Buy Summer of Arcade in Bulk, Receive Discount
The second Summer of Arcade is underway on Xbox Live with 'Splosion Man and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 currently available. Still to come are Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-shelled, Trials HD, and Shadow Complex. Today Microsoft announced an incentive to coax gamers into buying all five titles. If you download the lot by August 31, Microsoft will refund 800 Points ($10) back into your account. The entire batch of Summer of Arcade games will set you back $70.
This giveaway is only available to Xbox Live users in the U.S.
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
