and you have… Continue Reading »
PS2 turns nine, Sony says system’s “life cycle will continue”
Sony’s PlayStation 2 console may have just turned nine but for fans in the know that may seem to mean there’s only one year left to the system’s life. So when Sony sent out a press release earlier today touting the PS2’s ninth birthday, I contacted Sony to find out… Continue Reading »
How To: Organize a Halloween video game marathon
While watching horror movies on Halloween is a perfectly acceptable way to celebrate the holiday, it’s also a hands off approach. You’re a spectator, not an active participant in the action. You could always go out to a good haunted house, but those can be far away and quite expensive.… Continue Reading »
Important Importables: The coverage of Haruhi Suzumiya
One of the most popular icons and characters in Japan is a brown haired girl with yellow ribbons in her hair named Haruhi Suzumiya. People mimic the opening dance from her anime, dress up like her, collect toys that look like her character, read about her and even play video… Continue Reading »
Tokyo Game Show 2009: Square Enix’s Tokyo Game Show 2009 website is open for business
The Square Enix Tokyo Game Show 2009 website is now online and all set for viewing! So even if you can’t make it to Japan, you can kind of get the same sort of experience. Well, if you can read Japanese you can. The site is primarily a guide to… Continue Reading »
Tokyo Game Show 2009: Sony’s Kaz Hirai’s TGS Keynote speech all about the numbers
The 2009 Tokyo Game Show is in full swing now, which means announcements concerning new games are slowly starting to trickle out of Japan. This year Kaz Hirai, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. was keynote speaker at the event. On September 23, 2009, he presented… Continue Reading »
Japanese Import: Dengeki Girl’s Style, the otome fan’s bi-monthly magazine
Japan is a country that specializes in niches and otome (games directed at female gamers) games are no exception. Since otome games are such a common commodity among the female population of gamers, there’s even a magazine wholly dedicated to it called Dengeki Girl’s Style. Dengeki Girl’s Style finds it… Continue Reading »
The 5 best Tales Of… games ever released stateside
Namco Bandai’s Tales of series hasn’t been developed in North America, Europe and other regions the way it has in Japan. We’ve never seen any of the DS entries (Tales of Tempest/Tales of Innocence/Tales of Hearts), didn’t catch the Game Boy Advance Narikiri Dungeon or Summoner’s Lineage spin-offs and weren’t… Continue Reading »
Getting in the 9/9/09 mood with nine appropriately titled games
Today is one of those special days. It’s September 9, 2009. Seems ordinary enough, unless you look at it like this: 9/9/09. People are throwing special parties, the movie 9 opens in theaters today, Apple’s releasing the Beatles’ music catalog digitally today, Beatles Rock Band debuts and a select number… Continue Reading »
Important Importables
Jenni Lada brings us information about all of the groovy new gaming imports from around the world.
