Wow, miss a day, and it really piles up. Guess this sort of counts as a double-edition.

1. Oh, wow. I wasn’t expecting this.

   Looks like Sony not only beat Lik-Sang.com in court(in regards to the importing of PSPs prior to their European release dates), but has wrapped their coils around the HK-based company and squeezed, forcing them to close down. And many are upset about it.

   This is definitely tragic, as I’ve heard good things about the company, and as noted, it seems that even higher-ups in the gaming business(even from Sony themselves) dealt through them.

   It also brings into question what the fate may be for other import retailers who deal in Sony products. And ironically, does this mean SoE brass will have to stand in line with the rest now?

   You can see the press-release here on their home site as well.

   As for independent dealers like eBay sellers? No comment.

   Game|Life’s Chris Kohler adds his own comments.

2. If you’re partaking of the McDonald’s Monopoly contest and are acquiring Best Buy Bucks, the following from the PA forums may be of interest to you:

   With McDonald’s annual Monopoly promotion in swing, you can get “Best Buy Bucks” ($1 or $5 versions) off certain items. If you’re like me — a gamer, and inclined to eat utter crap when you know you shouldn’t — you may have some of these stored up to buy games with.

   Be advised that at least one of the official rules flyers McDonalds distributed says that there’s a $3 maximum limit on CD, DVD and video game purchases. This is not correct. Having just tried to use more than $3 worth and been refused by the manager, I called up the Best Buy customer service line to find out what’s up.

   Corporate has confirmed that the $3 cap is only for CDs and DVDs: video games purchases are not included. The rep I spoke to had no idea why there was a flyer circulating that said otherwise, but made it clear that Best Buy stores should honor as many as you want to spend on games (up to a $200 limit or something like that, but if you’ve gotten $200 Best Buy bucks off of eating McDonalds in the space of a week, you have bigger problems to worry about).

   Just wanted to share this info in the hopes that none of you face a similar obstruction. (Not unlike the obstruction in my bowels, from eating those freakin’ chicken strips.)

3. If you’ve imported either of the recent new Pokemon games, you might have found out about a bug in the game. Nintendo has addressed the situation, so it might be worth a read for you.
4. The folks at Bungue remain optimistic and committed to quality, despite the backing-out of Fox and Universal on the Halo movie.
5. N-Philes has some new scans of Fire Emblem for Wii, showing off an interesting looking but not unattractive young lady, and… dude, what the hell are you wearing?
6. Go Nintendo reports that Captain N: The Game Master seasons 1 and 2 will be coming to DVD in February 2007.

   Except in Canada, if history is any indication.

7. In addition to the 10th Anniversary Resident Evil Collection for the GameCube, Game|Life reports that Capcom is also bringing out a 5th Anniversary Devil May Cry box set for the PS2.

   What gives, Capcom? Why not release a collection of all the great Mega Man games that came out this past generation, and—oh, wait. Nevermind.

8. So, latest in the world of microtransactions is that you can spend real money to get virtual money in The Godfather.

   I can’t put my finger on it, but this whole thing seem really familiar somehow… like I’ve heard of such a thing before. And no, I don’t mean the Tiger Woods crap.

9. Wow, this is very nearly enough to make me want to switch back to Bell-Sympatico for my internet needs.
10. I am so sick and damn tired of auto accidents claiming the lives of great people in gaming.
11. Remember that Blu-Ray disc player Sony was supposed to release about 6 months ago?

    It’s been delayed. Again.

12. …hey, how’d THEY get one?

LBD “Nytetrayn”

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