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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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OXM Demos Coming to Xbox Live…At a Cost

Submitted by on July 27, 2007 – 4:13 pm3 Comments

moneybag.jpgThe Official Xbox 360 Magazine is going to start hosting their own demos on Xbox Live. One caveat: they cost Microsoft points. It always seems like too good a thing to be able to download a demo and play it over and over before buying it. Now, those demos that OXM pays for exclusiveness will cost you 250 Microsoft points. Not sure why this was done, but I love how the PR guy at OXM states that he has received lots of positive feedback on this new method of distribution.

Great, now demos are gonna cost us players some money. Sure it is just OXM now, but if Microsoft witnesses this as a money maker, then they will be all over it. Let’s hope that patches will still be free. I can see that one too. Want your game to work, just give us 80 points for the latest and greatest patch. And so the era of microtransactions continues to empty our wallets.

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  • Dave

    Sigh.

    You do realize this doesn’t change anything, right?

    Nothing is being sold that isn’t already being sold. Only now it is being sold online, and for less money. Explain to me where the bad is?

  • Gebx

    How many 14 year old boys with their mothers credit cards are there?? Seriously, how many people will actually pay for a demo?

    They’ve been free since the dawn of gaming, these microtransactions are really starting to turn me off console games…

  • Timothy

    This is probably the worst idea I could imagine. Paying any amount of money for a demo is insane.