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Tiny Diggers – An iPad Construction Truck Game for Kids Age 2-5

February 20, 2012 – 12:39 pm | 3 Comments

Tiny Diggers has just been released on the iPad and soon the Mac computer. Here’s the details on this fun, educational game from TouchTilt Games.
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Details: EBGamestop’s $699 Wii preorder

Submitted by on November 8, 2006 – 7:55 pm3 Comments

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Gamespot announces that EBGamestop’s websites will only be selling Twilight Princess with the Wii bundle, and then goes on to break down the bundle’s pricing:

Besides the $250 console package (the Wiimote, Nunchuk controller, power and AV cords, sensor bar, stands, and the game Wii Sports) the bundle will contain six games: Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Trauma Center: Second Opinion, Red Steel, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz, and Madden NFL 2007. Gamespot explains that normally, each Wii game costs $49.99–meaning that the value of the console and six games is roughly $549.93. In addtion, the bundle includes an extra Wiimote controller ($39.99) and 1.0GB Wii Memory SD Card ($59.99). The addition of the duo brings the bundle’s value to $649.91–$44.97 less than its pre-tax-and-shipping price tag.

So what’s with the extra $45? The bundle also includes a 12-month product replacement plan and a 12-month “gift” subscription to Game Informer magazine. GameStop.com sells the latter for $19.98, leaving the cost of the 12-month product replacement plan–which is normally optional–at $24.99. Hopefully, if you already subscribe to Game Informer, that subscription will just add a year on to your current subscription.

  • SP420

    What a really bad way to do business with the casual gamer. I know that if I had alloted money to buy the Wii I’d be furious at them to find that Zelda comes only in that pack. Then again, how else would they sell that pack? Without that gross incentive it probably wouldn’t at all…

  • James

    The worst part of the industry next to over-priced micropayments, the bundle.

  • Ode

    Oh, how Gamestop never ceases to find new ways to make me hate them.