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Free Left 4 Dead™ Survival Pack
April 24th, 2009
Everybody loves free stuff (I know I do), so go get some. Thanks to the new movie coming out May 29th “Drag Me to Hell“, you can download the Left 4 Dead Survival Pack Free! The new Pack introduces a new multiplayer game mode, entitled “Survival”, plus two complete campaigns for Versus Mode. Go get yours now on Xbox Live or follow the jump to get it now.
GameFly Trade-In Program
April 20th, 2009
GameFly after a complete overhaul of their website launched a new Trade-In program. The process is very simple. First, log in to your GameFly account. Second, click on the trade-in link. Now, enter the UPC codes for the games you want to trade in. When you are ready, click submit and it will give you the trade-in value for your games. At this point you will be prompted to print the instructions, packing list, & shipping label. That’s it simple. Now, the price you are given is only good for a limited time, so you have to make sure that GameFly receives your game by the deadline they give you. Also, you are responsible for your own shipping, so take that into consideration when you are selling your games– it may be worth more to you to just run down to your local used game store & pawn them there. I just started the Trade-In process on three games I had lying around and will let you all know how it goes.
*****Update 4-24-09*****
I received notice that GameFly accepted all of my games for the value they listed. Hooray! But, when I went to apply that credit to one of the games I have at home to keep it, I found out that the credit is only good toward your membership! Not really sure how I feel about that– granted it will be nice to pay less on my monthly, but I really wanted to use it toward the purchase of a game. I guess next time I will just drive down to my local Used Game Shop.
Rock Band Tip: How to…
March 20th, 2009
Get your own RB Merch @ Rockband.com
So, I was a Guitar Hero Fan back on the PS2– in fact, I was pretty much addicted to it. Because of that, I was slow to jump on the Rock Band band wagon even though Harmonix was involved in both games. This year (a bit late) I bought Rock Band 2, my band “The Squabbling Siblings” kicks ass on the world tour. But this tip is not about kicking ass, its about getting more songs to play with your buddies.
I’m the kind of guy who reads the manual when I get a game, including the fine print. While perusing the minute lettering at the back of the game book I noticed that you can save all the songs from Rock Band onto your hard drive and then play them in Rock Band 2. Not having a copy of #1 and not really wanting one, I went to my local used game store and found a copy, cheap. I brought it home, fired up the 360, downloaded the update (required in order to save the tracks), went to the options link, and selected “download songs to hard drive”. Well, you have to give the Man credit on this one– it prompted me to purchase a one time license in order to download and play the songs. The good thing is that it was only 400 MS points for over 20 songs. With the average RB2 song costing 140 MS points and paying less than $10 for a used copy of the game, it was a really good deal; especially if you never played Rock Band 1.
So, if you are like me and jumped in late to the Rock Band Phenomena, get yourself a used copy of #1 and boost your track list with some fun, challenging songs to rock out to.